Canningvale Bonnie Sue and her 2007 filly foal by Lonsdale Moonwind.

Sue with Kohatu Rose Moon at foot, 2006.

Bunratty Bridgette (Barwidgee Erriff x Canningvale Bonnie Sue), Champion Purebred Connemara, 2006 Royal New Zealand Show.

Timaunga Skylark (Ganty Champ x Canningvale Bonnie Sue), Champion Purebred Connemara, 2007 Royal New Zealand Show. Note: in this photo, Skylark is eventing fit, and plaited because of ridden classes.

Canningvale Bonnie Sue
Chiltern Sunsilk	Island Duke	Clonjoy	Clonkeehan Auratum
			Joyce Grey
		Grey Dawn Lassie	Innishgoill Laddie
			Water's Grey
	Arctic Moon	Carna Dun	Little Heaven
			Double Dun
		Canrower Lass	Carna Bobby
			Speculation
Canningvale Bonnie Jean	Blandings Bobby	Carna Bobby	Gil
			Carna Dolly
		Dangan Lady	Macdara
			Ceann Ruadh
	Blandings Henrietta	Clonkeehan Archer	Strongbow
			Camlin Cilla
		Connemara Park Judy	Connemara Park Seamus
			Easter Mask

Canningvale Bonnie Sue

The matriarch of the Kohatu Partnership is Canningvale Bonnie Sue. Foaled in 1984, Sue is the dam of Bunratty Bridgette, but only came into the care of Kohatu several years after Bridgette started the whole ball rolling by producing Moonshadow.

Sue is closely related to the stallion Sun-n-Air of Summer Valley. Both are by Chiltern Sunsilk (imp UK), and are out of half-sisters.

Sue was a regular breeder for two other studs before she came to Kohatu. She has 9 purebred foals to her name - 8 of which are daughters, and only 3 are grey (all have been by grey stallions). She has left some very good performance proven progeny, and two of her daughters have already bred on. Sue does not look, or act, her age, and didn't seem impressed when told she was a great-grandmother.

For Kohatu, Sue has produced three fillies by Lonsdale Moonwind, we are particularly pleased with her 2007 foal.

In both 2006 and 2007, the Champion Purebred Connemara at the Royal New Zealand Show was a daughter of Sue's - Bunratty Bridgette took the title in 2006, and Timaunga Skylark in 2007.

Back