Jippi, I now have newly fenced fields and all horses has their own grassfield! Camaron next door to young gansters.
Camaron, Artico & Brillantino

Mares have their lower/middle field, Start roams around the finca in the morning and stays in his paddock in the afternoon and Donoso is fence to fence with Start AND the mares!! Calm, happy breeding stallion wants to see the girls and then he can quietly do his grazing, I don't even need double fencing, just a slight electricity on wire and that's it :)
Donoso VII
 

Picara was confirmed in foal on a first with Donoso! So cross fingers next year I will be expecting my foals around pretty much the exact same date.
Novedosa with a growing D-baby for 2015
 

Super thanks to my dear parents that give me endless support, because of them I am able to carry on with my project here! Nu är jag etablerad här, det blir så och det betyder att vårt stall i Halmstad blir ledigt för uthyrning, kontakta gärna mig vid intresse. 
   
 

And a new arrival to our stables today; Dressage PRE that I have selected and sold to Florida, congratulations Linda!
     

Uplifting, inspiring and fun, how greatful am I not to have the oportunity to get help from olympic super spaniard, Juan Manuel Muñoz is not only a excellent rider he is also a great teacher! Felt a genuine support and got the help I needed, great, thank you so much!! Start first day and Donoso second. I have changed routine for Start as he is very hot and moody, so he has been grazing and all day in paddock inside during the night. Start is a super kind horse but with a big personality and when he doesn't like something he definitely don't like it. A year ago I fell badly from a chair trimming one of his ears and since then he has not let me touch that ear, so I let it be. But now a few days ago he was ok and normal with his ear again. However working he is still very hot! So I asked Juan Manuel for help with getting him regular, here working principally on this.
Hope you like it!
Start 

 



Then to the passage/piaffe transitions to get them more even, quiet and better balanced.  

Canterwork and tempis; Practising self-carriage and control of my leg and Start's hindlegs. At times I loose the feeling of my legcontact in the tempi-ones, so to maintain contact I compensate with handcontact instead of maintaining all contact with my leg. So I asked for help with this. 


So to get there; Activation of hindlegs, more legcontact and lighten up hand, got it!


And finally pirouette work with Start; 


With Donoso I wanted to practice bases for balance, selfcarriage and getting lighter in hand and front. And as I have no help from the floor normally I asked for this to get him more on his hindquarters. So we did with this kind work, laterals shoulder in, half pass and collected workouts. 
Donoso VII 
 


And final work with Donoso! 


 
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Monday again after a super intensive horse weekend; One passed vetexam, Novedosa confirmed in foal with Donoso, a new selection of wonderful horses with alot of I want factor, sun, professionals and good people - very greatful for this is work at it's best! 
Here a 3 year old PRE lady I selected as she has a great future for dressage and breeding. Here you can see her quality of movement totally natural without tension and this how I would like more PREs to move - naturally suspended without tension, correct, powerful and elastic, love this lady! New horses are/will be listed on web www.horsespreviktoria.com and fb https://www.facebook.com/horsespreviktoria but not all so please send me your requirements in as much detail as possible if you are looking to purchase a PRE of high quality. I need to know your specific purpose with the horse, personal preferences and +/-budget frame. 
Ref MOA; Link to her page; http://www.horsespreviktoria.com/1/moa_top_class_escalera_725296.html
 


Her beautiful dad, highly merited from both dressage and championships
   

So after my saturday evening off and stable stand-in I got back sunday morning and found these huligans here,.
Just checking out your arena mami, guess what, it's not finished!!  

We have had so much fun!! And vips did I have 3 times bigger stable-work out this lovely morning,.

 
Bandit Nr 1 - But it wasn't me!!
 
Sooo inventive yes yes.Tico is in my face non stop begging me for action, just dooooo something with me! Oh how to keep these ones busy and stimulated until we start work 2 more years down the road,. Anyone who wants to come here to teach 2 young huligans circus tricks or whatever are most welcome! They are up for anything! Luckily they are well fed and never hungry so they did not had too eat too much of the pellets, just played and opened about 10 sacks á 25kg each,.. soooooo much fun! Grrrr. Still nervous for colic but I gave them epsom salty water orally, they happily opened their mouths and let me give one shot after the other, happy for the action   

Here T&T the day after
           

So I have been a good mature and responsable breeder and decided to sell one baby. It has been 1 day and now I have already changed my mind! So much for that responsable decision!!   

Well we'll see, I am open for the possiblities but these girls are super quality and I would love to see them develop together, and it's always good to have two filles as they can play. Also fillies are easy to keep as they can hang out with the mares and it really doesn't matter if I have 3 or 4, haha it's a good justification anyway!  
Morning at the farm today    
 

