Welcome to the

Kingmaker Dales Pony Stud,

 situated in the beautiful Loire Valley of Western France.    

 

 

   

We are Helen and Martin Rhodes, an english couple who moved to France in August 2004. We run a small stud, set in forty acres, committed to preserving the Dales Pony, a talented but endangered, native British breed.

  

Our breeding motto is "temperament, type and action". With this aim in mind, we produce a small number of  foals each year from our carefully selected stallions and mares. 

 

Our foals are lightly handled from birth and educated after weaning, before they are  sold to approved new homes where we hope they will be much-loved, and do well in a variety of equine disciplines.

 

Several of our ponies have achieved success in the show ring, but as we have a background in working horses (having bred, worked and driven Percheron and Shire horses in the past)  we are especially interested in promoting the all-round capabilities of the Dales Pony which stem from the breed's packhorse and driving roots. 

 

We have sold Kingmaker ponies to the UK, USA, France, Belgium and Switzerland, and enjoy on-going contact with all of our buyers as we love to follow our youngstocks' progress. 

 

All of our ponies are certified CLEAR for Foal Immunodeficiency Syndrome (FIS)* 

 

*If you plan to breed, please do not buy a Dales, Fell or partbred Dales/Fell pony, without  knowing it's FIS status. Please click HERE to read more about this potentially fatal syndrome. Thankyou.