Re: Ontario Fjord show?
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to know about the Ontario show too! I missed it last year and was really hoping to go this year. Kay @Yellow Pony Farm SE MI
Re: Help! Dates for the fall Ontario Fjord show?
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I swore I wouldn't lose the name and address of the folks in charge of the October Ontario Fjordhorse show but I did...rats! I was very disappointed that I couldn't be there last year. I heard it was a wonderful event and I was really looking forward attending the 2005 shindig. Unfortunately, the ADS is having it's annual meeting and rally in Michigan this year and the dates may conflict. Our Carriage club is sort of the main host for these festivities and although I would be no great loss to their efforts, my trainer definitely would. Sadly, I probably don't have the experience and definitely don't have the right-sized trailer to come to Ontario alone...at least not yet. So what are the dates for this show? Maybe they're different that the ADS weekend. I really hope so - Ontario offers a zillion kinds of classes and is the closest of all the Fjord events to my place. Kay Van Natta Yellow Pony Farm SE MI
Ontario Fjord Show 2004 Results
This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] The show results are posted at http://www.wakerobinfarm.ca/showres04.html Lori
Re: Ontario Fjord Show
This message is from: Carol Riviore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Everybody from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia - I just returned from the Ontario FJord Show, and I wanted to add to what Lori had to say --- This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just wanted to share with everyone our experience from the Ontario Fjord Show held this weekend just past, in Cedar Valley, north of Toronto. We had a great show and found it a wonderful, worthwhile experience. Show organizer Cheryl Beillard of Wake-Robin Farm Fjords had invited Bob van Bon, Chief Inspector of Fjords in the Netherlands, and his wife Joke (Yoka), to be our show judges. The depth and breadth of knowledge and experience these two possess is immediately obvious. The halter classes were operated in a european evaluation format, assessing each horse individually on the triangle and giving each animal a score in the five categories of breed type, conformation, legs, movement, and overall impression. The judge also talked at length about each animal's strong and weak points. I was really pleased to receive such detailed expert feedback on my horses at a horse show - very different from a usual horseshow where the class is pinned and that is that. My only regret is not bringing more horses to this show! . . . . . . Lori's right! It was a WONDERFULl show, and Cheryl Beillard should receive bouquets of roses for a month for all the organization and hard work it took to achieve. This was not a simple little show. It was well-organized. This was a classy show --- Class with a capital C (Norwegian Consul General presenting top prizes) , good food, wonderful European judges, great stabling, fabulous facility including a huge indoor and extensive cross-country course, prizes, ribbons, social time, enthusiastic, kind and friendly competitors. What more could anyone ask for? -- I enjoyed myself tremendously. Enjoyed meeting new (to me) Fjord people from the States and Canada. -- Cheryl kindly lent me one of her mares to drive, and that was great fun! -- Also had fun visiting with Pat Wolf who continuously reminded me that he and I were the oldest Fjord folds: Not sure how I feel about that old stuff, but nonetheless, it was great spending time with Pat. --- I was so enthused at the show I told everybody that next year I'd bring my own horse. One of the highlights of the show was Saturday night when Chief Inspector Van Bon presented gold medals from the Dutch Fjord Studbook to some horses he thought were of special quality. -- And I was especially thrilled to hear that three of the recipient horses had come from Beaver Dam Farm. Lori Albrough's 6 yr. old mare, Sparrow, sired by Gjest received a gold medal as Champion mare.