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About usAt present time we have five mares, two stallions, two gelding and four foals. Our stables have room for eighteen horses, whereof five of the rooms are slightly larger to accommodate mares.
Our riding instructorsOur riding instructors are:
HistoryBy Heidi Solberg I started with horses when I was 12. My dream was fulfilled when I
at the age of 14 got my own horse, a five year old draught horse called
Sandmar. My interest for horses dwindled in my late teens, but was revived
in 1991 when my oldest foster daughter Ida, then 11 years, wanted a
horse. I was easily persuaded to start with horses again when my husband
and youngest daughter Marita got interested in horses. We soon had four
horses, and the whole family was involved in horses. By 1994 we had
moved to Austmarka, approximately 15 minutes away from Kongsvinger,
where we ran a riding school in the period from 1996 until 2002. At
the most we had 24 horses of various stock/breed. In the fall of 2002
we started running weekend courses in Western riding instead of the
regular riding school. At the start of the nineties we researched different
types of breeding, training, and different breed of horse. Our fascination
for the American quarter horse grew steadily. At that time Kathrine
Strand Hammond tipped us of about the potential market for American
quarter horses in Norway. In 1998 Katherine and I visited Tennessee
in the USA, where we met up with Ann and Harold Shores, Katherine’s
friends and former employers. Harold put us in contact with the Bishop
family in Ohio. Form them we chose and bought six mares, which we imported
back to Norway the following spring. All six horses where served at
departure. Unfortunately, two of them where emty, and a third had to
be put down on the account of a suspected malignant tumour. The mares
arrived at Mellandtorpet 10 of July 1998.
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