This message is from: "Sandy Sederstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have been reading the responses about the survey,which I did send back, and want to say that the people that don't show have just as much impact on the exposure of the Fjord breed as much as showing them. My case in point is that we do parades and trail riding in our local area and there has been seven people that bought Fjords because they seen ours and that is a total of 12 Fjord horses, not counting our three Fjords. Some of these people have had their mares bred so that's money being spent to breeders for stud fees. Some of these same people are shopping now for more Fjords, and we have a neighbor that wants to buy Fjords. We love the breed and do our best to show people what a wonderful horse they are. We feel that we are doing just as much promoting of the breed as anyone else even though we don't show our horses. Please don't think that showing your horse is the only way to promote them. The parades that we do have more people watching than at a horse show. We ride and drive to show how versatile the Fjord is in the parades, and stop and talk to people and answer any questions they have. Just my two cents, a happy backyard Fjord horse owner.
