As you can appreciate from our introduction on the homepage, the female line in our ponies is very important and we feel offers both us
and
potential new owners a consistency of type and character
than cannot be hoped for with a randomly selected
background. In the Mountain Ponies we were able to
secure this with the purchase of Sunwillow Quest
in 1994 after many years of homework dealing with
various bloodlines from around the world. However, we
are merely custodians with the story starting long
before that. Our female line heralded by the legendary
Coed Coch Siaradus was in more recent times promoted by
Sunwillow Bernina who brought in yet another line of
Coed Coch Glyndwr and in using Coed Coch Salsbri on his
neice Bernina, cemented the type even further. Our
challenge has been to select the future generations to
move forward. We were fortunate to be able to secure
Quest's daughter, Sunwillow Yasmin just prior to Quest's
arrival, so between them they have been a great
foundation for us, not just in their show ring victories
but with there presence in the paddock at home that has
brought them many admirers. We have never bred a lot of ponies each year so we have tended to
retain the majority of females from this line, luckily all
have served us well. Sunwillow
The present day Section B herd follows a similar pattern though has evolved under different circumstances.
Currently
all the females trace back to Weston Twiggy albeit from
different directions. Her great grand-daughter Eyarth
Windflower has led in the way of type and character
since her arrival in 1988 whereas the same blood has
been mixed with the Downland lines that have a family
link with Meirion since the early seventies with dams of
equal consistency such as Downland Rhamant by Downland
Romance, Downland Rapture by Downland Dragoon and
Downland Rosewood by Downland Chevalier who in turn are
out of Downland Camelia, credited for retaining the
charm and pony character. This combination appears to be
giving us both height, movement and bone which we hope
to see in our Section B stock.(Photos from the top: Sunwillow Quest, Sunwillow Bernina and Downland Rapture)