Gravity Hill Icelandic Horses

10/11/2021

Is your horse your best friend?

05/08/2021

Freyja is the foal of Frökk and Stúdent who was born on Sunday, August 1, 2021. She is a beautiful blue dun foal.

02/08/2021

01/08/2021

Pictures of Frökk today. The foal is due any day now.

02/04/2021

Stúdent is a red dun tobiano Icelandic stallion with a snip. He was born on May 28, 2010. He is the first prized grandson of Orri frá Þúfu í Landeyjum and Álfadís frá Selfossi, who both won honor prize for offspring. His father is Álffinnur frá Syðri-Gegnishólum who also won honor prize for his offspring. On all nine of Stúdent's assessments, he has gotten first prized with his score of 8.59, making him the highest assessed Icelandic stallion in America with only 271 higher assessed stallions in the world out of 80,000 or more horses. Also, Stúdent came from Gangmyllan, a breeding farm in Iceland that won best breeding farm of the year multiple times.

Stúdent has a sweet, loveable personality and will follow people around, begging for attention. He is also smart and playful, and loves being around people. Stúdent is 146 cm tall and he has a strong back, lots of hair, a nice expression, and sturdy legs. He passes his good temperament, height, sweet personality, sturdy legs, and good conformation to his offspring.

Stúdent is very fast and loves to race, but he is gentle and his main priority is taking care of his rider. He can be both an amazing kids ba****ck horse and a pace racer, depending on who is riding him and what they are asking him to do. Stúdent has an incredibly smooth tölt (9) that he can do at a wide range of speeds. Stúdent also has an outstanding, fast, ground covering walk (9.5) that seems effortless for him, but is fun to ride. He takes long strides and covers lots of ground. His gallop (8.5) and pace (9) are also very fast and smooth to ride. Overall, he doesn't have any weak gaits and all of his gaits are fast, smooth, and fun. When we got him, his BLUP was 117, but because of Worldfengur updates and the fact that he doesn't have any assessed offspring, it has dropped.

Stúdent and his offspring are perfect all around horses. Stúdent's great temperament and athletic ability allows him to excel at multiple disciplines and be a great horse for almost all riders. He is calm and safe enough to be a kids horse, but fast, enthusiastic, and powerful enough to be a pace racer. He responds to commands almost instantly and learns fast. Stúdent has good self carriage and is very soft in the mouth with collected, smooth gaits that have a wide range of speed.

To top off all this, he is a red dun tobiano, which is an unusual color. Stúdent's tail is light red with a dark red line going down the back with white, silver, and blue/gray underneath. His mane is pale red streaked with white while his forelock is a more solid red. Stúdent's face is a shade of red that could be mistaken for a chestnut, but he lightens along his neck and the red dun patches on his body are pale red (almost tinted pinkish) and he has a bold, liver chestnut colored dorsal stripe running down his back and through his tail. Stúdent has light brown eyes that appear golden in some light and has soft, silky fur that has lots of sheen after he is brushed thoroughly or bathed.

31/01/2021

Stúdent (right), Geysir (middle), & Lisa (left)

12/01/2021

Stúdent in his paddock in Tahoe

30/09/2020

Frökk (almost 2 months in foal to Stúdent) and Kanslari (star on face) in Santa Cruz with Ayla Green.

30/09/2020

Frökk (almost 2 months in foal to Stúdent) and Kanslari in Santa Cruz with Ayla Green. Kanslari is the closer horse, and they are getting peppermints.

30/09/2020

Frökk is my five gaited black nd1 mare who was born in 2013. She is from Kvistir farm and was exported from Iceland in the late summer to early fall of 2018. Frökk is first prized and scored 8.11 on her five year old assessment and the BLUP score of 118. Frökk is 14 hands at the withers and her best gaits are her trot and tölt.

She has an intelligent, aloof personality, but is affectionate with people she knows. Frökk has remarkably sleek, soft fur and a more refined build then most Icelandics.

30/09/2020

Frökk (now almost two months pregnant) and Kanslari in Santa Cruz with Ayla Green.

30/09/2020

Kanslari in Santa Cruz with Ayla Green.

30/09/2020

Frökk's ultrasound picture.

16/09/2020

The vet was finally able to come check Frökk today, and she was confirmed to be 47 days pregnant to Stúdent. Now I just hope it is a filly.

26/08/2020

Frökk and Kanslari in a pasture with other Icelandics. They were evacuated from Ayla's barn because of the fires, and are now enjoying their time in pasture. Stúdent is with Pam Andrews and hasn't had to be evacuated yet.

