This message is from: SUSAN GIARGIARI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello List! Sure wish I was going to the sale!! I do want to share an
experience that I had with one of the evaluators judging a fjord show and after
the show was done for the day......the judge(see.........no he or she) so
you'll never know!!........was walking around the stalls......I asked the
judges opinion of my horse.......it was a young one...and he said it was great
......except for it had broken axis on it's front feet.....I didn't reply as
the judge went on to some other points......and then I started asking opinions
and just looking myself, after I understood what a Broken Axis is.......When
you looked at this horses feet, the coronary band had quite a puff of hair
sticking out all around the coronary band and had good hairy fetlocks.....which
of course,,,we leave our fjords hairy!! LOL! .and yes it did look like a broken
axis.......but it isn't.. I felt the hair,,,,,i shaved off the hair when I got
home........no broken axis.......So, my question is.....was thi!
s stallion evaluated by the judge that said my horse has a broken axis? just
curious....oh,,,,,,,other fjord breeders and owners,,,,other horse breed owners
and two vets have said , no, there is no broken axis..... Now, this will narrow
it down a bit ....when the dutch came to evaluate fjords in 2000........this
horse received an A premium.........no broken axis......on the conformation
sheet....I have not been to an American Evaluation since the first one back
East, years back!! But am planning and saving now,,,,to bring horses to the
Ohio Eval this September! I won't have a problem bringing this horse to an
evaluation. Now that I am comfortable with what a Broken Axis is and looks
like...........if need be.....if the same judge is there......I will shave the
lower legs!! LOL!! This is not meant to put down any of the
Evaluators......but seeing the talk go to Norway and that they don't look for
that,,,,and how the NFHR Evals.. will change the fjords......I don't think !
that will happen! If you were to be technical......alot of t!
he horses and maybe Tim's too, are from Norway, Holland, Sweeden,
Germany.........and are bred here in the states to stallions that are also
imported.....so technically........all of the offspring are really first hand
out of imports!! Even Hilmar is "an import" from Holland as he came Inutero!!
Out of a Dutch Mare/ by a Dutch Stallion.....The other mares I have come from
Holland! I wonder what the ratio is now or if you can tell from the Pedigree
Site...how many fjords are totally american or canadian bred? be interesting to
see!
