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Croftcnoc Corriander - Partbred Highland filly owned by Judy Quinn.
Corriander (or Gracie as she is known at home) is doing just fine. She has grown and seems to be doing well on drought food! She is very quiet and amenable to handle and loves attention. She is also quite brave when led out for a walk in the back paddock and coming face to face with a mob of kangaroos as happened this morning. She is very friendly and always runs up to say hello as you approach her paddock. At this stage I’m planning to have her broken in around next November when she’s rising 3. She’s very well behaved for all of the professionals, vet, farrier, dentist etc.
 Catani Agricultural Show 26/11/06
Catani Show held classes for Highlands and the Native Pony Ridden Championship qualifier. Results of the Highland class
Led Male
1st Harkaway Lodge Glengarry
2nd CroftCnoc Campbell 
3rd Harkaway Lodge Hawthorn
4th Harkaway Lodge Kinross
Reserve Champion Mountain & Moorland Male Harkaway Lodge Glengarry.
 New Arrival - Croftcnoc Forrest
Purebred cream Dun Highland Pony colt
Sire: Barrymoor Dorian.
Dam: Whinmere Rainbow.
Forrest was born on 27/09/2006 at 5.10pm. Forrest has had a very shaky start to his life. I arrived home at 4.15pm after picking up children from school and checked Rainbow who along with Tia was in our foaling yards, she was ready with the waters broken, so I grabbed the camera and two kids to watch the birth. After 10 minutes I could tell there was a problem and could only see one leg and could feel the other just inside she was pushing to no avail. I left to kids to watch while I raced to the phone to call the vet and also a neighbor, who knows nothing about horses to help try and assist. We waited nearly 35 minutes for the vet to arrive, as we had no luck trying to help her, when he finally got there it was clearly obvious we had very little time left so we all pushed the foal back inside her and the vet twisted the foal around and we all pulled him out as quickly as possible. He was full of fluid, so some vigorous rubbing with towels and a few good thumps to his chest we got him breathing and started to get the fluid out of his lungs. He was a huge foal for a Highland Pony. Rainbow was fine but exhausted, the foal was cleaned off, warmed up with some towels and rugs and approximately 1 hour later he started to try and get up, successfully. The vet left to attend another call.
 Rainbow, after a good rest got up, but the foal was not interested in her or drinking. We waited until evening with them stabled together but he was not going to drink so the vet was called again at 10pm and two hours later he had a tube inserted up his nose and I fed him thru the night by milking Rainbow every hour. As she retained her membranes she was on antibiotics for a few days as was the foal, he had numerous needles and tests taken in the days to come to make sure all was going well and he had no ulcers and infections.
 Next morning the tube was out so the vets came back and we then stitched it to his face so he could not rub it out, I was still giving him hourly feeds. I could see this being a slow process as he had no suck reflex at all and no interest in his mother, who was getting a bit sick of me milking her. Over the next few days Rainbow slowly started to dry up so I had to supplement the milk with Rev milk and the foal named Forrest (after Forrest Gump) was not interested in anyone. After day eight it was obvious he did not want his mum and he would not drink out of a bucket or bottle, so I pulled out the tube and tried in desperation for the next fourteen hours to get him to suck out of a bottle.
Finally with some force we slowly succeeded late at night, we now have a bottle fed foal only drinking from his preferred baby’s bottle with a mother that just keeps an eye on him. He has been given a special horse formulated milk powder called Wambaroo!  Which he loves. The children and all of us enjoy feeding him, every two hours to start with then as he got stronger every 3-4 hours.
He has just now passed three months old and is eating special foal mix feed from Barastoc and Lucerne hay, which he loves. Forrest lives with his mum together in the same paddock, but they are fed separately, he is weaning himself now only wanting his milk twice a day, the rest of the milk powder goes in his feed. He is very well handled and part of the family to stay!
Out and About
Some members have been busy with their Highlands over the winter months and sent through the following results.
Rae Madden and Croftcnoc Cognac are doing very well with their dressage on the 18.06.06 they competed at the South Eastern Dressage Club Autumn Series and gained an equal 1st and a 3rd in the level 3 HRCAV tests and placed 2nd in the Jackpot. In the same section Lyn Cazaly and Croftcnoc Bianca placed 7th in the 3E.
At the recent Winter series day 1, Lyn and Bianca placed 5th in the level 3B. Great to see these too doing so well!
Marie Van den Berg writes, that Croftcnoc Corinella now officially 3 years old is off to be broken in, in just two weeks time. We would love to hear how she is going later in the Spring time.
