Gleniph Sovrenity
We purchased our first colt early 1984, a weanling by The General (Bask x Wirginia imp/exp USA). A few months before, I had purchased a book on Polish Arabians and had fallen in love with a stallion named Naborr, so we went in search of a colt with those bloodlines, and who would complement our growing group of females. Rose Park Chisim did exactly that, his progeny performed well and produced even better. His forte was breeding Anglo Arabians, and Gleniph Jasperanza, Gleniph Just One Look and Gleniph Twist N Shout were all Australian Champions in both halter and under saddle. Now his grandget are achieving the same. Gleniph Just One Kiss (Concherto FF x Gleniph Just One Look) is the 2016 East Coast and Australian Champion at three years old.
Rose Park Chisim
The year 1990 saw us acquire a share in BA Minstril Bay (The Minstril x AK Komeira), a lovely Straight Egyptian weanling colt imported from the USA. His daughters were renowned as broodmares, and we bred them from a small band of Straight Egyptian females including The Nile Rose (imp USA) also by The Minstril and out of Belbowrie Fayeka (Ramses Fayek x Anhar). Today, we own the Straight stallion Belbowrie Destiny (Belbowrie Obsidian x The Damask Rose) who is a particularly correct and athletic horse, breeding some lovely progeny. We love our derivatives, and coloured part Arabians are certainly one of our passions. The Palomino Part Arabian is a golden dream that captured my heart very early on and when Gleniph Royal Sovereign sired Gleniph Sovereign Mist (ex Hartley Valley Mystique), we had our first palomino show horse! She was Supreme at East Coast at two years old and many other awards over her lifetime, and her full brothers Gleniph Sovrenity and Gleniph Sovanity are multi Australian Champions. Sovanity has produced a huge dynasty of successful led and saddle horses for Tathren Stud and recently we were lucky enough to acquire his cremello daughter, Daitan Ooh La La. The cremello stallion Edenvale Artic Snow (Edenvale Golden Sega x Kim-Dande Carissa) was the next phase in our coloured breeding program. He produced the lovely palomino Gleniph Bombe Alaska who in turn produced our first buckskin Gleniph Tiramisu (by Crave FF) who is excelling under saddle as a three-year-old, winning hunter classes at Ag shows and recently she won the Camelot Challenge class at the 2016 East
Gleniph Royal Sovereign
Gleniph Jasperanza
Coast Championships. Both Sovereign Mist and Tiramisu won the Little Egypt Trophy at Sydney Nationals 20 years apart, which was a huge achievement for us as breeders. We focus on breeding horses that exhibit true Arabian type while maintaining sound conformation with fantastic temperaments. We acquired the young stallion Eastwinds Care To Dance (Eastwinds Abraxas x Eastwinds Dance With Me) to breed to some of our purebred and Thoroughbred mares. We are very passionate about breeding Anglo Arabians and our aim is to produce a beautiful quality horse that has the substance and conformation to be competitive in all fields of performance. When we began, we both had office jobs in the Sydney CBD, lived in Campbelltown and commuted an hour each way each day to the city. Then we purchased five acres at Bargo, thus increasing our commuting time to over two hours each way each day, we didn’t see our horses in daylight until the weekends! Over a period of time the office jobs ceased and I was able to stay home and run the farm whilst Richard began working in the television side of the Racing industry. Ten years ago the opportunity to purchase the business presented itself and we have been operating that ever since. We currently facilitate the outside television broadcasting of all NSW TAB racing fixtures in the south east and southern districts of NSW. With over 200 race meetings per year, this keeps us very busy! In 2000 we moved to the Southern Tablelands, about 25km from the historic township of Yass. We purchased 213
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