Is riding pretty much off-limits in Sweden in the winter, or do many people own/have access to covered arenas? Perhaps you just get out and do it like Denny in Canada. :)
I'm in California and so am very spoiled. It rains and the ground gets mucky, but nothing like I experienced in Washington state when I lived there. It rained and rained and rained and rained and rained in the winter. Then the weather changed and we got even more rain. :) (Prior to that we got a little snow.)
The fields were deep with mud. We could ride on asphalt, of course. Sometimes we even rode in the muddy fields. (I wonder how hard that is on a horse's joints and tendons. Just imagine the suction.)
Marilyn
________________________________
From: kerstin_dreborg <mb173801@bahnhof.se>
To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, January 12, 2010 7:05:34 AM
Subject: [haflingerfriends] Re: Marilyn & Dawn - thanks for both articles/posts!!
Hi Sher,
Just a small correction, the article is not about the history of the haflinger in Austria. It's about the history of the breed in Italy.
South Tyrol, where the breed has its origins, used to be part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, but is today (since the end of WW I) part of Italy. This is very important to the Italians ...
Try sending an e-mail to the Italian haflinger registry, ANACRHAI, they may have a paper copy of that favourite pic of yours so you can frame it for your home! :-) I know they used it in a brochure a couple of years ago. The address is (remove spaces) anacra @ haflinger.it and the Director, Dr. Giuseppe Pigozzi speaks/writes a very good english.
Best wishes from snowy and very cold Sweden
Kerstin
--- In haflingerfriends@ yahoogroups. com, RkyMtnTrls@. .. wrote:
>
> Thanks so much for posting that link, Marilyn!!
> _www.haflingewww. haflingewww. haflinwww. haflinwww. ha_
> (http://www.haflinge r.it/cavallo_ haflinger/ haflinger_ e.html) Aside from it having a famous picture that (to me) says so
> much about the breed, this has to be one of my all time favorite pics of a
> Haffie!! :-) (referring to the colored pic -- a ? farmer, his wife &
> dog, climbing a steep Austrian mountainside, she gettin some "help",
> holding onto the gelding's tail! :-)
> .
> I've been looking for that pic - no kidding, want to frame it for my home.
> Thanks again for posting that link!
> .
> On another note - I also re-read that article on the history of the Haffie
> in Austria. This time, I started thinking.... . I would love to save this
> article and Dawn's summary of the Haffie'
> .
> This Austrian & U.S. history is something I would like to share with
> non-Haffie owning riding friends.
> .
> Often I'm asked about Ellie's breed, and I can only repeat a few bits.
> Sometimes those friends are really interested in much more detail than I have
> memorized. :-)
> .
> I enjoy learning the Haffie's history - not just in the U.S. but back to
> the "deep roots", too :-)
> .
> Sher & EllieMae in CO
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
------------------------------------
Community email addresses:
Post message: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe: haflingerfriends-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: haflingerfriends-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
List owner: haflingerfriends-owner@yahoogroups.com
Shortcut URL to this page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/haflingerfriendsYahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/haflingerfriends/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/haflingerfriends/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
haflingerfriends-digest@yahoogroups.com
haflingerfriends-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
haflingerfriends-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
