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04.07.2011 21:44

Landsmót 2011

Last Wednesday we made our way to Skagafjörður to put up our tents at Landsmótarea. The weather at Húsavík was awful, cold and rainy, but it changed a lot when we drove west. After making our home for the next days ready (we made a "camping"-village with a lot of friends) we had a first look at the competition area and watched the first 2 runs of the paceraces.
I was a bit disappointed that so many horses did not pace, but those who did, achieved good times.
Thursday the weather changed from cold and dry to warm and dry so we were busy trying not to get sunburned. Well, that didn't work out and we were happy to have some suncream to protect us a bit. Magnificent horses, difficult to chose favourites.
I used the possibility to get close to the startboxes for the paceraces and took some pics from the starts. The light was just perfect and it was really interesting to see how different the horses and rides cope with the startboxes.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday just flew and it was great to see all these fabulous horses and the perfect choreographed breedingshow of Bergur and Olil!
The A-finals on Saturday and Sunday were interesting, good horses, but it was already clear who would win. A pitty to see the horses in 5-Gait just in 3 gaits and those not even specially good. Trott and pace were quite a problem for some of them. How would it have been, if they'd have had to show walk and canter too?
The finals in kidsclass were amazing, but I'm a bit worried about the fact that the kids are already riding stallions! No matter how well behaved the stallions are, if there is something going wrong, the little riders have no chance to do anything! I think it is worth thinking about that a bit.

My highlights: Díva frá Álfhólum, Kjarnorka frá Kálfholti, Spuni and the other offspring of Álfasteinn, the breedingshow of Bergur and Olil and of course to see Bragur, Ingólfur's former horse, compete in 100m Flying Pace and reaching a time of 7,70 sec. and the 4th place.