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Ryan Joyce enjoying one of the day’s ‘cake breaks’ with Take It 2 The Limit, one of the stallions resident at Glenwood Stud
Ryan and Abergavenny Welsh Comet at the 2017 Native Pony Festival where they won the in hand silver medal of all breeds and qualified for
the Northern Breeders for the second time. Image courtesy of Peter Bulman, Expo Life
Tack room chat with... Ryan Joyce
Introduce yourself My name is Ryan Joyce, I’m 22 and from the Aran Islands, Galway, Ireland, where I was brought up breeding and producing Connemara ponies. I came to UK and Glenwood Stud in Northumberland two years ago and have learned so much more about breeding, including AI and successfully showing different breeds in hand. I’m now riding and schooling, train regularly with Rob and Val Williams, who own Glenwood Stud and will be starting a ridden career next season. I have three Connemara stallions of my own standing at Glenwood Stud, where the facilities include a fully equipped Al laboratory, horse walker, large outdoor surface, round pen, rubber trot track, CCTV for foaling mares in six boxes and grazing.
Tell us a little about some of the horses and ponies you work with
Abergavenny Welsh Comet, a Welsh Section D Stallion, We have had a great time together this season, with many Championships, Supremes and we finished in second place for the second year running at the Royal Highland. Corha’s Misty, bought from my father by Rob and Val Williams at Glenwood Stud. She’s a two year old Connemara filly. Last season as a yearling she was shown twice, securing Reserve Champion and Champion Connemara at Area 4. This year to date we have won three firsts and taken three Reserve Championships. Limited Edition, a five year old Connemara mare. This year she has given us many
Championships and Reserve Championships. We have just backed her and are over the moon with the way she’s going - I can’t wait for next year to start ridden classes with her and Comet.
What have been the highlights of the current season so far? To take six stallions from Glenwood to the Northern Stallion Showcase back in March and show them was fantastic. Then there was the Royal Highland Show with the Section C Yearling Colt Mighty Me on only his second outing. He took second place in a strong class before Comet, in his very strong Welsh Section D class, was second to Fiery Jack. That was certainly a great day.
Then there was the Native Pony Festival where Comet won the silver medal of all breeds and qualified for the Northern Breeders for the second time. He was also third for the second year running at the Great Yorkshire.
What other major successes have you enjoyed in your equine career to date? In 2006 it was amazing to win
the loose jumping at Clifden Show in Ireland with my own Connemara mare Ryan’s Girl. In 2012 I was showing at Royal Dublin and placed with Castleside Magnum as a foal.
Then last year in 2016 I went home in order to show at Clifden and was placed with a Thunderbolt mare, who is one of the last of Thunderbolt’s offspring still being shown.
What three tasks do you carry out on the yard each day? At this time of year we’re very busy with a wide variety of stud duties, along with the usual yard work. Part of every day I work horses both in hand and ridden, but always have time for eating cake!
What happens next? I want to be as successful as I possibly can as both a rider and producer.
Finally, thinking of just one horse or pony ... Name — Abergavenny Welsh Comet
Breeding — Llanarth Prince of Wales Abergavenny Sally Age — Five
Level of competition — Successfully showing in hand at the top level, including at the Royal Highland and Great Yorkshire.
Feeding and management regime — Comet is fed in the morning and than an hour later he goes out in the field for the morning.
He comes in at lunch time and has a second feed. Then in the afternoon he will be groomed, go on the horsewalker for roughly an hour and some days a week he is worked in hand. He will soon be starting his work towards backing once he has done his last show of the season. He has a third feed about five o’clock when the yard is done up and another small feed about 8.30 — 9 pm at evening stables. He is fed on TopSpec.
Showcasing Connemara stallion Supernova at the 2017 Northern Stallion Showcase Image courtesy of Peter Bulman, Expo Life
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On a competition day, most of his feed regime stays the same, but obviously it all depends what time he his competing.
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