History Part III
We got into B's almost by mistake. On a visit to Australia in 1975 we were invited to the Glenmore and Eelah Studs of Janny and Mary McDonald. We purchased a weanling colt by Baledon Squire out of Rawthey Wishing Well (imp to Australia). Eelah Executor did not have many purebred mares, however he was a very successful sire of part bred Welsh ponies. His sister Glenmore Wiggle was one of the most successful show mares of her day for Janny.
Pendock Pilgrim (pictured right) arrived one cold winter day in June 1978, along with his mother Twyford Prunella. I made enquiries in the UK through Miss Rosemary Phillison-Stow about purchasing a Sec B mare as we could not get what we wanted in NZ. Rosemary agreed to breed Prunella to Kirby Cane Gauntlet. Three weeks after her pregnancy test, The NZ Department of Agriculture placed a ban on the importation of infoal mares. Eighteen months later they arrived at Glendale. Prunella never left us a filly and we kept one colt out of her. (Glendale Branas)
Glendale Branas (sire Eelah Executor) was sold as a two-year-old and before his departure served Clifton Bubbles in the air. (Glendale Champers owned by Mrs Jane Watts) Glendale Pizzaz was Bubbles next foal by Eelah Executor and she is one of our most useful mares.
Her four foals by Pendock Pilgrim have all been successfully shown in hand as well as in saddle. Glendale Schnapps, Caspar, Wynn and Ash. She had five fillies by Waimea Coed Celi, - Glendale Sizzle, Pizza and Topaz and Breeze and Zest, three of which are retained by the stud and the fourth Topaz and Pizza being sold as a foundation mares to a new breeders.