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GWRTHAFARN COMMANDER 23021 black 15.1hh. 1981 - 2005.
photo by Ann ThompsonObituary P.235, 2007 Journal. (Click on image to enlarge).
Commander was purchased in 1982 as a yearling, and has run out with mares since he was a two year old. He was ridden at home as a young horse, and hunted a little, but never shown, as we preferred him to run out with his mares. This horse has proved to be a wonderful sire of brood mares, passing on both his conformation and his wonderful temperament. Two of our senior mares are his daughters. ROTHERDALE DULAIS (1984) Out of Gerrig Dulais Youngstock Champion Royal Welsh 1987 Female Champion Royal of England 1991
ROTHERDALE IMPERIAL MAID (1989) Out of Tydfil Magic Princess 2nd Royal Welsh 1989 2nd Glanusk 1992 Dam of Rotherdale Odette (1995) by Laburnum Magic 1st Glanusk 1996 & 1998 Sold at Builth Wells Oct 1996 for 2000gns
Rotherdale Rhodri (1998) by Laburnum Magic
Rotherdale Snow Queen (1999) by Laburnum Magic Sold at Builth Wells Oct 2001 to the Stepol Stud. 2005 Reserve Female Champion at The Royal Welsh.
Commander is also the sire of ROTHERDALE EMPRESS (1985) Out of Tydfil Magic Princess A major prize winner as a foal and as a youngster. Sold in 1988.
ROTHERDALE DEWI COMET (1984) Out of Abertawe Dorinda Sold at Builth Wells Oct 1985 for 1400 gns to Billy Buck and going on to be a very successful driving stallion.
ROTHERDALE NOBLE LADY (1994) Out of Tydfil Magic Princess 1st Lampeter 1995 from 70 entries. Sold Builth Wells 1995 for 3000 gns to the Seiont Stud
Carl Trock, who is one of the premier breeders in Europe, founded his Danish Vahalla Stud on two of Commanders daughters, (see links page). These are
ROTHERDALE ECLIPSE (1985) Out of Abertawe Dorinda A full sister to R. Dewi Comet. A major prize winner in the UK before leaving for Denmark in 1987, where she became National Danish Champion in Junior and Senior classes.
ROTHERDALE HEIRESS (1988) Out of Tydfil Magic Princess A full sister to R. Imperial Maid. Another major prize winner here before departing as a yearling in 1989 to Denmark. She has also been Danish National Champion.
ROTHERDALE KARA (1991) Out of Trevallion ap Fashion Sold in 2004 to Klaus Lindberg (Denmark) to join Rotherdale Nerys and to help establish his new Welsh Cob Stud. Kara was shown here a few times before being sold. She was 1st at Lampeter and 2nd at The Royal Welsh as a three year old and won the Brood Mare Class at The Three Counties Show in 2000 (where her foal R. Taran also won his class).
ROTHERDALE XSARA (2004) Out of R. Queen 2006 - 1st Three Counties, 3rd Glanusk, 4th Lampeter, (only times shown) The last Rotherdale bred filly bred by Commander, Xsara, will join the mares in 2008 with her first foal by Rotherdale Viscount.
Commander has also proved himself as a sire of large part breds, all of them going on to be brilliant jumpers, hunters and eventers.
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SOLD AT BUILTH OCT 08TO THE TREFAES STUD.
Photos Courtesy Of The Event Photographer.(Click on image to enlarge).
Rhodri’s dam is a daughter of the famous Tydfil Magic Princess. He was shown regularly as a youngster, winning many times. He was Reserve Youngstock Champion at the Royal Welsh Show in 1999, and Reserve Male Champion at the Royal of England in the same year. Due to the Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001, we were unable to show Rhodri as a three year old, so instead we decided to bring him out as a four year old the following year. Not expecting to make a huge impact, we did in fact do very well, gaining wins and championships in good company at top shows. Rhodri is broken to ride and has been successfully shown under saddle. Rhodri stood on lease with Klaus Lindberg in Demark for the 2006/2007 stud seasons. Main Showing Achievements 1998 (foal)
Midlands-in-Hand
Reserve Supreme Foal
Royal of England
1st
Northleach
1st
Royal Welsh Show
3rd
1999 (yearling) Royal of England Reserve Male Ch. Royal Welsh Show Reserve Youngstock Ch.
Northleach
Reserve Youngstock Ch.
National Pony Show
1st
Lampeter
3rd
Royal Welsh Show
4th
2001 (3
years) Foot and Mouth - No Shows
2002 (4 years) Forest of Dean Sec.D Ch. & Reserve Supreme Ch.
Midlands-in- Hand
Champion
Royal Bath and West Reserve Champion
Three Counties
1st
Royal of England
3rd
Northleach
3rd
2003 (5 years) 1st & Ridden Champion Blaenavon Ass. Summer Show 2nd Junior Ridden Stallion Royal Welsh Show.
2004 (6 years) 1st Three Counties Show 1st Ridden Champion and Supreme Show Champion Blaenavon 1st Brecon County 1st D Champion and Ridden Champion at Sennybridge 1st Reserve D Champion, Ridden Champion and Reserve M & M Champion Usk
2006/7 On lease to Klaus Lindberg in Denmark.
2008 (10 years) 3rd Three Counties Open Ridden 5th Brynseion Championship Finals 4th Royal Welsh Ridden Stallions
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SOLD AT HAY 2010 BROKEN BY DEBBIE BAKER.
Viscount is a son of the famous Tydfil Magic Princess and by our champion in hand and ridden stallion R. Rhodri. Viscount is unshown to date. He has run out with mares since he was two years old and is leaving some very promising offspring.
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ROTHERDALE YARIS 70218 2005 BAY 14.3hh
SOLD AT BUILTH OCT 09 TO MARY & AMY HOARE.
Licensed and turned out with R. Dulais and R. Imperial Maid in 2007. Yaris' first foals have proved to be very promising with Dulais producing a very pretty filly and Maid a superb colt.
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