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Royal Household Cavalry drum horse from Dyfed Shire Horse Farm, Eglwyswrw dies

Royal Household Cavalry drum horse from Dyfed Shire Horse Farm, Eglwyswrw dies

Royal Household Cavalry drum horse from Dyfed Shire Horse Farm, Eglwyswrw dies
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Dyfed Shire Horse Farm s sends first mare ever to Queen s Household Cavalry

A MARE from the Dyfed Shire Horse Farm is on her way to making equine history as the first ever female horse to become a drum horse in the Queen s Household Cavalry. Willa Rose was born on the farm in Eglwyswrw in May 2013, the fourth generation of the Dyfed shire bloodline began by the family patriarch John Rees Lewis, 40 years ago. The family have been on the farm since 1849 and the Shires worked the land up into the 1960s. Willa Rose, standing at over 18.2hh and weighing almost a metric tonne, will follow in the footsteps of her uncle Celt who is better known now as Major Mercury, the senior drum horse in the Household Cavalry who left Eglwyswrw in 2008.

Shire horse joins Household Cavalry as drum horse

Breeders said an “emotional goodbye” to a Shire mare this week as she headed to the Household Cavalry to become the regiment’s first female drum horse. Dyfed Shire Horses’s homebred Willa Rose was collected by the Household Cavalry on 11 May to begin her two-year training. The eight-year-old 18.3hh mare will be reunited with her former “farm friend” Ed, who joined the regiment in January 2020. The farm also sold Dyfed Grey Celt to the Household Cavalry in 2008. Dyfed Shire Horses owner Huw Murphy told H&H it was a “source of pride and a privilege” to have bred a horse deemed “good enough” for the role of drum horse with the cavalry. The mare’s sire Dyfed JR also has a military career, having been sold to the Royal Cavalry in Oman in 2017.

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