BENNOS HIT - Born April 2000, 14.1 HH, chestnut with blaze and four white socks. Bennos Hit is an exceptional German Sport Pony stallion standing in Ontario Canada. He was winner of "Best of Year" at the 2002 pony stallion inspections at Mecklenburg-Voorpommern, Germany.

In 2004 he was awarded first premium with the American Sport Pony Registry and is an ASPR licensed pony stallion. He has also been accepted as an approved breeding stallion with the American Paint Pony Registry.

Bennos Hit has a great disposition, excellent conformation, wonderful paces and form over fences. He received a score of 8 for his scope over fences at the ASPR inspection in April 2004.

In June 2005 he was invited to participate in the Pony Dressage clinic with Cornelia Endres, National Trainer of German Pony Dressage Riders hosted by Lendon Gray. He received wonderful comments about his outstanding canter.

In 2006 Bennos Hit qualified for the Star Search Sport Pony Challenge Final at the RWAF and was one of the top four finalists.

His first foal in Canada, from a quarantine test mare, received a ASPR score of 7.4 and was ASPR 2004 Reserve Futurity Champion in Eastern Canada. In 2005, his foal Bennington was ASPR high score foal in Canada with a score of 7.9 and was tied for second place in USA. In 2006 and 2007, all his foals were awarded First Premium Status at the ASPR inspections. In 2006 and Bennos Dream owned by Anne and Jim Mason was the Saturday site champion.

Bennos Hit adds class, athleticism and substance when crossed with pony mares. He also crosses well with horse mares for owners who want to breed smaller horses but retain the warmblood appearance, disposition and movement. A cross to a 16.2 HH mare will produce a 15.2 - 15.3 offspring.

During the winter of 2008 Jane has been riding Benno with Lorraine Stubbs and plans to show him in dressage during the summer 2008. In June 2008 Benno attended his first dressage show and placed first and second in his tests.

It is with great sadness that we had to put Zeus down in October 2006
Kemurs Zeus has sired numerous riding and driving ponies before we purchased him in 1999. His wonderful personality which seems to be passed on to his offspring has made him many fans over the years. Welsh breeders still comment about his wonderful trot and remember when he was first shown by Keith and Chris Murray to many Welsh championships.

When we purchased him he had been a breeding stallion for 10 years. We knew he had been shown in harness so one day we hitched him. He was perfect so we continued to show him in pleasure driving until he was retired. Even today he can easily be handled by a child as his manners are outstanding for a pony stallion.

Along with breeding to Welsh mares, Zeus has been bred to outside horse mares for the past couple of years. These mare owners wanted to produce good moving large ponies with great personalities. In 2005 and 2006 several foals from this cross have been amazing. We are retaining two cross bred foals for showing and one welsh mare for breeding.

We acquired Hawkeye in the summer of 2005 because his breeding is very similar to our great driving pony, Alderdale Black Magic. He has a great temperament and outstanding movement. He had not been handled until we purchased him but his mild attitude made it easy to get him ready for the Royal Winter Fair. We have started to drive him and he also learned this discipline very quickly.

We were thrilled at the Royal Winter Fair in 2005 with his manners and attitude. This was his first show and he handled it like a pro. Other exhibitors commented on his manners and were surprised that he was a stallion. He was awarded the Reserve Champion Section A stallion or gelding. This was wonderful considering he had been "running free" when we purchased him in July 2005.

Alderdale Nighthawk’s full brother, Alderdale Jesse has sired some lovely small hunter ponies.   We are looking forward to our first foals in May 2008 by Alderdale Nighthawk.

Our former stallion Nederburg is a 16.1 H Oldenburg that we imported unbroken as a two year old in 1998. He was approved the following year as a CSHA stallion and obtained his bronze status in dressage. He threw great bone and wonderful personalities into his foals and stamped them with his lovely head.

"Ned" has spent two years in training with Jon Costin as an advanced level dressage horse. Due to work constraints it was decided to geld him and Bob broke him to drive. Ned has taken
to this discipline admirably and Jane showed Ned in pleasure driving and combined driving events
in 2006.

Ned won his first combined event and placed well in the pleasure driving shows.
We still get inquiries about breeding to Ned and have helped customers obtain foals from owners who bred mares to him in previous years.