The years 2000-2005 seen the new stallion, Maverickdene, imported into Australia. Maverickdene spent his quarantine in Melbourne and was put to a number of Victorian mares before heading to Western Australia to the newly formed Currie Park Stud.

^{Photo; Maverickdene, imported and owned by Currie Park Highland Ponies in WA.}

^{Photo sourced through the HPA website archives and also used as the cover photo for this blog post.}

Maverickdene sired 2 colts for the Croftcnoc Stud, Croftcnoc Mac Adie in 2002 and Croftcnoc Montgomery in 2003. Both colts were kept entire and went on to sire foals of their own in different states.

Maverickdene also sired 2 foals for the Harkaway Lodge Stud, both in 2002, a filly, Harkaway Lodge Callista and Harkaway Lodge Murdoch, a colt who was gelded. Only one other foal was born to Maverickdene in Victoria, a filly to the Senlac stud, Senlac Sunshine, who was out of Benacre Aberlady and the second filly from the breed up program to reach Australian Highland purebred status.

With his new Australian owners, over in WA, Maverickdene had sired a total of 8 foals by 2005, 4 fillies, 2 colt that were gelded and 2 part bred foals.

The Currie Park stud was the first true Highland Pony stud in WA and really opened up gates for others over in the west, to become involved with the Highland Pony breed.

Before importing Maverickdene, the stud had purchased the stallion Barrymoor Macdonell along with the mares Harkaway Lodge Heather Belle, Croftcnoc Lilac and Harkaway Lodge Jasmine.

Barrymoor Macdonell produced his first crop of foals, and 2 filly foals at that, in 2002 for the Currie Park Stud and produce just one other purebred by 2005, that just happen to be another filly. In 2004 Barrymoor Macdonell also produce a part bred filly to an APSB mare who went on to become an appendix breed up mare and another part bred filly in 2005.

Meanwhile back in the east of the country the Barrymoor stud produced their last two foals, Barrymoor McGregor in 2000 and Barrymoor Mount Bourke in 2002. Both were out of Barrymoor Dorinda, by Harkaway Lodge McMillan and left entire. Barrymoor McGregor ended up at the Rosemarkie Stud and Barrymoor Mount Bourke, along with the mare Croftcnoc Camellia and a gelding, Croftcnoc Robbie, went to Timbertops trail riding on the southeast coast of NSW.

^{Photo: Barrymoor Mount Bourke,}

^{photo kindly supplied by Julia Grave of Harkaway Lodge Highland Ponies.}

Besides siring the last two Barrymoor ponies, Harkaway Lodge McMillian also sired 10 other purebreds in this time frame, 6 of which were fillies and 4 colts, all of which were gelded. Harkaway Lodge McMillan, in 2001, also sired the filly Senlac Scotch Thistle, who was out of the FS2 mare Benacre Aberlady. Senlac Scotch Thistle was the first filly to reach the level of purebred Australian Highland, through the Australian Highland Pony breed up program. There was one other filly sired by Harkaway Lodge McMillan, during this time, in the breed up program, an FS1 mare, as well as 5 part breds, all but one were geldings and one of those geldings would later be registered as an Australian Highland pony gelding under the new rules in effect today.

^{Photo: The FS2 mare Benacre Aberlady with filly foal Senlac Scotch Thistle and breeder Katy Brown.}

^{Photo kindly supplied by Katy Brown of Senlac Highland Ponies.}

Barrymoor Dorian was still a very active stallion, siring 8 purebreds in this time, 3 being fillies  and 5 colts, with 2 being left as entires; Harkaway Lodge Ben Nevis and Croftcnoc Carlyle. (one of these mare’s just happens to be Senlac Scotch Mist, the mare we currently have on lease from Katy Brown or Senlac Ponies and have put in foal to our stallion Tarabrae Mallee)

Barrymoor Dorian also went on to sire 5 ponies in today’s Australian Highland Pony breed up program, all but one being colts, that were gelded as per the rules, and 9 part breds.

^{Photo: Croftcnoc Carlyle with breeder Anna Thirkell.}

^{Photo sourced through the HPA website archives.}

Barrymoor Mercury was also leaving his mark on the breed, siring 8 purebreds in this time, 4 of which were fillies and 4 colts, with one being left entire, Harkaway Lodge Glengarry. Barrymoor Mercury also sired 2 colts, that were gelded and registered under today’s Australian Highland breed up program.

^{Photo: Harkaway Lodge Glengarry.}

^{Photo Sourced through the HPA website archives.}

Barrymoor Jagirdar sired 12 purebreds in this time. Out of those 12, 7 were fillies and the rest colts, all of which were gelded.

Barrymoor McGregor also sired his first 2 foals, for the Rosemarkie stud, one a filly and the other a colt that was gelded.

^{Photo: Barrymoor McGregor}

^{Photo sourced through the HPA website archives.}

Taranganba Macadam sired 3 purebred foals, 1 filly and 2 colts both of which were gelded. Taranganba Macadam also sired the third filly, Senlac Sonnet, and the fourth filly, Senlac Arrochar, to reach Australian Highland Pony purebred status through the breed up program along with 3 other fillies inside the breed up program at different levels and one gelding.

On top of all these foals born in this time frame, we also saw the stud’s Eaton Park, in Tasmania, and Dungarron, in NSW, starting up.

Eaton Park, purchased the stallion Harkaway Lodge Fergus and purebred mare Benacre Skye and produced their first purebred foal, Eaton Park Tobias in 2003, they also produced 2 part bred fillies by Harkaway Lodge Fergus.

Dungarron produced their first purebred foal, Dungarron Mcleod, in 2005 from their stallion Croftcnoc MacAdie and mare Croftcnoc Cedar.

^{Photo: Croftcnoc MacAdie}

^{Photo sourced through the HPA website archives.}

There was only one other part bred foal produced in this time, by an ASH stallion our of a high percentage Highland Part bred mare (a mare that could have been a part of the breed program and her dam was registered under the Highland Pony Society of Australia when it was running but they were never registered with the APSB)