Fw: 65 year fjord jubilee in Denmark
This message is from: "Pat Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Original Message - From: Birgit Mortensen To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 7:50 AM Subject: 65 year fjord jubilee in Denmark Hi list, - tried to post this in January, have to give it another try. The Danish Fjord Horse Association has recently received the invitation to be a part of your jubilee-celebrations in October. I will tell bout the jubilee in our next members magazine 'Fjordhesten' and I really hope that a group of people from our association will come and help you celebrate. In Denmark we also have a jubilee to celebrate this year. We published our first studbook in 1941. The decision about organising a stud book was taken 10 years earlier, so you might say that we could chose to call it a 75 year jubilee. But since we celebrated the 50 year jubilee in 1991 and the 60 year jubilee in 2001 we stick to calling this years jubilee a 65 years jubilee. It takes place at Denmarks National Equestrian Center. The name of the place is Vilhelmsborg, and Vilhelmsborg is situated just south of the second biggest town in Denmark. The name of the town is Aarhus (you can find more information at www.visitaarhus.dk, in English and German). We have chosen the beginning of August to celebrate, and the dates are 3.-6th (Thursday-Sunday). There is a full programme for all four days, in fact there are two parallel events going on: breeding and sport. Breeding: Thursday starts with an international conference for judges/evaluators, and there will be follow-up-sessions on the following days. The first breeding class will start in the afternoon. During the four days the annual stallion evaluation, the annual medal mare evaluation (the highest possible evaluation class for a mare), the annual 2 years final (for the best mares in Denmark) and some show classes will take place. Sport: During the four days the Danish championship for riders and drivers will take place and the first European championship for fjordhorses will also be held at Vilhelmsborg. Both events start on Thursday, and among the European countries especially Norway and Germany has shown an interest in participating in the European Championship. The Manor of Vilhelmsborg is a beautiful place (www.vilhelmsborg.dk), which dates back to the Middle Ages. Close to the city Aarhus and the shores of Aarhus Bay and at the same time close to woods and farm land. There is of course stable facilities for the horses, people can camp at Vilhelmsborg. There are regular camping-places close to Vilhelmsborg, some of them with cabins. Bed & Breakfast is a possibility. There are cheap accommodation and of course also not so cheap accommodation. Vilhelmsberg is co-working with a few hotels. Agreements for this year is being negotiated this week, and accommodation will be possible to favourable prices. I suppose most of the list members live in North America and I hope a lot of you will consider visiting the Danish jubilee in August, we will do our best to give you a great time. Send me a mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), if you want to receive direct information about the jubilee and if we shall help finding accommodation to you. August is normally a beautiful summer month in Denmark and you will easily could visit some of the other fjord horse countries, if you decide to celebrate with us in August. Sometimes I get the impression that a lot of you have European roots one way or another. In about a fortnight I hope that our website (www.fjordhest.dk) will have information in English about the jubilee. Best regards from Denmark Birgit -
Fw: 65 year fjord jubilee in Denmark
This message is from: "Ursula & Brian Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Original Message - From: Birgit Mortensen To: Ursula & Brian Jensen Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 9:54 AM Subject: Fw: 65 year fjord jubilee in Denmark Hello Ursula and Brian! Twice I have tried to get this message through to the Digest, but without results. Could you post it for me, perhaps? And will you please confirm that you have received the mail. Birgit - Original Message - From: Birgit Mortensen To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 7:50 AM Subject: 65 year fjord jubilee in Denmark Hi list, - tried to post this in January, have to give it another try. The Danish Fjord Horse Association has recently received the invitation to be a part of your jubilee-celebrations in October. I will tell bout the jubilee in our next members magazine 'Fjordhesten' and I really hope that a group of people from our association will come and help you celebrate. In Denmark we also have a jubilee to celebrate this year. We published our first studbook in 1941. The decision about organising a stud book was taken 10 years earlier, so you might say that we could chose to call it a 75 year jubilee. But since we celebrated the 50 year jubilee in 1991 and the 60 year jubilee in 2001 we stick to calling this years jubilee a 65 years jubilee. It takes place at Denmarks National Equestrian Center. The name of the place is Vilhelmsborg, and Vilhelmsborg is situated just south of the second biggest town in Denmark. The name of the town is Aarhus (you can find more information at www.visitaarhus.dk, in English and German). We have chosen the beginning of August to celebrate, and the dates are 3.