This message is from: Summers Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi amy, just read your email off the fjord list,my name is summers
moore and I have one gelding fjord named bizcocho and a mare coming
from wisconsin named mara. she is with foal due next may. I am
presently bringing them to my house in carbondale colorado and she
arrives in 3 days. My brother lives in niwot and I was wondering
where the niwot trail was if i ever brought one of them down for a
visit/? your team looks great. take care summers
On Aug 23, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Amy wrote:
This message is from: Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello again. I used to be on the list a while back, but left when
I needed to get my volume of email under control. I think it's
under control now, and I thought that it would be nice to chat with
Fjord people again.
Here's a brief intro. I live on a small farm in Longmont,
Colorado, and I have three Fjords: Belle (9 year old mare), Ivy
(five year old mare), and Britta (Belle's two year old filly).
I've been around horses all my life and have owned a variety of
breeds, but I always wanted to check out Fjords. In 2004 I got the
chance to buy Belle, and I enjoyed her so much that I bought
another one! Belle was pregnant when I bought her, so that's how I
got the third.
I mostly do trail riding with Belle, as well as a little low level
dressage basics in the arena. I'm thinking of teaching her to go
over little cross rails, just for fun. I've done a lot of
different trails with her, from urban flat trails to mountain
trails, and she's a lot of fun. She's pretty energetic and never
seems to wear out, not even on all-day trail rides. And she loves
to canter down the trail. She's my "energizer pony"!
I also do trail riding with Ivy, but she's still green. We're
still working on dressage basics in the arena and short to medium
length trail rides at the walk. She's a little lazier than Belle,
but she's also still fat and out of shape, so she may perk up with
more riding.
I plan to do pretty much the same sorts of things with Britta once
she's old enough to start. She went to "baby boot camp" this
summer for an intensive ground work "tune-up" and for an
introduction to everything she'll need to know right up to the
point of being ridden. I won't have her started until she's three
or four, but she's been so easy that it'll be a breeze. Nothing
bothers her! The trainer also ponied her on a few trail rides,
which is something I'd like to continue doing.
In addition to my three Fjords, I also have a quiet, well-schooled,
and exceptionally easy to ride Percheron/TB mare who has taught me
a lot about dressage and my retired and arthritic "do everything"
Paint mare from my younger days. For photos of the Fjords and
stories of their adventures, see my farm web site and blog (URL
below).
--Amy
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Marehaven Farm ~*~ Longmont, CO
http://www.marehaven.org
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