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The Holltess stud is a small,
private, family run stud breeding hacks, riding horses and show ponies.
The stud has been responsible for breeding numerous in hand and ridden
champions including 2 Royal International Horse Show Champions, 2 Royal
Show Supreme Champions, a Supreme Champion at the BSPS Championships
and Ponies UK, Eight Horse of the Year Show Supreme In-hand finalists
as well as winning the Supreme in hand pony of the year in 1996 at the
Horse of the Year show.
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The Roper-Caldbeck family have
been involved with horses and ponies for over 50 years from Polo ponies
to show jumpers to event horses. Auriol Roper-Caldbeck was taught by
Dick Stilwall and show jumped as a child, in later years she progressed
into eventing. Auriol competed at Badminton and also owned and brought
though the ranks the R. Olympic event horse Wayfarer.
In 1993 we moved to Gloucestershire in order to concentrate on the stud
and a year later purchased our resident hack stallion Fairlyn Fanfare
(see stallion and progeny pages). 'Frankie' was shown by us as a
youngster with considerable success qualifying for the 'Templeton
Supreme' in hand final at the Horse of the Year show, as well as being
champion at all the major county shows including The Bath &
West, Great Yorkshire, Royal Lancashire, Ponies UK, Devon County and
Overall Supreme Champion at the National Arab show.
Due to our increasing old age Frankie does not stand at public stud,
and only covers a handful of mares a year, despite this his success has
been outstanding (see progeny
page). The stud over the years has carefully selected a number of
proven mares all with outstanding conformation, movement and
bloodlines. (See mares page) Young stock are occasionally for sale.
The stud is located between The Malvern and Cotswold Hills and is
easily accessible from the M5. Cheltenham is about 10 miles away and
the Three Counties Showground is about 15 miles away. The Stud is set
in over 100 acres of pastureland and woodland and has good facilities
with stabling for 30 horses, CCTV, post and rail paddocks, an indoor
school and an outdoor turnout arena.
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