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History
I am a third-generation Shetland Pony breeder. My grandmother, Mrs Betty Myers, founded Pentland Shetland Pony Stud in Ballarat and my aunt, Annette Currie, produces Shetlands and Miniature Ponies through her Twin Acres Stud, also in Ballarat.
I began my stud under the El Jayem prefix in Ballarat, but halted my pony breeding program after getting married. During this time, my ponies were cared for by my long-suffering parents, whilst I moved around the state with my husband for a few years. We have now settled on a property called "Barwon View" on the banks of the Barwon River at Winchelsea, so have re-commenced breeding under this new name. Since the sad passing of my grandmother in 2009, I was lucky enough to be trusted with many of the standard size Pentland ponies and have bred foals under the renowned Pentland alongside our Barwon View prefix for the last two years.
With our first pure Arabian foal on the ground for our Barwonview Arabian Stud, we could not be happier and look forward to what the future holds.
News
13 December 2011 - Finally I have a photo of Phae's beautiful Arabian filly up on the foal page now. The Shetland foals are growing like mushrooms and in-between coats now. The tie-up and lead training will begin very soon, but most of them will already front up for a scratch. Between them and the yearling fillies also in the same paddock there is a lot of hustle and bustle to see who gets near the people first! Stallions have hopefully done their job for next year and there is lots of potential for broken colour, a few dilutes and one taffy next year, so there is always something to look forward to.
30 November 2011 - The Shetlands have decided 6 foals only for us this year...the last few were just fat!! However, 20th November saw the birth of our first Crabbet arabian foal - she is just lovely and photos will soon be up on the foals page.
11 October 2011 - Still only 6 foals on the ground. A few more ponies have gone to their new homes and one of the 2011 foals is already sold. I have updated the sales page with details of the 2011 foals offered for sale. Stallions are all with mares now, including two new stallions - Fenwick Octavius has his first year with a couple of mares and the Rodney of Marshwood (Imp) son, Glen-Dara Flash, is here on loan with many thanks to Danni Showers from Millwood stud. Pentland Molasses is having a break until next year whilst Flash is here to give me an outcross from our Brigadoon sons. Pentland Pinto Boy also has some new Pentland mares with him this year and here's hoping for some colour from all the boys next year!
20 September 2011 - Pentland Pebbles, Pentland Talinda and Pentland Chelsea have all produced lovely big black fillies by Pentland Molasses and Woodview Kirsty has given us a very eye catching minimal pinto colt by Pentland Pinto Boy. Only a couple to go now.
27 August 2011 - Pentland Ladybelle and Pentland Molasses has given us a lovely black filly with a beautiful little head but nice substance and Kanimbla Gold Kat and Pentland Pinto Boy have given us a big black colt and what a mover!! He can really get up and boogie!! See them on the new 2011 Foals page.
August 2011 - Barwon View Griffin is now happily installed at his new home with Pentland Romany 2nd. Barwon View Cherise is settling in with her lovely new family, being treated like a princess, with a beautiful big thoroughbred as a buddy. Cherise might be the first Shetland there, but will not be the last as Barwon View Krystal will be joining her very shortly. (Many people will agree it is very hard to stop at one!!)
Still no foals as yet, but the countdown has begun...hopefully in the next fortnight we will have our first new arrival.
July 2011 - More ponies have left or are soon to leave for their new homes. Pentland Romany 2nd has found a wonderful new home and will soon be joined by Barwon View Griffin, to be companion ponies for big horses. Pentland Leilani has also gone to a fantastic familly just up the road from home!! She is helping her new Mum give some confidence to a shy Warmblood weanling and being treated like a princess!!
11 of our Shetland mares ran with the stallions last year and are getting fat, fat, fat! It will be no time at all until the foals start arriving now. Here's hoping for healthy mares and safe arrivals for everyone this year. I expect to see some colts hit the ground this year after the big filly year we had last year and would love to see a bit of colour, but I must now just hurry up and wait.
April 2011 - Our second beautiful daughter was born at the end of March, so April has been extremely busy for us. In addition, Paluka Esme has gone to her lovely new home in NSW, Pentland Paige is on her way to be a little girl's new best friend in Northern VIC and Pentland Nectar is soon off to her new home, not far from us. We still have a number of lovely ponies for sale on the sales page.
March 2011 - All foals have been weaned, branded, foal recorded/mare registered and are ready to go to their new homes. We are bringing them in regularly to be tied up and lead...they are all doing really well so far and can easily be caught out in the paddock as well. We also have a few mature broodmares offered for sale as I am keeping some of this year's youngstock.