-6th (Thursday-Sunday). There is a full programme for all four days, in fact there are two parallel events going on: breeding and sport. Breeding: Thursday starts with an international conference for judges/evaluators, and there will be follow-up-sessions on the following days. The first breeding class will start in the afternoon. During the four days the annual stallion evaluation, the annual medal mare evaluation (the highest possible evaluation class for a mare), the annual 2 years final (for the best mares in Denmark) and some show classes will take place. Sport: During the four days the Danish championship for riders and drivers will take place and the first European championship for fjordhorses will also be held at Vilhelmsborg. Both events start on Thursday, and among the European countries especially Norway and Germany has shown an interest in participating in the European Championship. The Manor of Vilhelmsborg is a beautiful place (www.vilhelmsborg.dk), which dates back to the Middle Ages. Close to the city Aarhus and the shores of Aarhus Bay and at the same time close to woods and farm land. There is of course stable facilities for the horses, people can camp at Vilhelmsborg. There are regular camping-places close to Vilhelmsborg, some of them with cabins. Bed & Breakfast is a possibility. There are cheap accommodation and of course also not so cheap accommodation. Vilhelmsberg is co-working with a few hotels. Agreements for this year is being negotiated this week, and accommodation will be possible to favourable prices. I suppose most of the list members live in North America and I hope a lot of you will consider visiting the Danish jubilee in August, we will do our best to give you a great time. Send me a mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), if you want to receive direct information about the jubilee and if we shall help finding accommodation to you. August is normally a beautiful summer month in Denmark and you will easily could visit some of the other fjord horse countries, if you decide to celebrate with us in August. Sometimes I get the impression that a lot of you have European roots one way or another. In about a fortnight I hope that our website (www.fjordhest.dk) will have information in English about the jubilee. Best regards from Denmark Birgit
Jubilee in Denmark
This message is from: "Birgit Mortensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My name is Birgit Mortensen. I have been reading the mailing list since March this year and many interesting things have been debated, but this is my first contribution to the list. I am chairman (or should I write chairwoman) in "Fjordhesteavlen i Danmark" (The National Fjordhorse Stud Book Association of Denmark). I would like to tell you about the jubilee we are celebrating in Denmark this year. I apologize for the length of the information! In Denmark we have had fjordhorses in many, many years, probably due to the fact that Denmark is neighbour-country to Norway, mother-country of the fjordhorse. In 1931 some foresighted people decided that the fjordhorses in Denmark should be registered and evaluated. After 10 years the first Danish studbook was published, containing 50 stallions and 304 mares. Since then evaluations have taken place every year and this year The Danish Fjordhorse Studbook Association is celebrating its 60 years studbook jubilee. In July we are evaluating mares in around 10 local places all over Denmark. And for the first time ever we have invited geldings to these evaluations. Traditionally evaluations have been seen as an important part of our breeding programme and geldings are of course not breeding animals, but as I have seen it mentioned on this list a gelding is a product of a breeding process, and an evaluation can give you valuable information about the parents and about the evaluated horse. In Denmark evaluation of offspring have long since been a part of our breeding programme, and a stallion can lose his breeding licence, if our evaluators find the get of not sufficient quality. In august Denmark is hosting the Nordic championship for riders and drivers and we are looking very much forward to this event. Apart from fjordhorses from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and - it is to be hoped - Finland (the four Scandinavian countries) we expect participants from Germany (another neighbour country) and Switzerland. In September (7.-9.) we have a jubilee-evaluation at Denmark's national Horse-center (www.Vilhelmsborg.dk). Normally we have our stallion evaluation at this time with 40-50 participating horses including a performance test for the 4 year old stallions (end of a 30 days training period). Because of the jubilee we are also inviting our best mares (4 years and older) to our medal evaluation (a medal being the highest possible award for a mare). We invite our best 2 years old mares to a finale and there will also be a foal finale for both fillies and colts. Evaluated geldings will also be invited to participate. Lastly, on Sunday, we invite the earlier evaluated mares and stallions to participate in show classes. Fjordhorses from other countries are welcome to participate in the show classes and stallions can attend the evaluation-classes. During the three days "stallion of the year", "mare of the year" and "gelding of the year" will be appointed. Friday an international evening will be arranged for "fjordhorse-lovers from all over the world". Saturday afternoon a fjordhorse-show is planned. Saturday evening the jubilee-dinner will take place. Guests from abroad are very welcome in Denmark and we would like to show you the result of our 70 years breeding programme. Perhaps some of you have already visited our website (www.fjordhest.dk), where we have a small section in English with an invitation and the programme. Denmark in September is nice, late summer/early autumn. Vilhelmsborg is situated in beautiful surroundings south of Aarhus, the second largest town in Denmark (tourist-information available on www.visitaarhus.com). A special greeting to those of you I met at the stallion evaluation in Norway in May. Birgit E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fjordhest.dk
