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Author Message Date: 5.11.2009 Author: Jenny Rouse Location: ChCh Nice to hear that Marika is breeding on so well. I think you mean Rosewood Ardashir not Ardijar. Cheers Jenny Date: 12.10.2009 Author: Julia Anderson Location: Matamata Hi Tessa how are you just wanted to say how well you are all doing say hi to shain and kirsten for me Date: 6.8.2009 Author: Rebecca Jones Location: Invercargill Hi there, I have very recently purchased Aspen Hills Ada. Would love to hear from you so I can ask a few questions. Date: 13.12.2008 Author: Tessa burculosis :P Location: Viņa, Chile Tell felix it takes 7 more falls before hes a "good" rider.. LOL <3 xoxo Just thought id leave my mark T Date: 12.12.2008 Author: sloosar Location: usa good site. Date: 22.8.2008 Author: borovski11@gmail.com Location: Russia Hi, I found this site very interesting. I have horse too in Penza, Russia. But not so good. Date: 14.3.2008 Author: Petra Deacon Location: Cambridge My first visit to your website.Very interesting reading.Great horses!Pacifica impressed me at HOY.Keep it up,cheers Petra Date: 15.12.2007 Author: Mel Freeman Location: Central Coast NSW Australia Hi from sunny Australia! I'm an ex-pat kiwi in love with horses...Arabs in particular. Yours are beautiful! xx Mel Date: 11.10.2007 Author: Karan Lawrence Location: North Otago, New Zealand Gidday Gabrielle, congrats on breeding so many versatile Arabs. Date: 6.7.2007 Author: Jessica Location: waikawau HEllo,,, How are you all? I'm fine, so is Farhanna. It was great to see you at Waimeha last season. Farhanna has recently been turned out because we have been having thunder storms and all of my horses stay out during the winter. She is doing 2 rides a week but thats it at the moment. What the weather been like for you guys? I hope to see you at some more rides this season. I'm hoping to get her up to open this season as well as myself. I'm planning on breeding from her when i'm at universaty in 3 years. I have a stallion lined up. He's beautiful, a chestnut with 4 socks and a blaze- 14.3hh. Have you bred from her? I love all of your horses!!! Well look foreward to seeing you next season. xoxo JEss Date: 4.5.2007 Author: Jenae Millen Location: nz hi there. i am 14 and have been researching my horses blood lines. Her name is Al-Rih Royal Flight. Her sire is Delmount lbn pilgrim out of Ralvon Pilgrim her dam is Gold Royal I hear you have information on Milands royal Fashion. i was wandering if you could send me some pictures. Please. Thank you jenae Date: 12.3.2007 Author: Jessica Location: waikawau Hi, Just saying hi to ya all, and wanting to let you know that Ripples is going great she's going to be doing the waimeha ride this season. 40km. I hope to see you there. I have just started to train her up over the last coule of weeks and she is quiet fit and energetic at the moment. I love to ride her bareback in the paddock with just a halter on she's good. I trained her to neck rain, shes even better that my throughbred"Chester". I love riding her. For my first arab i've ever owned she wicked ae. Anyway good luck if yor going to the nationals and hope to see you soon. CHeers. Date: 9.3.2007 Author: Andrea Location: Te Puke Hi I have a colt foal by Aspen Hills Shell Fire born Sept 2006 out of a 16hh thoroughbred mare. He looks very much like his sire but estimate his height will be approx 16hh. I am still learning about handling foals as he is my first one. The mares name is Chenoa and I have named him Aspenoa and will be registering him as an anglo arab. Thanks for the sight it is really interesting seeing his sire as a foal. Date: 7.3.2007 Author: Kate Location: Peka Peka Hi, I've been in touch with you guys a few times before - a friend of mine has just bought AH Grey Gun (Corrin) who I have loved for so long, I am so excited to be getting him, and he will be with us forever :) I sadly lost my pony who I'd owned for almost 10 years in a paddock accident recently so Corrin will be my new best friend. Will send you some pics when he arrives (hopefully tomorrow). He's had a tendon injury :( but we will walk him out over winter and the vet reckons he should come right, so fingers crossed!!! Date: 2.3.2007 Author: Beth & Sharni Location: Auckland We have Lark Rafii (Echolade/AA Juliet) who is a beautiful 17yr old, Bay gelding. He does pony club, mounted games & some showing. He is so gentle & loving. Is he too old to start endurance as Sharni (11yrs) would like to take him? Date: 4.2.2007 Author: Mick Location: Colorado We love Arabians too - thanks for your site and getting the word out about these great horses. Thanks, Mick President, RidingLinks.com Date: 10.10.2006 Author: Piet Paulusma Location: rotterdam I love horses, I ride my own every day! Regards from the netherlands! Date: 8.10.2006 Author: LINDA LASHLEY Location: KERRVILLE, TEXAS WE HAVE A HOME IN THE MOUNTAINS NEAR NEW CASTLE. CO. OUR FARM, THISTLEWOOD FARM IS IN KERRVILLE, TX. JUST WANTED TO SAY THANKS FOR DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB IN EDUCATING THE PUBLIC REGARDING THE GREAT ATHELETIC ABLILITY OF OUR BELOVED ARABIAN HORSES. OURS ARE EGYPTIAN ARABIAN AND CAN DO AND WILL DO WHATEVER AN INTELLIGENT PERSON ASKED OF THEM. THANKS AGAIN. GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS. LINDA Date: 29.8.2006 Author: Linda (Delight Arab Horse Stud) Location: Tirau Hi Gabrielle Found your website and will add a link to you in our new website www.delightarabhorsestud.homestead.com Really enjoyed exploring your website and seeing photos of the horses and foals etc. Some lovely foals especially by Advocate. Also think having your articles on the website is brilliant and info on the old stallions was very interesting - I remember their names - wouldnt we love to have their lovely old bloodlines back again now! Cheers, Lin Date: 22.5.2006 Author: Rena Clark Location: Katikati Hi, I am the new owner of Touch of Maan (out of Touch of Magic-Naatina). I am currently looking for more info and a pic of Naatina, any info you could pass on would be great. Touch of Maan (Mannie) is a gentleman and lovely to handle, would love see a pic Malton Pandora. Was stoked to see you have his full sister! Date: 1.3.2006 Author: Maureen and Kehua Location: Minginui Just to let you know that Kehua is coming along fine - he's a slow maturer - all legs and more legs! (He'll be over 15 hands and a bit more if he ever grows into them) My daughter has started him .. bareback - took to that as he does to everything - quietly confident - Second day he was backed/ridden we went for a short trail ride .. He's developing an absolutely exotic head with scalloped ears .. And of course spoiled thoroughly! Date: 28.2.2006 Author: Kate Location: Wellington Hi there. Firstly well done at the recent comp I saw in the NZEF bulletin that your team have been doing well in competition lately! :) Date: 15.11.2005 Author: Aline Location: Germany I am very impressed by your horses and website. Lovely photos you have! :-) Date: 13.11.2005 Author: Lauren Location: Hamilton Hey! Througholy enjoyed you website, as I owm Poukekewa Shahloum, From Desert Light (From Surur by Melriffa) by Shulimaya. I am currently looking for more info about his dam, any info would be appreciated, :) Thanks Date: 6.11.2005 Author: Charlotte Location: Dunedin, Otago Your website is really cool. I love Arabians soooooooo........ much!!! Thanx Charlotte

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Thank you everyone for your great messages. I can't write back to you all individually, but we do appreciate your comments. If you are in our area, come and visit. We have some wonderful foals, and excellent riding horses to show you. We have had some wonderful help from horse experts in solving the kinds of problems everyone who has horses runs into( feet,fractures, cataracts, backs, mud rash etc) - it is so nice to have people so willing to give of their best to help us. AspenHills March 07, 2003 - 21:17 I am 14 years old and I have three arabian horses. One is 2 years old that I am training myself, a 16 year old, and a 18 year old horse. I