Friday, September 25, 2009

Here's a puzzle ~ 1966 and 1968

The Icelandic foal Deca with Brenda in the summer of 1966. In the other photos of this set the Icelandic's Geira and Tata. These Icelandics were in North Royalton, Ohio.
Brenda's grandfather's neighbor had a cousin that was stationed in Iceland, married a native gal and when they returned to the US they brought several mares (some of them bred) back to the states about 1960/1965.

Geira is one of the original 1960/1965 import born in Iceland and shipped to Canada or the US and ended up in Ohio. Tata and Deca are her purebred offspring.



This photo was taken in the summer of 1968.

Deca a couple of years old in this set of photos on the bottom left, then Geira and Tata.
Brenda's grandfather's neighbor let her play with the Icelandic's and she showed the young horse Deca in 4-H.
Brenda told me, the back portion of both her Grandpa's and the neighbor's property was fenced as a whole and Grandpa had helped with the care of their earlier horse (an Appaloosa mare). As a former trainer, Grandpa was tickled to just be involved with the horse and later the ponies, and made an agreement with his neighbor Mr McCollough that he would care for and train the ponies in exchange for my use of one as my own.
But the name of the neighbors Cousin who brought these Icelandic's to the US is unknown for now.

So another piece of the puzzle.. leaving more questions.


I want to Thank Brenda for allowing me to share these priceless photos and information.
Added note: the one imported from Iceland could possibly be Geira fra Gufunesi
Problem is, I seem to be unable to find any thing about her in any registry to confirm or deny wither this is her or not.

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