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Connolly's RED MILLS Newsletter Summer 08
Connolly's RED MILLS Newsletter Summer 08
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Summer 2008
NEWSLETTER
Equine Section
Laminitis:
Don’t let your horse suffer
Its that time of year again and it will do us it will also contain sugars; just 1 hour in
good to remember that laminitis is not just cold water will remove 30% of the sugars.
a fat pony problem! Laminitis can affect any
Avoid feeding grain based diets, e.g.
age, breed or gender of horse. Laminitis is
traditional cubes and mixes, as these are
the result of an imbalance in the body and
also high in sugars, but don’t forget to keep
can be caused by many factors including
up their intake of vitamins and minerals
the diet. Here’s a few tips on how to manage
up as they are needed to keep the horse
or prevent laminitis:
NEWSLETTER
Equine Section
2 Winners’ Circle
1. ‘Peptalk’ was the highest priced yearling filly at
the Minnesota Thoroughbred Sale.
2. Rider Rosemarie Ahern on Aquila at the 2007
RDS horse show. They won Reserve Champion
Hunter Mare of the Show and also Reserve
Champion Ladies Hunter of the show. On the
Sunday she coped with a big and spooky
1 Working Hunter course to come third.
3. Rosemary Connors with Valarie. Together
they won the Future Event Horse League
(FEHL) Qualifier at Forth Mountain summer
2007. They also won 2006 RDS Filly
Champion, 2006 RDS 3 year old Champion,
4 2006 RDS Supreme Young horse Champion,
2006 Pembroke Cup Champion (exhibitor-
bred horse) and 2007 RDS Champion Mare
as a 4 year old.
4. Liz Bloomer won the final of the Connolly’s
RED MILLS Master Series (AIRC) in Mullingar
Equestrian Centre 2007. Gareth Connolly and
Padge Gill presenting the prizes.
RDS Horse Show – 6th – 10th August - we hope to see you all at our stand this
year and wish all competitors the best of luck over the 5 days.
Pony Club Championships – after being rained off last year we look forward to a Massimo and Jockey Michael Miller, Winners of
successful Event on the 12th and 13th of August at.......TBC. the Connolly’s RED MILLS Point-to-point Hunters
Chase ‘08
Connolly’s RED MILLS National Speed Championship 2008 (SJAI)
We are pleased to announce our sponsorship of the National Speed Championships
as part of the SJAI national championships in Barnadown. The competition will take
place over the 5th, 6th and 7th September and promises to be an exciting event.
Connolly’s RED MILLS Master Series (AIRC) - We would once again like to
congratulate Liz Bloomer on her win at the 2007 Master Series. The exciting final
was held in Mullingar Equestrian Centre where it came down to the last round to
finally separate the leaders. We expect an even bigger turnout this year due to
the success and enjoyment of last years series.
The final of the Connolly’s RED MILLS Masters Series will take place
in Mullingar Equestrian Centre on the 13th and 14th of September 2008.
NEWSLETTER
Pet Section
NEWSLETTER
Agri/Greyhound
Charolais Champions
This month we are featuring a Charolais breeder from Macroom
Co Cork. Conchur O Luasa contacted us when his bull took
first prize in Bantry Show last year. He feeds all his cattle, both
pedigree and commercial, on Connolly’s RED MILLS feed and
Ewe are the winner!
insists that is the best feed around. He changed to RED MILLS From left two right John Doyle, John Kelly, Bellmullett with the
feed a couple of years ago and says “I have not looked back since, Champion Ewe at the Premier Sale, and Gorden Grey judge,
I have prize winning cattle and I would have to contribute part of Scotland.
my success to the excellent feed Connolly’s RED MILLS provide.”
Connolly’s RED MILLS wish Conchur the best of luck in the future.
Pictured above Conchur with Scrahan Samantha, Overall Female
Champion in local show 5
Summer 2008
NEWSLETTER
International
Red RED MILLS/KRAFFT
TopMills - Now
Training
available in China
Tips
RED MILLS is pleased to announce our
first order for the People’s Republic of
China. We will be the very first horse feed
registered for sale on main land China.
Right: Ms. Ada Rond and Dr. Bing at the
National Equestrian Centre in Shanghai
‘The First Human Level Dog Foods’ “Overnight successes such as the Krafft deal
are always the result of years of hard work,”
Safe food in today’s world is becoming more and more of an issue and RED says Michael Connolly, “but I would pay tribute
MILLS are the company to successfully achieve a unique standard of pet food to our partners in Krafft for having the vision to
which meets the same standard of production as that for humans, and indeed is see how co-branding could really work, and
made from meat derived from it is, as we are jointly supplying the Swedish
animals suitable for human Olympic Equestrian Team.
consumption.
This business is the result of 4
years hard work and partnership
with the company S.C. Johnson
based in Yokohama.
Freshness is the new
See our website for more details:
www.redmills.info
quality standard
With our unequalled
‘milk round’ delivery
system in Ireland – our
Irish customers have
always had the benefit
of fresh products.
Left: Morikane-san and Padge doing us proud However the process
in the St. Patrick’s day parade in Tokyo of transporting goods
around the planet has
always posed challenges
to our products’
National Horse Feed freshness especially
in hot and humid
Distribution In Japan climates. As a result of over 12 years of research and
development RED MILLS is delighted to reveal our new
RED MILLS presence in the Japanese Nutritious Freshness System NFS which combines
market is going from strength to strength vacuum technology, inert gases, and three different
with the opening of our third major horse types of natural nutrient preservation.
feeds distributor near Rhitto in the South “Red Mills horse feeds are now available in 27 countries
West. This means RED MILLS is now all over the world.” “This new patent pending technology
available to horse trainers all over Japan ensures that our products will be as fresh as the day
with wholesale warehousing in Hokkaido, they were made for over one year after they have been
Miho with Japan Horse Feeds. Yuri Morikane (RED MILLS Japanese manufactured”, says Michael Connolly. “The good news
Market Co-Ordinator), Mr. & Mrs. Yokoi is that the process is completely natural and we have
(Yokoi Industries), Padge Gill (RED MILLS) proven it on over 1,000 tonnes of product in very hot
– celebrating the opening of the new
6 and humid climatic conditions. We can now send our
warehouse on Hokkaido.
unique quality products to the ends of the earth.”
Summer 2008
NEWSLETTER
Round-up
Latest Staff members... Centenary
Race Day
The Connolly’s RED MILLS Centenary
Race Day was a huge success and a
great day was had by all. We would like
to thank Gowran Park and congratulate
all the winners on the day. The Red Mills
Centenary Steeplechase was won by
Ballistraw, trained by Denis Hickey and
ridden by Andrew J. McNamara.