This message is from: Dave Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey List,
Thought some of you might be interested in our trip to Germany. My husband,
my dad and myself went to Germany March 11-18 to do some Fjord shopping. It
was an awesome trip, better than I ever imagined. We met the best people, had
the best weather(unlike what I came home to, snow and cold!), great food,
great scenery and of course saw the best horses-LOTS OF FJORDS. Eike
Schoen-Peterson, who is on the list, is the secretary for the Fjord
Association in Germany and he knows every horse and every person in Germany
and abroad. Plus he is well versed in about every subject under the sun. My
dad put him to the test and came out with flying colors!!! We could not have
done it without him-thank you again. We also met Reinhold Eitenmueller,
largest Fjord breeder in Germany and probably in Europe, with over 70 Fjord
horses. He was great, he showed us over 200 Fjords in about 1 hour and knew
every single horse by name and what bloodlines they had! My head was
swimming!!! In the area he lives, it is like Fjord Heaven. I have never seen
so many in the pastures and paddocks. You just see them all over the place.
It was great.
As of this moment I did not buy anything, but am considering some young stock.
I was very impressed with the movement that the German's are breeding for, but
not forgetting the great disposition and mind of the Fjord breed. They are
striving for great movement with a great mind, to make that great riding
horse, all sounds good to me.
We got to see a lot of different stables, one was a very large stable that had
20-30 Fjords as lesson horses. They had 150 kids a week come through for
lessons, I think very kid in that village loved that owner! He said in over
30 years of this business, he has never had a serious accident, giving all the
credit to the breed. He also still had his first Fjord, a 34 yr. old mare
who was in a large stall with her 25 yr. old daughter. Very cute.
I just thought you'd all be interested to know that ALL Fjord owners are as
great as their horses that they own, no matter WHERE they live. Just a word
of caution if you travel to Germany- they are crazy speed demons. They have
the autoban-no speed limit. My husband was sooo glad Eike was driving the
first few days. He knew I couldn't yell at Eike like I do him. We were doing
a mere 120mph at one point. Way too fast. :-
Patti Jo Walter
Francis Creek Fjords
Two Rivers, WI - Where winter just started March 1 and just keeps hitting us
with more snow and cold.
