Brickfields is the home of the Isle of Wight Shire Horse Centre. We have over a dozen shires and we breed two or three each year. There is one of our residents who has quite a claim to fame, Shelley, otherwise known as Madame Butterfly, is owned by Joanna Lumley. When the weather is not to dreadful, the horses come in to the yard in the day time, and then go out in the fields at night. The horses take it in turns to do the difficult jobs around the centre, although none of them work too hard. One of their main tasks is to stand in front of visitors looking smart! The best discription of the shires has got to be “the gentle giants”, they are fantastic horses to work with, as anyone that has spent any time with them will appreciate. Brickfields is very proud of one particular gentle giant, Harry. He was born at the centre in 2003 and has kept growing at an amazing rate, he towers over all the other shires and is still growing. He should reach a record breaking height when he eventually stops growing. Shires sometimes keep growing up until they are seven years old – so watch this space! We hope you will enjoy meeting them if you come to visit us at Brickfields.

This is where the Shire horses are stabled in the day times. There are also all sorts of other horse in the yard, including our thoroughbred stallion, Carisbrooke, who stands at stud. We have a lot of our homebred horses around, which we will sell as youngsters. There is one other attraction that quite often seems to overshadow even our most impressive horses and that is the cats! Especially at certain times of the year when we have lovely selection of kittens wondering around the yard ready to play with anyone that comes along! The Blacksmith forge is down through the main yard; here you will quite often find the farrier shoeing one of our many horses. As well as our homebred horses, we do have other horses and ponies that we will sell on. Some are ones that we have bought in and schooled, a lot of which we will use in our riding school for a period of time. If you are interested please do ask for more information.

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