love arabians. When I get older I want to go live on a ranch and raise arabian horses. Thanx!!! Arabians are the best..... Anom. Location: Indiana March 03, 2003 - 07:02 This website is cool Juan Lopez Location: San Diego E-mail: www.ssjbrolli@hotmail.com February 26, 2003 - 10:30 Hey there, i am 12 years old and have the joy in owning a 21 year old beautiful Arab gelding by the name of Barellan Lyric (Sire - Lyric Sadiq, Dam - Jandy i have his breeding back ground but would like to know more he is bay with 4 white socks a star and snip i was searching your site i could find many of his relatives but no sign of his name if anyone knows anything about Barellan Lyric or his Back ground please let me know, my email is libbykins@hotmail.com i love him and he is the sweetest pony i could have ever wished for :) Libby Lewis Libby Lewis Location: Auckland NZ E-mail: libbykins@hotmail.com February 11, 2003 - 20:54 cool stuff i mite come back again kris Location: VA E-mail: kdddnd_2003@yahoo.com February 10, 2003 - 13:05 Congratulations on your great results this season! Robin Location: North Canterbury E-mail: robin@horsetalk.co.nz February 06, 2003 - 17:45 From: Debbie Quick Location: waiuku, akld Hi there, First of all congratulations again to Kirsten for coming 1st in the North Island Champions on her beautiful mare Marika, It was a pleasure riding with you Kirsten. I have briefly looked through your wonderful website and will sit down again when I have more time to study it in detail!! I hope to see Kirsten riding again at the Nationals at Easter, until then happy riding.... Debbie and Jasmine (the grey madam!!!) February 04, 2003 at 00:02:19 From: Helen Chambers Location: Sefton, North Canterbury Hi Gabrielle, was catching up on what's happening up at your place & just wanted to say how much I loved the photo of Tessa & Marika. It's so nice when one of your horses ends up at the right home. Congratulations on her show success too. You must come & visit her sister one day when you are down in Canterbury. January 27, 2003 at 15:32:27 From: Joe Location: Queens This site is cool! January 06, 2003 at 22:33:49 From: Debbie / El Ishmael Arabians Location: Australia Lovely site with beautiful pic's! All the best with your future endeavours. :) Feel free to add your site to my links page!! http://embark.to/ElIshmaelArabians/ December 02, 2002 at 06:50:03 From: heather Location: ohio love the pictures November 24, 2002 at 08:31:40 From: Paula Afoa Location: A.I.S Fab Story tessa . Great Website. November 12, 2002 at 17:43:50 From: Holly and Ollie Location: Lower hutt COOOOOL WEBSITE WE LIKE THE PICTURES. GOOD LUCK FOR THIS SEASON'S RIDES ! ollie and holly October 24, 2002 at 19:28:00 From: don meuten please tyr to emaiol us nickiyoung@mindspring.com we have arabs in the states but are in nz right now and would love to visit or if you know of horse treks please recommend one. we do endurance thanks don October 20, 2002 at 23:19:25 From: anna jenkins Location: waitara just got on line thought you would like to know cottontail(stud)is still the same as always at 20 even with a few health problems. shame you haven't had the chance to see him for a long time. October 12, 2002 at 18:41:02 From: L Chamberlain Location: Wellington Lovely site showing off some lovely horses!! Arabs are really lovely, good on you out there who are breeding them, they are a wonderful breed!! September 27, 2002 at 22:36:05 From: Nikki Piripi Location: Wellington Well, a great website. I love the pitcures and well...... EVERYTHING! Luv Nikki Piripi September 14, 2002 at 02:21:33 From: Jordyn=) Location: Aspen Hills... =) Cool site . Tessa says that pitcure of her on StarDust is FOUL!TeHeHe. Well Have a good day and to everyone who reads this.....Aspen Hills is cool and so are the horses. September 07, 2002 at 02:31:38 From: Cheryl Pinn Location: Blenheim Lovely to see your' still breeding after all these years. We still have links to Poplicola through his daughter Roanoake Fanta, now 20.She presented us with an exquisite colt last season by our sec.B welsh