--- Another of Lori's horses, Villi, a 12 yr. old gelding also sired by Gjest, received a gold medal as the best riding horse. . . . . The third horse from Beaver Dam Farm to receive a gold medal was the 8 yr. old mare, Riena, owned by Maggi Sullivan, and shown by her mother, Ann Sullivan. --- Riena was hand-picked by Carol Rivoire in Holland and imported by Beaver Dam Farm. -- She was a Champion filly in Holland, and since being imported to the States, and subsequently purchased by the Sullivans, Riena has received a Blue in her Evaluation, as well as Champion Mare at the Woodstock Fjord Show. So, those three prestigious gold medals went to horses all either born and bred in Europe, or sired by European imports. The Gjest son and daughter, Sparrow and Villi, were out of the mare, Cindy, also imported by Beaver Dam Farm. It's times like these that make this business worthwhile. Worthwhile because you know you're doing something right. ~~ Two other Gold Medal horses at the Ontario Show were sired by the Norwegian imported stallion, Felix, who is proving himself an outstanding breeding stallion with a breeding record in Norway that is very impressive. I think these results should be a 'Heads Up' to North American Fjord breeders. I mean the message is pretty clear!And the message is . . . . . BREEDING COUNTS! Best Regards, Carol Rivoire Other highlights from Lori's post . . . . The full results will be posted on the show website but I just wanted to post a few brags here on the list. The Overall Champion Halter horse was a 2 year old Felix daughter Felicia out of Nagia, shown by Beth Gerst, and the Champion Gelding was a 4 year old Felix son Uvaer out of Dora, shown by Nathan Vallilee. Our own 6 year old mare Sparrow, by Gjest and out of our mare Cindy (an Ostar daughter), was Champion mare. On the Saturday evening dinner, Mr. van Bon gave a most interesting talk and presented gold medals from the Dutch studbook to recognise the special horses at the show - one to the best stallion
Ontario Fjord Show
This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, I just wanted to share with everyone our experience from the Ontario Fjord Show held this weekend just past, in Cedar Valley, north of Toronto. We had a great show and found it a wonderful, worthwhile experience. Show organizer Cheryl Beillard of Wake-Robin Farm Fjords had invited Bob van Bon, Chief Inspector of Fjords in the Netherlands, and his wife Joke (Yoka), to be our show judges. The depth and breadth of knowledge and experience these two possess is immediately obvious. The halter classes were operated in a european evaluation format, assessing each horse individually on the triangle and giving each animal a score in the five categories of breed type, conformation, legs, movement, and overall impression. The judge also talked at length about each animal's strong and weak points. I was really pleased to receive such detailed expert feedback on my horses at a horse show - very different from a usual horseshow where the class is pinned and that is that. My only regret is not bringing more horses to this show! The full results will be posted on the show website but I just wanted to post a few brags here on the list. The Overall Champion Halter horse was a 2 year old Felix daughter Felicia out of Nagia, shown by Beth Gerst, and the Champion Gelding was a 4 year old Felix son Uvaer out of Dora, shown by Nathan Vallilee. Our own 6 year old mare Sparrow, by Gjest and out of our mare Cindy (an Ostar daughter), was Champion mare. On the Saturday evening dinner, Mr. van Bon gave a most interesting talk and presented gold medals from the Dutch studbook to recognise the special horses at the show - one to the best stallion, best mare, best gelding, best younghorse, best driving horse and best riding horse. Felix's offspring received the gold medals for best young horse and best gelding, Sparrow received the medal for best mare and her full brother, our 12 year old gelding Vili, received the medal for the best riding horse. Vili also had the highest score for Training Level dressage where he scored 75.3% in test 2 and 72.4% in test 4. The Norwegian Consular General was on hand on Sunday afternoon to present the Overall High Point award - a beautiful Norwegian plate - to Pat Wolfe and Prydarson, in a moving ceremony with the Norwegian national anthem playing. I won't mention any other placings as I don't want to forgot anyone, there were 77 classes in the program so it was a very full 2 days with something for everyone. The professional announcer said that he thought the breed was just a gem, as he watched the Fjordhorses perform all these different activities throughout both full days. I hope other people will speak up with their own show reports and I also hope everyone found the show to be as fun and worthwile as I did. We had participants coming the distance from VA, CT, NY and Northern Ontario and Carol Rivoire from NS participated by driving Cheryl's mare Tunica to the Reserve Champion in the Green Horse driven division. I must mention the volunteer crew who was great, and chief volunteers Caye and Jane were just amazing, they really made the show happen! Thanks again go to Cheryl Beillard for organizing this show!!! Photos to follow.. Regards, Lori Lori Albrough Bluebird Lane Fjords Moorefield, Ontario http://www.bluebirdlane.com
