About Angrove Stud in Great Ayton, North Yorkshire

The Stud Land and Facilities

Your mare will receive the highest standard of care and attention at Angrove Stud,We have an excellent fertility record for our visiting mares and pride ourselves on saving our owners money and time. 

We have a large block of stables, foaling boxes, and covering stocks, and also a set of stocks for examinations, etc. The stud has turnout paddocks for single  mares or large paddocks for mares who can not live on there own. We can accommodate grass livery only.

We pride ourselves that Ricco goes out everyday in his own paddock and is surrounded with his wives and children and our visiting mares he lives an idylic life looking after his family.

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 15/16ths 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 near Liverpool. Ricco is  three quarters thoroughbred  1/4 I.D Type piebald standing at 16.2 hands high born in 1999. He is fully graded with the Coloured Horse and Pony Society (CHAPS) and is successful in both show-jumping and showing disciplines.

Ricco holds both Breeding and performance diplomas from the British Equestrian Federation young horse evaluations scoring 8's for vetting and 8 as most promising eventer and 7.43  as showjumper.

His breeding is by Good Fortune by the race horse Captain Maverick whose sire is Nureyev, grandsire Northern Dancer.

A Love story in pictures, Ricco & Angrove Dance girl what marriage 3 children and all Homozygous for Tobiano.

The romance

The marriage

  The Honeymoon.

see the children on Riccos stud page and the foals pages

Angrove Stud's Investment in Thoroughbred Breeding

With our own bloodline and stock, our plan is to breed coloured racehorses from the best bloodlines in the world, 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 line breed, hopefully adding significant value to progeny. Thoroughbred breeding is not the cheapest in the world, but is far more likely to add significantly greater 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

The future. Coloured Racehorses Read all about our Racing colt Angrove Rum BaBa on Horse Deals web site,link below.

http://www.horsedeals.co.uk/view-article.aspx?ProductCode=MagFeaturesMay102

Our Stunning homebred colt Angrove Rum BaBa 7/7/08 is set to make his racing debut this year, being carefully broken and prepaired for his racing career by Jo Peacock, he has already been introduced to Lungeing,  paddock walking, and has started his future by going out to a couple of local shows to see the sights, he went to Stokesley & Potto shows, and won the coloured class and was in reserve in hand champion at Potto beating solids and mature horses.

 

Angrove Rum BaBa is in  his training with Paul Midgley where he is being trained for the flat season of 2010, we now offering syndication of the first coloured colt to run in the UK on the flat.

 Angrove Rum BaBa will be leased to the syndicate for the 2010 season so if you would like to see a coloured horse on the race track, and be part of the excitment of running a coloured horse you will have no trouble seeing which horse is yours!

The price for Syndicating as little as £35.00 per month

Angrove Stud breeding your racing colours

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.