Gorsfraith Brenin
1997 - 2022
It is with a very heavy heart that Trevoulter Barton Stud announces the sudden death at the age of 25 years of its internationally famous Welsh Section D stallion Gorsfraith Brenin. In the words of his devoted owner Kerensa Cobbledick:
’He was the Brad Pitt of the sports pony breeding world and now there is a hole in our stallion lines that will never be filled.’
Arriving at the stud as a barely handled weanling in 1998, he remained there for the rest of his life, taking up stud duties in 2001 and only retiring from them in 2019. From the very start, he was extremely popular with mare owners, initially across the West Country and then – following his very successful appearance at the SPSS Stallion Grading in 2003 where he was champion – across the country. A very modern type of Section D (by Clyngim Deryn Du out of Estow Bernadette, and therefore a grandson of the Section D show jumping stallion Derwen Replica, with such iconic names as Nebo Black Majic, Brenin Dafydd and Parc Welsh Flyer close up in his pedigree -- his extravagant paces and outstanding natural jump attracted an impressive book of mares, with some mare owners sending as many as 10 mares to him on a regular basis each season.
As the sire of nearly 150 foals across several studbooks his offspring includes the graded stallions Trevoulter Ladies Man (who also competed at international JA level and was a winner at HOYS) and Trevoulter Brennex, the BEF high 1st Premium winners Trevoulter Hot Totty, Trevoulter Bremmingh, Trevoulter Brenippy and the successful dressage pony Trevoulter Silver Replica as well as the highly graded mares Trevoulter Silver Arrow, showjumpers Trevoulter Mega Mix and Trevoulter Silver Arrow and the working hunter ponies Trevoulter Rebel and Brenin’s Primo Boy. Trevoulter Mr Darcy and Trevoulter Silver Express were also two of his many winners in the show ring. Successes such as these were garlanded with rankings as the Leading BEF pony sire in 2006 and 2007 and the SPSS Dancer medal in 2007 amongst a number of other national wards.
As Kerensa says of her adored stallion – appropriately labelled the King of Trevoulter, Brenin being the word for King in Welsh – he was such a big personality. ‘He loved an audience and right up until the end he would march past his row of mares without so much as a glimpse, just to stay in the limelight’. Gorsfraith Brenin also had a direct personal effect on Kerensa’s life. ‘I have made many valued friends through people who admired and used him’ she says, ‘I almost certainly wouldn’t have met these special like-minded people if it wasn’t for them asking to use Brenin or buying his offspring’ for this and the wonderful memories I am forever thankful to him.
A remarkable pony, a remarkable sire of outstanding sports ponies and a great loss to sports pony breeding in the UK.
Written beautifully by Celia Clarke
His image is the stud logo and is even more special to us now. See below
’He was the Brad Pitt of the sports pony breeding world and now there is a hole in our stallion lines that will never be filled.’
Arriving at the stud as a barely handled weanling in 1998, he remained there for the rest of his life, taking up stud duties in 2001 and only retiring from them in 2019. From the very start, he was extremely popular with mare owners, initially across the West Country and then – following his very successful appearance at the SPSS Stallion Grading in 2003 where he was champion – across the country. A very modern type of Section D (by Clyngim Deryn Du out of Estow Bernadette, and therefore a grandson of the Section D show jumping stallion Derwen Replica, with such iconic names as Nebo Black Majic, Brenin Dafydd and Parc Welsh Flyer close up in his pedigree -- his extravagant paces and outstanding natural jump attracted an impressive book of mares, with some mare owners sending as many as 10 mares to him on a regular basis each season.
As the sire of nearly 150 foals across several studbooks his offspring includes the graded stallions Trevoulter Ladies Man (who also competed at international JA level and was a winner at HOYS) and Trevoulter Brennex, the BEF high 1st Premium winners Trevoulter Hot Totty, Trevoulter Bremmingh, Trevoulter Brenippy and the successful dressage pony Trevoulter Silver Replica as well as the highly graded mares Trevoulter Silver Arrow, showjumpers Trevoulter Mega Mix and Trevoulter Silver Arrow and the working hunter ponies Trevoulter Rebel and Brenin’s Primo Boy. Trevoulter Mr Darcy and Trevoulter Silver Express were also two of his many winners in the show ring. Successes such as these were garlanded with rankings as the Leading BEF pony sire in 2006 and 2007 and the SPSS Dancer medal in 2007 amongst a number of other national wards.
As Kerensa says of her adored stallion – appropriately labelled the King of Trevoulter, Brenin being the word for King in Welsh – he was such a big personality. ‘He loved an audience and right up until the end he would march past his row of mares without so much as a glimpse, just to stay in the limelight’. Gorsfraith Brenin also had a direct personal effect on Kerensa’s life. ‘I have made many valued friends through people who admired and used him’ she says, ‘I almost certainly wouldn’t have met these special like-minded people if it wasn’t for them asking to use Brenin or buying his offspring’ for this and the wonderful memories I am forever thankful to him.
A remarkable pony, a remarkable sire of outstanding sports ponies and a great loss to sports pony breeding in the UK.
Written beautifully by Celia Clarke
His image is the stud logo and is even more special to us now. See below
Gorsfraith Brenin (ELITE) |
Customer Reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Breed: Welsh Cob Section D
Colour: Mahogany Bay Year of Birth: 1997 Height: 14.2hh Stud Books: WPCS, WBS-UK & SPSS Graded and Lic. LIMITED Frozen Only Stud Fee £P.O.A Sire: CLYNGIM DERYNON DU Dam: ESTOW BERNADETTE (CIPPYN ROWODRI) |
Brenin is exceptionally intelligent. He is a winning combination of willing, yet quiet and trainable. He is showing remarkable natural jumping ability along with plenty of enthusiasm and scope.
