Welcome to Nandeye ASH Stud

The Nandeye Stock Horse Stud commenced shortly after the formation of the
Australian Stock Horse Society in the 1970’s. The Field Family have been breeding Thoroughbred and Thoroughbred cross stock horses for a number of years. Malcolm Field’s grandfather Ab Field was a racing enthusiast and he also bred a number of cavalry remounts. In 1911, he purchased the Thoroughbred horse Ocean Blue who was
second in the Sydney Cup of that year and he used this stallion as a foundation sire in his breeding program.

Malcolm inherited some of the mares from this bloodline from his father Bill Field and these were joined to a local T.B. stallion Bronze Bull whose sire was The Bullseye, a well-known
sire of successful campdrafters. William Field a great-great-grandfather of Malcolm had one
of the first land grants in the Coonabarabran district which he called ‘Nandi’ and this name
with its adapted spelling ‘Nandeye’was the catalyst for Malcolm’s ASH prefix when a number
of the Field mares were classified into the stud book of the Australian Stock Horse Society.

Malcolm joined two of his polocrosse mares with Bullseye bloodlines to Paleroo Peter (Dimray X Why Not) and was fortunate to get two fillies from this mating. One of the first purchases as
a foundation sire for the stud was the young colt, Tufrey’s Cadman by Chan’s Son from the Tufrey family at Rocky Creek  Later a mare with Newtown Wonder bloodlines was purchased and joined to Tufreys Cadman, with the resultant progeny, the colt Nandeye Fernando, being
a successful show stallion. During the early 1980’s, Strathmua Saphire by Elliots Creek Cadet and a granddaughter of Abbey, was purchased from Phillip Kirkby, proving to be a brilliant polocrosse mount for Mark Field and following her retirement was joined to the now legendary Warrenbri Romeo. These matings produced two colts Ocean Demise and Ocean Wave and another colt Ocean River Oak was the result of joining Saphire to Docs Freckles Oak.

Mark Field married in 1990 and he and his wife Joanne started their own Australian Stock
Horse Stud using the prefix ‘Ocean’ in memory of the stallion Ocean Blue who had belonged
to Mark’s great-grandfather. Mark broke in Ocean Wave at 16 months and was so impressed with his athleticism and ability that he retained him as the foundation sire in his newly formed stud together with the Cecil Bruce Mare, Corumbene Jude. Mares within Nandeye Stud and their resultant progeny continued to be joined to outside successful competition horses as
well as the home-grown sires. At the beginning of the 1990’s, while looking for a future show mare, Judy Field purchased a quality grey yearling filly, Yarramine Robyn, (X Yarramine Swagman) from Richard Folpp at the Hunter Branch sale at Scone and this filly was to
become a very well-performed show mare and together with Saphire one of the most significant broodmares in the stud for the Field Family as she was the dam of Regal, Replay and the highly successful Reflect, Lace, and Resistance, the current stud sire. Mares with successful bloodlines continued to be acquired for the stud at various sales, including Tecoma Casuarina, a mare by Docs Freckles Oak with Regal bloodlines on her dam’s side purchased at Dalby in 1999. She was joined by AI to Warrenbri Romeo to produce Ocean Blue and a number of Nandeye mares have also been joined to this young sire.

The Field Family were devastated when Ocean Wave died very suddenly at 6 years of age on 1st June 1999 at the peak of his career, with the only consolation being an amount of frozen semen having been stored. The Field Family, in partnership with Waymere Stud purchased
the Doc Freckles Oak colt, Oaks Ebony at the NCHA sales at Tamworth in 1999 and a
number of mares were joined to this young sire while he stood for a period at Nandeye Stud,
as well as Ocean River Oak. Progeny from the above stallions as well as foundation broodmares continued to be joined to outside stallions such as Resistol, Acres Destiny,
Adios Reflect and Michael Wilson’s well-performed young stallion Soda Justice. Soda Falcon
(X Warrenbri Romeo) was also purchased as a yearling from Lindsay & Jan Knight and campaigned for a period and joined to a number of mares prior to being sold on to the Cook Family at Goodiwindi. 

Years of selective breeding have provided success for the stud with a number of the resulting progeny consistently winning led classes in the showring and being campaigned very successfully under saddle by Michael Wilson and Jan Smith. One of the most successful has been the highly decorated Nandeye Reflect, a winner of 2003 National Maturity and a recipient of Prince of Wales Award. Reflect has produced progeny by Knights Nicholas for Nandeye Stud and by Soda Justice for Willdraft Stud and is currently being joined to the Hall Family’s successful young campdrafting stallion Conman.

Breeding quality performance horses continues to be a main goal for the Field Family over a time span of a hundred years and with the younger generation of the family demonstrating a keen interest in Australian Stock Horses, the breeding of these heritage horses looks a surety to continue into the 21st Century.