So have we said goodbye to Kiko our beautiful baby. Nature has had its course and wisely decides what is to be and what is not. And we have to accept and let go. Kiko was born too early, he was premature and weak and was not able to eat himself. I got him to eat from the bucket and he progressed slowly the first 6 days, then suddenly he reversed and lost all progress and was not even able to swollow his food. Heartbreaking and difficult to understand. But the time he lived we had wonderful days in the field everyone together. Big thanks to my family, Alvaro and Jorge that helped me so I could go away for some days to rest and breathe new air and assist a zen course after Kiko had left us.

Rest in peace little sweetheart. <3

    
    
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Meanwhile the circle of life goes on. We have a new Artico baby on french ground, congratulations to Deborah, your black pearl 'Suerte' looks amazing!!!

SUERTE by Artico VIK and Bengala CEL
               

And we welcome two new Donoso babies to earth! One in USA and another one in Sweden. The swedish one is a real star-boy, we have no name yet but here he is, our warmest congratulations to Linda, we love him!!!

And here is the USA filly (!!!!) isn't she awesome!? Big congrats to you Lindsey!!!

And beautiful darling Picara mami is now covered by none less than,.. Fiero VIK!!! Since he was born he has wanted to be a breedingstallion and so he got his dream fullfilled, and being a D-baby he performed with excellence. Fiero is a horse that takes my breath away, he has never had even one ugly growing stage and with 2 years he has perfect proportions, I have never seen anything like him,.

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Fiero VIK
   
   

And here are the young guns yesterday having a playday in their fairytale field, Hidalgo VIK Fiero's full brother (golden buckskin) out of Novedosa, and Picara's Indigo VIK (dark buckskin). 

Hello people long time no see!!

Breeding season has started and the first Donoso USA foal has now landed, a gorgeous tall filly, congrats Kristi!
 
Tico has left for his professional work at breeding station in Aranjuez, Callejones Del Duende, very welcome to book your mare on frozen or fresh semen!

 

Here we are taking a sightseeing tour in pretty Aranjuez with the dogs after having left Tico. We left one horse and came back with two pretty chickens, gracias Concha!

 

We have been busy bees and have toured with visiting clients from Sweden and USA, this super beauty is now sold and we are vetting two more this week!

And we have recieved two new black saleshorses at our farm. One being this elegant super darling, he is the kindest horse and a sweetheart and he has pierced straight into our hearts! More info coming up regards these two new black beauties,.

See reference LAO on my page www.vikingapre.com 
 

And so for the super-surprise! 1rst of April which in Sweden is the day for jokes, I arrive as usual to the farm to do the evening with the horses and a little foal comes walking towards me!! I couldn't believe my eyes, first I thought that Nova has foaled 2 weeks early but there she was full belly and then I saw that the foal was walking beside Chula! Last year Chula jumped the fence to go see her boyfriend Brillantino, she persuaded him to also jump the fence and they had fun on the neighbours pastures,. 16 days later we did an eco and Chula was in foal, as she was only 2 years at this time we decided to abort. But it obviously didn't work! So here she is VIVA VIK, a elegant little palomina girly with 4 white socks and alittle head stipe, absolutely adorable! She is our first 100% Vikinga-bred, first second generation Vikinga offspring out of Chula VIK and Brillantino VIK, two different lines and the combination I had planned to do this year, only Chula decided to do it all her self and she sure nailed it and tricked us all! 
     

With mami and grandmami <3


Mami Chula VIK & Papi Brillantino VIK now sold to Israel
     

We are having stormy hail/snow/rainy days in Madrid right now, tonight all horses are snuggled up inside, ladies got their hair done and Starti is shaved naked and looking his super self again, he gets very hairy,. It was now one year ago he was struggling for his life, I look at him now and he is glowing, born 1999 and no signs of age on that horse, love him and so happy he is still here, life is good! 
Quinto has moved to live with his owner so now it's just us in stables and we are down to 9. Today we had a visit from a owner of two horses that might come and share our home, we have plenty of space so they would be very welcome to come and share. We are all getting back in business training wise, I have had some time off from riding in January and December because of personal reasons, but today in the middle of the worse weather the inspiration was on top and all 3 boys got a good workout between the hailstorms,. Viking-weather I suppose, makes you feel alive when the frosty wind is biting your cheeks :) So now I have made a 2017 training program for Donoso, Start and Tico and I am looking forward to getting back into competition arena with the boys si Dios quiere as they say in Spain,.   

      
   
   

Artico is now being booked of the 2017 season, his semen has been exported successfully to Australia and storage is on its way to USA. I made a breeding page for him where breeders can post offspring and you can follow his progress. He is developing alot and it will be interesting to see what will become of him. He is not for sale, I have realized he is my (another jejeje) soul horse,. See his fb page here; https://www.facebook.com/articovikstudstallion/
Donoso just had another PRE mare in Australia confirmed pregnant on one and only insemination, superman! A breeders happiness!
   