Brenin is well bred, which has lead to his having outstanding talent and presence. He is a pleasure to own and work with. Brenin is very popular with all types of mares, an important quality that gives everybody the chance to breed a super star at an unbeatable value.
This flashy and talented stallion is renowned for his exceptional jumping ability (which gained him 9/10 marks at the SPSS stallion Grading), kind and trainable temperament and stunning looks. These virtues, combined with his top Welsh bloodlines, have created the ideal stallion from which to breed. Brenin’s character is exemplary; he is out going and bold but quiet, well-mannered and very patient. He has sufficient bone, which is suitable for him to cover all types of mare. He has wonderful self-carriage and an extremely powerful trot, strong canter and big walk, which shows him off well. All these merits he combines with good looks. He is producing athletic good-looking quality young stock from a variety of mares, which inherit his amazing jumping talent.
Brenin’s progeny are athletic, intelligent, robust and proving to be tough, sound and easy to train with unflappable temperaments. All have that bit of sparkle that star factor that gives them every chance in life to make it to the Top at International and National competition levels.
Gorsfraith Brenin was awarded Champion at the Sports Pony Studbook Stallion Grading. He scored an incredible 9/10 for jumping and was presented with a score of 8 for the following categories: temperament, sports pony type, ride ability, quality and presence.
Sire of 3 Graded Sports Pony Stallions Trevoulter Ladies Man, Trevoulter Silver King and Trevolter Brennex
Sire of Graded Sports Pony Mares Trevoulter Silver Arrow, Trevoulter Brenmingh, Trevoulter Hot Totty
BEF 2007 Futurity Progeny stallion ranking placed Gorsfraith Brenin 4th Overall
Top 17 British Breeding Futurity Sire Rankings 2017 - Sports Pony
Brenin is well bred, which has lead to his having outstanding talent and presence. He is a pleasure to own and work with. Brenin is very popular with all types of mares, an important quality that gives everybody the chance to breed a super star at an unbeatable value.
This flashy and talented stallion is renowned for his exceptional jumping ability (which gained him 9/10 marks at the SPSS stallion Grading), kind and trainable temperament and stunning looks. These virtues, combined with his top Welsh bloodlines, have created the ideal stallion from which to breed. Brenin’s character is exemplary; he is out going and bold but quiet, well-mannered and very patient. He has sufficient bone, which is suitable for him to cover all types of mare. He has wonderful self-carriage and an extremely powerful trot, strong canter and big walk, which shows him off well. All these merits he combines with good looks. He is producing athletic good-looking quality young stock from a variety of mares, which inherit his amazing jumping talent.
Brenin’s progeny are athletic, intelligent, robust and proving to be tough, sound and easy to train with unflappable temperaments. All have that bit of sparkle that star factor that gives them every chance in life to make it to the Top at International and National competition levels.
Gorsfraith Brenin was awarded Champion at the Sports Pony Studbook Stallion Grading. He scored an incredible 9/10 for jumping and was presented with a score of 8 for the following categories: temperament, sports pony type, ride ability, quality and presence.
Sire of 3 Graded Sports Pony Stallions Trevoulter Ladies Man, Trevoulter Silver King and Trevolter Brennex
Sire of Graded Sports Pony Mares Trevoulter Silver Arrow, Trevoulter Brenmingh, Trevoulter Hot Totty
BEF 2007 Futurity Progeny stallion ranking placed Gorsfraith Brenin 4th Overall
Top 17 British Breeding Futurity Sire Rankings 2017 - Sports Pony
Pedigree:
- Gorsfraith Brenin descends from generations of top class Welsh bloodlines, which he shares with the prolific sire Nebo Black Magic. Gorsfraith Brenin's lineage combines two of the most successful and influential bloodlines i.e. the Derwen’s; Derwen Replica, Derwen Railway Express, Derwen Llwynog, Parc Welsh Flyer, and double dose of Nebo Black Magic in his pedigree. These fantastic horses are all renowned for their kind temperaments, good conformation, soundness and clean limbs.
- Gorsfraith Brenin is closely related to top quality horses that have won National Level Showing, BSJA, BD, Working Hunter Classes and Eventing. He is also related to several Supreme Graded Stallions such as, Derwen Red Marvel – (Sired by Nebo Black Magic) Top 20th Leading Living Show Jumping Sires by average progeny winnings in BHD Listings in 2001. He was Leading sire of Welsh Part Bred Performance Horses, also the Sire of SHB (GB) Graded Stallion Ganton Rufus – Graded A Show Jumper BSJA winnings £2,300 – plus 6 BHTA points from 5 novice outings. Winner Welsh Part Bred Group Stallion Award 1996,97,98,99. Also: Derwen Gentlemen sire Derwen Llwynog, Wishaw Revelation sire Derwen Replica, Shamon Royal Expresssire Derwen Railway Express, Maesmynach Montanasire Nebo Black Magic, Penn Welsh Flyer sire Parc Welsh Flyer.
Progeny Videos:
Progeny include:
Sire of INTERNATIONAL GRAND PRIX PONY STALLION - TREVOULTER LADIES MAN
Sire of 3 Graded Sports Pony Stallions Trevoulter Ladies Man, Trevoulter Silver King and Trevolter Brennex
Sire of Graded Sports Pony Mares Trevoulter Silver Arrow, Trevoulter Brenmingh, Trevoulter Hot Totty and many more.
Sire of INTERNATIONAL GRAND PRIX PONY STALLION - TREVOULTER LADIES MAN
Sire of 3 Graded Sports Pony Stallions Trevoulter Ladies Man, Trevoulter Silver King and Trevolter Brennex
Sire of Graded Sports Pony Mares Trevoulter Silver Arrow, Trevoulter Brenmingh, Trevoulter Hot Totty and many more.
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