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Álfadís has received an honorary award for offsprings on the Breeding Conference 2011, Álfadís was honored with an honorary award for offsprings. She is 15 years old and so far six offsprings have reached the age to be broken/tamed, two are not alive anymore.  One daughter from Flygill frá Vestri Leirárgörðun was not OK and Alvar, the son of Dalvar from Auðsholtshjáleiga died by an accident when he was two years old. He was quite tall, light built and beautiful, his temperament was super, everything was easy for him.

Her offsprings that are broken/tamed and judged are:

Álfasteinn  f.  Keilir frá Miðsitju         C.8.32.R   8.69 Total  8,56 Blup  122

Álfur            f.   Orri Þúfu                         C.8.11 R.  8.69 Total  8,46 Blup  127

Gandálfur  f.   Gustur frá Hóli              C.8.00 R  8.72 Total  8,46 Blup   125

Heilladís    f.   Suðri Holtsmúla           C.8.09 R  8.46 Total  8,32 Blup   120

Álffinnur   f.   Orri from Þúfu               C.7.98 R  8.42 Total.  8,24 Blup  126

Average of all offsprings                      C.8.10 R  8.60 Total   8,41 Blup  124

Conclusion of judgment:

Álfadís gives horses over medium size with a fairly good head. The neck is soft with high withers. The back is broad and strong, but the croup is rather rough. The proportions are correct but the straightness of the legs is varied. Their legs are strong, the feet are dry but the hoofs are excellent. Mane and tail are below average. Álfadís provides great tolt, long steps, high movements and much speed range. The trot is also in high quality, good suspension, long steps and high movements. Three of the offsprings have excellent pace, and all of them have good canter and gallop. Spirit and temperament are great.

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The breeding conference of Iceland was held yesterday in Hotel Saga in Reykjavík. We went and had a good time.

Same procedure as every year, they informed us about all the results of the breeding 2011.

The conference was interesting, and for the first time there were made groups with the people who took part in the meeting where they were asked questions about many different things regarding to the implementation of breedingshows on Landsmót, saving time but keeping quality. For me that was a huge step forward, and I hope that they will keep that direction in the future, it is really important to give the breeders a possibility to  express their opinion this way. It was a really good start and for the future I wish that they'd use a little bit more time for this sort of work. Prize giving ceremonies were well prepared, concise, informative, and honorable and for me it was the best meeting I have taken part in for a long time, thank you.

Our results this year in the breeding I will write more about soon but our breeding Ketilsstaðir/Syðri Gegnishólar was nominated this year as well for the breeders of the year and Álfadís received her first prize of honor for offsprings.

All the prizewinners nominated to the breeder of the year 2011. To the rigth is Gunnar, Kristbjörg, Þórdís and Hrannar from Auðsholtshjáleigu the breeders of the year 2011,we want to sincerely congratulate  them. Photograph: Hestafréttir

We are proud and pleased to tell you that from now on, the news of our farm are coming in english as well. The first to be translated is the last article about Hvati, and we have also started to translate older news.  Above rigth on the homepage is an english flag, to be clicked on for those who want to read our news in english from now on.

Olil og Bergur 2010, photograph: Gangmyllan

Just got great news about Hvati, he took part in his first competition with his new owner Eileen Ma this weekend.

Ásta Covert Bjarnadóttir, California, USA, sent me an E-mail and wrote this:

It went  really well with Eileen and Hvati this weekend, they were competing in pleasure Tölt as a start and also because she had only ridden him four or five times since he came. In pleasure tölt you have to show free choice of speed, turn around and then do free tempo again.

She got 6.20 in the preliminarys but in the finals she got 6,0 from all judges on left hand. She rode a little bit faster on the right hand so she got 7,0 from three judges and 6,5 from the other two, wich gave a final result of 6,42.

01  007 Eileen Ma / Hvati frá Ketilsstöðum 6.4

LeftHand    6.0-6.0-6.0-6.0-6.0  6.00

RightHand    7.0-7.0-7.0-6.5-6.5  6.83

Eileen and Hvati,

Picture: Ásta Bjarnadóttir Covert

  Hér fyrir neðan er linkur sem sýnir Kareni Líndal á Narra frá Vestri-Leirárgörðum,
en Narri er sonur Natans frá Ketilsstöðum og er 5 vetra. Gaman að sjá hversu
mikið og gott hestefni hann er.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbMmjvudIc

I received these nice pictures,  they are of Hvati. He was sold to the United States. Hvati was evaluated at 8.19 when he was 5 years old, and he is the son of Gustur frá Hóli and Hefð frá Ketilsstöðum,  she is an daughter of Vakning.

Last spring Hvati was castrated, his new owner is  Eileen Ma, and he is in  Will and Ásta´s stable at Flying C in California. The trip went well and Hvati is doing fine. We got the news that Eileen is very happy with him and she is going to the first tournament with him this weekend.

Pictures: Ásta Bjarnadóttir Covert