This message is from: Ingvild Nygaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello Fiona!!
It seems a lot of people could provide the pedigrees of Torbjørn and Lidaren. So I'm stuck with the history...:-)!!! TORBJORN 1417 Born in 1946 in Etne, Sunnhordaland. The breeders name was Johan Grude. He was raised by a (norwegian) famous (in those days..) horseman named Thor A. Kaldheim, and he sold Torbjorn when he got a 2. prize in 1950, to Gulen and Brekke hestealslag in Sogn. (Hestealslag = "horse breeders club") Later he came to Nordfjord, then Indre Sunnmøre and last Midtre Nordfjord, and there he was until he was put away in the autumn of 1967. At the big show in Nesttun 1958, he got a 1. prize. (The best a norwegian stallion can achieve.) As for the charachteristics of Torbjorn, my sources says: A small stallion, with very good conformation, which is visible in all ofhis offsprings. Torbjorn is considered on of the matadors in Norwegian Fjordhorse breeding. LIDAREN 1653 is Torbjorns grandson.He was born in 1961 at Kaare Liens in Naustdal, Nordfjord. Four years old he was sold to Gloppen and Hyens hestealslag, in 1969 he was sold to Indre Ryfylke and in 1973 he was sold to Kinsarvik in Hardanger. In 1977 he was in Gudbrandsdalen and he was put away later the same year. Lidaren has two sons with a 1. prize and he had two 1. prizes himself. If anyone is interested, I have pictures of both horses. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ingvild Nygaard http://home.sol.no/~snygaard/ The Fjordhorse page http://home.sol.no/~snygaard/fjord.html
