This message is from: Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 19:56 25/10/99 -0800, you wrote:
>This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>I first saw pictures of Fjords in an article in the Canadian magazine
>HARROWSMITH about l981 I think. After reading that article I thought
>"that's the kind of horse I would like to get!" I had always been horse
>crazy as a kid but never had one, and put it all "on the back burner" so to
>speak while I was persuing my career as a Wildlife Biologist.
> When early retirement was offered in l986 (the State had a budget
>problem) I had no idea of getting into horses, but thought I ought to find
>something I was really interested in to do if I retired before the age of 50!
>
> Then I happened to see a program on Public TV about world circuses which
>showed a liberty group of fjords and I looked up the article which I had
>kept, took it to work to show someone and he told me a fellow had just
>brought some of those Fjords up to Fairbanks and they lived about 5 miles
>out the road from me! That was George Weaver.
> George made another trip "outside" to get a stallion from the Unraus and
>also brought back Stella, the ulsdun mare who's dam is Mary Thurman's Line.
>I fell in love with Stella and George decided to sell her to me, in foal to
>his new stallion Anvil's Rikolv. Since then Fjords have been my "second
>career!" Or maybe it's more like an obsession! I now have four!
>
>Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, 12 degrees after a cold sunny day...
That Harrowsmith article was my introduction to Fjords as well. As it now
turns out one of my neighbors owns the gelding that appeared as a colt in
that article. As ever it is a small world.
Richard in Scarsdale Nova Scotia where it is -8C and frosty this morning.
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Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
156 Sarty Rd
RR1 Barss Corners, NS 1-902-644-3288
CA
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