Kerranna Stockhorses

The following mares are or have been used in Kerranna Stockhorses breeding program:

• Kelran Galhadin
• Kerranna Codhin
• Kerranna Cantik
• Kerranna Cleo
• The Braes Flute
• Fernloff Margot
• Willomurra Mercury
• Kydee Court Goodbye Girl

Nani was purchased at an Emerald (Qld) horse sale as a gangly unbroken three year old.  I started her myself and her response was so rapid that I rang her previous owners just to confirm that she definitely had had no further education other than being caught just prior to the sale! 

Nani was a station horse, particularly good after cattle and we practised our working skills on weaners as we tailed them out.  Apart from invariable hi-jinks when fresh back from a spell, she was an eminently safe horse to ride.    Nani only ever went to one show in her life (when she just happened to have her first set of shoes on) at Blackwater where she took out the Reserve ASH mare.  She did not at all like the chaff bag full of empty cans so our Station Horse class was a bit interesting.  The only other event she entered formally was a campdraft held at Frank Scott's Majura property in Canberra.  I rode her in the only saddle I had at the time - an all purpose show saddle - and I REALLY missed the pads.  Fortunately, the beast kept moving in the face of the camp so that she kept coming back under me to collect me on the way through to the other side!  Unfortunately, I was so unnerved by the rapid appearance of daylight under my bum that my exit from the camp was, to say the least, a bit slow and the beast rapidly headed off for the scrub with me absolutely no-where in sight behind it.  Still her cut out was 24 and she took out the highest cut out for the day - as this was not only Nani's first attempt at a draft but also mine, I had no idea just how good this was!

While in Queensland I had tried to breed a foal from Nani but had no luck.  I brought my horses, including Nani, to Canberra in 1984 and Nani then spent some years poking about as a trail horse before being put out in the paddock with Fernloff Galvanic, an exceptional polo sire and talented race horse owned by Ben Salmon.  Given my experience with trying for a foal in Queensland I expected nothing from this mating but was delighted in January 1987 with the arrival of a filly foal named Galhadhin.

Galhadhin was started for polo but then used as a pleasure horse (one of whose tasks was to safely take my then 8 year old daughter hunting) and started stud duties in 1998.  She has produced eight exceptional foals for Kerranna before retirement from stud, notably K. Codhin, K. Ghada, K Azzurri, K. Didge and K. Magu - all of whom are successful show and/or performance horses for a variety of owners and disciplines. 

Codhin, (x Vet School Cody) prior to being sold to the Lynch family and being competed very successfully by Morgan Lynch, produced two foals for the stud - K. Quennell (x Ocean River Oak) and K. Cleo (x Hightop Park Playboy).  Quennell is half-owned by Kirramurray ASH, Yass and Cleo has been retained by Kerranna as a broodmare and general riding and performance horse.

K. Cantik (x Greyhavens Midnight Brandy), another Galhadhin foal, was injured as a youngster and put into foal production herself - she has produced four exceptional foals: K. Heza Kuri (x Heza Bruce); K. Willus (x Bohena Willus); K. Boss (x Hightop Park Playboy); and K. Ilpirra (x K. Aritjuda).  Cantik has been brought back into work as a general riding and performance horse.

To 2009, Nani has 16 registered quality decendents.