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CASTLEBAR GULFSTREAM with his son CASTLEBAR STEALTH (ex. Wybalena Lodge Schuska) who will be going to Argentina to stand at stud later this year.
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CASTLEBAR SHEKO
D.O.B : 24.10.2006
Sire : Seraja
Dam : Castlebar Shiralee
CASTLEBAR SHEKO is one of our upcoming young stallions. He is a very athletic and we are pretty excited for his return from the breakers in the next few weeks.
CASTLEBAR SHEKO is by our foundation sire SERAJA. SERAJA himself was a very successful endurance horse in the period 1989-1992 winning regularly with excellent heart rate recoveries . His progeny have been excelling in endurance both nationally and internationally most notably CASTLEBAR MACLEOD - winner of the 2003 160km Tom Quilty Gold Cup, 14th -2002 160km World Championships held in Spain, winner of the 167km FEI 3* Burrowye 2003 and many other wins ranging from 80-160km.
SHEKO'S dam CASTLEBAR SHIRALEE herself was a competitive mare with an injury cutting her career short. Both her sire and dam are the foundation bloodlines of Castlebar making her a valuable asset as a broodmare.
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CASTLEBAR STEALTH
D.O.B : 19.12.2007
Sire : Castlebar Gulfstream
Dam : Wybalena Lodge Schuska
CASTLEBAR STEALTH is another upcoming young sire. These two photos are of Stealth in paddock condition in January 2010. We only put a brush on him 5 minutes before these were taken.
His sire CASTLEBAR GULFSTREAM has completed 6 Open rides to date with ease. The last :
December 2009 - Upper Murray 120km FEI 2* - 4th Open.
He is a full brother to both CRYSTAL FLYER & KURRAJONG CONCORDE.
- CRYSTAL FLYER - winner of the 2000 Tom Quilty Gold Cup, the Australian FEI Championships - 2000, the QLD FEI Championships - 2002 + many more - she is still competing overseas.
- KURRAJONG CONCORDE - 2008 Tom Quilty - 6th MWT, 2009 Tom Quilty - 3rd MWT. She is the winner over many distances and is still campaigned by Castlebar.
STEALTH'S dam completed over 4,000km in endurance rides. She was the winner of many distances some with HWT riders. SCHUSKA also competed overseas.
- December 2005 - Young Riders 120km World Championships held in Bahrain - 11th.
- June 2006 - Monpazier 160km - 5th.
- August 2006 - 160km World Championships held in Aachen - 29th.
She was a very tough and competitive mare. This is her 1st foal.
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HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OUR FRIENDS
from Meg, Chris, Cobar and all the staff at CASTLEBAR.
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congratulations ! ! !
CASTLEBAR staff members Jess Bawden & Alam Dastani have announced their wedding plans.
Jess & Alam met at the Endurance World Championships in Malaysia 2008.
Alam was the Swedish Chef d' Equipe and Jess a groom for the Aussie team.
All CASTLEBAR wish them a happy and healthy future together.
Rumour has it that Alam believes in BIG families.
(Posted 19/03/10)
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Some of the 2005 & 2006 home bred mares having a run around the paddock. (Posted 17/03/10) |
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Our exciting new edition - in the sunshine!!
Just 3 weeks old and this bay colt by CASTLEBAR TEMPEST out of the 2008 Tom Quilty Gold Cup Winner - CHINA DOLL is simply outstanding.
(Posted 11/03/10) |
aurevoir pierre
Thanks for you help over Summer.
Our best wishes for the 2010 French endurance season - kick butt!!
See you back in November.
(Posted 03/03/10) |
welcome back to asher
After a great experience at Cedar Ridge and some time recovering from her shoulder injury,
Ash has decided to stay close to home in the Upper Murray.
(Posted 03/03/10) |
Born this morning in the rain (22.02.2010) our latest edition out of Embryo Transfer.
A bay colt by CASTLEBAR TEMPEST out of the 2008 Tom Quilty Gold Cup Winner -
CHINA DOLL.
This is CHINA DOLL'S 3rd foal to date.
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First trot with it's surrogate mother.
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CASTLEBAR CRACKLIN ROSIE foaled at midday today on Australia Day. A bay colt with very long strong legs by CHILLE. CHILLE is an unregistered Anglo stallion by CHIP CHASE SADAQA out of a Thoroughbred mare.
