Author: Lindsey Rowe

Yeoman Haylage are delighted to be selling their pure ryegrass haylage to Falcon Equine Feeds from West Chiltingdon, Pulborough in West Sussex who supply the All England Show-Jumping Course at Hickstead with their horse feed. New for 2020, Yeoman Haylage can be bought by competitors and visitors to Hickstead. This is something Yeoman Haylage are […]

Straight out onto the race-track once the lockdown restrictions were lifted was six year old mare Catheadans Fury, winning at Bath over 5 furlongs on 13th August this year under jockey David Probert and trained by Martin & Sarah Bosley from their racing yard at Chalfont St Giles on the edge of the Chiltern Hills […]

It’s clear to see what Olympic eventer Kitty King from Chippenham in Wiltshire has been doing during the lockdown. Her success since the re-start of eventing is testament to her expertise, dedication and hard work. Hours of schooling her horses at home have paid off and her eventing season is off to a flying start. […]

The June 2020 issue of Devon Life magazine features the Yeoman Haylage family team and their staff, highlighting their recent success in the Countryside Alliance’s Rural Oscar Awards. Have a read to find to find out why the Countryside Alliance judges might decide to crown John, Liz, Nick and the team the champions later on […]

John, Liz, Nick and the Yeoman team love to hear about local riders heading to the top of their sport and here is one young event rider who is doing just that. If you read our news stories on the www.yeomanhaylage.uk website in the ‘News’ section and scroll back to November 2019, you will see […]

Owners, sponsors, supporters and family members were invited to a fabulous lunch at the Hullavington Arms, Hullavington in Wiltshire yesterday by kind invitation of Olympic eventer Kitty King from Chippenham as a thank-you . Pre lunch drinks were served as guests arrived. John invited me to go along as Liz was unable to so I […]

The Countryside Alliance have announced that Devon based firm Yeoman Haylage, a family run business who produce top quality ryegrass haylage near Tiverton, have been shortlisted to win a Rural Oscar in the Rural Enterprise category in their 2020 annual awards. If Yeoman Haylage go on to win the South West title, they will be […]

The annual Countryside Alliance Awards are now open to public nomination and Yeoman Haylage based near Tiverton were delighted to receive an unexpected letter recently to say they had been nominated for a ‘Rural Oscar’.  The Awards, now in their 15th year, have seen thousands of outstanding small hard-working businesses recognised, and are the Countryside […]

We are thrilled that another wonderful customer came 2nd at Bicton International last weekend. @abbie_burbidgeeventing put in a tremendous performance in the BE100 on Castle Fantastic. Congratulations Abbie from all of us at Yeoman Haylage. Abbie said: “Ginge has been fed on Yeoman Haylage all season and the difference in his nutrition is  staggering – […]

Local Eventer Tim Cheffings Competed on Three Horses at Blenheim Palace Horse Trials Eventing has to rank as one of the most adrenaline fuelled, exciting and dangerous of equine sports in the world and local Rider Tim Cheffings has well and truly had a full taste by competing in the 4* SsangYong Blenheim Horse Trials […]

Fred Scala from the Irish eventing team, preparing for hopeful Olympic selection following the teams’ victorious runner up placing in the 2019 Eventing Nations Cup in Camphire, Ireland this August riding his 10 year old 4* gelding Corriebeg Vivendi, took the runner up prize in the BE100 section at Pontispool on Sunday 22nd September on […]

Holding her own amongst a strong field, 21 year old Clementine Montgomerie from Tetbury in Gloucestershire riding her brilliant 16.3 hh bay gelding Sherbert Slim, took first place in the BE100 at Pontispool Horse Trials on Sunday 22nd September, sponsored by Yeoman Haylage. Winning on her dressage score of 27.5 with clear rounds in the […]

Riding on the wave of her two victories in both CCI4* events at Bramham in June and Burgham in July on the brilliant 10 year old Vendredi Biats owned by Diana Bown, Sally Eyre, Samantha Wilson and Sally Lloyd-Baker, former Olympic rider and top eventer Kitty King has returned victorious from the Longines European Championships […]

Have a look and see what Horse & Hound Magazine have to say about Kitty King!  You’ll find the full articles in their editions on 13th June and 1st August.  She’s King of her sport and riding high in the world of eventing winning both the CCI4* at Bramham International Horse Trials in early June […]

More exciting news from the yard of Martin Bosley Racing at Chalfont St Giles…..                 Exceeding Power, bought for £18,000 in 2014 by racehorse trainers Martin & Sarah Bosley of Martin Bosley Racing from Bowstridge Farm, Chalfont St Giles is proving to be worth his weight in gold […]

An article written by local ROR rider Donna Bamonte from Cullompton:               Autumn colours now are apparent wherever I look. Fluffy coats, muddy boots and heavy rugs are now everywhere to be seen.  My retrained racehorses are nowhere to be seen, in return I am welcomed with hairy bears […]

Another win for Catheadans Fury – winner last Saturday at Chelmsford City Racecourse over 6 furlongs. Her second win in only 8 starts. Bred by trainers Martin and Sarah Bosley of Martin Bosley Racing at their racing yard at Bowstridge Farm, Chalfont St Giles and fuelled by Yeoman Haylage no less! Congratulations to Martin, Sarah […]

Fourteen year old Kelsie Beilby from West Somerset is taking the pony point to point racing circuit by storm. With five seasons under her belt, 2018 is her most successful with nine wins on her 12 year old mare Veno Star at Great Trethew, Larkhill, Hereford, Cothelstone, Flete Park, Edgecott, Chaddesley Corbett, Bratton Down and […]

Twenty year old Georgina Curtis-Gartland from Exeter and her magnificent 16.3 -17hh 5 year old gelding Aldens Farm Lucky Gamble, otherwise known very fondly at home as Sqeaky, took part in the BE80 class at the recent British Eventing Horse Trials at Pontispool in Somerset over the Bank Holiday weekend, 26th to 28th May. Georgina […]

Busy time as John and the team prepare for the new 2018 haylage season at Thongsleigh Farm. New barn extension is needed so it’s all hands on deck right now.  The first field of the ryegrass the horses love started yesterday so it won’t be long until the barns are full.  We’ll keep you posted.

