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Click here to email me Use your Back button to return to the previous page Highland Ponies for Sale Due to the success of my new Highland stallion, Josethdene, I have some young stock for sale! I would love to keep them all but there are limits! My primary interest is in training and animal behaviour so a lot of attention is paid to exposing young stock to different sights and sounds. The first pony we sold was Upperlochton Fergus, bought with his mother as a foal at foot. If you want to see how Fergie turned out, do a search on YouTube for Upperlochton Fergus. His young owner has done wonders with him but I like to think we, at Morrich Highland Ponies, gave him a good start. Prices: You will notice that I have published guide prices only. That is because I am more concerned that a pony will get a good permanent home than with the money. So, if you are seriously interested, please email me. Transport: If you live in the south, the Scottish Highlands may seem a million miles away and transporting an animal as large as a horse both difficult and expensive. Not so! Morrich Highland ponies is about 40 miles from Inverness Airport at Ardesier and there are regular (and cheap!) flights to many UK and European destinations. There are also excellent rail links to Inverness and by booking ahead through sites like http://www.thetrainline.com it can be surprisingly cheap. There are several professionals who transport horses up and down the country and the cost of delivering a pony to, say, the south east might be no more than £300 - £400. The hauliers have boxes designed for expensive racehorses, and are extremely experienced. They have excellent stabling as stop over points strategically placed around the country. Try Eric Gillies at http://www.ericgillie.co.uk/index.html.
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Sale - Morrich Finn Accepting tack. Price subject to negotiation as his training is on going (guide price around £2,500 - £3,000 including VAT). Sire: Lord Barney of Tormore Dam: Glentrowan Belina
Finn is
entered for both The Black Isle Show and Sutherland Show. Since winning overall Reserve Champion at The Sutherland County Show (one of only two shows he was entered for during 2009) we decided to run Morrich Finn on. But he is now for sale due to Josethdene's success as a sire and unexpected foals.
Left: Finn at a show, June 2010. He remained quietly tied to the trailer for a good part of the day. Finn is SO good!
Finn has always been a bit of a character and much loved. He would be an ideal child's pony as he really loves attention and there is no nastiness in him at all. I would prefer that he went to a showing home as he was the first foal born with the Morrich prefix and it would be a pity if more did not see his good looks.
Finn is going to be a great fun pony for some lucky person! He will probably make around 14HH at maturity and should be a grey dun. See Finn learning to load on the Training page.
Left: Lisa Inglis and Reserve Champion Morrich Finn at The Sutherland County Show 2009
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For Sale - Lagalgarve Mistletoe 130/03Foaled 2003 Sire: Erray Rush Dam: Erray Ilex Faults: She lacks some skin pigmentation near the eye but this is not offensive. When in foal, she produces excess allantoic fluid which causes her to look rather large, but it seems to be no problem to her and she produces a nice foal. If you have any worries about this, speak to your vet. Price subject to negotiation as her training is on going (guide price around £3,000 - £3,500 including VAT). Video coming soon.
Update: Mistletoe's training continues well. She is now backed and riding out and ready to be taken on by a knowledgeable rider. A nice summer project for someone. She can be sold with a covering by Josethdene for a modest extra charge. Click on the picture to enlarge it. Seven year old registered mare. Full pedigree here. Lightly backed 2008. Mistletoe foaled a filly October 2010 (see Morrich Zorro below) which accounts for her shape! Mistletoe's training will be continued until she is sold. She has now been tacked up and ridden.
For Sale - Morrich Zorro (call name "Zarra")
Filly foal born October 2009 Sire: Josethdene Dam: Lagalgarve Mistletoe
Price
subject to negotiation as her training is on going (guide price around
£1,200 - £1,500 including VAT). Filly foal, born 18th October 2008. Well handled and very much a people lover. Zorro is "in your face" and demands attention. As with all my foals, she has been exposed to "environment enrichment"! She is not phased by flapping plastic, walks over plastic and plywood sheet, walks into a trailer, leads, is excellent with the farrier, and so on. Video coming soon!
Zarra is the first into the trailer.
Zarra still in her winter clothes
For Sale - Morrich Darach
Price subject to negotiation as his training is on going (guide price around £1,500 - £1,750 including VAT). Sire: Josethdene Dam: Mary-Mac of Tormore Video coming soon As with all my foals, Darach has been exposed to "environment enrichment"! He is not phased by flapping plastic, walks over plastic and plywood sheet, walks into a trailer, leads, is excellent with the farrier, and so on. At five months, Darach jumped a five bar steel gate (total height 4ft 6in?) but got his foot caught between the two top rails. He was quickly freed and no harm resulted and he was barely limping the next day. However, the incident left him a bit nervous so I have spent more time with him than usual as he is a very special boy. This guy has brains and would do well in ridden classes. I put out a plastic sheet with his feed bucket in the middle. Darach walked around the sheet, obviously thinking things out. Then tried one foot, scared himself with the noise, but finally ended up marching across the plastic to get his breakfast. Darach will grey out and be a quite spectacular looker, like his father Josethdene, as both parents are very good looking with long manes and forelocks.
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Finn, summer 2009
