This message is from: "Eike Schoen-Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We are happy to hear from Brian and Ursula at Trinity Fjords that our babies all arrived safe and sound. The trip from our farm in Germany out to Lumby, British Columbia, was a performance test in itself. First they had 600 miles in a truck to the airport in Luxemburg, 12 hours rest, then 12 hours flight to Los Angeles (that is one of the normal freight routes to Calgary), 3 hours rest, then 5 hours flight to Calgary. Even for me the long flight was exhausting. My personal bonus was being allowed to join the crew in the cockpit of the 747 flying into LA international airport! Unloading from the airline container and loading into Brian´s trailer took about 2 minutes. Calgary animal station had never seen such calm and quiet yearlings. The whole enterprise was an exciting first not only for the horses but also for Brian and myself. Personally I never had any doubt about the mental stability of the horses but was still surprised at how calmly they managed everything. We know Brian and Ursula are handling the horses in a thoroughly professional way and we hope that each individual horse will live up to the expectations. All 5 horses were selectively bred on our farm with all the mothers already being bred by us and carrying our suffix "vom Oderhaff". This group of offspring sired by Solbjør Borken will - besides its physical and mental qualities - certainly bring some interesting colour potential to North America, 4 of them being white dun, two of these with a red dun background and all of them with a chance for grey. The pedigree of Bastian vom Oderhaff includes on the father´s (Solbjør Borken) side Saethersblakken, Radar, Tunfeld, Dragmann, as well as Ernarson, Ernar and Haugull. The white dun gene is passed on by the bottom line of the mother in Solbjør Borken´s pedigree: Venke 14167, Evelyn 14595 and his mother Edna N-88-2586. Eike Schön-Petersen The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
