Renkum Stud Farm

Renkum Stud was founded in 1978 with the arrival in the UK of Henk Minderman and his stallion Renkum Hill. Ever since, the number and the quality of ‘Renkum’ horses increased, providing several successful studs in the UK and Ireland with breeding stock and riders with some very nice competition horses.
Renkum Arturo set the trend during the eighties through his approved sons Farrington Spondulicks, Merlin and the Elite Champion Renkum Englishman who went on to become the first British bred warmblood stallion to gain full approval with the Irish Horse Board. In fact he sired 2 horses which represented Ireland during the 2001 World Championships for Young Show Jumpers. Englishman now stands at stud in Warwickshire.

The Ringfort Stud in County Down has had unprecedented success in Irish breeding with Renkum Foundation stock after the purchase of R.Woudina, her daughter and grand daughter R. Hollanta and R. Inglewood. Ringfort Cruise, son of R.Woudina and Cruising has been leased to the Irish Army to further his carreer as an International S.J. stallion. His rider Shane Cary thinks a lot of this 7 year old halfbrother to R.Englishman.
More recently Colne Valley- and St.Mawgan Studs are following suit in England.

Renkum Woudina featured in the H&H/BHD awards with third place in the BHD broodmares on their progeny while her son R.Englishman won the H&H award for the fastest rising stallions on the BHD stallion rankings 3 years later.
Renkum Indigo Night, by R.Arturo, won the Best Young Eventing Mare H&H award the year before.

The resident stallion Renkum Valentino is the most popular young stallion in the UK at present, covering more than 60 mares annually. His popularity is justified by the exceptional quality of his offspring. He sired some of the very top foals at the British Foal Championships 2001 and 2002 culmunating in siring the 2002 Foal Champion!!
His first offspring will be 3 years old this year.
Olympic Dressage rider and trainer Vicky Thompson stated during our Open day last September, that some of his foals are of ‘absolute world class’!
Judging by the interest shown in Valentino by Wiepke van de Lageweg of the VDL Stud in Holland would suggest that Valentino has more on offer than most stallions approved in Holland.
The last few years has seen a demand for fresh and frozen semen, from either Valentino or the Team Nijhof stallions, throughout the UK. (Renkum Stud has close connections with Holland and can obtain semen from virtually any stallion there.)
Chantal Avery of the St.Mawgan Stud near Newquay in Cornwall is our representative and inseminator in the West. Chantal is a BEVA AI Technition and together with her Vet achieved a 100% conception rate so far inseminating 9 mares.
Some with frozen semen.

Angela Love of the Colne Valley Stud has leased several of our best mares for 3 or 4 years next to purchasing another 4 very good mares. Angela also stands the International Jumping Pony stallion Ousbek and young Renkum Calliano (Caletto I).

The aim of Renkum Stud is to produce 4 and 5 year old competition horses of the highest level in International terms. Next year we will have 9 or 10 youngsters in this age group and of that quality but we always must look ahead and try to find the next cross for our young mares.
And that is where Randi fits in so well.