Results for Croftcnoc Cognac from Nyora Equestrian Club Dressage Day on 29.10.06, 1st in Level 3 test 3D 67.5%, 1st in Level 3 3E 74% and 1st in Level 3 Jackpot.
Highland Pony Society of Australia Victorian Stud Tour - Sunday November 19th 2006
$10.00 per head which includes all refreshments and a BBQ lunch.
Incorporating the following Highland Pony Studs:
Harkaway Lodge, Barrymoor, Croftcnoc, Senlac and Jolley Farm (Dene) Studs.
Starting at 9.30am at Harkaway Lodge, ("Pine Lodge" 146 King Road, Harkaway Victoria Melways Map Ref 109 G12)
Come and see the newly imported Highlands from Scotland including the stallion Fyfedene. Also Stallions, Mares, Geldings, Youngstock and new seasons Foals.
Meet the breeders and walk around each property.
All enquiries and bookings to Anna Thirkell on 03 5629 2722. Click here for booking Form
ROYAL MELBOURNE SHOW 2006
The judge for the 2006 Royal Melbourne show was Mrs Joy Jones from Labertouche in Victoria. We only had a few Highlands at the show. Harkaway Lodge Hawthorn was the Championship winner with CroftCnoc Chloe in Reserve. Hopefully next year will see a few more entries.
Led Stallion or Colt 1st Harkaway Lodge Ben Nevis - J. Watson
Led Mare or Filly 1st CroftCnoc Chloe - A. Thirkell, 2nd CroftCnoc Celine - A. Thirkell
Led Gelding 1st Harkaway Lodge Hawthorn - M. MacLachlan & J. Gallagher
 Champion Highland Harkaway Lodge Hawthorn
Reserve Champion CroftCnoc Chloe
Ridden Highland Pony
1st CroftCnoc Chloe
2nd Harkaway Lodge Hawthorn
Ridden Mountain & Moorland Mare
1st CroftCnoc Chloe
PONY PROFILE -CROFTCNOC COGNAC
Purebred Highland Pony Gelding
10/10/93
Sire: Barrymoor Dorian - Dam: Tequila Sunrise (Australian Stockhorse)
Height 15.3hh - Colour Cream Dun
SPUD was bred by Anna Thirkell and was very successful in Buckskin classes. He was sold to Rae Madden in February 2000 and has done very well in dressage classes. At the HRCAV Top Teams Trophy Dressage Championships in 2004 he was 3rd in Level 3 and in 2005 was 6TH & 7TH and also won the Best Performed Partbred Highland Pony and the Best Performed Buckskin for the National Buckskin Society.
He has also won the Partbred Highland Pony Hi Point award for the last 5 years. In 2002 he got an encouragement award from the National Buckskin Society. In 2003 and 2004 he was Reserve NBS Hi Point Performance Horse and in 2005 he won the NBS Hi Point Performance Horse as well as achieving his Gold medallions
 for 1000 points.
He is a lovely affectionate horse to handle and ride, enjoys going on trail rides and around the roads as well as dressage lessons and occasional cross country jumping and show jumping. He ha also done well in Handy Mount competitions.
HE IS AN ABSOLUTE PLEASURE TO OWN
 Results from the APSB Gippsland Promotional Group Activity Day
Campbell placed in both his two dressage tests Pony club grade 3c and 3a he was well behaved and a pleasure to ride, the grounds were very wet and slippery. Coming home with two second places, not bad for his first attempt!
We also rode in the Handy mount which was a series of obstacles he tackled very well again receiving a second place.
APSB YOUNG STOCK SHOW VIC. 11TH DECEMBER 2005
Just two Highland Ponies were at the show Croftcnoc Campbell and Croftcnoc Celine. Both ponies were well behaved and performed well. There were two rings to show in for the day.
Campbell
- 1st Led gelding under 3years
- Champion Led Any Other Breed Exhibit
Celine
- 1st Led filly under 3 years
- Reserve Champion Led Any Other Breed Exhibit
Campbell
- 1st Led gelding under 3 years
- Reserve Champion Exhibit
Celine
- 1st Led filly under 3 years
- Champion Led Exhibit
- Grand Champion Any Other Breed Exhibit.
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 "Croftcnoc Corriander 2")
 "Croftcnoc Campbell Show")
 "New born Croftcnoc Forrest and prud Mum Rainbow")
 "Travice feeding Forrest")
 "Family Feeding Croftcnoc Forrest")
 "Travice and Croftcnoc Forrest")
 "Croftcnoc Cognac 2006 Jackpot Winner")
 "Photo by Sandy Morphett - Croftcnoc Celine 2006")
 "Thumb Croftcnoc Campbelll APSB 2006")