Our Stud Policy

'To strive to produce competition horses that are both agile, fast and have stamina.'

The Pure Arab has long been realised as the fastest of pure breeds and it is also reknowned for its tough feet and limbs. Historically, being able to endure long distance riding in tough terrain.

The Thoroughbred is the result of years of refinement to produce an animal of pure speed and grace. Many Thoroughbreds have been top class competition horses but some have their abilities thwarted by tense characters and poor feet.

The aim of the stud was to use a top class competition arab stallion onto good quality Thoroughbred mares to hopefully produce the required 50% Anglo Arab Stallion that is bigger than the Arab, good conformation with the more refined features of the Thoroughbred.

This was carried out using, Lone Tornado (click here) as the sire onto the well bred mares that the stud had from their flat racing. After a few years and a lot of fillies, three suitable colts were bred :

· Heritage Neptune (for more info)
· Heritage Eclipse
· Heritage Nightshade

It was decided to keep Heritage Neptune for the stud as his dam had bred winners and he was not related to our other mares of which the other two were.

Heritage Orion 25% Anglo Arab (1998)

Heritage Neptune was then used back onto the Thoroughbred mares to produce the highly desireable 25% Anglo Arab. These are effectively a Thoroughbred with extra stamina and better feet but also are in the height range 15.3hh - 16.3hh which is ideal for competition. They are also eligible to race.

We now have our 'product' the excellent 25% Anglo Arab Stallion, Heritage Orion, that makes the perfect cross onto bigger mares to produce agile competition horses.

All our Stallions are required to perform and are also graded at the appropriate time in their career.

Our mares have excellent pedigrees and temperaments.They all have either a performance record or have bred perfomance.