- New Zealand
Dancer is a lovely wee thing who I can see excelling at any discipline with correct schooling. Still green post track but a willing girl who just keeps getting better and better with each ride.
Approx 15.2hh, 2019 born tb mare by Preferment. Dancer has 3 nice even paces and is taking everything in her stride. She is a lovely quiet wee mare but being so fresh ott will still need a competent rider to bring the best out of her.
Located at Driftwood Sport Horses Ltd in Fernside, Canterbury
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A lovely natured wee mare, I wouldn’t say she’s overly athletic but what she lacks there she makes up for in sweetness. 2020 born 15.2ish tb mare by What’s The Story.
Would love to find her a happy hacker home where she will be loved and cared for like the wee queen she is.
Located at Driftwood Sport Horses Ltd in Fernside, Canterbury.
Marty (Fingerprinted) 6yr old 16.1hh tb gelding by Belardo
This guy is awesome, the right amount of sensitivity with a huge desire to please. Would suit a variety of disciplines, tidy enough for showing or dressage and willing enough for jumping. He can be a cheeky boy but no dirt, more like the class clown trying to impress everyone with his latest joke!!
Available to an approved home, where he will be respected for his uniqueness and who will keep in touch with his breeders.
Currently at Driftwood Sport Horses Ltd in Fernside, Canterbury. Video on request or you can find them on my Facebook page under the same name.
Jack Flash
16yo, 16h Black TB
Jack is the ultimate alrounder. He’s always been such a gentleman and a real super cool dude.
Jack attended equidays just three weeks off the track, sold down to Jess Land and then she ended up holding onto him for far longer than planned to because he’s just the coolest guy.
Has evented, hunted, hacked out etc. show hunter would be right up his alley. Ultimate fun Pony Club mount. Straightforward and easy, more woah than go! Very cool out hunting and really enjoyed it but still more woah than go! Very easily see him heading back out to hunt again next season!! I think a pony club first hack or hunting home for this dude
Jacks had a very crusiey life the last five years so still has ‘young legs’! He’d love to still get out and do stuff and i don’t see him slowing down any time soon!
A relatively easy keeper, nothing high maintenance. Can live on grass etc no issues. Trucks and floats well, goes off property and is just the same as at home. Good manners etc. Jack had an accident when he was a young horse and fractured his pelvis. He was given full vet clearance (reports available) and returned to full competition and hunting life with no ongoing lameness or pain.
A very hard sale so only 5* homes need message. Price is neg to the best home.
Beautiful Belle is seeking a new person to love her.
15.3hh, 13yo, mare by the formidable Gymnastik Star, over a TB mare.
I purchased Belle 3yrs ago after she had finished her role as a proven broodmare. Since then, she has had the book thrown at her. Hacking bareback on the beach, full wire hunting for 3 seasons, leading kids and ponies, eventing to 95 (schooling 105/110), open round the ring classes and L2 dressage (schooling L3 movements).
What Belle lacks in world beating qualities, she makes up for in nature & ability to do almost anything with. I think Belle could excel in straight dressage, showing & would be the ultimate safe pc mount. She is a XC machine & has schooled all 2* fences locally, she loves it! She excels in RTR & has had some minor placings in this. Her flat work is very well established.
No buck, bolt, or rear, a forward ride, but genuinely very safe. In the past two weeks she has kindly & safely piloted friends of mine for beach rides who haven’t ridden in over 10yrs. Can ride her in the waves, through rivers, you can even pop a child or a small dog on with you. She’s the quintessential pony club horse, she will do just about anything you ask.
Belle requires a home with someone who can give her consistency if you want to take her up the grades. As mentioned, she could excel in straight dressage, hunting, or she would happily be an amateurs mount doing the odd low level competition. She has a cracking walk, can go all day & would be amazing for trekking or endurance. She could suit so many disciplines or all of them.
She is sound, in full work, a dream to shoe, float, truck, graze with others, worm. She’s is the most loving & kind mare & loves a good cuddle or scratch. She really is very nearly a unicorn.
