Breeding Services
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 Pa fra Laugarvatni Pa is grandsire to Frami fra Ragnheidarstodum (IS 1991187750), a tall popular bay imported stallion in California. Although he has not produced 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 passes the silver dapple gene to about 50% of his offspring. Pa himself is rated 8.08 overall and 8.5 in tolt. Pa was foaled in Iceland in 1983. He stands 14-21/2 hands tall, and has 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 are rock hard and he does well barefoot. He is 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 is 5-gaited, and all of his gaits are wonderfully smooth. He is a natural tolter with tolt being his gait of choice. He is fantastic to ride and he feels like he is dancing lightly across the ground. He is very relaxed and willing to go at whatever speed you desire, and very light on the reins. He naturally arches his neck, tucks his nose, picks his front end up and pushes with his hind legs - all without the rider's help. He has no spookiness and is safe and reliable to ride. In essence, Pa is 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. We have a small breeding program, and our goal with Pa is to breed 4-5 of our mares per year. We would like to make him available for breeding to as many Icelandic owners in this area as possible. We feel that he is a solid fantastic stallion with excellent qualities in gait, conformation, color, personality and size and will produce very nice large foals for trail and show. For this reason we are keeping our breeding fees low ($500 per mare, live offspring guaranteed, mare upkeep fees apply). We are not set-up for AI, all breeding will be pasture or hand-bred at our farm. If you are interested in breeding your Icelandic mare to Pa, please contact us for further information at filkaroark@embarqmail.com. |
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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. He is a fast learner and very obedient. He 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. |
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