Web is updated with new horses for sale under DRESSAGE, one is already sold and I will do better to keep the listings of this page updated. If you are not able to access the page kindly let me know on; viktoria.vikingapre@gmail.com, thank You. 
I don't list all sourced horses so please contact me on email and let me know what you are looking for and I will send you informations. 

http://www.horsespreviktoria.com/1/horses_for_sale_dressage_698658.html
   

Have a great brand new week everyone and hasta pronto hopefully!

Hello from us, hope you are you still there despite our absence, we have been busy with preparations and alot of work here, one Vikinga family member is sold and on monday Tico arrived to Palacio de Congresos in Sevilla, SICAB - tomorrow he is competing!! He will be on at 14.00 and you will be able to watch it live online here, search section 6; http://www.sicab.tv/ 
We are ready to goooo are you with us!!????
Artico VIK, section 6 SICAB 2016
   
   
https://youtu.be/nYzyHX1pgME

 

Artico VIK has done his debute in the PRE Championships of Segovia. It was an exciting moment for me as a breeder as this is the first time for one of my own bred. Artico did really well, good scores for morfology and 5th placement and he was second in movements, especially happy about the movement score. He behaved really well, I have prepared him myself at home so Tony only 1 day to get him refined but he's a absolute professional and presented him excellent, muchas gracias Ana y Tony sois los mejores!!
It was a proud horse-mami-moment for sure, breeding is not a glam business, it's expensive, alot of work and most of the time it's about mud, dust and trying to keep everyone healthy and alive,.. But the moment you see your baby horse standing there clean, shiny and with all the hairs in the right place it's so worth it and you can hardly take it all in - I MADE THAT ONE!
Artico's scores and placement qualified him to the Word Championships 2016 so he's coming with us to SICAB! I have no expectations but I am for sure going to enjoy this big moment with baby Tico. Time to celebrate we are here, alive, thriving, growing, learning and enjoying life.
Ciao y hasta SICAB!!

Artico VIK 5th placement 2nd movements 
CAMPEONATO de SEGOVIA de PRE 

Finally we got autumn here and the rain removed all the dust, so lovely to finally light candles and get the fireplace going. I'm busy preparing Artico that is signed up for his first PRE championship, he will be the first I have bred and prepared from scratch which is special. Yesterday he got shoes on those golden big feet and today he is doing some interesting strides on the lounge, the walk is free and over back and he does a powerful trot extention, go baby-blue-eyes,.

Brillantino will come home this week and I look forward to see what he has learned in macho-school. New stars are selected for sale, this gorgeous PRE with a good level even doing even doing a little levadas, so pretty with that gooorgeous long hair. And I have a new a Grand Prix PSLusitano doing a piaffe passage transition to die for,. For more info please contact via email.

I leave you with some autumn pics of mini gangsters with nanny Chula raising them in her own strict but efficient way,.  SICAB is booked and starts early this year, I hope to see many of you there!? Hasta pronto!!!        

Back from holiday with the love, lovely family and friends,. good food, crayfishparty, forrest walks picking berries and mushrooms and even seeing a majestic moose! Arrived with bicycles to magic concert right by the sea - 

Lovely Sweden at its best!!! 

We visited my uncle the vet Per Spångfors I have mentioned so many times, here he is showing us around his clinic specialized for treating lameness in athlete horses. Per has developed his own methods for diagnosis and treatment, he uses a treadmill to locate lameness and does not use flexion tests at all. 

Returned to Spain with charged up batteries yess ready to take care of client from Candada, it was great to finally meet you, Howard!!
Here are two of the favourites black or white,.

Groom is off on holiday so I am doing all stable workouts getting into shape,.   It's still very hot and on hottest days we are outside in the night and inside during the day. Chula's eye is now totally healed and she is out and happy with the rest of the herd. Start and Donoso and I are slowly sweating our way into shape again,. Donoso had 2 more mares confirmed preganant in USA so now he will be IALHA registered aswell to accomodate the breeder. Leave you with some Donut pics, hasta prontooo!   

Uy time flies and I am summer lazy with blogging but here's comes a quick update from us as we are just about to take off on a Sweden holiday, tjohooo!!
Finca has got new 2,5meter fencing so hopefully we will now have a herd only with PREs and without the addition of cows, bulls and donkeys,.. Both Starti and Donoso are now back in daily traing and I am aiming for Startis GP comeback this autumn cross fingers we'll get there! Chula has had a difficult 2,5 weeks, she got a trauma to her eye and need treatment several times/day. It's now much better and now she can keep her eye totally open. It took her 2 weeks to give in to treatment it was tough but finally she surrendered, very frustrating for her and me. As always my horses reflect myself so I learnt something interesting thanks to Chula and this situation,.

Several new PREs for have been selected for sale, a mulitichampion, a Grand Prix incredible and some young talents, visiting clients are booked for September, have a great ending of August, hasta pronto!!