Happy saturday, working hard here, body complaining abit but with laser treatments I keep it up. Weather is being tricky and chilly so rugs on off abit like in Sweden really! Today foals are kept inside to get some rest as mummies just roam the field grazing nonstop and they don't get to lie down in their hall. Little arena is working alright now so yesterday Start was doing tempi-ones on the circle and D did trot and passage work. He's extra inspired now in his favourite time of the year, the breeding season :) Limited nr of straws are being sent to USA, book now to reserve your dosis without additional transport costs! 
Both Picara and Novedosa are now covered with Donoso, cross fingers they will be both be confirmed, first check on Nova 5th of May. Thank you so much for your comments and messages on the babies. I am very happy with my foals, love them lots of course but I am also able to do an objective evaluation and both have so much quality. Euforia is a super-baby. Uphill with a stallion neck already with 2 weeks, floating over the ground, 113cm with 1,5 week! She's a beautiful dark buckskin dun, or grulla. Chula is so incredibly elegant and divine to look at with her golden hair, swan neck and long legs. She will be a tall girl, I measured her 118 cm with two months! She has the sweetest nature, up for anything and so easy. Neither has any white markings which I love and just makes them alittle more classy in their breeding and I am very pleased about this little detail.
At the moment I have decided to put Chula up for sale. Very hard as she is a darling and a gem for PRE breeding for dressage and colour. Very welcome to contact me for more info on this special golden girl! See her ad on homepage www.horsespreviktoria.com under BREEDING http://www.horsespreviktoria.com/1/chula_vik_buckskin_2014_720481.html and also she has her own page with photos and a little short video of her saying hello :) http://www.horsespreviktoria.com/1/chula_vik_702080.html

Chula VIK with 2 days
        
and 2 months!
 
Sire Divo PM
   
Dam Novedosa PM 
 
Grandsire Revoltoso XIXX
   
Now I have stable-backup so off to do a non-horsey evening, have a great one! 

Many thiiiings going on at the same time and this is what I like, well first Picara was checked by vet this morning, she will most likely be ready for a covering this weekend. Nova is covered last week twice on a perfect timing on a 50 egg and then on ovulation the following day, cross fingers that she's got a new D-baby growing, will be exciting to see a Nova-Donoso combination! Camaron got his feet done today and babies are sleeping outside with nightlamp and snyggly rugs. 'Fia' is now 1 week already, such a beautiful little thing that just floats over the ground! Chula is a love-bug, breeding is so worth it all, it's pure happiness and deep peace to see the little things running around on those four long legs   
Donoso got a workout with pessoa and Start just had a day off in his paddock. Pleased to say both are in good shape despite it all, Chloe could not believe how they were not even sweating a drop after our sessions in the scorching sun. Still waiting for bloodwork on the horse for USA that was delayed because of easter and a crap testtube and had to be resent. Donoso semen for USA has FINALLY got green light from importers USA, O H  M Y  G O D, what a dragged out story but now it's getting exciting! 
Euforia VIK alias 'Fia' today in the green now flowering pretty fields!   
'I love my mummy'   
   

Happy rainy monday, we have had a glorious sunshine and some active days here, student Chloe has just left for her home in England, she will be missed! 

Summary of our training days, we started to feel the horses out riding at home to see which horse/es fitted best, Chloe is a talented young rider with a very good feeling for dressage and ability to ride and learn from both Donoso and Start. It was exciting to see also how the guys responded, this was the first time for them to do the role as teachers and I think they did the job great! Both are well willing and amibitious horses but neither of them are easy and automatic, you have to do it right to get it right. I believe in learning from getting it right, I do not think we learn from our mistakes so it is important the horse and student get as many rights into the experience as possible. Both D and S showed Chloe clearly what she needed to work on, how to use hear seat, focus on less hand and learn how to ride with legaids and weight, basically change the position and ride from back to front rather than front to back. 
Here from first day trying out horses at home.
Camaron and Chloe day 1

 


Start and Chloe day 1
       
Day 2 we took D and S to a nearby training yard to use their arena. Focusing on straightness and getting the position of the form totally correct. Donoso proved to be a good teacher of flying changes, and Start helped Chloe to get her seat into the saddle, to improve her position and to use her sensitivity of aids for transitions and collection.

In the afternoon we did homework studying some of Spains best Grand Prix riders competing in glorious sunshine, Spain at its best! And I am presenting a new selected exclusive PRE for sale, Grand Prix calificado Escalera branded Curioso JLE, contact me via www.horsespreviktoria.com 


Day 3, Chloe now alittle more sure of the guys, and we could get into more focus and feel more secure with forms and collection.

Start middletrot


Donoso and Chloe working on correct straightness, form and collection.         

And day 4, Chloe passed the final exam with these good transitions on Start!

 
We finished with some well earned hacking in the beautiful nature of El Escorial and of course eating!

Picked up Chloe from Sussex, England yesterday, she has come to train with me and I hope she will be able to learn something from me and the boys! Today we have had a full horse day in lovely sunshine, starting with Camaron and that was a super-star and Chloe got to try out spanish walk and levadas for the first time, fun! Beautiful little Camaron. After this ride we had the vet coming out and it was time for Nova's first date with Donoso, she was on the spot on perfect day so let's hope for a good result,. Little Euforia alias 'Fia' appeared on the wrong side of the fence, no problem, mummy not worried and I just opened the gate so the little highness could walk in.
After vet we had another session with Start, working on straightness, speedcontrol and collection. Well done Chloe. After lunch Donoso's turn, he was full of energy from the covering in the morning but totally focused with his work AND Donoso semen on it's way to USA finally!! H U R R A Y!!
More tomorrow, and happy easter!