‘His time to go to heaven’: farewell to tiny superstar who showed the big boys how it’s done

Catherston Stud has paid tribute to tiny superstar Littledale Bright Star, who has been put down aged 26.

The 12.2hh Catherston Nightsafe stallion had been at Catherston since he was a weanling, siring about 100 progeny in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia. He is the only pony stallion to have achieved elite status owing to the international achievements of his offspring in all three Olympic disciplines.

“If he’d been a horse, he would have been an absolute world-beater,” Catherston stud manager Anne Dicker told H&H.