Faside Estate Blog

January 14, 2012

For the first time ever we have taken part in a competition with Visit Scotland where you can win a two day break in The Tower, plus 300 pounds spending money and a meal for two at a local restaurant!

If you want to take part, you can enter via the Visit Scotland Promotion and we wish you good luck!

December 21, 2011

The castle is looking remarkably Christmasy at the moment and we are about to make mulled cider from our homemade cider from our orchard here, in the grounds. The perfect Christmas treat. We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

December 3, 2011

We are very happy to be on the front cover of this years accommodation publication for Embrace Scotland which was a very pleasant surprise for us and it is a very nice photo of the castle in the sunshine.

We have also recently anticipated in an instruction guide for self catering accommodation providers in Scotland and our website is used as an example of a real world project and hopefully gives an interesting insight into the set up of our self catering holiday accommodation business.

November 27, 2011

We have just added a page for our new mare Diarderry who is a 16.3hh three year old by Emma Hindles Grand Prix dressage stallion Diamond Hit out of a Londonerry x Weltmeyer mare. Diaderry is in foal to Scolari who is by Sandro Hit x De Niro for 2012.

We have also bought a new Black Wensleydale ram who is quite special as he came from two white parents and thus is a new bloodline for our rare Black Wensleydales flock. His name is Forest Lea Jack and you can read about our flock at www.faside-estate.com/fasideflock.

October 1, 2011

We have just had a visit from a group of Veterinary Students who have come across from Holland to get a better idea of the Scottish horse industry. We were able to show them many of the foals at the castle and tell them about the our experiences we have had in starting the horse breeding programme back in 2007 to the present day. We hope the information we gave will be beneficial and it was enjoyable have so many people interested in the horses to talk to. We have uploaded some photos from the event to Facebook.

This was the first visit of this kind that we have hosted and we found it a very positive experience and we believe it important to increase awareness of the breeding of sports horse in Scotland. We strongly believe the horse breeding industry requires better support in Scotland than it presently receives.

September 14, 2011

We have just revamped our website and we have now separated the horses and the accommodation into two websites due to the volume of information. We now have the original website www.faside-estate.com which we will use for the self catering holiday accommodation and our new website which is dedicated solely to the sports horses, www.fasidestud.com. We hope everything is working on both websites and if anyone has any feedback, please feel free to get in touch.

We have nearly completed fencing at some new land purchased near the Estate and this will allow for us to keep increasing the amount of livestock that we keep. We will also soon be creating a website to the rare bread sheep that we keep at Faside. The motivation for this is that we have recently learned that their are more pandas in the world than there are black Whensleydale sheep and this is something we are keen to bring peoples attention to.

August 6, 2011

We have 3 mares in foal for 2012. In April Reggae is due another Breitling W foal who will be a full sibling to this years chestnut colt Greitling. Champagne Supernova is back in foal to Hotline due in May. Our young homebred mare Dawn Til Dusk is expecting a June foal by Johnson who stands at Team Nijhof in Holland.

Once her foal is weaned our broodmare Russian Roulette will be for sale. She is by the BWBS Champion stallion Rosenburg (Rohdiamant x Ramiro).

July 1, 2011

We now have over 50 videos of the mares and foals online at out Youtube Channel. It is now possible to Subscribe to new videos via our Channel or again on Facebook! We have now successfully completed the purchase of some further land for the mares and foals and hopefully this will mean many more mares and foals in the years ahead!

June 17, 2011

We have now had the last foal of the year which was born last week. All the foals have fortunately been born fit and healthy and many of the foals will be available after weaning. Due to the number of photographs and videos which exist of the horses we have created a new Facebook page dedicated just to them!

This will hopefully allow anyone specifically interested in the horses to get video and photo updates and those who are interested in the Castle and Estate can follow our regular updates!

June 3, 2011

We had a visit the other day from a member of The Council in East Lothian and we were discussing the possibility of creating a sculpture trail at The Old Course in Musselburgh. East Lothian has just hosted an international golf competition but one thing many people do not know is the Old Course in Musselburgh was recognized by Guinness World Records as being older than St Andrews and hosted The Open Championship 32 years before St Andrews did.

Musselburgh Old Course was also the first Golf course in the world to host an all female golf competition and the 200th anniversary of that event is this year and employed the first person in history to maintain and manage a course. Musselburgh was also the home of the Honorable Society for Edinburgh Golfers which later became Muirfield which is hosting The Open Championship in 2013.

We have put in motion a proposal for a commemorative sculpture trail in Musselburgh and our proposal is available in PDF. To download a copy, please Click Here.