Review at year 2007..

Looking back at year 2007, my first thought is that it has been a year full of costs.  The los of 2 foals for this year in November and December 2006 has caused a lot of trouble and a lot of bills from the vet. And also shortly before Christmas my suspicion about the los of Wimpy as a broodmare because of her abortion in November due to the Herpes Virus, was confirmed by the vet as he called me to give me the result from her biopsy. My meeting with the Herpes Virus has been a very expensive and sad experience, and it really did put itŽs mark on year 2007 for me..

Having said that, the year also brought me some positive experiences. I went to visit 3 studs, Sax Arabians, Germany, The Kossack Stud, Holland and Arabian Fantasie, Holland, and I bought an amazing filly foal from Arabian Fantasie - Elunah Monpelou - she is my little star for the future. My visits at these studs also really opened my eyes for the russian arabian, and I have no doubt in my mind that this is the direction for me to go in, when it comes to breeding as my goal is uniting high show and riding qualities in the same horse.

We welcomed our little russian prinsess Elunah Monpelou at our stud, but also another russian related horse entered our stud - Cereniza - sired by The King Himself, Kubinec, whom I also met during my visit at The Kossack Stud. Cereniza came to us in August and we are looking forward to entering her in our breeding program in the spring 2008.

We said godbye to GR Nakeel and Harley Davidson, they both had new lovely homes. Sadly, we also had to say difinitively godbye to Cody Makida D. who passed the rainbow bridge at the young age of 5. We have cried a lot of tears and sent so many thoughts to her owner Betina in Tappernoeje, Denmark. Cody leaves one single offspring - our yearling Zeems Cheeky D.

We have been a bit more active in riding competitions than last year as we now have 2 stallions  beeing ridden and beeing active in competitions. D. ShanŽn Jan Memory has as usual attended in western shows, and PA Nafal Ibn Sharim has been attending dressage competitions for the first time. He has been a pleasure to bring along, and for sure I will start him again next year. Wimpy was attending the endurence class at Scandinavian Riding Show in Randers and she did great. It was her first time away from home beeing ridden and it was very interesting to learn a bit about the endurence discipline too.

Concerning the shows, it didnŽt go quite as planned as I withdraw Nafal from the 2 shows he was entered in, as I didnŽt find him 100% ready. But Sweet Miss D. had her debut in the show ring and she was awarded 38,33 points at The National Show, and 88.63 points at The International A-Show at Vilhelmsborg, Denmark. We are very pleased and proud of her results.

At the end of the year we still have 3 mares in foal, and we hardly canŽt wait untill they are due. It will be 3 excieting foals for us as our Simeon Sadik daughter CAS Harmony is in foal to Junior World Champion Reserve CE Magnum and the first foals sired by Nafal will be born.

With this in mind, we look into 2008 as a year full of joy and wish you all the best in the year to come!


December 2007

WE WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

18th of December
We had the answer from the biopsy from Wimpy, and the result was not quite good.. Wimpy has a lot of cicatricial tissue in uterus and that is the reason that she didnŽt get in foal. There is a small but expensive chance that she trough some medical treatment will be able to produce foals again, and at the moment I am considering what to do.

9th of December
Nafal and I competed in a dressage competition at the local riding school SIR. He was a bit nervous in the warm up but more relaxed in the arena and again I am very satisfied with his results and behavior.


4th of December
The made a biopsy from Wimpy today and we expect to have the result in a few weeks.. We hope for the best but also fear the worst case...


1st of December
New pics of Elunah Monpelou in the gallery.


November 2007

13th of November
The vet was here to check Cereniza. She has fully recovered from her injure but unfortunately she came in heat a few days after beeing sedated for stitching up, and today we know for sure that she has lost her foal.

11th of November
Elunah arrived at Davidson Arabians at 2 am in the night after 8 hours drive from Arabian Fantasie. She seems rather cool and is okay by having her own boks with out her mum - where there is food is a good place to be, she seems to be thinking.. Once again thanks to Arabian Fantasie for the purchase of this little gourgeous princess.

Elunah Monpelou

10th of November
Together with an old friend of mine I went to see The Kossack Stud in Holland on the trip down to pick up Elunah at Arabian Fantasie. The Kossack Stud is an amazing place, not much has been left to coinicidences when it comes to the wellfare of the horses. We saw a lot of horses and those how made the biggest impression on me was the little filly by WH Justice - Adream of Kossack - she sure can live up to her name..

Adream of Kossack by WH Justice

And the young colt Kunar T, by Nadir I - he has an amazing trot and I have never seen anything alike - so elastic, such a lift and yet so full of power..
 
Kunar T by Nadir I

And of course - the King himself - Kubinec - enjoying his life in an open barn where he can walk in and out as he pleases to. Amazing that he still breeds aprox 50 mares every year.

