Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2009 | Page 80
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Mother and
Daughter Head
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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