Words that have true meaning today. We haven´t had so much snow here at Skeiðvellir since we moved here. The roads are closed in the surrounding area and the school was closed today. Well our children were not so upset about that :o)

 I went out and took some photos when the wind was not so bad.

My father Siggi out in the snowstorm.

Led Zeppelin song about Iceland

Part of our training program is to sometimes let the horses run free  a couple of kilometers. We are so lucky here at Skeiðvellir that we have a good large trail on our land so that they can run for ca 10 km with no risk of crossing any roads and cars.
The horses really like this and it keeps the spirit happy. I took some photos of them today and they went really wild in all the snow.

It has been really cold and beautiful weather here in Iceland the last weeks. Today I used the oppurtunitie to take some photos of Fylkir frá Bakka, a four year old stallion with sensational mane and colour.  Hope you enjoy them.

The 1st prize stallion Spói frá Hrólfsstaðahelli has been sold to Sweden. Spói is a great fourgaiter that has a beautiful colour, good gaites and an outstanding character.

We are looking forward to see him on the competition track in future with his new owner.

I have been thinking a little bit what people are searching for when they are looking for a future horse. Is it high leg movement ? Yes many would say. Good seperated gaites ? yes would probably most people say. Character ?? Here I would scream out a loud YES!!!. Character is the most important thing in my opinion when I am searching for a good horse. Without a good caracter it is hard to bring out any good things of the horse.

On the photo you can see an example of a stallion with excellent caracter. Dagfari is five year old as my daugther Guðlaug Birta and his calm and friendly caracter makes him a perfect horse in my opinion. Note that this is a horse with great willingness and good movements...you can see him on the breedingshow last summer by clicking here

The 15th of september we got a visit from a reporter from Hestafréttir, one of the biggest horsenews web in Iceland. They took an interwiew with me to hear a bit about what we have planned for the autumn and winter. The interwiew is in Icelandic but it shows a bit how the farm Skeiðvellir looks like. Hope you enjoy it :O) 

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Idunn avelsförening was visting Skeiðvellir last monday. Siggi Sæm had a lecture about the breeding at Skeiðvellir and then we had a horseshow later in the evening.  Earlier that day the group visited other breeding farms in this area and then ad

Last wednesday we had a funny and a bit different group that was visiting us here at Skeiðvellir. This group of seven men from Sweden did probably not expect that they would be traveling to Iceland since they were only told that they were going to travel to a country that  is warm  and were they could bath. Probably thought Mallorca but then they arrived in Iceland to experience a couple of days of adventure here in the south. We had a great evening with them here at Skeiðvellir. After the dinner we split them up in two teams and had a competition between them. The first task was to saddle a horse.....sound easy, but maybe not if you have never ridden in your entire life! Next task was to run through a track that had some difficulties in the ridinghall... with a horse. At last they ended the competition in "Skeifukast", throwing horseshoes and collecting points. Great evening and thank you for the visit.  

The 12th of september we received a visit from a riding club in Sweden called Stigandi. They were on a tour in Iceland with my cooperator and friend Brita Pantzar from Sweden.  She runs a company called Uppleva resor and has been busy this autumn bringing groups to Iceland that we plan together. Stigandi had a mix program with clinic, riding and farm visits.  Thank you Stigandi group for a nice evening here at Skeiðvellir and welcome back any time.

Photo: Stigandi group watching a couple of salehorses that we showed them.

I have added some new photos to the photogallery. Click on the link photogallery in the right corner to see them.  Hope you enjoy them.