How did Larkspur come about?
Larkspur started in Kaitieke (situated south west of Taumarunui) where Robin and I owned and worked a Sheep and Beef farm. Both of us have always been involved with horses for pleasure, work and for Robin competitively in Europe where he managed a large Hunting Stable. Horses have always been a very big part of our lives yet neither of us were satisfied with the limited involvement we had with the horses that owning and working the farm gave us. When the dispersal sale of purpose bred Sport horses at Waipoa Station came about we decided to add to our already growing team of talented horses a proven broodmare base and move towards developing a breeding and training establishment of quality sport horses, which is now based in Pukekawa approximately 1 hour north of Hamilton. You have two stallions at stud, please tell us about them! The first resident Stallion that we introduced to our breeding programme was Larkspur Ripples, whom we purchased as a yearling from Meersbrooke Farm in Taihap
