This message is from: "Tamara Jane Habberley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thank you Eike apologies for the delays due to christmas festivites ( my aching head!) Do you know if any stock by Boelja is in the UK? Well done for getting the Tyro award preumably with the EHPS? Its heartening to know it wasnt just my imagination saying that Fjords had an endurance history! over here all the books all publicity blurb leads one to belive that only Arabs can go a distance. My Welsh cob has done well and is not disimialir in build to a fjord horse. Now all I have to do is some frantic saving - not easy when you allr eady onw one horse! Hope you had a good christmas. regards Tamara ----- Original Message ----- From: Eike Schoen-Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:32 PM Subject: Re: endurance Fjords / fjordhorse-digest V2000 #325 > This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eike Schoen-Petersen) > > Hello Tamara and Nancy, > > the stallion you mentioned was Boelja by Albert Fichtel. He ran many thousand > miles in competitions in Europe, including a 1000 km ride from Hamburg(Germany) > to Budapest(Hungary). There also was a Fjord in the German team for the > European Long Distance Championship in 1999 in England, only the horse caught an > infection and couldn't start. It may be interesting for you to know that my > wife Susanne and I participated in several beginners rides in West Yorkshire and > Humberside with our grey Fjord stallion Odin when we were working in Leeds 1987. > We were proud to make it to a tyro award in our first competitive ride. We > were always amazed to find that he had an extra gait! We called it his turbo > trot, he would only offer it in competition and we passed quite a few cantering > cobs and warmbloods! In Germany there have consistently been a few fjords > successfully participating in competitive trail rides / endurance rides for the > last 20 years. > > Best wishes from Germany, > > Eike > >
