Doghill Farm Stud

…but I’d like to give you back now please! Well, what a start to the 2020 breeding season! At Christmas, when Huw and I were sorting out our breeding programme for the spring and summer, it didn’t even occur to us that by the time we came to March and thinking about breeding the first mares of the season, that…Read More

     Like many people who were horse mad teenagers in the 80’s, I grew up on a diet of superheroes with names like Harvey Smith, Ginny Leng, Lucinda Green, John Whitaker and Nick Skelton.  (Yes, I admit it dates me outrageously!). BSJA Show jumping and Eventing was the route I took at a fairly respectable amateur level, I then…Read More

      It’s come to that time of year again, when we’re actively marketing the horses we have for sale. Many breeders sell their foals at birth, to go at weaning, and take deposits as they are born to then have them go in the autumn. We take a slightly different approach to many other breeders, partly because we…Read More

(Photo Credit: Rhona Barnett.) ” Nadolig Llawen!” We love getting updates from our foals in their new homes, and this fabulous gem of a photograph arrived in my inbox this morning from Elvis and his new mum, Rhona. So, given that Elvis is in the festive spirit (and is looking AMAZING in his new home), everyone at Doghill would like…Read More

We’re currently in the process of getting our Christmas cards sorted. Whilst going through our huge file of pictures to find the perfect one that represents everything we think a Doghill Christmas is about, I came across a snap I took of my Lusitano mare Sophia in heavy snow about 10 years ago. Sophia was a “quirky” girl who was…Read More

Going through some pictures, I stumbled across these taken of Huw in candid moments. If you ask him, he will always deny that he likes horses. What he’ll never tell you, is that he is always the first one to give scratches and cuddles to the mares when he thinks you’re not looking, he’s always the one up through the…Read More