Welcome to Silverfort.com!
Silverfort is situated in the heart of South Tipperary - a region of Ireland well known for for the production and training of Racehorses.
Some Agricultural Details....
The farm consists of beef, grain and forestry. All the grassland is organic. The clover in the sward supplies the nitrogen required. The fields are grazed, topped and stopped in rotation. No artificial fertiliser has been used for the last 12 years. This system supplies copious amounts of top quality grass during the summer months. During the winter the cattle are moved to the top farm and are outwintered on a range of about 100 acres of free draining land. When grass becomes short, from Christmas on, they are fed hay in rings. We find that outwintering produces a particularly healthy animal.
Breeding and Training of Racehorses....
All the horses are aimed at the racetrack and some are subsequently sold on to clients in the UK. The most sucessful of these exports were Slipalong (multiple winner Including Mares Steeplechase final at Liverpool) and Simple Arithmetic (multiple winner and 3rd in Supreme Novices Hurdle at Cheltenham). Stars on the home front included Dangerous Reef (gave us a happy day when winning at Down Royal making the 400 mile journey well worthwhile)and Toronto Telegram (My favourite mare-12 times in the frame).
Above is a photo of a morning canter. The sand gallop, which we installed in May 2000 is proving useful. It gets us through the summer when the fields are rock hard but it really comes into it's own during the wet winter months.
Thanks for visiting! I have popped a few fun photos of us on the next page...to get there use the "second hurdle" link at the very bottom of this page. Also the Puppy Page is still available by following that link below.
I'll develop this site further and change the photos now and again...so...drop back some time. Also, thanks for the feedback.
