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21.01.2013 00:08

Update

... no, not our homepage, just a small update on what we are doing and what is going on.

The foalmares and foals are well, eventhough their meadow looks more like a skatingarena than a place for horses. Now the motto is: move carefully and no running! That's a pitty as the foals really could use a good racetrack to get stronger and even more surefooted. Well, at the moment they are training there skills on ice. Same story at the place where our ridinghorses are. Think Kátína really is happy about having shoes with spikes at the moment. No slipping and sliding!

Our insidehorses are doing fine, List got a fancy haircut and isn't sweating as much as before, Farsæll is taking his first steps on tölt and the others are always looking forward to getting their haynets.

Yesterday we put up a huge heater, which is supposed to keep the stable frostfree, and it seems to work really fine, already increased the temperature from 5 to about 10 degrees.

After a very good ride on List (inside and outside) and a longer ride on Farsæll (yes, he has to work a bit inbetween) we went to Helluland to have a look at Nökkvi and shoe some horses. I had planned to video and photograph Nökkvi, but the conditions there are very much the same as here: ice, everywhere. So no use trying to film a young horse without shoes and spikes. And we are definitely not going to shoe a horse on it's 3rd winter to just take a video and some pics! Instead I had a look at Kiddi's herd and watched him a bit when he went for a ride with Askur, who had been at our place for his basic training. I liked a lot what I saw, Askur seems to be a really promising gelding, high and wide movements, enough power, but soft in his gaits.