Four year old Sam Kling at her first Welsh show, Goodwood 1983
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ABOUT US: Syringa Stud was started twenty-three years ago, with the birth of Syringa Sparkle. We persuaded Rose Lasbury
to sell us his mother, a beautiful Welsh Section A mare, Badgemore Bonny. Mrs Lasbury then persuaded us to rescue his
father, the flashy bright bay, Bukkenburg Bob, who was chained up in the Cape Flats and who, as a 3 year old colt, went
on to win the Supreme Section A Welsh Championship at Goodwood six month’s later.
Then the bug bit and the rest is history.
My two daughters, Sam and Jenny Kling, started their riding careers on Badgemore Bonny and Syringa Sparkle. Jenny went on
to compete on the beautiful grey Welsh Partbred, Lipenga Amelia who did extremely well in all the ridden Welsh classes and
went onto being in the Western Province SANEF Showing and Dressage teams for three consecutive years.
In 2000 we moved out to Stanford and for my 50th birthday my husband, Peter, gave me five top Section A Welsh breeding
mares of the Coed Coch Nerog and Superstar lines.
We then decided to start breeding bigger children’s ponies and performed one of the first Artificial Inseminations to
Section A Welsh ponies in South Africa, with semen from the Section B stallion Forsythe Bannut Boy in Natal. Our first
Bannut Boy progeny was Syringa Spice Girl who won Supreme Champion Junior Section B Mare at Bloemfontein National Welsh
Championships in 2008.
In 2006, after a busy pony filled trip to Natal to view many stallions for AI, we laid eyes on the stunning imported
Section B stallion Pendock Dante and just had to bring him home with us to the Cape. We’ve been able to breed that
wonderful temperament and class that makes our children’s ponies so special.
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