On Thursday evening a group of twenty-two  young  riders from ten different countries arrived to Skeiðvellir for a three day FEIF- breeding horse trainer seminar. The seminar started on Thursday evening with a welcome dinner and a presentation of the teachers and the riders.
Early start on Friday morning with Magnús Lárusson and Svanhildur Hall (Úrvalshestar) with lecture about conformation and presentation of a horse  followed by practical training. After lunch Agnar Snorri held a lecture about riding assessment and talked about his experience in that field. Then the riders got to watch a demo  of a typical breedingshow program that Sigurður Óli Kristinsson performed. The next task was that all riders got a horse to ride in practical training for the riding assessment and afterwards they all got comments form both Marlise Grimm, Sigurbjörn frá Lundum and Agnar Snorri. In the evening there was a dinner in the barn and open panel discussions with the breedingtrainers Hekla Katharina, Viðar Ingólfsson, Sigurður Óli Kristinsson, Agnar Snorri  and the judges Magnús Lárusson, Svanhildur Hall, Marlise Grimm and Sigurbjörn.  Today everbody got a second chance to improve their riding assessment and got comments again afterwards.  Hekla Katharina Kristinsdóttir told about her experince in showing in breedingshows and in competitions both in Iceland and on the WM in Austria 2011.
The  last day is tomorrow and then there will be a evaluation of the seminar and a lecture with Siggi Sæm about shoeing a breeding horse. It has been great to watch all these brilliant future riders and I am sure that we will see allot of them in the future on the breedin track.  More photos from the seminar will come the next days.

This riding tour offers a unique scenery during the tour. Mountain Hekla, Rangá River, Þjófafoss waterfalla and much more. Great tour if you do not have time to join a longer tour but still like to experience good horses, landscape and people.

Day by day itinerary, price and further information you can find here.

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Some days are just better then others. In company with 24 other ladies I have invested in this beautiful young stallion Hjálmur frá Ásum. His father is Ás frá Ármóti ( 8,45) and the mother is Gróska frá Ásum ( 8,28) and as you can see he is stunning! He will be 2 years this summer and is already 1,36 cm high and has great movements and a lovely caracter. This weekend we had our first meeting here at Skeiðvellir and what a great group. I am really looking forward to our future meetings  when we get together to admire our horse, wich we hope will be a future star.

Photo: Hulda G. Geirsdóttir

We have never had so many horses for training and for sale here at Skeiðvellir as we have at the moment. Many promising stallions are in the stable rigth now with very good pedigree. They are after Orri frá Þúfu, Klettur frá Hvammi, Dynur frá Hvammi, Álfur frá Selfossi and Þorsta frá Garði.  

We also have good sale horses in training at the moment and usually we get new horses every week, horses that would be suitable for competition, breeding or as riding horse. You can see them all here.

On the photo is Flóki that will be 5 this year  and Dabbi.