Denise said: > Wow! I finally got to the original msg from Anne > Elwell! This only cements my opinion of her. I had > talked to her on the phone several years ago when she > had some mares for sale (reducing her herd). She was > so arrogant and condecending to me.
Karen said: >>> random encounter with an Icelandic owner so I asked if she owned some. She wrote back... and said yes, she did own some Icelandic's. I wrote her back that I had three pregnant mares - that was when I was expecting my first foals. I was shocked by her reaction...she didn't even stop to ask me how long I'd owned horses, or what breeders I'd been dealing with, but just immediately lashed out that I shouldn't be breeding<<< It's an interesting history of the people in the breed in the US. My feeling is that most of the owners got into the breed as novice horse owners. Not horsemen, they easily believed whatever was said about the breed. The beginnings of the breed in the US was not based on a good solid foundation. One of the resultant problems is that they are not open to anything that is not of "iceland" (small letter "i" since I don't necessarily mean the country, but the "style"). At one point in their newsletter, there was an article about barefoot, and an article about advice from Liz Graves.... then a stop was put on anything that wasn't of "iceland". One time Ann Elwell told me, "You can't do that". My response: "...Those who say things can't be done should stand out of the way of those who are busy doing them." Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
