Here is Tansy, our first Gypsy Vanner mare. She is extremely well known to the Romani horsemen in England and Ireland as a top class broodmare and stallion producer. They know her as "the good Spot Mare" and she is dam of the very highly regarded stallion The Governor and the stunning black Blagdon, Bear (aka Flash).

We just know her as Tansy. Our sweet, much beloved girl.

She stands a hair's breadth under 15hh.
Believed to be by The McGynley Stallion ex a mare by The Lob.

In 2008 she will have a foal by Lenny's horse!!!

She has a truly delightful temperament (and a huge appetite for Polo mints  - an English candy - and white bread. Bread is a treat often fed by the Rom themselves). She is also our alpha mare. She strolled in to her paddock of 16.2hh+ pasture mates and has been the queen ever since!

Tansy takes her alpha mare role very seriously. This evening a deer had the temerity to come inside the field fence and Tansy felt it necessary to keep a close eye on it until the deer finally departed again.

I think there are few creatures on earth more
beautiful than a heavily in-foal mare. Tansy is approximately 1 week off foaling here. This picture shows how we keep the horses braided to resist knotting of all that hair!

"Did I hear someone rattle a feed bucket?!"

"Mmmmm...breakfast. My favorite time of day!"

Another in-foal picture and taken just before I re-braided her mane and tail.