Kubinec - sire of our broodmare Cereniza

Thanks a lot for your time Robbie, it was a great day with a lot of stories and impressions, and thanks to you too Nina, with out your company the trip would have felt much longer than is was :-)

7th of November
I went to visit Sax Arabians in Germany to see Massari Ibn Massimo, Massimo Ibn Mirokan and Mirokan  - Elunahs half brother, sire and grand sire.

Massimo Ibn Mirokan - Sire of Elunah Monpelou

I also met a fantastic old boy - Nadir I - really a great joy to see a 20 year old stallion looking and behaving as if he was 5 years old.

Nadir I at the age of 20...

And thanks again to Monika and Reinhard for your time, it was a great day for me, meeting you and many of your lovely horses.

4th of November
Our dog Diana acieved breeding aproval today. She was at a national dog show and received a 2nd price, and since the results from her x-ray is good enough too - she is now ready for breeding.
 


October 2007

20 th of October
D. ShanŽn Jan Memory attended in Jysk Mesterskab, the last westernshow for him this year. He has a hard time handling when the crow is clapping, so we will have to work on that during the winter.

18th of October
We have received the pics from Trine Christensen from the BSR RideŽN Slide westernshow in Bramming - find them in the gallery for D. ShanŽn Jan Memory

15th of October
Somehow Cereniza got injured in the pasture, and the vet was here to stitch her up. She will have to be stabled for a couple of days and we hope the best for her.

14th of October
Activities updated

13th of October
PA Nafal Ibn Sharim was attending in a competition only for purebred arabians. It was his first competition on foreign ground and indoor. He did okay and we are quite satisfied with his performance. His results are added on the stallion page and there are pics in the gallery.

6th of October
Our results from BSR RideŽN Slide western show in Bramming are now added to the stallion page. D. ShanŽn Jan Memory and I had a great show with a 2nd place as our best result. Pics will follow later - Horsephotographer Trine Christensen was there, and we are looking forward to see her shots.


September 2007

26th of September
The examination boks was used for the first time by Vet. Mrs Lene Vad from Nűrlund Hestehospital, and with succes.. Cereniza is scanned in foal to our D. ShanŽn Jan Memory :-)


23th of September
Our new examination boks is finished, and we are now ready for the 2008 breeding season.

19th  of September
Today the carpeter was here to repair the roof on the indoor riding arena, which was damaged by the very hard weather we had in the beginning of August with hagel coming in size like gulf balls.. He brought with him a lift and we took advantage of the situation and cleaned up and changes all the lights in there.

We also made a few pics of the stable and the pastures from aprox 8 meters in the air.


15th of September
Secretly Nafal and I was attending our first dressage competition by the lokal Silkeborg Ridingschool today. We were attending in LC1, but outside cometition as we still have some comunication problems now and then.
 

I was very nervous and if it hadnŽt been for my true supporters Lisbet and Katja, I probably would never have made it to go as far as sitting in the sadle today. But it all went a lot better than expected - Nafal was behaving very nice and was not affected either by the wind that was pretty rough, or all the other horses out there. Our score was almost 60%, and that would have given us a 3rd place if not competing outside competition. So thanks a lot for your support girls :-)
More pics to find in the gallery.

13th of September
New pics of our yearling filly Zeems Cheeky D. and also one of Sweet Miss D. from the International A-show at Vilhelmsborg.

Zeems Cheeky D.
(Nazeem Ibn Jashana x Cody Makida D.)

2nd of September
Nafal and I are doing progress together in our riding and there are a few new pics from our training in the gallery.

I have received some photos from Arabian Fantasie in Holland of our little Elunah Monpelou, find them too in the gallery. And thanks a LOT for the photos Abigail and Chris :-)


August 2007

29th of August
New pics of Cereniza in the gallery.

19th of August
We welcome our new broodmare Cereniza and would like to thank Petra Hammer, Germany for making it possible that Cereniza could go to us.

Cereniza

(Kubinec x Cenika)

14th of August
In the weekend i attended my first endurence ever at Scandinavian Riding Show in Randers
. Wimpy and I had a nice trip dispite that she fell and was limping afterwards. This happened short before the finish line, so we walked the last bit of the route, which disqualified us. But most important for me was that she was found okay in the vet control afterwards:-) And I definetely learned a lot about endurence and will be ready to give it another try some other time ;-)

9th of August
Nafal has been ridden at Husteds by Mille and is now back home again. We are looking forward to riding him a lot durig the winther.


July 2007

Sweet Miss D. did wonderful at both The National Show and The International A-Show at Vilhelmsborg. Shown by Lone Husted she was awarded with 38,33 points at The National Show and 88,63 points at The International A-show. Results we are very proud of, especially because it was her debut in the show ring.

Jobbe, our cat with the broken leg is now walking around using all 4 legs again :-)

I have withdrawn Nafal from the shows at Vilhelmsborg. In my opnion he is not 100 % ready to go, so I wonŽt let him. I needs more time to get all "set" and grow wide instead of growing "up". He will stay at Husteds for another 2 weeks for riding.

