New ownership for Woodlander Farouche [H&H VIP]

Woodlander Farouche’s breeder Lynne Crowden has given up her share in the megastar dressage mare.

The double world young horse champion, who has made a winning debut at prix st georges at the age of eight under Michael Eilberg, was jointly owned by Alison Walton, Lynne and the Eilbergs. Lynne has now stepped out of the ownership, saying she wanted to cut down on “training costs”.

“I am her breeder and can enjoy her without owning her,” Lynne told H&H. “A little shuffling around happened so that I could own her son Wild Child and Faraouche’s unborn Sezuan embryo transfer foal, which sadly turned out not to be there.”

Farouche has already bred two embryo transfer foals successfully, Wild Child and Walk On The Wild Side, and Woodlander Stud remains Lynne’s primary focus.

Martha Terry

H&H features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.