>There is a gelding listed on dreamhorse by the name of >Hrafn for sale and this is the link to him. >http://www.amazinggraceranch.com/hrafn.html >I am not considering buying him but trying to help a >friend. I am looking for opinions to see if I am on >the right page.
I know Gambur, he was born at Rock Ranch, where the sire Gymir fra Skardi lives. I worked there for awhile, halter training and doing basic ground work with weanling Icelandics, and 4 imported, barely handled 2 year old Gypsy Vanner fillies. Gambur didn't get handled much and so was difficult to catch out in a huge pasture when we first went to halter him. Once he was handled a bit, he really settled down and had a sweet personality. He and Hrafn are my filly Roka's 1/2 brothers. Roka is very intelligent, friendly, well conformed, and nicely gaited. I think Hrafn was born at Amazing Grace. I never met him. I think Gambur is better built but Hrafn is younger, and might be still in that gangly stage. Gymir, the sire, is an awesome horse, and produces very nice foals with good dispositions (of course the mares have something to do with that as well. He is nicely 5 gaited and very, very gentle. Kids ride him. I used to exercise him and their Vanner stallion (no stallion experience until these two, but they were so easy to handle) and hand-bred Gymir to my mare Lilja. At Rock Ranch, they do ride in a snaffle with dropped noseband, but I've never seen them put on tight. They had some treeless saddles made in Iceland, that were very well-made, and fit well, if you like the flat seat style. I only met Kristiana, the owner of Amazing Grace Ranch briefly a few times when she visited Rock Ranch. She seemed knowledgable about horses and was nice. It looks like they're just using the nose band as a halter to show more of the head. Cherie Western North Carolina Lilja, Roka (Icelandics)and Tyra (Fjord)
