This is a very special filly.
Close neighbours of ours, Elsie and Brian Rowland, and their 2 sons, Wayne and Kevin, have lived in Cotebrook as long as Alistair, and have always been great friends. Elsie sadly passed away in May 2018 and the family asked Alistair to do the eulogy at her funeral. He of course accepted and said that he would name one of this year’s foals in her memory.
The timing and the right foal were fortuitous and so it was that the name Elsie was selected with the initial “K” for our surname King. “KELSIE”
Cotebrook Kelsie will be a memory for years to come and Brian can look out of his window and see his wifes namesake every day.
Kelsie is an Old English name meaning Victorious ship.
Kelsie is already proving to be Victorious in the showring!
She was Junior National Champion at the 2022 National Shire Show – the largest Shire Show in the world.
She had her first foal on 24th April 2024, whos father is Sparkland Ben, a magnificent grey stallion. Unfortunately Kelsie was not well during the latter part of her pregnancy so we have not returned her to the stallion in order to give her time to recover. She now looks amazing and her foal, who was very tiny when born, has grown into a huge colt!
We have called him Ben Vane.
