Horses available for sale:

Tennyson Stud commenced breeding as a boutique stud in the Hawkesbury in August 2007 by first purchasing German licensed Hanoverian stallion, Worldwide PB, sired by Weltbeurger, (Weltmeyer) and imported him to Australia from New Zealand. Worldwide PB served Claire's own ridden mares and was available for chilled or frozen semen doses to Australian breeders of warmblood dressage horses.

 

Avalon by renowned sire Victorieux, who sired many progeny who competed successfully at GP was the first mare for Tennyson Stud. She was in foal to sire D-Day and TS Dubai, was the first foal born at Tennyson on 14 November 2007.

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21 foals were sired by Worldwide PB for Tennyson Stud over the 2007 to 2018 breeding seasons. Worldwide was sold to Joann Formosa in 2011, ahead of the London 2012 Paralympics, where Joann rode Worldwide PB to Paralympic gold only nine months later. Claire continued to utilize a stock of frozen semen doses and Worldwide PB contributed to the breeding program until 2018 and then the remaining doses were sold to third parties.

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TS Wicked, sired by Worldwide PB was born in 2009, stood at Stud and sired a number of outstanding foals including TS Wonder Woman, TS Lady Ashberry and TS Witchcraft and current yearling TS Wilde.

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After many conversations with International trainers and breeders the discussion about embryo transfer kept reoccurring. Our first embryo transfer foal was born in 2015 TS Lady Ashberry. The attributes of using an ET program allows the breeder to use elite mares multiple times if they wish per season without the mare having extensive time off for the gestation and rearing of the foal. It also allows the option to freeze embryos for future use. It reduces risks for the donor mare such as complications during foaling and whilst there is some loss of training continuity it is much less than if the mare carried the foal herself.

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In July 2022 Tennyson Stud relocated from its 10 hectare base in Tennyson in the Hawkesbury (Tennyson Stud 1.0) to join five surrogate mares carrying foals from the 2021 breeding season and grazing on 40.9 hectares of prime grazing land at Canyonleigh in the Southern Highlands (Tennyson Stud 2.0).

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As a child Claire and her brother rode every holidays at Throsby Park, Moss Vale. Claire had always loved the Southern Highlands for its cooler weather, great shopping and restaurants. From a business perspective the arable land allows the horses to naturally graze and limit hand feeding and is a much healthier way to rear youngsters.

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The four horses in the ridden program including Hollands Bend Sinatra, a standing stallion, TS Whitsunday, TS Fluency and TS Showstopper were joined by ten weanlings, yearlings and two-year-olds being the progeny of the 2019 -2021 breeding seasons in the Hawkesbury.

 

Tennyson Stud 2.0 started on a 40.9 hectare blank canvas with Claire having the opportunity to design the paddocks and facilities to facilitate the progression of Tennyson Stud to the next level as a Warmblood Dressage Stud producing world quality elite performance horses for sale. Increasing the available pasture enabled Claire to continue her practice of not stabling her horses and enabling them to graze on the superior pasture in the Southern Highlands to materially reduce supplementary feeding. The development of the property and success of the breeding program in the 2022 -2025 breeding seasons meant that Claire, whilst continuing her ridden horse training competition program no longer had the time or capacity to provide services as she had in Tennyson Stud 1.0 in the Hawkesbury.

 

Since relocating to the Southern Highlands Tennyson Stud has been able to focus on its breeding program producing elite dressage performance horses for sale complemented by the ridden horse program enhancing the sale value of horses in the program and continuing to market the proven bloodlines of the breeding program in dressage competition.

 

Our purpose is to create modern sport-horses which are renowned for their rideability and fluidity of movement. It is of utmost importance that in selling the progeny of our proven breeding program we seek to match the horse to the rider, so rest assured we will make this our priority. Each horse bred here at Tennyson Stud has a purpose to realize the expressive and athletic movement, conformation, rideability and temperament of the bloodlines of our mares and international stallions proven in dressage competition both in Australia and internationally. We endeavor to make sure that each and every horse reaches their full potential. Therefore, after sales service is equally important and we love to share your journey with your TS equine to fulfilling their potential.

 

Owner, rider, trainer and breeder Claire Wickins has had decades in this business. The horses happiness and well being is paramount to her. Claire is fully invested in breeding and training your next superstar. Horses are for sale in – utero, as foals/weanlings or young horses. You can choose from the progeny of our breeding program or even make your own match by planning your own embryo for transfer from our proven mare bloodlines with your preferred available stallion.

 

Once broken -in our horses are available for sale once entered into our ridden horse program of training and entry into competition at a range of performance levels unless they are being retained for the embryo transfer breeding program and/or proving bloodlines at higher levels of competition ridden by Claire.

 

To find out what is currently available call Claire.