Horse & Hound
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In this week’s issue of
H&H (out today, 8 April), we spend some time at the home of breeders Julian Walters and David Hodge, who run the Sharptor, Halstock and Blacketor prefixes from their stud in Okehampton on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.
Breeding Shetlands, Dartmoors and most recently Exmoors, Julian and David are on a mission to breed “proper”, true-to-type natives for the ridden market.
Take a look around their set-up, placed slap bang in the middle of some of the country’s most glorious landscape:
Breeders David Hodge (left) and Julian Walters with Blackthorn Poldark and Sharptor Trinity. David and Julian met in 1998. The pair were both involved in livestock showing and met through mutual friends.