Annie, has been finding her photo and has allowed them to be shared on this Blog. It will take me a few days to match photos with captions, so please bare with me.
Valur ~ 3 gaited Icelandic Stallion imported from Iceland. Can see a lot of Dyfra in him.
Annie's friend Molly Warner riding imported mare Gletta. They had no saddles and the bridles were dry-rotted pieces of junk they found hanging on nails in the barn.
Annie's friend Molly Warner riding imported mare Gletta. They had no saddles and the bridles were dry-rotted pieces of junk they found hanging on nails in the barn.
An endurance ride in Vermont in the early '70's.
This imported mare, Tinna, was wild as a March hare, couldn't be gentled, so Annie brought her to Washington D.C. and against city ordinances, she lived with Annie for months so that I could spend time with her.
A young stallion pulls a sleigh in West Virginia. 1966
The imported horses were not trained. Annie and her friends helped her get them started, then they rode for fun.
The imported horses were not trained. Annie and her friends helped her get them started, then they rode for fun.
A few months after the mares arrived, they began having foals. Anne Dunbar and Annie Shields.
16 year old Annie.
Bonnie Weiss helped Annie with the Icelandics for years, first in Ashton MD, then later , after Annie bought the 50 horses in West Virginia.
Blesi was the stallion who came from Iceland in utero and was among the first batch of babies. He wasn't related to any mares (except his mother). Here he is pictured as a three-year old.
Blesi as an older horse. Annie always have thought he has a debauched look about him in this picture
Blesi was the stallion who came from Iceland in utero and was among the first batch of babies. He wasn't related to any mares (except his mother). Here he is pictured as a three-year old.
Blesi as an older horse. Annie always have thought he has a debauched look about him in this picture
2 comments:
The 3rd up from the bottom really reminds me of my difficult mare, Red. Maybe Red and Dryfa have some common ancestry. Red is a "mystery horse." She is unregistered, and my attempts to find her breeder have not been successful. She is 6, and was bred in Wa. I am told. She is a red dun. She looks a lot like some of the iceys on here, with her coarse, rugged head and good bone in her legs. I am most interested in what you wrote on your post about Dryfa, on the thread about that crazy black stallion. What is the supplement that works with Dryfa? I have used Electrodex and Raspberry leaf with a lot of success. If I take her off either of these, she starts to have abad attitude again and be way more flighty. I have to feed mine concentrates, as her ribs keep showing when I don't, and that heps her up too. She is the most difficult horse I have known, but very exciting, and responsive. She is fun to play NH with (except when she sends a kick over my head as a joke, or other such nonsense.)Nice to know you had such success w/ yours, and she started off way more nervous than mine.
Like your art, too. I do art w/ Icelandics. I make the saints ride on them in my icons.
---Ksenia from SE TX
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