( EQUESTRIAN CHARACTERS remembered )


mixture with a dash of Welsh Cob and probably had more than a hoof in the start of Sheila’s passion for the Welsh equine. At first in her early days as a breeder Sheila concentrated on


colour, using the same mathematical precision with breeding that she had used in her job in wartime Britain. Palomino was a colour that she particularly loved, as any breeder knows the genetics are complex in guaranteeing the colour of a horse. Sheila went on to concentrate on conformation, trying to get back to the original lines of the Welsh Section A for which she became so well known in the show ring. Sheila developed a great love of Wales, particularly of the


Brecon Beacons, and would plan her year a round the Welsh sales at Fayre Oakes, she said that the Downs above the house at Yaverland were as close as she could get to her ponies natural habitat. The brood mares lived a very free life in a herd and the


stallions also lived out, in all it was as close to being in the wild as you could get. I have to say that some of these little ladies developed jumping abilities that could rival John Whittiker’s Milton, in their quest to spend an illicit night with the two very handsome stallions, Hi-Tec and Carousel and would have to be retrieved the next day! Sheila was very well known on the show circuit and also judged extensively; wins were numerous and included Yaverland Carlo, winner of the WHP and Reserve Champion at HOYS. The leſt hand wall as you walked into the outer hall of the manor was just a myriad of colour as all the rosettes were displayed there, with barely a space leſt to pin another one! Sheila was a victim of rheumatoid arthritis during her later


years and was helped by a lady called Thelma Lockyear who herself was a breeder of Welsh section A’s. Thelma was supreme at making sure that everything ran the way it always had at Yaverland with the ponies and Sheila concentrated on her passion for improving bloodlines, not letting her increasing immobility stop the enjoyment of her ponies.


So that is a brief insight into the Y averland Stud which sadly


finished on Sheila’s death in 2007. I still have one mare from the stud, Mrs P


, now in her 30’s who has the run of the yard, she was a gift from my mother in law and the best reminder I could have of the wonderful woman I was proud to call my Mother-in-law


. Jo Monc


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