Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2009 | Page 80

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Mother and
Daughter Head
South for New Life
Katy Butler riding Luminka

When top show jumper Anna

Swedish show jumper Anna

Barron decided to retire from

Barron, who was coached by

competition and return to her

Fred for many years, swapped

native home of Stockholm,

two horses in return for the

Exton Stud, her beautiful

talented and careful 16hh bay

farm in the Meon Valley was

mare, but her sparkling career

put up for sale and her show

was cut short at the age of

jumpers and young stock were

seven, when Anna started

all advertised. Two of them,

a family of her own, and

mother and daughter, Luminka

decided to put all her mares

and Elektra, found their way

in foal.

to the island and Island Life
will be following their progress

Anna chose Romanov, a

in the coming issues.

little heard of stallion at

Dutch Warmblood,

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To sire Luminka’s foals,

the time, but one who

Luminka, who has impressive

went on to win the coveted

bloodlines that include the

Foxhunter championship at

legendary stallions G.Ramiro

the 2005 Horse of the Year

Z, Nimmerdor and Alme, had

Show. Romanov, whose sire

been retired early to stud from

is Heartbreaker, has since

the show jumping world to

represented Britain in Nations

motherhood. She was bred

Cup teams and has won over

in The Netherlands, imported

£100,000. Luminka bred

by Fred Welch and ridden

three foals by Romanov and

by Rowan Willis in 1999.

arrived on the island, almost