Wintersong provided Marefield with its first acknowledged success from a revised breeding program when, as a yearling, she became Grand Champion, Dressage at Devon.

Her dam, Moira, won the Ilienworth Mare Show in 1990; one year later, Moira was site champion at her AHS/VhW Inspection with an overall score of 8.

A year after her Devon win, Wintersong was sent to Hof Clasen to stand for breeding in Germany. In 1995, Wintersong outdistanced a class of 25 to earn the high score at her mare performance test and two months later she won the 3-year old class at the Verden Mare Show.

Moira has been a problem breeder with ill-fated youngsters and the task of carrying this motherline into future generations has fallen to Wintersong. She has risen to fulfill this role by producing six fillies to date. The decision to send Wintersong to Germany has proven to be a good one; so far she has matched well with all of the stallions to which she has been bred. With the luxury of so many fillies from which to choose, Marefield has even been able to make a couple of the Wintersong offspring available for sale.

EM Destine, owned by Dr. Deborah Davenport, was site champion at her 1999 AHS/VhW Inspection with a score of 7.7, which placed her 3rd in the US that year. EMC Decuma earned a mare performance test score of 8.17 giving her a tie for 1st place in the US on the 2001 AHS/VhW Inspection Tour.

Aquitaine, a typey chestnut, went to her new Florida home with Linda Crabtree and Katie Wooten in the autumn of 2002. At just about that time another Wintersong daughter, Solstice, arrived from Germany to remain with us as the second representative from this motherline destined for the Marefield breeding program. In 2003, Wintersong produced yet another filly; this one also looks like a keeper for the Marefield breeding program. And in 2004, she gave birth to a long-legged, black Dauphin daughter.

Wintersong photo in logo header at top of the page by Terri Miller