Kilkelly Double Take, ID [aka Finn]
2008, Black Colt by K.E.C. Double Diamond RID, out of Penmerryl's Vespa RID. Bred by Linda Cowasjee, Kilkelly Farm

Finn attended the IDHSNA Annual Show at the end of 2009 and placed very well in his classes. We were delighted with his 2nd Place in IDHSNA Purebred Yearling colts, 5th place in the IDHSNA Dressage Prospect, 1st place in FEH Yearling Colts and Reserve Chamionship in the FEH Yearling Championship. Kilkelly Farm actually won Champion AND Reserve Champion FEH Yearling... well done Linda!

  
 
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Photos above at 17 months old, courtesy Red Horse Media
 

Double Take's Dam, Penmerryl's Vespa, with very limited showing was Champion Purebred Mare at the IDHSNA Annual Show. She scored very high marks at the Irish Draught mare inspections with "Excellent" points in most of the categories!

Double Take's Sire, KEC Double Diamond is an approved RID stallion, awarded this status in Ireland by successfully completing a thorough testing regimine, including performance testing in open shows in 2000. Since in the US he has successfully competed in Open Modified jumpers, Dressage to 4th level (currently competing), and even turned his hand at Eventing with a 5th place of 27 horses first time out in 2009. Oisin's father, Glidawn Diamond, is the son of King of Diamonds out of the premier mare, Kildalton Countess, making his lines some of the most sought after in the world for producing jumpers and all-around athletic sporthorses for any discipline.

King of Diamonds is ranked 21st in the World Breeding Rankings for the period 1992 - 2001 on the basis of 19 of his progeny, King of Diamonds was by Errigal a son of Silvermines, which was the Irish Draught side of his parentage. His dam Ruby was by True Boy, a halfbred sire who traces to Kildare, a well known Irish Draught stallion at the beginning of the century. The grand dam was the Thoroughbred mare Biddens. King of Diamonds was a jumper in his own right. When King of Diamonds died in 1991 at the age of 29 he had eleven stallion sons on the Irish Horse Register and two grandsons. Four years later his descendant stallions numbered over forty.

 
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junior from the front
Double Take
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Photos above at 4 months old, courtesy Jutta Heinsohn
 
Finn (or Junior if you're speaking with Jutta), looks to be growing up as a chip off the old block - in black. Athletic, spunky and fairly sure of himself, this colt should be interesting to watch when he resumes his career (he won the Foal Class at Upperville in 2008). Growing rather rapidly at the moment (as a yearling he sticks at over 15 hands), and obviously expending most of his calories in "upward" growth right now, he is closet-bound for a few months, at which point we hope to show you more photos <LOL>.
 
Kilkelly Double Take, ID [aka Finn] goes to PRE-SCHOOL
06/08/09
 

Finn visited Diamond T3 Ranch this weekend for a Pre-School intervention. An introduction to Gary Sr., and Gary Jr., and understanding where he would be going to Elementary School next year!
 
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Photos above at 15 months old, courtesy Laurie Monroe