Sunday saw the festive season kick off with style as Exmoor ponies from as far away as Yorkshire and Lancashire came together to compete at the Annual Exmoor foal show, with classes for everyone from fancy dress and pairs to the more seriously contended age group and foal classes. The event provides a great platform [...]
WOW, what a week! All the ponies came off Ashwayside and Varlehill well, but a very welcome conversation with the local game keeper highlighted a small group who had evaded capture and a team of ridden ponies and quads were dispatched [...]
The National Pony Society championships saw Anchor Fairytalewin the Picton Novice Mountain and Moorland Championship final for the Exmoor breed, Fairy had qualified earlier in the year at Bold Heath Equestrian Centre for both the flat and novice working hunter championships in her very first season under saddle ridden by producer Pam Brown. Fairy jumped two [...]
August 2014 saw our first herd/stud open day for the Anchor Exmoor pony herd as part of the Exmoor Pony Festival week. The day started at the Exmoor pony centre on the farm where we greeted nearly 70 people from as far a field as Germany and those who had travelled the length and breadth of [...]
The Anchor herd took 7 ponies from a brood mare and foal to a young newly registered stallion. The previous few days had seen great excitement on the farm with nearly 70 visitors arriving for our open day, discussion and walk onto the hill to see the very obliging moor ponies who were just through [...]
