Oakleigh Miniatures is nestled deep within the heart of horse country. We are situated in the beautifully tranquil Cotswolds countryside in the Uk. We are dedicated to the art of producing exquisitely refined, correct, athletic miniature horses, true to type American Shetlands, driving horses and athletic top performing performance horses. We have searched the globe to put together our formidable herd of Miniature Horses and American Shetland Ponies. It all started in 2006 when I moved to my beautiful farmhouse in Devon. Having not had a horse at home for several years I found myself in this wonderful home with empty paddocks and that is where this wonderful journey began. In my head I initially thought I was going to look for a few English Miniature Shetlands, how wrong this thought turned out to be! I started trawling the internet, for what I thought I wanted, but accidently fell upon photographs of these incredible American Miniature Horses, the likes of which I had never seen before. I instantly knew that this was what I really would like to pursue. So off I went on my quest to find these incredible little creatures, little did I know how difficult this would be back in those days. Eventually, first came Cookie and then Cloud, I was hooked. After a successful showing season with Cloud I went in search of my next acquisition and for the very first time imported my first two AMHA miniatures in from America. Many more were to follow in order to bring together some of the most coveted bloodlines in AMHA history. What started out as a hobby, has now turned into a life times dream. Many horses have come and gone through the years and many babies have been born and moved on to new homes making more dreams come true. I feel that now, I am exactly where I was meant to be in my venture with my horses. Breeding, Showing and Training these beautiful equines has become a true lifelong ambition.
These days at Oakleigh Miniatures, we are a small stud concentrating on the wonderful world of the Foundation, Classic, Modern Pleasure and Modern ASPC’s. We currently stand three stallions at stud, one awesome little 30"AMHA/AMHR, one Modern ASPC/AMHR and one Modern Pleasure ASPC. All our stallions are high achieving show horses with many National Grand Championships, Congress Grand Championships with World and European Grands under their belts, all of their athleticism and ability to perform is transferring into their show winning babies. We have six equally high achieving ASPC mares that have proven themselves in both the showring and in our stella breeding program. We are steadily and carefully building a beautiful, successful breeding program with Hall Of Fame horses right throughout their pedigrees proving a consistently proven show heritage.. We are proud to be one of the few studs at the forefront of the introduction of this exciting breed into Europe.
It is our passion at Oakleigh Miniatures to carefully select each mare and stallion in order to create babies possessing balance, excellent conformation, elegance, movement, stamina, versatility and a happy outlook on life.
We have had the privilege of breeding many babies that have gone on to be World Grand Champions, European National Grand Champions and many Supreme Champions and breeding careers. Many World Champions and World Championship producers can be found both in our own herd and in Oakleigh’s bloodlines. We pride ourselves on breeding some of the world’s finest Miniature Horses. In 2017, we welcomed our very first home bred ASPC foal, and wow, what a foal she was. She was everything we could have dreamt of and more. A year later came our second foal, a full sister, once again, she took my breath away. We showed both girls with great success in 2018, one was a yearling and the other just a weanling foal. It was with great excitement and pride that our very first ASPC foals, in their first year of showing acquired the titles of MHCGB Champion ASPC Mare/Gelding and MHCGB Overall Grand Champion ASPC with Oakleigh Primes She’s Got Sass and her sister Oakleigh Primes Fantasia, who was just a weanling foal, took International Miniature Foal Of The Year and Reserve Supreme International Midi Horse Of The Year, this exceeded all of our expectations. In 2019 both of these girls went on to hold their own against the highest level in the European stadiums to go on to win many top European and National Titles. Oakleigh Primes She’s Got Sass now resides in Sweden where she will advance her career into Combined Driving. We are eagerly awaiting the next baby from this perfectly matched mare and stallion.
