UK visitors to Gadebrook WWOOFer volunteer visitors have their own page HERE
   
   
 

Jenny Lees from Pearl Island Arabians visits in April 2013 and inspects three-year old Crabbet colt Kaalif, (below) and 26-year old senior Gadebrook stallion Sambist (right).

 

  

 


Crabbet breeder, Natalie Tindall (right) meets two-year old colt, Kaalif, October 2012


Scottish cousin Zoe MacGillivray renews friendship with yearling filly Palmyra, July 2012
 


Members of the Leics & Rutland Endurance group visit Gadebrook in September 2011, and meet Palmyra
 

Poet Keith Scowcroft ("Scowie") and wildlife photographer (and Gadebrook groom) Jackie Pringle, co-creators of the countryside book "Just by Chance". For details on Jackie's website click HERE

  

Below, Mark Pitman and Karen from Jenny Pitman Training size up Sambist, winter 2013
     
For article on Gadebrook written by visitor Caroline Hooker, click HERE
 

Jane Pointer (below), founder of the famous Cranham Arabian Stud of pure Crabbet horses in Gloucestershire, visited in 2007 to meet 10-month old filly, Brightstar, the great grand-daughter of her stallion Indian Star (Indian Magic x Nerinora), one of the last bred at Crabbet park.

Brightstar is out of Nishtar whom I bred from Jane's Indian Star son, Jubilee Star.

  


Deirdre Blackburn on an equine art class at Gadebrook in July 2010

     

Gadebrook has been honoured by the most distinguished Crabbet breeders and Arabian enthusiasts in England, including Rosemary Archer and her daughter Elizabeth who stayed to enjoy their mare Summertime Blues, kindly loaned to Gadebrook.

Peter Upton came to paint this wonderful Crabbet mare and her foal Rose of Summer by Shaded Silver. The photo shows Peter Upton in his studio with the two lovely paintings he has done of Summertime Blues and her filly.

 

  


Peter Upton
     


Vicki Chalkley, Joanna and Anne

  

We briefly welcomed Diana Whittome - between her Open Day at Coed-y-Foel Stud and her judging commitments at the Norfolk & Suffolk Arab Show.

We were delighted to welcome Joanna Orme on her two weeks' work experience from school and thank her for her hard work handling the mares and foals, helping the farrier and holding the yearlings for their inoculations.

     

In February 2010 our three cheerful ferreters - and terriers - bagged another dozen rabbits to bring their total this season to almost 100.

Sadly rabbits are a total pest on the farm, ruining the roots of the hedges and leaving deep holes in the fields where horses risk breaking their legs.

  


Ferreters and terriers at Tansor Lodge Farm
February 2010