The Cwmkaren Stud was founded in England in 1970. The stud name is taken from "Cwm" which means valley and "Karen" who is our oldest daughter. With limited facilities in England we produced the Section B's Cwmkaren Barry John, Cwmkaren JPR and Belvoir Chervil and the cobs Menda May Arth Megan.
Carole and I settled in Queensland in 1992 and with more acerage concerntrated on breeding Welsh Cobs. We purchased from Geraint and Mary Jones the colt foal Nebo Dyfrig Express and the filly foal Nebo Miss Wales. In 1996 we returned to Walkes and purchased a couple of days before the Royal Welsh show the 2 year old filly Sydenham Brioni. To our delight she won her class at the Royal Welsh under William Lloyd of the Geler Stud.
In 2000 we returned to Nebo and purchased Tyngwndwn Dancing Princess from Lisa and Huw Reed. In 2002 we purchased on the advice of Geraint and Mary the bay stallion Hendrewen Aba Express from Idris and Cynthia James to use over our Dyfrig daughters. The advice has proved invaluable and we are extremely please with the results. Sadly we lost Aba in 2011 but have retained two of his sons namely Cwmkaren Riley Express and Cwmkaren Sir Tom Jones.
In addition to the cobs we have a couple of Section C and Section A mares for Carole to handle.
We show occassionally at the QLD, NSW and VIC All Welsh shows. Dyfrig, Brioni, Boneddiges and Branwen have all taken Best In Show awards at the QLD All Welsh Show.
In 2005 the Cwmkaren Stud was the first winner of the Dinah Creswick National Breeders Trophy. Dyfrid and Aba have won the society's sires ratings competition in recent years.
We are thrilled that our cobs are making their presence felt throughout Australia and New Zealand in-hand, under saddle, in harness and dressage.
