Abbeywoods Under Pressure (known at home as "Dave"), 137cm skewbald 5 year old is a quality sports pony prospect who received a Gold Premium at the 2019 British Breeding futurity evaluations as an eventing sports pony, and is graded with Sports Pony and CHAPS studbooks . For anyone wanting to breed good quality ponies to do all disciplines, he is definitely not one to miss. Since a foal, he has competed and won various classes and qualifiers with many evening performances. He is safe and easy to handle by children and adults and so easy to do with good manners. He has fantastic breeding and is now competing successfully under saddle.
BREEDING
Sire:
Murraybrook Moriarty is by the part-bred Arab Royal Command of Wentward and out of performance bred Arab mare Dirana. A multiple Champion, including Supreme Champion titles, in-hand, including Kent County, South of England, Edenbridge & Oxted and Cherif Champion under 148cms stallion, Moriarty has sired hunter ponies, hacks, riding ponies and sports horses/ponies. His son, Murraybrook Orinoco, has BD points from Preliminary to Medium levels and was 4th at Elementary level at the 2019 BD CHAPS Associated Championships. Also in 2019, his 2 year old son, Murraybrook Duke of Atholl, was awarded a Futurity Gold Premium as a 2 year old.
Moriaty's sire, Royal Command of Wentward, is himself by the by Multi Supreme and British National Champion 'Royal Linsign' by Anglo Arab 'Royal Ensign'. A 148cms pony, Royal Command of Wentward was successfully shown in hand and has winning show stock to his credit. He was also an easy and unflappable ride whose stock inherit his fantastic temperament and include many champions, including a British National Champion part bred Arab, many county winners, supreme champion at British National Foal of the Year show 2012 as well as Murraybrook Moriarty. He has also sired two mares competing successfully in junior affiliated show jumping and Murraybrook Tobermory, a grade C showjumper.
Dam:
Abbeywoods Aphrodite was born in 2011 and is a 14.2hh sports pony mare by Commanche Ace (traditional type coloured) out of Windy City E (Mecklenberg). Aphrodite has won show classes from being a foal and has numerous Champion and Reserve Champion titles and she was graded by CHAPS as a Star Status Mare in 2015.
Aphrodite's dam, Windy City E, is a 15hh small sports horse who has also had a successful career showing, with many wins and Champion/Reserve titles to her name. Windy City E is out of Peppermint Petty, a Pinto with a Polish Warmblood sire & dam, who is also the dam of the graded stallion Dux Donal.
Windy City E's sire, Wind Dancer, is a licensed stallion with 5 German studbooks (including Oldenburg and Hanoverian), who has sired 9 licensed sons and 19 graded daughters as well as many offspring who are competing successfully and over all they have won more than Euros 35K in dressage and more than 18K jumping.
Wind Dancer's sire, Weltruhm, is by the famous dressage stallion Weltmeyer and his damsire is the famous showjumping sire Argentan I whose offspring includes Aramis (who competed at Olympic/World Championships level) and his most famous son, the prolific jumping sire Argentinus, whose offspring include Arko III (ridden by Nick Skelton at the Olympics and European Championships), All Star 5, Thunder van de Zuuthoeve, and Adlantus.
Damsire:
Comanche Ace was born in 1991 and, sadly, his parentage was not recorded. At 13.2hh, he was one of the very first traditional ponies to win prolifically in the show ring and he is the only traditional stallion to be awarded Elite status with both CHAPS UK and the BSPA. He was invited and took part in the 2012 Queens Golden Jubilee Tribute at Royal Windsor.