Great minds in the world of equestrian sport gathered at Ludlow Races on Tuesday 8th May at the evening meeting for a superb night of racing and hospitality at the kind invitation of John Bosley or Yeoman Haylage. Everyone agreed it had been a  super night of British Horseracing Click on the above link for […]

More Yeoman Haylage fed horses doing great things! Just got this fantastic update from John’s brother and sister in law – Martin and Sarah Bosley from their racing yard – Martin Bosley Racing at Chalfont Saint Giles (on their most recent racing successes): From Sarah: “What a day Team….. Today 2:35pm Norris (Norse Castle) wins […]

Congratulations go to Donna Bamonte from Cullompton riding her beautiful ex racehorse Noble Jack to victory where they won their Racehorse to Riding class at Torbay and District Riding club earlier this month as a warm up to their Racehorse to Riding Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) qualifier this coming weekend in Lancashire, accompanied […]

Winners of the ‘Likit’ Open Eventing League 2017 from several Pony Clubs in the UK attended a Prize Presentation and Yard Tour at the home of Olympic eventer Kitty King near Chippenham in Wiltshire on Saturday 3rd February. The 10 strong group of up and coming top eventers watched a riding demonstration by Kitty as […]

The British Eventing Horse Trials held twice a year in May and September at Pontispool near Taunton has become an important event on the Yeoman Haylage calendar.  It’s an event that John Bosley likes to sponsor and it’s easy to see why as John and his team get to meet and chat to some of […]

John, Tom, Rick and the large team at Yeoman Haylage have been busy at Thongsleigh Farm and the yard is filling with pure ryegrass haylage that is going to customers all over the South West right up to Shropshire, Wales, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, the Home Counties and Southern England. Let’s not forget it’s also going overseas […]

Up and coming event rider Thomas Inglis from Westhill near Exeter at only 16 years old riding his mare Cudora P, was victorious winning the under 18’s Yeoman Haylage sponsored BE100 class at the British Eventing Horse Trials at Pontispool, Norton Fitzwarren in Somerset on Sunday 28th May 2107. A regular to Pontispool, this was […]

Owners, Sponsors and Staff including special guest Richard Waygood, the recently appointed Performance Manager to the Senior British Eventing Team, got the red carpet treatment at a superb lunch hosted by Great Britain’s National, International and Olympic Eventer Kitty King on Saturday 4th February and John Bosley from Yeoman Haylage was delighted to be among […]

John and Lindsey had a super day out to John’s brother and sister in law, Martin and Sarah Bosley at Martin Bosley Racing to attend their annual Owners Hog Roast and Open Day at their racing yard at Bowstridge Farm, Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire this August. They met lots of people from the world […]

Yeoman Haylage are happy to be supporting top local show-jumper Sammy-Jo Coffin from St Austell in Cornwall as she’s taken eleven of her top show-jumpers to participate in the Vilamoura Atlantic Tour in Southern Portugal. Held at one of Europe’s finest show-jumping facilities, the Vilamoura Equestrian Centre – close to the beautiful beaches and holiday […]

As sponsors of Team GB’s top scoring and Team Silver Medalist, Kitty King, Yeoman Haylage is delighted to support another elite rider and rising star in the world of eventing. The very talented and 22 years young Millie Dumas, a 4* event rider and a member of the World Class Programme has already notched up […]

Thirty five years of running a top class nursery have made John Marlow a perceptive judge of quality and of what his customers want. Hence he has chosen Yeoman Haylage as his premier offering in the Equine Feeds department. Orchard Nurseries is proud to be a stockist of Devon’s best Haylage offering pure rye grass […]

Another Yeoman Haylage fed horse, ex racehorse Curlew, owned by Clair Parnham from Kentisbeare and ridden by Donna Bamonte, won the Retraining of Racehorses class recently at the Liskeard show in Cornwall on 11th July qualifying him for the final to be held at the world famous Hickstead Derby meeting in 2016. This September, nine year […]

Winning the world famous Hickstead Derby must surely be the ultimate dream for any top class showjumper – but for only the elite few, is it ever likely to happen? It’s an achievement that few will have the joy of experiencing, but for showjumping hero, Loughnatousa WB, standing at an imposing 17.1hh, not only has he just won the […]

With the Olympics in her sights, one of Great Britain’s top event riders, Kitty King, is undoubtedly impressing the selectors with her recent feature class win at the Tattersalls International Horse Trials in Ireland at the end of May 2015 on the exceptionally talented 8 year old bay gelding Ceylor LAN where she took the […]

Ten year old Blinding Lights (also known affectionately in the stable yard as ‘Ben’), owned and trained by Barry and Mary Sanderson from Calverleigh near Tiverton has had a great season winning two Point-to-Points and a Hunter Chase. He’s also had several placings. Fed on Yeoman Haylage, Ben went on to win the prestigious Tiverton […]

White Lodge Veterinary Clinic have just opened their brand new centre at Ellicombe Farm, Minehead and Yeoman Haylage are proud to be delivering haylage to them. From a converted house on Whitegate Road to three practices, nine vets and a large support team, White Lodge has made quite a transformation over the last 21 years. […]