Headley Britannia

Headly Britannia

Headley Britannia after winning the 2009 Rolex Kentucky CCI****
Breed	Thoroughbred and Irish Draught blood
Sire	Jumbo (Irish Sport Horse)
Grandsire	Skippy (Irish Draught)
Dam	Alan's Bambi (Thoroughbred)
Maternal grandsire	Alanrod (Thoroughbred)
Sex	15.3 hh Mare
Foaled	1993
Country	Australia
Colour	Liver Chestnut with a star
Breeder	Mike and Betty Hounsell, Headley Stud
Owner	Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks
Trainer	Lucinda Fredericks

Headley Britannia, stable name Brit, was a mare who competed at the highest levels of the equestrian sport of eventing. Relatively small for the sport, her jumping ability, manoeuvrability and willingness propelled her to the top of the sport.

Headley Britannia was by one of the top eventing stallions in Britain, Jumbo, who first competed at the Advanced level with Andrew Nicholson as a seven-year-old. The stallion has been a top producer of eventers, dressage horses (his get have reached Prix St. George), and Grade A show jumpers.

Headley Britannia's greatest accomplishments include a win at the 2006 Burghley Horse Trials, the first mare in 33 years to do so, a win at the 2007 Badminton Horse Trials, the first mare in 53 years, and a win at the 2009 Rolex Kentucky Three Day. She came third at the 2006 Luhmuhlen Three Day Event, a great accomplishment after having taken a fall the previous year on cross-country and then contracting a virus which nearly killed her. She was an alternative to the 2006 World Equestrian Games, but when not called, was switched to the Burghley Horse Trials. She is one of only two horses in history to have won all three of the top four-star events (Badminton, Burghley, and Rolex), and has had a Breyer model made of her.

In 2007 her owners Katinka and Neil Thorburn gave her to her rider, Lucinda Fredericks. After winning Badmintion she went to stud for embryo transfer. Both foals were by stallion Jaguar Mail and carried by surrogate mares.

The first of Brit's two foals was born in April 2008, a chestnut filly with a white star. Fredericks later confirmed that the second foal had been born in May 2008 this one being a dark bay colt. Strangely the foals resemble much like their parents, the filly, Little Britannia, is chestnut with a white star like her dam, and the colt, Britannia's Mail looking remarkably similar to his sire Jaguar Mail, dark bay in colour. Both foals are now part of Team Fredericks Foal syndicate which people can buy shares for Britannia's Mail is also available for stallion services