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Cheryl Patton: What You Breed Is What You Get by Thalia Gentzel
of that size. He had a lot of bone and a beautiful pony head, and oh, what a wonderful temperament! He had a fabulous mind and such a good disposition that I could easily have had a picnic in his paddock with great confidence that he would be a 'good boy'. With his wonderful qualities, Olympian’s offspring have epitomized what you want in breeding ponies for children."
Some years ago when Cheryl Patton and I were chatting, she made a statement that has kept playing in my mind: “WHAT YOU BREED IS WHAT YOU GET.” Obviously her “ingredients” have been superior as Cheryl has raised one prominent hunter pony after another, reaching the pinnacle in 2008 as U.S. EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION LEADING MORE STALLION POWER PONY HUNTER BREEDER Cloe Olympian also sired and it looks very good for a colts who would go on to repeat performance in 2009! become fine breeding stalCheryl relates how she lions in their own right for and Mary Lambert, her Cloe Olympian All photos courtesy of Cheryl Patton Clovermeade Ponies. A Clovercroft business partpurebred Section B Welsh, ner, assembled the core of Clovercrofts Brenin, was foaled in 1994. He is out of the Clovercroft breeding herd. “Mary and I met at Madoc Mirror Image by *Smoke Tree Bronze Image, The Oak Hill School riding program when my girls a full brother to *Sleight of Hand. Sleight and took riding lessons from her. Soon Mary gave riding Bronze Image are by Mylncroft Spun Gold by Solway lessons to several of the moms too. It was great Master Bronze and out of a Coed Coch Berwynfa fun and the winter of 1989 another mother and I mare. Both these lines have been highly influential went with Mary to Gail Morris's Gayfields Welsh in Section B breeding worldwide. Ponies in Arkansas to look at stallions for two of Like Olympian, Brenin has sired many famous Mary's mares. We LOVED the ponies and I bought hunter ponies and in 2007 was #6 in USEF Leading Gayfields Runaround Sue by *Sleight of Hand. We Pony Hunter Sires with his sire in #9 position, this decided on a partnership and together purchased out of nearly 200 stallions! Currently showing are the colt, Gayfields Dylan by *Pendock Masterpiece. Clovercroft Love Bunny and Sunny Bunny, That was the beginning of Clovercroft Welsh Ponies Clovermeade Bugs Bunny, Somebunny Famous, and near Nashville, Tennessee. King Me. Dylan matured beautifully but was not getting all Clovermeade Bonnaroo is another Section B Welsh the mares in foal so he became a wonderful driving stallion by Olympian (*Findeln Blue Danube) out of pony. We bought several young colts after that but Clovercrofts Polly Ester, a daughter of Cymraeg Rain discovered not every one matures into the stallion Beau (by Farnley Lustre) and Gayfields Family Linen one desires. Finally my husband, Allen, said, 'You (by *Sleight of Hand.) Cheryl says of his breeding, need to get a REAL breeding stallion!' So the search “How much better can you get?” Bonnaroo has began!" Farnley Lustre on both his top and bottom lines. ENTER CLOE OLYMPIAN The Clovermeade crossbred stallion by Olympian "Around 1993 Mary and I admired Cloe Olympian out of Le Katie is Clovercrofts Hero of the Heart. (*Findeln Blue Danube by GlanNant Limerick x Alra His first foal in the show ring is Clovermeade Bunny Dana Amber Rose by *Clan Dana) at the Oklahoma Side Up with many more up 'n' coming. Welsh shows. His breeder, Jim Cloe, rode and drove Other stallions at Clovermeade are *Brookside him; he was beautiful and so were his foals! I called Solo (Friars Sweet William x Brookside Serenade by Jim and somehow talked him into selling Olympian. Friars Brenin Dafydd), a classic Section A Welsh, and He was nine when we got him in 1993 and he lived Wicklyn’s Make Mine Chocolate (GlanNant Scarab x until 2007. Cymraeg Applause by Cymraeg Rain Beau). Cloe Olympian brought us everything we had wanted in a stallion: He was almost 13.2 hands in his prime and was extremely typy for a Welsh pony