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Friends of the Cleveland Bay Horse
The History of Pembridge
Performance Horses
Pembridge Rocket Dam Pembridge Jewell CB Sire Shipley Diamond TB Lic stallion
Pembridge Jallisco PBCB
Dam Pembridge Endeavour FEI Sire Minstrel Star
It all began with Humphrey, a big bold Cleveland Bay sport horse by Forest Saga out of Blossom. He was a horseman's horse and it was he who awakened our interest in Cleveland Bays. Through him and tracing his history, we made many
contacts
and learnt much of the caliber of the breed.
In 1987, we purchased a
proud looking purebred Cleveland Bay stallion named Tynedale St. Julian at a
horse auction. Julian was 16 years old, a much loved horse and successful
breeding stallion, but they were seeking a new stud home for him.
Learning more about the breed, I realized Cleveland Bays were and are the only
true British-bred warmblood. I already knew from Humphreys character, the
breed's wonderful attributes as sport horses. Riding Julian, I realized what
purebred Clevelands had to offer and resolved to help conserve and promote this
rare, wonderful breed.
In 1988, we needed more space and found Newton Farm, which came with another
historic house: Pembridge. While working on renovations to make the farm a stud,
we stood Julian, followed by Midshipman (CB), No Evil (TB), the Queen's stallion
Forest Foreman (CB), and Stunner Rascal (TB). Littlebeck Cavalier (CB) later
joined us as did Bassanio, a son of Forest Foreman. With this range of stallions
we could analyze clients' mares and recommend the right match based on the type
of foal desired.
We did not yet have purebred mares, so we leased the type we were looking for:
Wayland Sherry, Wayland Katy and Wayland Lady. These mares got us started and
the names of their progeny are known in the competition world. Later, we
acquired our own foundation mares and from these, we bred our first generation
of performance horses.
Minstrel Star ("Minnie") joined us, and we bred him to Amethyst (CB). The foal,
Pembridge Minstrel, became an FEI Eventer. In the three seasons that Minnie was
with us he sired outstanding sport horses, including Pembridge Mister Macauley,
Pembridge Endeavour, and Pembridge Copycat.
In tandem with the eventers, we were breeding purebred CBs to help to protect
this endangered breed. Out of our first purebred mare Pembridge Jewel (by
Tynedale St Julian, out of Ramblers Empress) we bred Pembridge Midshipman, by
the Life Premium stallion Midshipman. Pembridge Midshipman was also a Premium CB
stallion and a performance horse in his own right.
Having achieved a degree of success in breeding performance horses, we decided
to broaden the program. We produced several purebreds and sport horses which
were successful in many disciplines: Pembridge Jack the Nipper, by Tynedale St
Julian, followed by Pembridge Welcome by Waldlord; Pembridge Swingtime,
Pembridge Musician and Pembridge Melody.
By now all our sires and dams had progeny competing successfully. In our early
years, many of our good horses went to riders who did not realize what they had.
The horses wound up "lost" or not competing. Fortunately for us some came
through to prove our breeding.
Midshipman and Littlebeck Cavalier were pivotal in regenerating the renowned
Cholderton herd of Clevelands standing stud at our farm and returning there to
cover mares each year. When Midshipman died, Henry Edmunds of Cholderton offered
us one of Midshipman's colts, Cholderton Yobi, to carry on his line. Yobi joined
us and he is now a premium stallion.
The aim was always to consistently breed tough sound eventers, capable of the
highest level. We knew the role of the TB in eventing, but were looking for more
consistency. I started looking at ways to introduce the type of stamina inherent
in endurance horses. A good friend of ours had rescued an Akhal Teke stallion,
Atemekhan ("Khan"), when in Turkmenistan and resolved to bring him to England.
The Akhal Teke were the racehorse of Turkmenistan: fast, with the ability to
endure hardship, living under harsh conditions on very poor rations. I decided
to combine the speed and endurance of the Akhal Teke with the power and
endurance of the CB to breed the ultimate eventer. We bred Pembridge Jewel with
Khan and produced Pembridge Jamilia.
This is just a brief outline of the history of the Pembridge breeding program.
Many mares and stallions have contributed and indeed still are but there are too
many to mention here. Each is part of a jigsaw falling into shape. There are no
shortcuts to success. I was a founding member of the Supporters of British
Breeding and remember well those momentous words when we started: 'It's going to
take a decade to turn things round.' How true! It's taken over 15 years to get
established and see the results of our planning. It's the next decade where it
will all really tell.
About the Author: Kate Telford owns Pembridge Stud in the United Kingdom.
To learn more about Pembridge Stud's breeding program and Cleveland Bays go to
http://www.pembridgestud.com or friendsofthecb@yahoo.com or call 817-905-6519.
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