Visit Our Highland Pony Stud

Come and meet the ponies on Kinclune Estate. Historically, Highlands, or ‘garrons’, were bred as working ponies on Scottish crofts, farms and estates and our family has been breeding ponies for more than three generations. Visit the ponies on the hill, where they live outdoors all year-round, or, with advance notice, we can arrange a stud visit for your group, focusing specifically on history, breeding or showing. Contact us to arrange a visit to our Highland Pony Stud.

Ponies for Sale at Kinclune
We usually offer ponies for sale between July and October. We breed, show and produce the highest quality ponies and all our foals are registered with the Highland Pony Society.

Nature Conservation
The ponies are an important part of Kinclune’s nature conservation projects. As selective grazers they are a keystone species, playing an important role in habitat maintenance and management, creating structural diversity in grasslands and wetlands and providing habitats for diverse species, including our wading birds.

Fandango na Dailach

Homebred Fandango is one of Scotland’s top Highland Pony stallions. He was Overall Champion at the Royal Highland Agricultural Show in 2022 (Scotland’s premier agricultural show). As a youngster, he was Royal Northern Agricultural Show M & M Champion and NPS Summer Championship (Malvern) Youngstock Champion 2019.

We do not accept visiting mares, but we do sell foals and youngstock with his bloodlines.

Rosebush II na Dailach

A direct descendant of Rosebush of Knocknagael, her dam, Rosedew, was a Royal Highland Show Female Champion. Rosebush’ wins and championships (both in-hand and under saddle) include: the Royal Highland Show (ridden), NPS Summer Championships and Blair Castle Horse Trials. She competed at Horse of the Year Show in 2017, winning highest placed mare and was the highest placed home-produced pony.

Marguerite and Rowan Osborne started the ‘Na Dailach Highland Pony Stud’ in 1980, following in the footsteps of Marguerite’s father, James Mcintosh, who provided working ponies to Highland estates where substance and good movement were essential.

One of these ponies, while working on Glenmazeran Estate, carried home the Royal stag shot by Her Late Majesty The Queen, then HRH Princess Elizabeth. We named one of our stallions, Glenmazeran na Dailach, in honour of this event.

In 2020 we registered the prefix ‘Kinclune’ and all our progeny are now registered with the Highland Pony Society under ‘Kinclune’, while we are continuing our ‘na Dailach’ bloodlines.

Marguerite is a Past President of the Highland Pony Society and an experienced National Pony Society (NPS), Highland Pony Society (HPS) and Clydesdale Horse Society Judge. She has had the privilege of judging the Highland Pony Society Breed Show, the Royal Highland Show, the Great Yorkshire Show, the Royal Cornwall Show and Ballymena Show in Northern Ireland.

Marguerite’s homebred ponies have stood champion in-hand and under saddle at the Royal Highland Agricultural Show, the Royal Northern Agricultural Show, NPS Championships in Scotland and England, and Blair Castle Horse Trials, as well as qualifying for the prestigious Horse of the Year Show.