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Legacy Friesians recent news..
May 10 - Fryso
, our past Legacy Friesians imported sale horse,
ridden by his trainer, Shaun
McLaughlin Myers of SKM Dressage
showed 2nd level for the first time ever and they took
2nd place in the class!!!
I am so excited to continue to follow the dressage career of Fryso!!! Way
to go Shaun and Fryso!!! More photos from today's Heart of the Valley
show at Devonwood Equestrian Centre are on his page.
May 7- Sjoukje flies from AMS to JFK and will go to Blue Diamond Stables for her CEM quarantine. Flying on the same plane as Sjoukje, our trainer from last summer/fall, Roos, is coming back to our farm! May 2-
Today Maaike,
a Legacy Friesians imported 1st premie star mare had a healthy Onne 376
x Rypke 321 filly! We have named her Amerens LF and will be keeping
her for our future breeding program. Ameren's dam Maaike is
almost a Preferent mare. We will be bringing Amerens to the Oregon
keuring, September 25th.
April 26-
Sylvia Lindstrom was here, all the way from Sweden!
At our Open House, Sylvia will demonstrated
ground driving with Ynske
April 14- Hilbrant
and Hindrik Lauwers have arrived! June called me after receiving
Hilbrant and she was overjoyed to finally meet him. She said he was
so much more regal than the photos and she was so happy with him.
She will be sending photos soon. And we have received Hindrik Lauwers
at our farm!!! He is amazing looking and so sweet. Click on
his photo below to see some photos after his arrival.
March 21- We are pleased to announce that we are about to break ground for our new indoor arena and attached barn. It will be a full court dressage arena so our customers can try our our sale horses in comfort during the winter months. There will be a view of the coastal mountain range from the arena, which will be open on 2 sides. March 18- Our
previous sale horse Iris
just had a healthy Onne
376 filly! Congratulations to her new owner Lynn, of Candor NY!! "Marissa
(tht's Iris' new name) had a baby filly tonight while our vet was in the
barn looking at another mare. She's gorgeous and incredibly precocious,
the fastest up, fastest learner, most persistent thing I've ever seen."
Here is a photo of her at 15 minutes old!
March 16- Check
out this month's Horses Inc. magazine! On page 12 you will see a
great photo of Sylvia Lindstrom riding our previous sale horse Pedro,
during last year's Northwest Fair and Expo. You can order this magazine
at www.horsesinc.net.
Pedro is now owned by Kathy Dodson, of California.
March 1- Well the weather around here has been great so we are going to be importing Hindrik Lauwers in April!!! Sylvia Lindstrom will be coming to our place with Hindrik in April, so if you are looking for a serious dressage horse, please consider making an appointment to come to our farm, to try out Hindrik while she is here! February 23rd- The
2007 offspring statistics are out and I have analyzed the data to show
the results of how each sire's offspring did at the 2007 keurings.
Click here
to see a graphical representation of the 2007 keuring results showing the
stallions with the most keured offspring to least, and breaking down the
# of 1st premie, 2nd premie, 3rd premie, and no premie offspring they had.
January 30th- I
have changed my main email address to sue@legacyfriesians.com
January 23rd- I
have now created a special webpage (complete with breeding values) for
World Champion, Haitse
425, and also have video from him that I filmed after he won the championship.
See our stallion
page for more info.
January 16th- I am back in the USA- I decided while in Holland to purchase Oene R.V. with my friend Kathleen- so now we are 50/50 partners on this gorgeous stallion candidate! We intend to import him and enter him in the Oregon keuring, to hopefully get him entry to the 70 day test. He was recently in the 70 day test in Holland among this year's newly approved stallions and did well on points there, and made it to one of the last 8 left (5 were approved). His owners decided he was a bit young and pulled him out- so he was never eliminated- and we think (and hope) the time will be right for him in Sept 2008! January 13th- At
the stallion show yesterday, Haitse
425 won the World Championship and
Beart
411 was Reserve Champion. It was tough for the judges to pick
the top 2 as there were so many that showed well this year. Interestingly
enough, Haitse and Beart also were top performers according to the
number of 1st premie foals that they sired in 2007. They each sired
33 first premie foals in 2007!