CHILLE recently competed in the Upper Murray FEI 1* in December 2009 and came 3rd OPEN. |
CASTLEBAR SHIRALEE foaled on the 28.12.2009 and had a stunning colt by ALOHA DELTA. SHIRALEE was a successful endurance mare placing in numerus rides in 1998-99. This is her 6th foal. |
ALOHA GOSSIP foaled on Christmas Day last year and had a colt by CASTLEBAR TEMPEST.
Her sire TALQUAH TALIK is the sire of a multitude of winning endurance horses with ATTITUDE. ALOHA GOSSIP herself was the 1999 FEI Endurance Ranked No 1 in the World Endurance Horse. She has 5 foals to date. |
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We had a fire two weeks ago during the Total Fire Ban with temperatures 40 degrees plus. This fire was 500 meters South of our boundary to The Glenn at Mt Alfred. With quick response from the neighbours and the local CFA they stopped it from almost reaching our boundary fence. The terrain was so steep that 2 helicopters, 3 bulldozers and 1 fixed wing airplane were used with assistance from the ground crew to get the fire under control. It took 4 days to black out the fire area with flare up's happening on a daily basis.
Horses closest to the fire were moved to the covered yards at The Glenn unharmed. (Posted 22/01/2010)
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| Meg's first motorbike ride since the accident. Didn't just go for a little ride around the house yard, down the road and around the paddocks! |
Meg & Chris racing up the front road last night.
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Wishing all our friends a Merry Christmas and a
happy and prosperous New Year
from Meg & Chris and all the staff at CASTLEBAR.
In 2009 we have had accidents, drought, fires and now we're just waiting for the flood!! |
CASTLEBAR Foals for 2009 (we foal down roughly 30 mares).
2009 Hay season is well under way. 2,500 bales of pasture hay are in the shed already but as you can see a lot more to go along with another paddock to cut and bale. The girls are avoiding the hay truck like the plague! Little wonder it is over 30 deg C outside and no AC in the truck. The two guys carting the hay are 3rd year Vet students from Charles Sturt Uni at Wagga Wagga. (Posted 14/12/09) |
Early last week our neighbours hay baler caught on fire which spread to the paddock. Luckily quick action brought it under control as it was only100 metres from CASTLEBAR'S property's western boundary. This may be the start of another bad fire season this Summer.
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Meg is still at the Epworth Rehabilitation Hospital in Melbourne where they have attempted to improve her cooking skills amongst other things!!!
Cooking and singing were high on the to do list but however Meg was never much of a chef nor a singer, so she has gone into the work shop and is fine tuning her wood work skills.
In the past week Meg has also taken six huge steps by herself which is an amazing feat.
Meg can be contacted on her mobile phone +61 (0) 418 695 325 after 3:00 pm Aussie Time (EST). |
The photos where taken in the last week of November 2009.
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CASTLEBAR ODYSSEY
(Posted Vonstar 30/11/09) |
This is CASTLEBAR ODYSSEY (AHSA pending), who I have just finished handling.
He is an intelligent colt who not only is stylish but also very correct. He is bred in the purple.
DOB : 18.12.2008
SIRE : CASTLEBAR TEMPEST
DAM : SHIRA'MAR OBSESSION
CB ODYSSEY'S is a half brother to CASTLEBAR SOBIA (ODESSA), who won Silver Medals at both the 160km FEI Open Endurance Championships in Assisi Italy, and the 120km FEI Young Riders World Endurance Championships in Babolna Hungary this year.
His sire CASTLEBAR TEMPEST is by Tom Quilty winner and sire of Tom Quilty winners
CHIP CHASE SADAQA out of LYNBROOK TAMSIN who is also the dam of CASTLEBAR TREATY - individual 4th at the Endurance World Championships 2002. |
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Shandelle did it again, she fell off in not so pretty a manner. The horse believed it was time to walk off and Shandelle was too slow getting on - an awkward situation ended up with Shandelle on the grass and the horse trotted off and waited to be caught.
It is a custom at Castlebar that if you hit the deck outside of the arena you use to owe a slab of beer but due to the risk of the girls nearly all riding heavyweight division it was decided that a chocolate cake and lollies be the deal.
Much appreciated Shandelle - tasted great!!
(Vonstar Posted 24/11/09)
