If you want to use a Dublin Champion out of a Supreme Champion Mare who also has the ability to jump a really big fence, the movement to win in the Dressage Arena and the kindness and reliability to carry a 14 yr old girl around a Derby track, this is your horse. Versatility is his middle name, and he is a perfect gentleman at all times. Bred by Marily Power and Susan Lannigan O Keefe at the famous home of the Irish Draught, Suma Stud he wasrepatriated when his father went to Zimbabwe (now in South Africa) he has done everything asked of him and more. He has great front and scope, is an outstanding mover and a complete gentleman in every way. He throws 100% greys.
Performance
HUNTINGFIELD REBEL was broken and brought out by his purchaser as a foal, Deborah Paul and spent some time competing in BSJA with both Lionel Dunning and Louise McLachlan. He qualified for the Foxhunter Regional Finals as a 5 y.o. but was in Ireland during the Finals. He won nearly £500 in 2 abbreviated seasons then in Ireland with Dermott Lennon he went up into Grade C with only a few outings. In the show ring, he was Champion at the RDS in 1999 and a few days later he was Reserve Champion in the I.D. Performance Event. In 2001 he was the Champion Riding Horse at the I.D. National Show with a student. He has done a few Dressage Tests and has won twice, gaining 48 points, again in very few outings.
Progney
2006 Huntingfield Rebel him stamp his seal of excellence again and again, with his stock taking some of the most prestigious classes in the country. His daughter Oh Carolena became the Champion in the Young RID mare class in the RDS, and her foal became champion of her class and went on to become the All Ireland Foal Champion! Also in 2006 he became a sire of sires, when his son's Huntingfield Grey Man and Oh Carols Rebel became approved stallions.He also sired the UK Midlands eventing Champion” Fieldmouse 11” . 2006 saw his daughter Suma's Little Mo won the Novice Horse Section Carriage Driving at Kilcooley Abbey, showing the versatility of this stallion .
In 2005 at the NIDS he sired:
Champion Filly foal ,Champion 3 yr old Filly and the Champion Young Horse and the 2nd and 3rd Loose Jumping. He also the Champion Battle of the Breeds N. I.
2003: Champion Yearling and 1st & 3rd yearling colt class NIDS .All Ireland Champion Colt Foal, & Reserve Champion Colt Foal RDS.
2003: Champion RID yearling, Champion Hunter Cork, 2002: Leitrim ID Champion, Champion Colt Foal. Also sired 3 Connaught Champions
Of course there are so many champions we cannot list them all!
Some others include: In the UK: Huntingfield Hattrick, Champion in 2002 of Leitrim All Ireland Mare & foal Championship, Won at 2yrs, Leicester County Show and 2nd ID National Show at 3. Huntingfield Special. Champion Connaught Foal in 1999, and All Ireland Champion ID Yearling filly in 2000.. At the National Breed show 2001 his stock won many rosettes incl. 1st and 3rd in Yearling colts and the Supreme Champion is in foal to him.
Breeding profile
HUNTINGFIELD REBEL carries brilliant outcross genes, which are also totally free from Clydesdale or other cold bloodlines. On his sires side through the exported Glenagyle Rebel you have the unique Prince Henry line, also Rusheen Hero and Merrion, both very underrepresented in Irish Draughts. His dam, Whippy, who like his Grade A sire was vigorously performance tested carries the brilliant Blue Peter and Skylark lines. Whippy who won the Supreme Championship at the ID Nat. Show as a 16 yr old, has produced a multitude of Show champions and 6 registered jumpers. Her dam Softee, was the Masters horse until she was 10, only asked to breed alternate years. She is the dam of Suma's Murphys Law, an RID stallion of great character and has a daughter in Australia, Suma's Harkaway and her other grandson is the top RID Crosstown Dancer
