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Arvakur has shown tolt in the pasture. We will know if he is 5 gaited after he is fully trained. His father was 4-gaited and his mother was 5 gaited. He is in ground training at the present time and I am beginning to ride him in the round pen. He is very smooth in the saddle. He is a fast learner, obedient and has a sweet gentle personality. Arvakur has already sired 3 (2007) foals on our farm, one of them, Sindri, is pictured here. He has passed on his sweet personality as well as his extravagant mane and fine featured head to all three foals. If you are interested in breeding your Icelandic mare to Avakur, please contact us for further information at filkaroark@embarqmail.com. Please know that we are not set-up for AI, all breeding will be pasture or hand-bred at our farm. |
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 Sindri '07 Arvakur filly |
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 Pa fra Laugarvatni Pa fra Laugarvatni We are very sad to inform our website visitors that Pa died the third week of June 2010. We think he had a tumor in his spine as he became paralyzed, and had to be put down. He was very loved on this farm and we miss him deeply. I have chosen to leave this Pa’s information up on the website for those folks that are interested in purchasing one of his foals. Pa was grandsire to Frami fra Ragnheidarstodum (IS 1991187750), a tall popular bay imported stallion in California. Although he did not produce many foals in the USA (Dan Slott focused more on importing young horses than on breeding while he owned Pa) Pa did sire two first prize offspring for Dan Slott, Gumi fra Laugarvatni (8.27), and a first prize daughter. He sired 76 foals in Iceland, 15 of which were evaluated, and of those 2 were first prize horses. His offspring tend to inherit his large size, and he passed the silver dapple gene to about 50% of his offspring. Pa himself was rated 8.08 overall and 8.5 in tolt. Pa was foaled in Iceland in 1983. He was 14-21/2 hands tall, and had strong sturdy straight legs with excellent bone (cannon bone circumference is 31), shorter back with very well sprung ribs, a wide loin, strong croup, and excellent shoulders. His hooves were rock hard and he did well barefoot. He was a beautiful silver dapple bay color and is pictured and featured on the website about Icelandic horse colors (http://www.icelandichorse.is/silverbay.html) as the prototype for silver dapple bay gene color inheritance. Pa was 5-gaited, and all of his gaits were wonderfully smooth. He was a natural tolter with tolt being his gait of choice. He was fantastic to ride and riding him felt like he was dancing lightly across the ground. He was always very relaxed and willing to go at whatever speed you desire, and very light on the reins. He naturally arched his neck, tucked his nose, picked his front end up and pushed with his hind legs - all without the rider's help. He had no spookiness and was safe and reliable to ride. In essence, Pa was a big, strong, sturdy, well built, colorful Icelandic stallion, with tons of hair and awesome gaits. Pa was imported from Iceland by Dan Slott of MillFarm in Ancramdale, NY. Dan used Pa for breeding and as his personal riding horse for many years. He is featured extensively on Dan's video "Riding the Icelandic Horse" (for sale on his website http://icesport.com/ for $34). The horse that Dan rides throughout the video is Pa. Dan sold Pa to Heather Jackson of Seigur Icelandics in Herriman, UT in 2005. And when Heather decided to focus on her family, and sell Pa in 2006, we were exceedingly fortunate to be able to purchase him and bring him here to our Upper East Tennessee farm. He and Arvakur shared a pasture quite amicably, he is missed by Arvakur and by our barn help as well as ourselves. If horses reincarnate, we hope he comes back to us! |
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