NEVER letting the grass grow under their feet, trade is still very much continuing at Richard and Georgina Sheane’s Cooley Sport Horses.

Continuing to invest in more top facilities at the picturesque Wicklow location, the Cooley team are making the most of the downtime, keeping busy with improvements while professionally producing young horses at their Glenealy farm.

Trade continues regardless of coronavirus and with the Sheanes selling approximately 100 horses a year, they need a ready supply.

“Our message to the industry is if you have a quality horse to sell, at a realistic price, we’re in the market to buy. Pick up the phone to us. We want to hear from you. Send us a video of your horse and we are also working on our own new Cooley Farm video which we are excited about,” said Richard Sheane.

“Like everyone else, we are using this time to do jobs and projects we should have done years ago. Our industry needs everyone to keep doing what they always did – breeding horses, producing them, riding them. Don’t just throw your competition horses out into the fields.

“When things open up again, those horses have to be ready to go. They have to be seen and sold. It’s business as usual for us, not quite the same, we are going to have to take a bit less for the ones we sell.

“Our clients need good horses, the whole industry needs good horses to be out there.

“As an industry, we all have to basically keep doing what we did before. If there is less good horses bred this year, there will be less quality horses around in future years and those horses are not easy to find as it is.

“People have nothing to lose by picking up the phone and talking to me. We are trading and we need quality stock,” said Sheane.

New video

Work is also currently being finalised on a new Cooley Farm video which will bring Cooley Farm to a whole new audience. “With the new video, we’ll be able to bring Cooley Farm to you. We’re having fun doing it – between showing the horses we have for sale being exercised and ridden in the facilities we have here – including some aerial footage via drone. We are all involved in producing it between ourselves, staff and friends,” said Richard Sheane.