Some quirks which are very manageable, can have the odd spook if grassy & finds it very hard to do her job if her paddock mates are out with her competing. In saying that, I have 5 geldings & she is Queen B around here so clearly she feels that she must keep an eye on everyone.
She has got me back in to competing, hunting & doing all the fun things with my horse that I love. You can take this horse anywhere. I adore her but have two youngsters to bring on & a horse mad daughter who is rapidly overtaking my competitive aspirations.
Home is of utmost importance & Belle will not be sold sight unseen.
Can come with fitted excellent condition Prestige Paris X jump saddle at additional cost. As well as a wardrobe of rugs.
“CDS Donero” (Norie)
16hh 2016 gelding, Donnerubin/Flemmingh/Weltmeyer.
Norie is an absolute dude, who has been successfully campaigned to level 3 dressage with many wins and placings along the way.
He is a lovely ride, more whoa than go (but is also easy enough to perk up for the rider who enjoys more sensitivity), safe, and not spooky.
Norie has three expressive, swinging paces with plenty of ability to continue his trajectory up through the grades. He is schooling medium level with all lateral work established, and his changes very nearly completely installed.
Norie would be best suited to a rider with competitive aspirations, who is confident in their groundwork.
“Rocklanz Schokolade” (Mouse)
166.5cm 2009 Brown/Black mare
Rockstar/Landioso
Mouse is the ultimate competitive schoolmistress for a capable rider! With many accolades in the show ring to HoY level (she was 3rd in the Riding Horse of the Year title in 2024), and multiple wins and placings to medium level in the dressage arena, Mouse has a lot to teach her next very lucky new person.
She is foward off the leg, super easy in all of her lateral work, and has her flying changes in. Mouse is an expressive mover with a big engine, but at the same time is a very safe and reliable ride. She is very workmanlike and loves having a job to do.
She has been beautifully schooled and produced, and is ready to head out this season and, in the right hands, carry on with her competitive ways.
We would love to see her with a capable young rider to teach them the ropes.
Mouse has so much to offer someone - though they might have a hard time prying me off her 😅
Windrush Digby (Digby)
14hh 17y/o Warmblood gelding
Sire: Davidoff
Dam: Greenlee Actress
We are looking for a fun home where digby will get lots of variety out as a happy hacker! He loves going to the beach, forest, swim down the river and road riding. Digby can find life very exciting sometimes so he will require a confident rider with soft hands. Great for the dentist, farrier, to worm, happy to float or truck. Can be a pain to catch sometimes but will always come to a carrot!
Digby will come with some rugs and his bridle. Saddle is available at an extra cost. Digby has been with us for 5 years now and we are looking for a home that will love him as much as we do!
Available as a lease (local) or purchase.
Brandy is a lovely wee thing, just needs to further her education now. She has a floaty movement on the flat and had popped a few jumps up to 80cm , very brave and honest on that front. While a racehorse she often trained down the roadsides so has that under her belt already.
She is going to be a supermodel in the right hands. Photos don’t do her justice. She’s stunning already and will only improve as she lets down properly and muscles up. A sweet but sensitive girl who is lovely to have around.
*Note* currently in her winter coat, summer pics are from when she first arrived
Pm for more information, video on request or search her up on Driftwood Sport Horses Ltd on Facebook
Patch is still figuring out the contact and right lead canter, but every ride is more positive. He’s a lovely boy to ride, does need an assertive person on the ground though just to keep his manners from slipping. In saying that we have no problem with him at all and find him easy to have around and do anything with.
16hh, 6yr old Belardo gelding (we love the Belardo offspring around here). Will definitely jump and tidy enough on the flat for dressage. Has a wee tear from a previous injury in his nostral which does not effect him in any way, just cosmetic (check pic). In the right hands he would be a good TiES contender or eventer.
A little tender in barefeet currently so might have to get a set of fronts popped on.
Located Fernside, Rangiora
Pm for more details
Videos available on request