21/05/2026
🌟🌟TR Delta Dawn x Tines Smith filly🌟🌟
There’s a little story behind this mare and how our paths crossed. A few years back a breeder in the US had bought her dam in Ireland, who was at the time in foal with Dawn, and she’d been sent to me to foal with a plan of transporting her out to the US after foaling. Her dam was an amazing mare called ‘Black Magic’ who although was completely feral at the time, I loved and bonded with instantly. I tried to persuade the owner to let me buy her but he wanted her back home and I didn’t blame him, I wouldn’t have wanted to sell either!! The foal arrived- Dawn, sired by The General- and again I tried to buy the foal but the owner had other plans.
Both the mare and foal ended up staying with us for nearly 12 months before they made the trip back to Ireland and were then going on to the US, or so I thought. I’m not actually sure what happened in that time afterwards, I know Black Magic did make it to the US eventually, but is not with the original owners.
Anyway about 18 months ago maybe a bit longer we put an advert up looking for big mares and we were sent an image of Dawn running in a field in France at a distance, but at the time we didn’t know it was her. We liked her and bought her off that one picture - crazy I know but we did!! We knew the filly we were buying was supposed to have been sired by The General but as I thought Dawn was in the US I didn’t make the link. I’m a big, big fan of The General so I had faith that she would be a good filly. She eventually arrived here and then we realised it was Dawn who I’d foaled a couple of years earlier. It was fate, she’d come back to me 💕. She was in poor condition, had ticks and problems with her liver but I knew we could fix her. We got rid of the ticks, fed her properly and let her live out on good grass to mature and heal the damage to her liver.
She’s now 15hh++ (haven’t had a stick on her to measure), fully recovered, fit and well and gave us a beautiful black filly last night (Sired by our Tines Smith) who is the spitting image of her mum right down to the little black spots on her nose. 😍
And look at her, these pictures were taken less than an hour after foaling and she looks incredible, like she could walk straight into the show ring. I love this girl, she’s going nowhere else and will hopefully spend many more years to come with us. I need a name for her filly though, something that respects our journey together…… suggestions welcome.
Filly will be available on weaning 😍