VALHALLA’s CHERRY

Sire: Fjordglimts Sir Johnson (OS) WSB 53749

Dam: Trevallion Chloe WSB 92644

Sire of Dam: Brynymor Welsh Magic WSB 13506

Chestnut with flaxen mane and tail; 3 white feet. Born 8^th May 2001. App. 14.3 hh.

Reg. no.: WSB 126857 (OS)

Showresults:

2001: 1^st and foal champion (BEST-IN-SHOW), Foalshow in Sunds

2002: 1^st at the Youngstock show at Dorthealyst

The 2 half-sisters and super-friends Cherry and Hazel at the youngstock show at Dorthealyst; the (so far) only time when Cherry has been able to beat her illustrious half sister.

2003: 1^st and Youngstock champion, National Grading show 2003

2^nd at the International Welsh show in Aachen, Germany

Cherry at the show in Aachen in August 2003, where she was second to the super-filly Fronarth Falmai from Wales.

Cherry

Already at birth Cherry was a much desired foal!!

Since we lost our lovely chestnut brood mare, the many times champion Valhalla’s Erica (born 1989; the first homebred Welsh Cob!!) some years ago we (especially I = Carl) really missed a chestnut in our herd of dark mares. So when we in 2000 covered the Brynymor Wlesh Magic daughter Trevallion Chloe with Fjordglimts Sir Johnson (a Brynymor grandson), and thus linebred to the great moving chestnut stallion, we thought that the chances to have a chestnut foal would be really good. And if it even could be a filly, it would be ideal.

The super mover Brynymor Welsh Magic, whom Cherry is linebred to!

On the 8^th May Chloe had a lovely pink filly with exactly the right amount of markings - precisely as “made to order”!! Cherry was (as it can be seen from the photos below, when she was a few days old) really pink in the beginning, but experience has learnt us that light foal coats turn dark, and thus we had hope. And luckily we were right: Later in the year she changed into a darker coat and during the winter and the next Spring she even developed, what I so much hoped for: The flaxen mane and tail!

Summer 2001: Trevallion Chloe with the daughter Cherry

As you can tell from the photo below I soon developed a close relationship to my chestnut favourite, who really lived up to all my expectations. In fact I think that she became a bit spoilt during the summer and the first years of her life, where she was much handled and tried almost everything in this life.

As mentioned above Cherry changed her coat, and during the first winter she developed exactly the colours I had hoped for. That she also followed in grandfathers footsteps reg. movement, you can easily tell from the photo below, that was taken when Cherry enjoyed her first snow!

Cherry and her half-sister Hazel were born a few days apart and since then they have been inseparable:

Both fillies had a really active life ever since they were born: Since both Julie (Hazels owner) and I were ”a bit” fond of our new gem stones, we spent many hours walking the fillies in the hills of the Roesnaes peninsula. They have tried ”crawling” through the most unfriendly bushes and pieces of woodland, up and down stairs, through ditches and even on the pebble on the beach!

We therefore believe that the 2 young ”ladies” will be easy to ride, once they get old enough for that.