14/08/2020

Frökk was successfully bred from August 6-8. Everything went very smoothly and we had no issues. This is the last chance for a foal this year, so I hope she is pregnant to Stúdent. All the horses were sent away to be looked after while we escape California for a while. Frökk and Kanslari are with Ayla Green, and Stúdent is with Pam Andrews.

06/08/2020

Because Frökk did not get pregnant in the last cycle, we attempted to breed her again today. She is still very early in the cycle, but definitely in heat. Stúdent decided she wasn't receptive enough so nothing happened today, but we will try again tomorrow.

22/07/2020

I had just finished washing Stúdent and was starting to attempt splitting his mane (that is why it look so short because the other 3/4 of it is on the other side), when a thoroughbred and a mini walked past. Stúdent had been standing there politely and sniffing the blanket Frökk wore (she was in heat), when they went past. I released him because he really wanted to greet them with Kanslari and Frökk. I have never seen them so excited about horses going by. Usually they whinny once or ignore them, but the thoroughbred and mini where whinnying and Frökk, Kanslari, and Stúdent were whinnying back. Anyways, in the ten minutes he was released to greet them, he rolled while still wet from the bath.

21/07/2020

Some more pictures from the horses at the ranch.

20/07/2020

Frökk (first picture) and Stúdent (rest of pictures) in their paddocks.

20/07/2020

Yesterday, Stúdent covered a mare for the first time since Iceland. He was pasture bred and was incredibly gentle and polite and we had no issue with him at all. It was planned for him to cover two mares, Gjöf and Frökk, but Gjöf wasn't quite ready. Frökk was successfully covered, though, and now I am just hoping that it was a success. We were planning on breeding her the next cycle because it was already day five of this cycle, but someone forgot to lock the gait the day before and Stúdent was released into Kanslari and Frökk's pen. She was blanketed, so nothing was able to happen, but they were fine together and she was clearly in heat, so she was bred the next day.

13/07/2020

Stúdent is a red dun tobiano Icelandic stallion with a snip. He was born on May 28, 2010. He is the first prized grandson of Orri frá Þúfu í Landeyjum and Álfadís frá Selfossi, who both won honor prize for offspring. His father is Álffinnur frá Syðri-Gegnishólum who also won honor prize for his offspring. On all nine of Stúdent's assessments, he has gotten first prized with his score of 8.59, making him the highest assessed Icelandic stallion in America with only 271 higher assessed stallions in the world out of 80,000 or more horses. Also, Stúdent came from Gangmyllan, a breeding farm in Iceland that won best breeding farm of the year multiple times.

Stúdent has a sweet, loveable personality and will follow people around, begging for attention. He is also smart and playful, and loves being around people. Stúdent is 146 cm tall and he has a strong back, lots of hair, a nice expression, and sturdy legs. He passes his good temperament, height, sweet personality, sturdy legs, and good conformation to his offspring.

Stúdent is very fast and loves to race, but he is gentle and his main priority is taking care of his rider. He can be both an amazing kids ba****ck horse and a pace racer, depending on who is riding him and what they are asking him to do. Stúdent has an incredibly smooth tölt (9) that he can do at a wide range of speeds. Stúdent also has an outstanding, fast, ground covering walk (9.5) that seems effortless for him, but is fun to ride. He takes long strides and covers lots of ground. His gallop (8.5) and pace (9) are also very fast and smooth to ride. Overall, he doesn't have any weak gaits and all of his gaits are fast, smooth, and fun. When we got him, his BLUP was 117, but because of Worldfengur updates and the fact that he doesn't have any assessed offspring, it has dropped.

Stúdent and his offspring are perfect all around horses. Stúdent's great temperament and athletic ability allows him to excel at multiple disciplines and be a great horse for almost all riders. He is calm and safe enough to be a kids horse, but fast, enthusiastic, and powerful enough to be a pace racer. He responds to commands almost instantly and learns fast. Stúdent has good self carriage and is very soft in the mouth with collected, smooth gaits that have a wide range of speed.

To top off all this, he is a red dun tobiano, which is an unusual color. Stúdent's tail is light red with a dark red line going down the back with white, silver, and blue/gray underneath. His mane is pale red streaked with white while his forelock is a more solid red. Stúdent's face is a shade of red that could be mistaken for a chestnut, but he lightens along his neck and the red dun patches on his body are pale red (almost tinted pinkish) and he has a bold, liver chestnut colored dorsal stripe running down his back and through his tail. Stúdent has light brown eyes that appear golden in some light and has soft, silky fur that has lots of sheen after he is brushed thoroughly or bathed.

11/07/2020

For people who want to breed their mares to Stúdent, he now does AI.