Elite Frozen Foals (EFF) is owned by Peter and Jane Bartram.  EFF was established to provide a niche service to those warmblood breeders in Australia wishing to use imported frozen semen to produce the best sport-horses available.

Peter and Jane own the Rose City Veterinary Hospital in Benalla, Victoria.  They were first involved with breeding warmblood horses in 1975 after Peter’s parents visited the state stud in Schleswig-Holstein and were encouraged to begin crossing their Thoroughbred mares to warmblood stallions.  Jane’s family has been breeding horses since the early 1970’s.

Peter is a veterinarian with 25 years experience.  He has trained in America and the United Kingdom.  He has a special interest in advanced reproductive technologies.  Together with Jane, they have pioneered the use of endoscopic (hysteroscopic) insemination (EI) with frozen semen in Australia.

Elite Frozen Foals is based on their farm, “Hollands Bend”, on the fertile Hollands Creek flats 6 km south-east of Benalla.  Here they have the facilities to agist client’s horses and undertake advanced reproductive techniques to create pregnancies.  They encourage their clients to use the best stallions available internationally.

Their ultimate aim is to give Australian warmblood breeders a chance to improve their broodmare quality to European standards.  This may take 15 to 20 years but they are happy to use a fusion of our abilities and the best of reproductive technologies available to achieve this outcome.

They have also begun a program importing mares and fillies into Australia from Germany.  These will be used in their own breeding and embryo-transfer program to speed the genetic progress of their breeding band.