I went to visit Arabian Fantasie in Holland to see a very special straight russian filly foal by Massimo Ibn Mirokan out of a Vympel granddaughter. This lovely filly will join us at Davidson Arabians when she is old enough to leave her mum. Thanks to Abigail and Chris for giving us the posibillity to purchace this lovely filly.

Elunah Monpelou

As Wimpy didnŽt get in foal this year she will be attending the Scandinavian Riding Show for Purebred Arabians in August in Randers, Denmark.


June 2007

D. ShanŽn Jan Memory is getting better and better as a pleasure horse and he has just attended another show on Fyn - our photographer Jani Pedersen was there and you will find her shots from the ouside warm up arena in the gallery.

We now give up on getting Wimpy in  foal for this year. This leaves us with 3 mares in foal for the next spring.

Sweet Miss D. and PA Nafal Ibn Sharim have left for showtraining. They will be shown both at The National-  and The International Show at Vilhelmsborg, Aarhus, Denmark by Lone Husted.

Congratulations to Rikke Jensen with the purchase of our gelding Harley Davidson. We wish you all the best in your future together.

Also there are a few new pics in the gallery, mainly of our cats

Sweet Miss D. is in foal to Nafal due April 2008 :-)

Our cat Jobbe has broken his right hind leg. Luckily it is a simple fracture and the vet tells us that he will be fine again in a couple of weeks.
 


May 2007

New pics in the gallery of our stallion D. ShanŽn Jan Memory

Victoria Lynn is now in foal to Nafal due March 2008 - this foal will the first offspring by Nafal and we are looking very much forward to see this very special foal.

Congratulations to Veronica Krüger, Hornslet, Denmark with the purchase of our Madallan-Madheen son GR Nakeel - we wish you all the best for the future.

Cody Makida D. very sadly passed away on sunday the 13th of May. Cody was a very gentle and loving young mare - no one will ever be like her. We will miss her dearly and our thoughts goes to her owner Betina and her family - we cry with you :-(
Cody is the dam of our youngster Zeems Cheeky D.

The sales list is updated.

We managed to find the right sadle for Nafal and now have it returned from the sadlery, so it should fit him perfectly now - and finally Nafal is starting to work under sadle again. We will go easy on him until we know for sure that our problems are solved. - New pics in the gallery..

It appears that we are having some problems getting our mares in foal after the abortions last year, so at the monemt we only have one in foal :-(  But together with our Vet we keep working on it.


April 2007

CAS Harmony is now in foal to CE Magnum due February 2008 :-) Wimpy came in heat again, so she has been covered again, and so has Victoria Lynn and Sweet Miss D. They will all be scanned in week 18.

Our dog Diana passed the Mental test with a very fine result - there are pics from the test in the gallery, also there are several other new pics in the gallery.

We have now said goodbye to NK Seif El Dine and we wish him all the best in the future.

The new stables are almost finish and the pics are now up - find them here.

The breeding season has now started and both Wimpy and CAS Harmony has been covered, they will be scanned in week 15.

The last weeks we have been working on expanding our stables with room for 4 more horses, and the work is now finally beginning to shape up. Pics will come up soon.

Seif has made great progress and is now doing okay as a riding horse. Find pics of Seif here.

Also a lot of new pics in the gallery.


March 2007

Stallion day is now over and Nafal is now back home again :-) Find pics from the stallion day in the gallery.

Our black mare CAS Harmony has been testet for colours, she has EE which means that she is homozygos for black.

Seif has been a bit jumpy, but he is now lightly backed and is doing progress. Find pics of Seif here.

New pics of D. ShanŽn Jan Memory in the gallery from the Clinic the 3rd and 4th of March - it was a tough weekend for both of us, but defenitely worth it.

Also find a few other new pics in the gallery.


February 2007

PA Nafal Ibn Sharim has now left home for the next 4 weeks, where he will be en show training at Husted Arabians by Lone Husted

We welcome NK Seif El Dine. Seif is here too to be broken in and we are looking forward to working with him. Click here to find pics of Seif.

We have now said goodbye to Bethnas Hamlet, him and his owner Katja are now ready to continue on their own. We wish you the best of luck in the future.


January 2007

The 27th of January horse photographer Jani Pedersen was here to take pics of our stallion PA Nafal Ibn Sharim - check out the gallery.. Thanks for all the lovely pics of my beloved boy Jani :-)

PA Nafal Ibn Sharim was attending a dressage clinic and there are a few pics from the clinic in his gallery.

The horse we have in training, Bethnas Hamlet, is now being ridden, and he is very cooperative and a quick learner - click here to see pics of Hamlet.

Our site has been expanded with a site for activities that we plan on attending with our horses.

We wish you all a happy New Year!!