As I'm sure everyone that has looked at my website knows, bay is my favorite color.  When I got back into the Welsh as an adult in the '70's, most of the Welsh were grey, chestnuts and roans.  Very few blacks and even fewer true blood bays.  Well, it took me 18 years to breed a bay.  This wonderful stallion was born at about 3 in the afternoon on Mother's Day.  A beautiful sunny warm spring day with a light breeze, the sky as blue as a robin's egg.  I was out in the pasture (he was a few weeks early so Mom hadn't been brought up yet), watched the whole birth, waited until he was up on his feet, picked him up and brought him into the barn.  I was so excited - a bay - not just a bay, but a true blood bay and a stud colt to boot.  I was in hog heaven.

 

     Then as he grew up I found he had the most wonderful loving temperament, awesome movement and not too bad in the conformation department.  The Bay has lived up to all of our expectations and more.  He has out produced himself and his foals are extremely athletic, pretty and just plain nice to be around. 

 

     One of his babies, Greenvale's Fred Astaire, just qualified to go to the World Pony Driving Championships in Germany this summer of 2009!!