Welcome to Chakola's Place, where we breed and sell top quality Cleveland Bay horses, an endangered / rare breed. There are only 700 of these beautiful horses in the world, and we are committed to maintaining and promoting the breed. Please scroll down the page for more information on the farm.

We also breed and sell miniature donkeys and always have a selection of young donkeys for sale.

Please call or email us if you are interested in any of our horses or donkeys, or if you would like more information about the Cleveland Bay breed.


Contact information:

Chakola's Place
735 Washington Rd.
Goshen, NH 03752

Phone/Fax: (603) 863-5193
Fax. (111) 123-1234
E-mail: cleveland@chakolasplace.com

Directions:
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About the Farm:

            Chakola's Place, where the endangered breed, Cleveland Bay horses, are bred and raised.  The farm is owned and managed by lifetime horsewoman Penelope de Peyer.  Penny had a longtime dream to breed and promote Cleveland Bays and when the opportunity  presented itself, she  started her venture at her mothers'  farm in Scotland, CT.

            Penny was born and raised in England and moved to the United States in 1959. She started riding in England at age 10. When she came to the US she followed horses - first with a job at a riding school in CT, then to PA to work at the Radnor Hunt Club and then to  Gladstone, NJ to work for the United States THree Day Team.  While with the team, Penny groomed at Burghley and the Winnipeg Pan Am Games. From there she took Mason Phelps' horse to the European Championships in Puncherstown in 1967. After her team work, she worked for Mr. and Mrs. William Steinkraus.

            Penny's  involvement with breeding Cleveland Bay's started with the opportunity to  breed the late Cholderton Yeoman to a few Thoroughbred mares. In 1981, Yeomans' owner and Penny's friend Joanna Dorman, the daughter of the Cholderton Stud, UK owner accompained Penny to see six recently imported 2 year old Cleveland Bay colts .   Penny purchased one of those colts, Fryup Marvel and never looked back.  Penny and Marvel  promoted the Cleveland breed in as many stallion shows and parades as they could: including Dressage at Devon and rare breed exhibitions at Equitana USA in Kentucky  and then to the Royal Winter Agricultural Fair, Toronto, Canada.  In addition to campaigning Marvel, Penny was breeding 2 additional stallions and raising and selling foals. 

            In 1998,  Penny moved to her current farm, Chakola's Place in Goshen, NH.  Penny currently owns 5 purebred Cleveland Bays  - a 2 year old filly Chakola's In Style, a 3 year old stud colt Chakola's Huckleberry, a 5 year old stallion, Chakola's Foreman, and 2 broodmares, Foxhollow Nautica and Chakola's Calgary.  Penny's Clevelands are not the only equines on the farm. Five mini donkeys and a mammoth Poitou partbred donkey keep the Clevelands company.