Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-08 Thread john & martie bolinski
This message is from: john & martie bolinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Arthur Rivoire wrote: > Carol, I never intended to try Kilar as a 'racing' Fjord, he does not have the interest, but just to see how fast he could fly around a 1K track, I trotted him as fast as he could go (with only 1 b

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-07 Thread Arthur Rivoire
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Rivoire) Hi Everybody from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia - Well, we sure generated a lot of interesting comment regarding The Challenge. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered, and I'm hoping some of the people g

RE: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-05 Thread Werner, Kristine
This message is from: "Werner, Kristine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yeah, that sounds right, kid. > -Original Message- > From: saskia schoofs [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Donnerstag, 4. Februar 1999 16:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: The

Re: THE NORTH AMERICAN GJEST CHALLENGE -

1999-02-04 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That wind sounds terrifying and I was complaining about 60mph. I would be so worried about my horses, dogs etc. With a wind like that you could not even open the door, could you? Let alone walk in it. Hope things go well for you now. Jean

Re: RE: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-04 Thread Reinbowend
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And translated to seconds and/or minutes the STRBRD trotter trots 1.48=108 seconds for the mile or theoretically 1.04 for the K. These are record numbers and it takes a horse time to reach speed so he could probably not do the first K as fast as 1.04, howev

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-04 Thread saskia schoofs
This message is from: "saskia schoofs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> following my dictionary, a mile is 1.609 KM Saskia -- >From: "Werner, Kristine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject

RE: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-04 Thread Werner, Kristine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge > > This message is from: "Mike May, Registrar NFHR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 08:15 AM 2/4/99 -0500, you wrote: > >This message is from: "Werner, Kristine" <[EMAIL P

RE: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-04 Thread Mike May, Registrar NFHR
This message is from: "Mike May, Registrar NFHR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 08:15 AM 2/4/99 -0500, you wrote: >This message is from: "Werner, Kristine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >A mile is a greater distance than a kilometer. 1 Mile equals roughly 2 >Kilometers. >If the pacer trots the mile in 1.41, then

RE: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-04 Thread Werner, Kristine
At least that is how I understood it :o) Kristine in Frankfurt > -Original Message- > From: Mike May [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Donnerstag, 4. Februar 1999 13:45 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge > > T

Re: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-04 Thread Mike May
This message is from: Mike May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 05:34 PM 2/3/99 -0500, you wrote: >This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Just thought you might be interested: The record for the MILE by a STBRD pacer >is 1.41 and for a STBRD trotter is 1.48. So keeping Apples - Apples or km to km's t

Re: THE NORTH AMERICAN GJEST CHALLENGE -

1999-02-03 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 2/3/99 18:03:11 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Anyhow, one of the horses on page 82 is Brusvein, I really like him. He has a son Hostar standing in Vermont at Craig & Laura Wich's farm. >> It was Brusvein oh my!

Re: THE NORTH AMERICAN GJEST CHALLENGE -

1999-02-03 Thread Lori Albrough
This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... So far, I've really > fallen for the horse on Page 82. I don't remember his name offhand, and the > book is across the house (I've got a flu so I'm not getting up to check right > now). But I'll have his name

Re: THE NORTH AMERICAN GJEST CHALLENGE -

1999-02-03 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 2/3/99 13:18:51 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << He reminded me that in Holland they do show classes to determine which horses have the BEST TROT. In fact, I've seen these during my trips to Holland. There may be twe

Re: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-03 Thread Jean Gayle
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 2:38 PM Subject: Re: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge >This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Just thought you might be interested: The record for the MILE by a STBRD pacer >is 1.41 and for a STBRD trotter is 1.48.

Re: Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-03 Thread Reinbowend
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just thought you might be interested: The record for the MILE by a STBRD pacer is 1.41 and for a STBRD trotter is 1.48.

Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-03 Thread Reinbowend
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay people let's put this in better perspective. Firstly I wrote that Marnix had gone a K in 1.57 not as you posted 1.49, but given the fact that a kilometer is a little over half a mile, A kilometer is .6 of a mile to be exact, and a human being can run th

Re: THE NORTH AMERICAN GJEST CHALLENGE -

1999-02-03 Thread Arthur Rivoire
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Rivoire) Hi Everybody, from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia - The other day, I got out the four studbooks I have from the Fjordhestlag in Norway. One of them was 1981, the year Gjest was approved and did his famous trotting test.

Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-03 Thread wcoli
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carol, Can we assume that the timed 1K was from a standing start? Bill Coli

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-03 Thread Mary Thurman
This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Vivian, That certainly is interesting that Marnyx blazed the kilometer in > >1.49. So, how come none of the Norwegian stallions ha

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-03 Thread Mary Thurman
This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Vivian, That certainly is interesting that Marnyx blazed the kilometer in > >1.49. So, how come none of the Norwegian stallions ha

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-02 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Vivian, That certainly is interesting that Marnyx blazed the kilometer in >1.49. So, how come none of the Norwegian stallions have done it any faster >than 2.12? I don't get it. Maybe somebody going to Norway could get an >answer on that o

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-02-02 Thread Arthur Rivoire
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Rivoire) >From Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia = To Catherine - The Challenge is open to all NFHR registered Fjords - stallions, mares & geldings. The track you mentioned would be ideal, if arrangements could be made. Having sev

Re: Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-01-31 Thread Reinbowend
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carol:At Waldingfield in 1997, my first CDE (actually Horse Trial) with Marnix because of his atrocious behaviour and equipment problems as a result we were almost 2 minutes late to the start of the marathon. They started the clock at the time we were su

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-01-31 Thread Arthur Rivoire
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Rivoire) Hello All, from Carol at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia - Lori asked if "The Challenge" was open to all Fjords, not just those born and bred here. The answer is "Yes!" I think it should be open to all Fjords, North American bred and im

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-01-31 Thread Julia Will
This message is from: Julia Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry for the confusion, Carol ~ What I meant was, he didn't say GJEST was the record holder, which surprised me, because he knows Gjest, being in North America, is a horse I would know, and a horse he knows also. So I was just curious if there

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-01-30 Thread Lori Albrough
This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Arthur Rivoire wrote: > Arthur and I are getting more and more enthused about this idea of - THE > NORTH AMERICAN GJEST CHALLENGE. . > If there is a Fjordhorse, or perhaps more than one, that does meet or beat > this Challenge, then i

Re: The North American Gjest Challenge

1999-01-30 Thread Arthur Rivoire
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Rivoire) Hi Everybody from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia - >This message is from: Julia Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Carol, When I was in Norway last year I asked Tor Nestass about the >trotting times. He said the fastest time wa