Ontario Fjord Show
This message is from: Wild Flower Fjord Farm [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to say congrats to everyone who helped and participated and organized the Ontario Fjord Show. It was a great time to see everyone and see all the fjords. Cheryl you did a fabulous job and I hope this show will be hosted yet again next year. We had a great time at the show and it was worth the travel time. We will for sure be there next year and hopefully with more horses and more students!!! We posted some pictures of the show that we took at www.geocities.com/Fjords2000 look for Ontario Fjord Show Renee Lafleur Wild Flower Fjord Farm
Re: Ontario Fjord Show
This message is from: william jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Ms. Albrough, I am writing to you from Barcelona, Spain. I noticed in your e-mail that you referred to an article by Carol R. on things to consider when buying a Fjord. Would it be possible to obtain a copy of that article? It would be very helpful to some of us here who are considering buying Fjords for equine therapy work. Thank you for your assistance. Sincerely, William Jones Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is from: Lori Albrough Hi to everyone on the list, and best wishes for full recoveries to those with horses who are sick. I know what you are going through. I wanted to post a note to the list about the Ontario Fjord Show which we just got back from. Starting with a big THANK YOU to Cheryl Beillard for organizing the show and making it happen. The facility at York Equestrian Centre was excellent and it was so pleasant to be able to show from our indoor stabling in the huge indoor area with tons of seating for spectators, while the fall weather outside was cool and changeable, although it cleared in time for the outdoor classes on Sunday. The facility manager Anne Welch was excellent, as were the professional announcer Alan Barnes and his extremely capable wife Linda, who acted as our whipper-in. The judge Karen Maas did a super job, and everyone appreciated how she would explain her placings to the crowd. Dressage judge Marilyn Dietrich was tough but fair. There were a number of vendors of Fjord-related items, art, apparel, etc. The horse show program is a keeper, including lots of neat ads, an great article by Carol R on things to consider when buying a Fjord, and beautiful pictures. We had a good turnout to the show, I think there were about 35 horses, with competitors coming from far and wide. Those travelling to come to the show included Curt Pierce from Virginia, Tim Traci came up from Old Hickory in New York state, and Renee LaFleur came from up north in Timmins Ontario, with a contigent of horses and students. Thanks to everyone who made the trip. The highpoint of the show for me: my coach Ute Busse rode my horse Prisco in a lunchtime presentation on Sunday, a musical dressage freestyle showing movements from 2nd and 3rd Level. People loved it and came up to me all day to congratulate - telling me that he really was awesome! I was so proud of my boy. I asked Ute to ride him because I wanted him people to be able to see him shown off to his absolute best and they did a super job. It was a good show for me too, I showed our mare Sparrow (Gjest x Cindy) who was the first foal born on our farm and is five years old now. She won her halter class (mares 3-5) and her I won champion in the Open Rider division with firsts in both Pleasure Equitation. In the dressage division we placed first and second in our tests, too bad for me, since my goal was to win both tests and have high score of the day, but with a five year old at her second show it wasn't meant to be. Sparrow was distracted by the judges table with a sunbeam glowing down and lighting up the judge and scribe like something from heaven, and I had trouble getting her in front of my leg, but the second test rode much much better and I was happy. We did have two decent scores and came away with reserve champion in dressage. So happy with my girl and proud of how she has turned out. Also wanted to share this cute story. Near the end of the show we had a few fun classes, including the bareback Sit-a-Ten, and Jacki Brooks, the Canadian Team Dressage Rider who just returned from winning Team Silver at the Pan-Am Games heard about this class and came running up to ask me if she could ride one of my horses. I agreed and let her ride Prisco, and what a hoot it was. Jacki had her $10 dollar bill clamped so firmly under her leg that she left a sweat spot there on Prisco's side. Prisco felt this leg pressure and kept going faster and faster and faster. By the time the judge asked for hand gallop - trying to dislodge the bills from under the riders - Prisco was already flying and at that point he really opened up. He was having a ball just flying around that huge arena! One of Renee's students ultimately ended up winning the class, and Jacki said it was the most fun she'd had and said I almost beat that little girl :-) Looking forward to hearing other's accounts and impressions of the show. Lori Lori Albrough Moorefield, Ontario http://www.bluebirdlane.com The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
