As we have crossed a Clydesdale (Bonnie) with a Shire Horse (Charlie) any filly foals, like Charlies Angel, will be registered as a grade B Shire.
This recognises the cross breeding and enables any filly foals that Angel has, to be registered as full pedigree.
However, if Angel has colt foals, the foals must be gelded (castrated). This is because a stallion could breed over 40 foals per year thus diluting the breed too quickly, whereas a mare can only produce one foal per year at best.
All our foals born here have our prefix “Cotebrook” in their names. The females are named after lochs in Scotland and the males are named after mountains in Scotland. Charlies Angel is one of the exceptions to this as she was born on the morning of 7th March 2004, just a couple of hours before her famous father, Moorfield Charles, passed away.
Angel was mated for the first time in 2007 to her half-brother, Ben Macdhui. The resulting foal, born in 2008, was Cotebrook Charlies Spirit, a great show filly.
In 2014 Angel had a beautiful black filly foal, Cotebrook Loch Broom, unusual as there is no black in her pedigree.
Broom has gone on to produce some great Champions for Cotebrook.
Angel has had several foals for us over the years but is now enjoying her retirement. We have still got her daughter Broom, her granddaughters Loch Awe, Kelsie and Loch Coruisk, and her great grandson Ben Vane!