Windmill Dressage - Livery & Stud

A small private livery yard and stud 10 minutes from Addington.

This section is about us and what we do! We have organised our photos and albums to try and give an impression of the yard and our horses so please browse the photo albums.

Each of our mares has her own album for herself and her progeny. A brief profile of each mare is outlined below. We always have top quality youngstock - from foals to freshly backed horses for sale at sensible prices so if you are looking for your next prospect do get in touch!

THE LIVERY YARD: we have excellent facilities including 60 x 20 m arena with mirrors, covered horse walker, lunge pen, individual turnout, direct access to off-road hacking and top quality stabling. We pride ourselves on offering unsurpassed, personal and experienced care in a friendly and supportive environment - after all for most people this is their hobby, it needs to be fun!

THE STUD: we have handpicked 5 broodmares from top proven continental bloodlines (mainly Hanoverian) and mainly sourced with the expert guidance of our friends Christian Heinrich and Darren Mattia. Until Autumn 2016 the breeding programme was based with Darren Mattia at Court Farm Stud in Herefordshire but we have now managed to secure some land and built the facilities to have the majority of our horses at home. Darren is still chief midwife and a great source of advice!

We are aiming high in our breeding ambitions: we strive to produce exceptional dressage talents with excellent temperaments and rideability and with potential for the highest level. Having been lucky enough to own two Grand Prix Horses and a further 3 small tour horses we now dream of seeing a homebred rise to these levels. 'Mighty oaks from little acorns grow' and in a short period of time we have been proud to be awarded 4 Elite premiums at the BEF Futurity out of 5 entries (the 5th missed Elite by just 3 /100! ).


THE MARES
BELLA VANUTA (Bella): by Benvenuto (Breitling W x Weltmeyer) x Don Schufro x Akzent I. Bella is our foundation mare and has produced 5 stunning foals for us to date and is one of the highest rated mares at the BEF Futurity based on the performance of her offspring.
Following a fabulous filly foal by the exciting young stallion Santo Domingo (San Amour x Furst Heinrich x Royal Dance) in 2016,
Bella is back in foal to Santo Domingo for 2017. We have retained her 3 year old Fred Astaire by Fiderbach and 4 year old Frank Sinatra by Foundation who will be backed this year.

ELEGANTE (Delia): a direct daughter of the legendary Donnerhall and from one of the most celebrated mare lines in Oldenburg - the Egitta line. This fabulously bred mare (who is also the sweetest person and a yard favourite) has already produced in 2017 an exceptional black colt (born 6-3-17) by Hochadel and named Helsinki WD. Since I am looking to retain a filly from Delia's line, Helsinki will be sold in due course

WOLKE SIEBEN (Betty): By Wolkentanz x Wanderbursch II x Exponent. A wonderful, powerful mare with a fantastic hindleg, she has given us two outstanding colt foals (both BEF Elite) to date. She comes from one of the oldest damlines (Stamm 809) in Hanover. Her stunning and very typey 2016 colt by Floriscount has been retained.
Betty is in foal again to Floriscount for 2017.

BARBARELLA (Brenda): Another outstandingly well bred mare for top level performance: by Bertoli W the grand prix son of Breitling W (also grand prix and known as 'the Grand Prix producer'! ) and from the famous 'Olympic' mareline of Herbert de Baey that produced multi Olympic medal winners: Rembrandt, Ahleric and Amon. In addition this line has produced numerous influential licensed stallions: the legendary Rubinstein (I and II), Royal Angelo I and I, Romancier, and the current 'hot' stallion Bordeaux amongst others.
Bren is in foal to Dimaggio for 2017 - himself a World Champion and producer of many Grand Prix horses and is also damsire to double World Champion Farouche.

STATE PREMIUM DOLCE NERA (Dolce): By Don Frederico x Weltmeyer x Shogun XX. A former mare-show champion in Germany, this big black mare is striking in her looks and movement. We have retained her big moving 2016 colt foal by Bordeaux and eagerly await her 2017 foal by San Amour.