Stallion
Colour: Chestnut
Breed: Thoroughbred
Type: Hunter Stallion
Foaled: 1898
Height: 16hh

Sire: Enterprise
Dam: Ivy Mantle

BATTLEMENT GSB (Vol. 19 p.294) a chestnut colt. Foaled in 1898 and bred by Lord Falmouth. In 1903 at The Hunters’ Improvement Society’s show, exhibited by Albert Octavius Haslewood, Fairfield Stud, Buxton, Derbyshire. Battlement was awarded a King’s Premium of £150 by the Royal Commission on Horse Breeding. He travelled in Fifeshire. In 1906 exhibited by Major-General J. Jago-Trelawny, Coldrenick Stud Farm, Menheniot, Cornwall, Battlement won a King’s Premium of £150. He stood at Coldrenick, Liskeard, and travelled the District, (he won Third Reserve in 1908 and was noted for, ‘prize winning produce’.) In 1909 Battlement was again awarded a King’s Premium of £150, standing again at Coldrenick, Liskeard, and travelling the District. Later he stood at Compton Stud, Sandley, Gillingham, Dorset at a fee of 10 guineas. This was a Hunter Stud and although Battlement is not registered as a stallion in the Hunter Stud Book he does appear in the undermentioned approved list from 1908 to 1926.
“Premium and Registered Stallions recognised under the Horse-breeding schemes of the Royal Commission on Horse-breeding, the Ministry of Agiculture and Fisheries, the War Office, the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, the Royal Agriculture Society of England, and the Hunters’ Improvement and National Light Horse Breeding Society, . . . ”
He also appears in the The Polo and Riding Pony Society’s, “List of Winning Sires, for 1911” as sire of Wonderland, a pony belonging to Joseph Oscar Muntz

Battlement was sire of Bellistile and the grandsire of Star Ruby II.

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