Millenium has had excellent fertility rates of c 90% every stud season since he retired to stud. Millenium’s first foal crop was born in 2007, and the quality of that crop was attested to by the fact that many mare owners sent their mares straight back to be bred to Millenium again. Millenium’s quality as a sire has already been proven by the results of his offspring in the nationwide BEF Futurity competition. In 2008, one of Millenium’s foals, Hobgoblins Honour Bound, was awarded highest scoring eventing foal at Plumpton. Hobgoblins Honour Bound successfully defended his title in 2009 to be awarded highest scoring eventing yearling. In 2009, a Millenium-sired yearling, Timeline, was the only yearling to be awarded Elite status Nationwide. Overall, Millenium finished the 2009 season ranked 9^th nationwide in the list of Eventing Sires based on Futurity results – despite the fact that (unlike most of the stallions placed above him on the list) his first progeny were born in 2007 and he thus has no three year olds to count.

Another of Millenium’s foals, Tribute Tertius, stars in this year’s Dodson and Horrell calendar. Tertius has already been assessed as having stallion potential, and we have embarked upon a programme of freezing full-sibling embryos to Tertius (see news page). It is clear that Millenium is stamping his foals with an amazing combination of correct conformation, athleticism and outstanding temperament which we thought was unique to Millenium but which we are discovering seems to be heritable! Below are some pictures of Millenium offspring – the rising three year olds are just starting to be backed and we can’t wait for the first of them to be old enough to compete under saddle………