Sir Mayfly is a very eye-catching horse, he is very smart, elegant and straight moving, with tremendous presence, balance and upstanding conformation. He has a beautiful head and neck. He has loose rhythmical, light -footed paces. He is nimble and quick thinking but calm and confident.
He has a proven pedigree for eventing, show jumping and showing given his thoroughbred qualities combined with exceptional jumping ability and movement.
He was awarded gold premium in the 2020 British Breeding Futurity and chosen for the live webinar due to great temperament, presence and type as a future top class eventing stallion. “very typey, really interesting young horse, great head and topline, with no tension and a lovely loose, rhythmical movement”.
He has the stamp, technique, bascule and neat jump from his sire line of premium show jumpers such as Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum’s brilliant show jumper Shutterfly full brother to his sire.
He has an exceptional pedigree;
His sire, Sir Shutterfly is a stallion with obvious thoroughbred quality, great power and speed, a good technique and ideal bascule. His light-footedness and scopey jump point towards an international jumping career but he has proven himself to be a successful sire of event horses as well as show jumpers. He is also the sire of several successful licensed stallion sons eg Horido S, Salut Bonheur and Chacfly.
His Grandsire Silvio I, is regarded as one of the most prominent Sandro offspring in the breeding world and on his dam’s side, the thoroughbred connection comes from the Forrest xx
His dam(by Mark Todd’s NZ TB Mayhill) has competitive racing blood lines. Mayhill competed at Advanced & 4 star Eventing, reserve for the World Championships in 1990 and placed at the British Open. He sired many event horses, the most famous being Primmores Pride(Pippa Funnell) winner of the Rolex Grand Slam 2003, of $250,000 - the biggest prize ever seen in eventing winning Kentucky, Burghley and Badminton. His sire AUK produced many top National Hunt horses, eventers and SJ’s.
He has a lovely temperament, is very quick to learn and really enjoys work. He has recently been broken in, loves to learn new things and never has to learn anything twice. His temperament is such that he revels in new situations; he has great confidence and loves a new adventure. He has an old head on young shoulders and loves the challenge of pressure. He is really enjoying the start of his ridden education.
He is agile, scopey and athletic, being compact with a great turn of speed and the ability to cover the ground.
He has started his breeding career in 2020, natural covering, showing great temperament in handling and has total respect for the mares and handlers. He produced impressive amounts of good quality semen when collecting artificially.
