Wow, Wow, Wow - Celeste you are a Star!

Carlingford Park Celestial
Royalwood Rossini (exp NZ) x Kolbeach Chanting

Very proud this special girl carries our prefix.
Lightly shown in her Newcomer Year what a sensational start to her show career Celeste has enjoyed. Hitting the show ring with a force earlier in 2025 she qualified for Grand National in both the Open and Child’s classes at her first attempt. She reappearerd in the second half of the year sashed Best Novice Pony at Adelaide Royal, 2nd in her open to the eventual Champion pony winner and picking up a win in the mare class at her first Royal Show appearance.

At both EA HOTY & SHC HOTY she took home the flowers in both her Open Pony and Child’s Pony events.
Her first season wrapped up this past weekend with the National Champion Medium Child’s Pony title and Runner-up in the Open Medium Pony. What a great start to her showing career!

To Celeste’s owners Catherine & Reece Gale, producers Margot Haynes & David Quayle (Lilly’s stud), Mercedes Mathew’s and of course her child rider Shanae Richards, thank you for everything you have done to produce such a successful year for this beautiful girl.

A special thank you to Liz Francis for sharing the journey with me, minute by minute, whilst everyone else is hands on!

I'd also like to take a moment to thank Penelope Cobbald for allowing the beautiful Chanting to spend a couple of years at Carlingford Park.

Celeste has certainly been a shining star in an otherwise very dark year for our family.