January 9th- I
am writing this from Holland! The weather is great, not too cold and not
raining like in Oregon. Yesterday
I rode Oene the
incredible stallion they have who went to the 70 day test. He was
very easy to ride. This was the first stallion I ever rode!
I also rode Oebele
and played Friesian Football with him. Click here
to watch a video that I filmed yesterday, of Oebele scoring a goal.
He LOVES the football- even when turned out loose in the arena, he will
go play football by himself! I now have a new
video of Oene- what an INCREDIBLE mover. Email
me if you are interested in Oene or Oeblele- I expect them to sell
by the Open day this Sunday. We will be importing a 9 year old mare
soon, named Wieneke.
She looks more like a gelding/stallion with her long forelock and mane
and what a sweet girl and great riding horse she is.
January 3rd- Happy New Year! I am getting ready to go to Friesland for the Stallion Show! I will be gone from January 7-15. I can check email and update the website from there, so the best way to contact me is by email. If you'd like more photos/videos of the horses in Holland, I will be able to provide that and ride them as well. There are also many more that are not on my site yet. I do expect many of the horses in Holland to sell at the Open house we are having on Sunday January 13. If you'd like to go to our Dutch business partner's open day, the day after the stallion show (Sunday, January 13), please email me and I will give you the directions and contact info. December 21 - I
just got this update from Pedro's owner, Kathy of California. Pedro
made his debut in jumping recently! We love to hear updates from
our customers!!!
December 20 - By day I work at Xerox as an image scientist, on color printers- Xerox has made a website from which you can send a free color postcard to a soldier serving in Iraq! Click here, or go to http://www.letssaythanks.com November 26 - We are now accepting orders for our 2008 Calendars! This year's is better than ever with 12 months of Fantastic Friesian Action! Click on the calendar for more details! October 28th
- Congratulations to Kathleen of Beavercreek for riding her Legacy Friesian,
Dolce in her first show EVER, winning first place in her Intro A and B
classes (a Blue Ribbon Show at Devonwood Equestrian Centre).
October 21st -We had a Fryso saddle for sale, but it has now sold: October 7th - Congratulations to Kim Davidson and her Legacy Friesian Import- Inne! It was Kim's first horse show, EVER, and she and Inne won Reserve Champion in the IFSHA World Championship Horse show in the Country Pleasure class! Inne also took Reserve Champion in the In-Hand class... he was a past Stallion candidate in Holland, so he knew exactly what to do to show off for the judges! October 6th
- We are listing some really special deals right on on our 'Other
horses for Sale' Page. Xandra
is a 2008 Anton filly for $8500 (in Michigan). Maverick
is a 3 year old stallion- ready to start, for $15,000 (in Washington state).
Lisabeth
is a 4 year old mare in Maryland, started under saddle, for $13,000.
Check the huge selection we have, by clicking on the following link: Other
horses for Sale.
September 27th
- Oregon keuring news. Legacy Friesians import, Lars
was pronounced Grand Champion Gelding (congratulations Kathleen!)
and our own Ziebrand
LF got Reserve Champion colt!
September -
2007 Monroe, Washington keuring news
Sept 24th- Around
October 1, we will be getting in our new Legacy Friesians Bumper
stickers in! I will be mailing them out to all of our customers.
If you are a customer of ours (or you have listed your horse on our 'Other
Horses for Sale page' ), please email
me and let me know your current address.
September 23rd
We took Arabella, Haijs, and Dolce on a trail ride today
September 10th- We
took 2 sale horses, Haijs
and Ynske to the
beach today... We are just having too much fun riding these beautiful
boys on the beach! Click on Ynske's name to see the incredible photos
we were able to capture of him in action.
September 1st- We
took 2 sale horses, Haijs
and Tetje to the
beach today... We went to Pacific City and although it was crowded,
both horses did great.
August 25th-Ynske
and Lars just arrived
at our farm after being imported!! Click on the photo of Ynske below
to watch the video of them enjoying a fine Oregon evening.
If you like to see Friesians playing, this is a "must-see".
August 23rd-
Click the photo below to see photos from the Walnut Hill Driving Comp and
our trip to NY
August 17th- Did
you know that Legacy Friesians owner, Sue Zoltner, was published in the
recent August 2007 issue of FHANA's The Friesian magazine? Click on the
photo below to read the article and see our advertisement.
