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More Than Statistics! "I LOVE MY PONIES! THEY'RE REALLY MY PASSION!" Allyson Coluccio relates. A special favorite is Blue Rain of whom she says simply, "He has been a good boy to me!" When purchased as a coming two year old from his breeder, the renowned Marguerite Taylor, at the 1991 Virginia Pony Breeders Sale, it was certainly not in any plan that the fancy grey colt would become the four time USEF Leading Pony Hunter Sire and Allyson the Leading Breeder twice! He was purchased to be a medium prospect for then two year old Evan Coluccio. At that time, Blue Rain was 12.1 1/2 and it was expected that he would mature at 13.1 for his sire, Cymraeg Rain Beau by Farnley Lustre, was almost 13 hands and his dam, Blue Haviland, a Welsh-Thoroughbred cross by Farnley Lustre, stood 14.1. Allyson explains that, "Since we were uncertain as to size, he was left entire to see how he'd grow." Although Blue Rain ended up as a perfect 12.1 3/4 small, due to loss of sight in his left eye, he was allowed to remain a stallion. For the the succeeding 19 years he has performed his job with great gusto, often with the trademark mating dance leaping with all fours off the ground! Amazingly this trait was inherited from his sire and has passed on to his son, Blue Who. Allyson tells, "Blue Rain likes to breed. He really likes to breed! It's mostly what he thinks about! If he turns left from his stall, he is quiet going to the field. Turn right to the breeding shed and you know you have a stallion!" The exquisite Summer Dreams, Blue Rain's first foal, arrived in 1992, the first in a series of eight with Glenmore Jasmine, explainably one of Allyson's favorite mares. "It really helps when you breed to have a mare that's really special. She looked like a little 13.2 hand Thoroughbred." By the imported British crossbred stallion, *Forge Nimbus, Jasmine was out of Glenmore Chanel by the great British Riding Pony, *Coed Coch Grey Cloud, and out of Glenmore Chandelle by *Chantain. Mrs. Waller's classic British Thoroughbred had caught Allyson's eye as a teenager in New York State!
*Chantain
Blue Who
Farnley Belshazzar Evan Coluccio and Blue Rain