Our Stallion

Dalewin Victor (2018)

Dam: Lockholme Darkie III Sire: Lunesdale Black Ice II

After telling everyone that I was too old to start with another young colt and that I was going to stop breeding Fell ponies, I find myself having to eat my words.  Most of my mares are too young to stop breeding so the next chapter begins with a youngster that I fancied when looking for a yearling colt for breeding purposes for a friend in Germany.  When I sent photographs I discovered that he was not the type that my German friend was looking for but I liked him and after letting him run out with one of my in-foal mares throughout the summer of 2019, I decided that I would licence him and use him in 2020.  In 2021 I had four beautiful foals: Rackwood Dynamo, Rackwood Eldorado, Rackwood Magic’s Finale and Rackwood Gambler.  In 2021 I covered two mares so in 2022 Rackwood Hermione and Rackwood Issac were born.  Dalewin Victor gels well with my homebred mares so I plan to keep him for a few years.

He is all black and currently stands at 13.1hh.  He has good quality flat bone, straight hair and excellent movement.  He has been licensed by the FPS and has tested CLEAR for FIS (foal immunodeficiency syndrome).  His sire needs no introduction as he has been FPS Stallion Show Champion on three occasions in 2016, 2018 and 2019.  His dam has an unfamiliar prefix but is by Murthwaite Windrush who was FPS Stallion Show Champion in 2013 before beginning a ridden career which saw him qualify for HOYS six times on both the flat and as a worker.

Victor has a kind nature and enjoys being groomed.  I mouthed him as a two year old and he was lightly backed at three years.  He runs out with my mares during the summer months and then comes home for winter.  My long term plan is to break him to drive but in the meantime he is being entertained by being ridden.  I am expecting three foals by him during May 2023.