Our directions during the last 15 years have changed somewhat. We started showing Section A Welsh mares on our own account then produced/purchased a number of ponies from Sue Lamont’s Greenlee Stud. Included over the years has been Greenlee Adelaide for Sue through her young stock days before being sold to the Goldsbury family. She went on to take a Pony of the Year title with Amanda Goldsbury as her rider.

We then purchased Greenlee Chipmunk and never even got him out of the paddock before he also went to the Goldsbury’s. Monkey has been three times Pony of the Year, also with Amanda.  They also had a very successful dressage career, including Dressage Pony Of The Year 2000 and FEI World Challenge Children's Class 2000 win before his purchase by overseas interests.

There have been other ponies that have gone on and have done very well, namely Brookfields Uptempo who is proving to be a successful young sire in his own right (by Kirreway Uptown+au), and his year younger Windermere Remember Me half sister in Brookfields Forget Me Not a successful show and dressage pony.

 Their dam is the lovely old Solway Summer Moon+uk mare Miltondale Moonlight Serenade.  But is was wen bought Greenlee Dreamtime by Kirreway Uptown+au it all chnged for us.  She proved a multi supreme winner in the In-Hand classes for Brookfields before being broken in by Monica Scott and schooled in the dressage disciplin.  Vaugh and Bronwyn Cooper of Laurieston Stud in Hunterville then took over her ridden carrer and she proved even more successful under saddle, adding many more SUpreme and other titles both in the show ring and the dressage arean to her already impressive bag over a two-year period. 

Along came her sister Greenlee Dancing Queen. She was produced for Brookfields and Greenlee for three seasons, from her three-year-old year. Her first show was the Royal at Hastings where she took the supreme young stock title and also won her first NZ Riding Pony sash. Abby was also schooled by Monica and with Wendy Pryor as her rider went on her showing/dressage career with great gusto. She also was successful in both fields before her sale last year to the USA.

We purchased yet another pony Kirreway Uptown filly from Sue Lamont, this time Greenlee Folksong from the mare G. Felicity.   Song has for us taken a Supreme and Champion titles in just a handful of shows in this her first season.    She was professionally broken in and sold to the Guild family in Hawkes Bay.

Taafes Glen Pandora by Keston St Christopher, Pandy was one of two mares in this country in foal to Rotherwood Peter Pan on his season. She was purchased from Clare Mason in the South Island as a brood mare with the intention that Wendy Pryor had the ride for her last two seasons in the pony ring before turning seventeen. That was not to be and she went instead almost immediately into the broodmare paddock when the R. Peter Pan semen was made available to NZ.

Brookfields bought, in conjunction with Nala Stud in the Manawatu, the Riding Pony colt ASCOT ROYAL EMBLEM+au  as a weanling from Ascot Stud in Melbourne, Australia. Mr John Gould of the Trellech Stud in the UK judged him Grand National In Hand pony at the inaugural National Horse & Pony Show at Dannevirke. ASCOT ROYAL EMBLEM+au  (Rex) was test bred to one mare as a two year old, resulting in the lovely filly Nala Emblems Nichole a champion in her own right.   Rex was then bred to seven mares as a three year old and has a further five daughters from those mating’s.  He has two champion daughters from this crop, Nala Emblems Windswept (from Beachlee Breeze) and Brookfields Royale Affair (from Dantes Affair+au) both shown as foals at foot.

Our aim is to try to breed ‘big’ ponies that still retain the lovely pony qualities - if we don’t succeed with the height, then pretty will do nicely.