January 2011 - We have started working with the youngsters, Phae has been preg-tested in foal for our first Pure Crabbet Arabian foal (fingers crossed) and I am not far off adding another human to the family! We unfortunately lost our last Shetland colt in December which was very sad, but the remaining 12 are keeping us on our toes. I have finally decided (for now) which foals will be offered for sale and you can see them on the For Sale page. Not an easy decision to make in any year, but when you have 11 fillies to choose from it is even harder!
November 2010 - All foals are now on the ground, the last a stunning chestnut colt with flaxen mane and tail. He's only a little tacker and looks minute compared to all the other thumpers, most of whom are over two months older than him. Over the coming months we will be handling and halter training the babies - already we are mobbed by a throng of curious noses every time we go in the paddock!!
October 2010 - Just one mare left to foal now and with 11 fillies and 1 colt on the ground already we are spoilt for choice as to who we will retain at stud! That difficult decision will be made in the next month or so. The majority of our foals will however be offered for sale, so please have a look at them and if someone appeals, just let me know.
August 2010 - Nine of our foals have arrived so far this month and all, amazingly, are fillies!! Please visit my foals page for details and pictures.
July 2010 - I have updated the photos on the mares page after some gentle encouragement (yes I was very slack). Sorry that the mares are so muddy and hairy...you will need your imagination to picture them clean and gleaming in summer coats. Some mares are starting to bag up already, so in the next few weeks, all going well, we will have some foals to add to the foals page.
At the moment we only have the one Pentland pony for sale, but some of this year's foals will be available on weaning in May next year, so stay tuned.
Some of the foals we breed this year will have the Barwon View prefix and some will have the Pentland prefix. Annette has also joined a handful of mini Pentland mares which will also carry the Pentland prefix.
Good luck to everyone foaling down ponies in the coming months...this is just the best time of year!
February 2010 - I have updated the photos for the ponies for sale and the stallion page.
Tonka's training is going very well and our daughter loves to have rides around the farm on him and stands on the couch to look out at him when she is inside! Pentland Romany is learning very quickly about being calm around the hustle and bustle of every day life living in the house paddock with Tonka, whilst the two dun geldings are keeping Fenwick Phaedra company.
The stallions have been taken out and all the mares are back at Barwon View, so here's hoping at least some of them are in foal...we will preg-test later in the year to give us a bit of an idea what we have on the way.
November 2009 - Three more Pentland geldings for sale - see them on the Sales Page. I have decided to keep Barwon View Tonka for the time being so that we can finish his training and have a children's pony around for our daughter as well.
We have been to three shows with Phae - with one Supreme led Arabian, one Reserve led female Arabian and one second, competing against 3 year olds, so I think she did quite well considering they looked much more mature than her. I am very proud of how well-behaved Phae has been considering how new it all was, although she was none too keen on judges placing ribbons on her neck!! I also took a Shetland, Barwon View China Doll, to a very hot show at Ballarat and we placed third. That might be the last of our shows for this season as it is very hard work!!
We have also been busy cutting and baling hay, so we have plenty of small square bales of pasture hay for sale. No rest for the wicked they say!
September 2009 - The ladies and gentlemen have been introduced to each other, so here's hoping for next year. We only have two Pentland yearlings left, both of which will be gelded shortly and will make lovely children's ponies, harness ponies or companions.
August 2009 - We are not expecting any of our own foals this season, but have some lovely Pentland yearlings for sale (on the For Sale page), the cuddly Tonka to continue to break in and maybe some showing with our Arabian filly Phaedra, so that will still keep me very busy!
Plans are well underway for the 2009-2010 breeding season with a number of lovely mares soon to be paddocked with four stunning boys - Pentland Pinto Boy (big black and white piebald), Pentland Molasses (big and black), Pentland Andrew (a medium chestnut) and Otway View Ukelelle (a small buckskin). My lovely Pentland Gracie will hopefully visit Wandarra Pippen, thanks to Fiona Wilson at Glen-Arden Stud. So there is potential for some good, big, strong blacks but also some broken coloureds, dilutes and chestnuts. I am looking forward to Spring in 2010 with much excitement!!
March 2009 - Some sad news; my grandmother Mrs Betty Myers passed away on Monday 23rd March 2009. It has been a very sad time for us all. Nana will be best remembered walking the paddocks with her beloved Shetlands, feeding them oats out of her coat pockets! As the inspiration for my love of all things equine, I will greatly miss Nana's advice and wealth of pony knowledge. Thank you to all who have expressed your condolences.
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