Folly Farm Stud

Founded 1992

Folly Farm, Ashill, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 9NW

Tel: 01823 481020  |  Mobile: 07771 934035

All About The Team at Folly Farm

Sandra Morton, Stud Groom - has been in this position since the Stud first began in 1992. She had worked with horses all her life. In 2003 she won the TBA award for Stud Staff. She is highly experienced in all aspects of stud work and lives with her husband and son within 100 yards of the stable yard. She has prepared many foals and a few yearlings for the Tattersalls Sales and generally accompanies them to Newmarket.

Sandrra was one of the two runners-up last year's (2011) in the Stud category of the Godolphin Stable & Stud Staff Awards.   As Brough Scott said "this is the most prestigious event of its kind in the world" and we are all hugely proud of Sandra for whom it was so well deserved.   Typically, she is the first to tell everyone that it resulted from the efforts, over the years, from the entire team, and this is equally true.

Arlene Denning – has also worked with horses all her life and has worked part time at Folly for five years. She has a lot of experience in racing as she rode out, led up, schooled and did all manner of jobs for nearby trainers. She is also experienced in working with eventers as her daughter is a professional event rider to a high level, and both she and her ponies and horses were, in the past, largely brought on and schooled by Arlene.

Angela Toogood – has worked in a part time capacity on the Stud since 2001 and is knowledgeable, dedicated, versatile and indispensible to us all, humans and horses alike.

George Knight and Ginnie Withers – who live three miles away, take our foaling mares just prior to foaling and keep them till a day or two, afterwards. They are extremely experienced specialists in this aspect of stud work and have delivered literally hundreds of foals in their time.

Rosemary Pease – Owner/Manager
Rosemary Pease has been around horses nearly all her life and her pedigree, on both sides for many generations is stiff with those in the racing world as owners, trainers, racing journalists and breeders.
Each of the 135 Folly bred winners has been a huge excitement, but it could be claimed that her greatest breeding achievement has been in producing Jonathan Pease, her son, who is a trainer based in France and who was responsible for an Arc winner (Bago), a winner of the Breeders Cup Turf and the Breeders Cup Mile (Tikkannen and Spinning World) and numerous other Group 1 winners.

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