About Angrove Stud in Great Ayton, North Yorkshire

The Stud Land and Facilities

We pride ourselves in the peaceful setting our foals grow up in the parkland is an ideal setting for young horses to grow and develope naturally, we wean the foals naturally by moving the foal next to the dam both through the day and at night this process takes around 2 months and it  avoiding the stress of seperation weaning.

 

The Coloured Horses of Angrove Stud

In September 2005 after much research, Heather and Alistair founded Angrove Stud with their first coloured broodmare, a skewbald 14.3hh part thoroughbred named Dancing Girl. Ruby's sire is prolific grade A show-jumping stallion, Sarah's Pride, who was famously ridden by Carl Curtis. Her grandsire is Captain Maverick; with his sire being the all time great French race horse Nureyev. Northern Dancer is Nureyev's grandsire. Sarah's Pride's dam is thoroughbred Bassetlaw by Gunner B.

Following further research Heather and Alistair found the perfect coloured thoroughbred stallion for their mares  Ricco is  three quarters thoroughbred, 1/4 ID Type  piebald

Riccos breeding is by the race horse Captain Maverick whose sire is Nureyev, grandsire Northern Dancer we were very lucky with our first foal he was tested Homozygous for the Tobiano gene, he is covered in spots and we decided to call him Angrove Spotted Dick he has now replaced his sire as our Stud Stallion and we are very excited about his future foals to our racing thoroughbred mares.

The Next Generation 15/16th  93.75 % Coloured Thoroughbred Guaranteed

Homozygous Tobiano Stallion, Angrove Spotted Dick  will guarantee the colour in our next generation of home bred coloured Thoroughbreds the Tobiano gene which can now be easily bred in to flat racers, we have now after 6 years reached part two of our programme which is the standing of our first generaton Homozygous Tobiano Stallion Angrove Spotted Dick we now have a TB mare scanned in foal for a guarenteed 15/16th coloured TB in 2012.

Angrove Stud's Investment in Thoroughbred Breeding

With our own bloodline and stock, our plan is to breed coloured racehorses from the best bloodlines we can afford and add the colour on top; so we breed racehorses with colour, speed, and stamina. Its thoroughbred bloodlines mean that the stud is able to guarantee the Tobiano  from our Stallion Angrove spotted dick hopefully adding significant value to progeny.

Angrove Stud Background

Heather has bred, shown and produced coloured horses and was a pioneer within CHAPS as PR officer and Cheshire and Derbyshire Rep for eight years, obtaining the first classes for coloured horses at the Cheshire County Show,  an achievement for which she was thanked personally by Sir John Miller, the Queens Equerry, at the very first National Coloured Show on June 18th 1989 at Stoneleigh.

Heather also founded the first Coloured Horse and Pony Agency

Angrove Stud's History

For more information about Heather and Alistair Kitching and their work please see Angrove Stud's History.

This page explains the history behind Angrove Stud; and in particular Heather's earlier involvements in the coloured horse world.

Heather owned and ran the Bassano Stud throughout the 80s and 90s with CHAPS National Champion Bassano Altair. She also worked as a judge and ambassador for CHAPS in the North West of England during this time.