These two full sibling fillies have made a great impact for our ASPC breeding program and with another full sibling due for 2021, we are waiting with great anticipation for our next Champion. These two fillies were sired by the stallion SMHC Prime Time who has now started his Show Driving and Halter career in Europe and the Uk. They are out of the beautiful Black Pinto mare Green Creek Jros Zantana who is herself a top high winning Congress Champion in her own right. We have been incredibly lucky to have acquired another amazing new mare who will be arriving very soon. Wauk-Away Kitty arrived with her foal by Green Creek Supreme King in order to add further bloodlines into our breeding program, she will now be bred to Michigans Never Out Of Style in 2020. Wauk-Away Kitty is a proven breeders dream and when crossed with SMHC Prime Time, we will be line breeding one of the most famous ASPC bloodlines in the history of the breed. Pony Vista's Lil'Lizzie, Modern Hall Of Fame, is our latest acquisition, in partnership with Derek and Sharon Delves. Lizzie is a very exciting addition to our breeding program as she is the mother of our stallion SMHC Prime time and has been a consistent producer for the Southern Miniature Horse Company throughout her life, I can't wait to see what she produces with Michigans Never Out Of Style, that baby will be a moving machine.
Our Modern ASPC stallion Michigan’s Never Out Of Style is a superb high calibre driving horse. He is beautifully bred in the blue. He is sired by Michigan’s King Pin (HOF) and out of the mare Michigan’s Winning Style (HOF), his Grand Sire is the highly coveted Michigan’s Hart Breaker (HOF). Over the years, amongst many other titles, Style has managed to tot up an incredible 5 x Congress Championships, 4 x Reserve Congress Championships , 2 x National Championships, 2 x National Grand Championships and 1 x Reserve National Championship. He has also made his mark in the Uk by taking two International Miniature Horse of the Year Open Driving Horse titles. We eagerly await the arrival of this full blooded miniature Hackneys first babies on our very own ASPC babies. The genepool this will create will be second to none, producing foals with the most elevated movement and stamina.
We like all of our horses to have multi-faceted abilities and careers. It is my belief that an occupied horse is a happy horse. If a horse is provided with stimulation and love, he will return with a happy well-adjusted mind. It gives me so much joy and happiness to teach my horses tricks, dressage on long reins, jumping and agility. Many of our horses drive including our broodmares who have all achieved accredited showing careers, also, all of our stallions drive as well as our geldings. We have won many International Miniature Horse of the Year Titles in Driving, Versatility, Obstacle, Jumping, Puissance and Liberty. In 2018, we were also fortunate enough to win the British Miniature Horse Society’s Star Seekers Championship with PRF Zpotless. He will be entered onto the BMHS Stud Book adding another facet to this boys breeding abilities.
We are really looking forward to the 2020 showing and breeding season. We have a wonderful show team to bring out and enjoy.
We are currently offering our AMHA/AMHR Stallion to select outside mares, show livery, show training and production. Our ASPC Stallions currently have closed books whilst we are building their reputations as excellent herd sires and are only available to our own in house mares, that said, if an exceptional mare were presented we would consider an outside covering.
If you require help in any respect, we are always more than happy to try to help you. After all, the Miniature horse world is one big family. Oakleigh Miniatures looks forward to seeing you all at the shows in the future to enjoy lots of fun and friendship.
Compassionate Care Policy Here at Oakleigh Miniatures, we operate a compassionate approach to our breeding program and take responsibility for all our horses and the foals that we breed.
At Oakleigh we understand that sometimes situations change that are out of our control and that we may no longer be able to care for the horse we bought in the way that we would wish to do so.
With this in mind, it is our policy at Oakleigh Miniatures that should you no longer be able to continue to care for a horse purchased from us, you may confidentiality return the horse and sign it over to us with no judgment. We offer this to safeguard all our horses past and present.
All foals born at Oakleigh Miniatures will remain at Oakleigh Miniatures if they are not sold. We believe that if we cannot give a foal a safe lifelong home if it has not found a new home, we should not be breeding. We are responsible conscientious breeders and only breed a handful of babies each year.
We will always work to help our clients and hold no judgement to a difficult situation. Always feel safe in our confidentiality should you require help with any Oakleigh horse.
We hope you never find yourself in this position, but if you do we are here to help.
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