August 15th-
I will be away for several days at the Walnut
Hill driving competition in Pittsford, NY. Pittsford NY is my
home town, and the Walnut Hill show is the world's largest gathering of
carriages and coach horses in the Classical Driving Sports! Ex-Oregonian
Clay
Maier and Lea McFarland-Bushnell will be the featured exhibition, so
it will be great to see them again, and their Friesian Spectacular act.
I am also meeting Christer, from Sweden, and we will finalize the arrangements
for our new REDLINE
tack/carriage line made especially for Friesians that you will be able
to order through this website. Stay tuned for more details.
When I arrive back in Oregon, our new trainer will also arrive, Rose.
She has trained horses in Holland and Spain and will be staying with us
in Newberg for the next few months! She will be helping us get our
horses in shape for the keuring at Devonwood on Sept 27 and also riding
our sale horses every day.
July 31-Today we would like to express our sincere condolences to the Ackerberg family of Montrose Minnesota, whose barn burned down yesterday, most likely due to a recent hay delivery that ended up spontaneously combusting. Luckily, there were no human lives lost, and our past sale horse, Majoor, is okay, but they lost 7 other horses in the fire (103 horses were saved). Ton and I recently visited their beautiful barn, and we met many of their wonderful Saddlebred horses, and the Ackerberg family's loss is just unthinkable to me. There was a huge outpouring of support to help: There were over 300 plus friends, helpers, neighbors, rescue workers, etc. here in a matter of minutes but, everything was gone. The barn was completely engulfed in flames in a matter of 10 minutes. Our barn crew are "hero's", they risked their lives going in to save as many horses as they possibly could. Both of my daughters horses were lost in the flames... one mare and her foal... one pleasure horse... a two year old and a three year old gelding By "Trust Fund". If you would like to send a card, their address
is
July 25-Mark
and his new family at the beach! We took Mark and Wybrand to the
beach today. Mark's new owners, the Bentz family of Oregon, went
with us. Mark will go to his new home tomorrow! We will miss
you, Mark!!!
July 20-Ton
riding Arabella at Devonwood Equestrian Centre. We took 4 horses
to Devonwood July 20th and Ton will be riding them there again today July
21. We will bring them home for our OPEN HOUSE tomorrow from 11-2pm
at our farm. Directions are on our
CONTACT
page.
Wybrand is now HERE! He is gorgeous!!! We will be having another open house in honor of his arrival on Sunday July 22nd! Directions are on our CONTACT page. The hours will again be from 11 am to 2 pm. Click here to see photos from our July 8th open House
June 29- Our
business partner in Holland has sent us an accomplished Dutch trainer to
work with our sale horses!! His name is Ton, and is now here, and
will stay until August! Ton has about 15 years training and
showing Friesians and Warmbloods in the Netherlands. If you are in the
Portland area, and you would like to bring your Friesian in for a lesson
or training ride with Ton, we can now accomodate you.
June 26- Congratulations
to Romy and Stu for finally getting their Legacy Friesians stallion, Majoor
home, after finishing up his CEM quarantine! They will bring Majoor
to their keuring in persuit of getting him admitted to the 70 day test.
Majoor says he is ready! Click on his photo to go to his webpage
May 21- Legacy Friesians is proud to announce that we have a new Affiliate through which we will be offering top quality Harnesses and Carriages imported from Poland, the finest in the world! www.equus-redline.com
May 10- Legacy Friesians would like to thank Bryan Quinsey for the tremendous difference he has made for the FHANA organization during the short time he was the Executive Director. We encourage you to tell the board of directors how you feel about the loss of Bryan Quinsey. April 25- Planning to take your Friesian to a keuring this year? Click here to see the list of keuring locations and tentative dates. Our local keuring is planned for September 27, at Devonwood Equestrian Centre!!! It will be organized by the Cascade Friesian club. Not sure what a keuring is all about? Click here to read about keurings, and also about Friesians in general. Also new, I am very proud to announce, I finally have put together a page that describes the difference between the Dutch levels in dressage (L,M, Z, ZZ) and the USDF levels. Click here to see that page.
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