GFS Sporthorses

19/09/2025

GFS Amorina Ballerina pondering the landscape from a good vantage point and perhaps considering a future in eventing!
In truth, she is almost certainly planning how best to cause chaos during the morning walk through the school to the paddock. This has become her specialty and signature move as ambushing the polite line of mares and foals travelling sedately brings her enormous pleasure it seems as man, woman, horse and dogs scatter before her joyously thundering little hooves.
I think it is time that this young lady walked in hand before her disruptive plotting is learned and adopted by her little buddies!!

18/09/2025

Morning's and beautiful young life. Th e future is looking so exciting x

17/09/2025

Late September and early October offer some of the most beautiful morning and evening light. The air seems somehow more tangible and sensory and the crispness of the landscape and bright autumnal colours rising in contrast from the low blanket of damp, dewy mist. Where the light catches the outlines of the horses, they occasionally appear to be wearing silvery halo's and it is quite my favourite time of the year to wander, camera in hand through the paddocks capturing the last days of the years foals blissful and carefree naivety before the weaning process and winter wraps her icy fingers around us!
We have said a lot of goodbyes this month to horses leaving for wonderful pastures new and now with much more time on my hands, I am focused on capturing photos and enjoying the remaining horses before deeply unglamorous heavy winter coats and stark winter landscapes descend.
I have a camera full of images and plans to continue my quest to gather more, so stand by!
I would also like to wish the new owners of GFS Daizie Fantazie, GFS Starstruck and GFS Tigerlilly the best of luck and many years of happiness with them x

13/09/2025

This is GFS Amorina Ballarina, she is absolutely the epitome of my breeding aspirations and one of the faces that my childhood daydreams conjured when contemplating my dream stables.
She is out of my beautiful GFS Arabesque, another of my fantasy faces who was sired by GFS Lord of the Dance and out of my beautiful late Wantasia (Indoctro x Corland)
Amorina was sired by GFS Eskimo Jo and will be the last of his foals as we sadly lost him this year. This is not something that I have felt able to share until now as his loss was absolutely devastating.
This filly foal is charm personified, she is fun, feisty, intelligent and a real people person with character in abundance. I am hoping to hold on to her for as long as I can, but this one is going to be very special x

12/09/2025

GFS Amadeus (GFS Fire and Ice x Al Pacino W/Aiglon Rouge)
This striking looking c**t is going to be the perfect match for someone looking for a big horse (Approx 17hh at maturity), with a sensational temperament and great attitude. He is a naturally calm character who is bold, friendly and who has some super performance breeding, with an exciting pedigree for a future in competition.
He is already very well handled and mannerly to lead, worm and trim.
Further details can be found at www.gfssporthorses.co.uk

11/09/2025

Following on from my post sharing photos of our stallions.
I would like to show a few photos taken of GFS Fire and Ice having a bit of a play in the school whilst he parades foe the ladies in the paddocks.
The boys do get a little forgotten during the foaling season as their offspring tend to look a lot cuter!
Ice has been incredibly popular this year and the choice of many breeders who I have greatly admired over the years for the quality of their programs. We are looking forward to seeing those foals in 2026 as well as a few that we have bred ourselves to mares that we will be offering for sale when the time is right.

08/09/2025

Having posted photos yesterday of the glorious GFS Lord of the Dance, I would now like to share some photos of yet another of his rather special sons with a few then and now pictures too.
Many will remember the rather special GFS Migaloo whose stunning mother Whisper was lost to us the following year. Whisper was out of a very special Hubbly Bubbly TB mare and by Crown's Ace of Pearl. With GFS Lord of the Dance being of Akhal Teke, Russian Trakehner and TB lines, he boasts a lot of blood, making him an exciting future eventing prospect for someone with big dreams and who doesn't mind being noticed!
Now standing at a strapping 17hh as a four year old, he is out and under saddle with Masie Morgan. His BYEH debut where he gained some excellent marks as well as an 18/20 for his overall type and conformation.
Regretfully Migaloo will be offered for sale as his owner feels that he has grown too big for her.
I will add a link to his FB advert in the comments.

07/09/2025

GFS Lord of the Dance, AES Graded stallion standing at 16.3hh and a fabulous amalgamation of Russia Trakehener, Akhal Teke and TB bloodlines.
As Autumn approaches and time closes on yet another breeding season. I thought it appropriate to capture some images of the stallions, who despite their hard work, often go without the recognition they deserve.
Today, I present GFS Lord of the Dance, or Django as we know him. He is the most incredibly kind, genuine and gentle boy who demonstrates exceptional athleticism and the temperament of an absolute angel. He has produced some absolutely sensational youngstock, including two superb young stallions standing internationally as well as numerous other super young horses now starting to come through .
I will be posting news of another of his young sons this week, who has proven himself to be a great prospect at this years BYEH classes.
I hope that you enjoy these photos, he is such a special horse.

GFS Lord of the Dance will be available to the very best of homes due to our impending retirement! Please contact us directly by phone or email, website www.gfssporthorses.co.uk

17/08/2025

Here is a little catch up with GFS Mikado in the US. Sired by GFS Lord of the Dance.
His dam is now confirmed in foal for a full sibling of this striking looking and talented young stallion.

https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/in-a-world-of-bays-gfs-mikado-steals-the-spotlight/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMOS_VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsmk5hAUdQ_YioCleRULXzbJYO7BtMXRgC2ykLu9S8ElXeYOPRb2bjbzJbMS_aem_rR2LxGzVJBKlagwH3LI6VA

In a sea of bays, grays and chestnuts in the Platinum Performance USHJA 3’/3’3″ Green Hunter Incentive Championship, GFS Mikado stood out when he entered the Rolex Stadium at the Kentucky Horse Park. With his smokey cream tobiano coloring, the warmblood stallion has a look more often found i.....

15/08/2025

Blessed are the broodmares….

Those selfless souls with hearts of gold. Their lives are dedicated to a type of devotion only a mother can understand. Unlike us, It is a transient love, though no less powerful for its brief and fierce intensity.
or a career broodmare, their capacity to love is called on year after year; it is an instinctive adoration of incredible intensity that ignites in the first moments following foaling and yet it has a brief natural lifespan that only exists as long as their young need them.
It is a love that peaks and wanes, slipping into hibernation on weaning until the new year and new birth rekindles that maternal fire once again. It is a love on repeat!

13/08/2025

Here is the very beautiful Matilda. She is by GFS Fire and Ice and out of the gorgeous Charisma (Camaro x Hurikan)
She is such a little big personality; always bustling around the field trying to encourage the other foals to play. Even when they are sleepy, she is still keen to get going and will hopefully and quite politely approach their dams first, as if asking permission. Once accepted into their space, she will then proceed to impatiently paw them to rise to their feet or nibble their ears until they leap to their feet to retaliate.
She appears to find her own mother rather tiresome and will almost always be found wandering around by herself in the absence of a willing playmate, absorbed in her own little world and happily amusing herself.
Matilda is also a dedicated foodie and in the absence of our typical acres of lush green grass in this incredibly dry spell, we are now on winter rations with the mares and their foals enjoying a shared breakfast bowl each morning. This little madam cheekily pushes her way in to every 'family feeder' to sample everybody's food before being chased off to share with her own mother.
We definitely have another GFS character in this little darling!