Ontario Fjord Show
This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi to everyone on the list, and best wishes for full recoveries to those with horses who are sick. I know what you are going through. I wanted to post a note to the list about the Ontario Fjord Show which we just got back from. Starting with a big THANK YOU to Cheryl Beillard for organizing the show and making it happen. The facility at York Equestrian Centre was excellent and it was so pleasant to be able to show from our indoor stabling in the huge indoor area with tons of seating for spectators, while the fall weather outside was cool and changeable, although it cleared in time for the outdoor classes on Sunday. The facility manager Anne Welch was excellent, as were the professional announcer Alan Barnes and his extremely capable wife Linda, who acted as our whipper-in. The judge Karen Maas did a super job, and everyone appreciated how she would explain her placings to the crowd. Dressage judge Marilyn Dietrich was tough but fair. There were a number of vendors of Fjord-related items, art, apparel, etc. The horse show program is a keeper, including lots of neat ads, an great article by Carol R on things to consider when buying a Fjord, and beautiful pictures. We had a good turnout to the show, I think there were about 35 horses, with competitors coming from far and wide. Those travelling to come to the show included Curt Pierce from Virginia, Tim Traci came up from Old Hickory in New York state, and Renee LaFleur came from up north in Timmins Ontario, with a contigent of horses and students. Thanks to everyone who made the trip. The highpoint of the show for me: my coach Ute Busse rode my horse Prisco in a lunchtime presentation on Sunday, a musical dressage freestyle showing movements from 2nd and 3rd Level. People loved it and came up to me all day to congratulate - telling me that he really was awesome! I was so proud of my boy. I asked Ute to ride him because I wanted him people to be able to see him shown off to his absolute best and they did a super job. It was a good show for me too, I showed our mare Sparrow (Gjest x Cindy) who was the first foal born on our farm and is five years old now. She won her halter class (mares 3-5) and her I won champion in the Open Rider division with firsts in both Pleasure Equitation. In the dressage division we placed first and second in our tests, too bad for me, since my goal was to win both tests and have high score of the day, but with a five year old at her second show it wasn't meant to be. Sparrow was distracted by the judges table with a sunbeam glowing down and lighting up the judge and scribe like something from heaven, and I had trouble getting her in front of my leg, but the second test rode much much better and I was happy. We did have two decent scores and came away with reserve champion in dressage. So happy with my girl and proud of how she has turned out. Also wanted to share this cute story. Near the end of the show we had a few fun classes, including the bareback Sit-a-Ten, and Jacki Brooks, the Canadian Team Dressage Rider who just returned from winning Team Silver at the Pan-Am Games heard about this class and came running up to ask me if she could ride one of my horses. I agreed and let her ride Prisco, and what a hoot it was. Jacki had her $10 dollar bill clamped so firmly under her leg that she left a sweat spot there on Prisco's side. Prisco felt this leg pressure and kept going faster and faster and faster. By the time the judge asked for hand gallop - trying to dislodge the bills from under the riders - Prisco was already flying and at that point he really opened up. He was having a ball just flying around that huge arena! One of Renee's students ultimately ended up winning the class, and Jacki said it was the most fun she'd had and said I almost beat that little girl :-) Looking forward to hearing other's accounts and impressions of the show. Lori Lori Albrough Moorefield, Ontario http://www.bluebirdlane.com