stallion.We also have another gelding by Justification [dec] whom we have had out trail riding,is just like his grandsire with 'Cola's fabulous temperament!Loved your articles and old photos' August 11, 2002 at 00:10:14 From: Lee West Location: New Zealand Hi Gabrielle; We are most impressed with your site, the layout and design are lovely. Your horses look superb, and your articles are very interesting. Well done Lee August 09, 2002 at 19:00:52 From: Emma Location: palmerston north Cool site, Moonshadow looks really cool, and Elegy looks as good as ever, just like his son. August 08, 2002 at 03:45:43 From: Fay Neville Location: New Plymouth Very nice site and nice horses - good luck with the future! August 07, 2002 at 23:57:38 From: Lyn Marshall Location: Southland Yes Robin has done a great job onec again designing your site Mine is still on the drawing board. Congratulations, and I did not find it slow to download. Very interesting blood lines great to see the good old tried and true blood being used. August 04, 2002 at 02:25:56 From: Annabel Morgan Location: Wellington Love the site! found heaps of info about my horse AH Gray Gun including the pic of his foal!!! August 04, 2002 at 01:32:44 From: Kelly - Endquest Place Egytpian Arabians / Pony-of-the-americas Location: Ontario, Canada I was just looking at your article on breeding and selling and costs involved and had a great chuckle! I totally agree with you - I have been breeding a POA mare here - the first year this is what I spent: stud fee - $500 US ($750.00 CDN) Semen collection and shipping - $495 x 3 tries = $1485.00 CDN Vet fees for 3 cycles - Approx 300 x 3 = $900 CDN. Now the vet missed the mare twice due to not listening to me and breeding when the mare was NOT read (get a vet who does AI well) and the 3rd time the airline lost the shipment.... Now I am broke having spent $3135.00 CDN - no foal yet. This year I used a different vet (oh did I mention that the stallion is not the greatest to ship from??? so has to be inseminated into the mare within a few hours of her ovulating? which is why Vet #1 missed). Vet # 2 comes out day 2 and 3 of cycle - Ultrasounds and checks mare - Day 3 mare was 30MM decided that we give Ovuplant on day 4 as she should be at least 35mm (or more) and breed day 5 (24 hours post ovuplant injection)- turns out mare on day five of breeding did not progress as far as we wanted - shes only 35mm - breed anyway check next day ovulated! yahooo1 - wait 18 days - Nope no foal! so start again - this time we give Ovuplant 36 hours prebreeding - so the checks - run to airport run home bredmare, wait 18 days tease this time not in season - still not believing she caught, get vet out ultrasound 21 days - yahooo a baby!!!! So this year I spent: collection and shipping - $292.06 US = $470 CDN (approx) x s shippments = $940.00 CDN Vet coming out to check mare etc. - approx $700.00 CND so that is $1640.00 CDN for this year, $3135.00 for the first year giving me a grand total of $4775.00 CDN and finally a foal that may be worth $3500.00 US (or $4500.00 CDN) by the time its 2 years old.... Now for me as a breeder of horses you take the good with the bad and hope that the next foal will be less cost so it averages out in the long run... at least that's the theory. But one thing is for sure - you better darn well have a mare well worth all this stress ad expense because otherwise your just wasting your money and the life of another poor helpless horse. Thank goodness my mare has been a great show mare and the stallion the top leading show / breeding stallion in the US.... So my chances are good to sell a top quality foal. Loved your article... KLC August 02, 2002 at 06:39:32 From: teresa hoult Location: chch Wonderful site. The horse Moonshadow is a beautiful looking horse. Your site was very slow to load compared to other sites. I could not understand this but you may want to mention it to horsetalk. Best of luck Teresa August 02, 2002 at 04:56:09 From: Berny Maubach Location: Wanganui Robin did a beautiful job once more! I do like your site in particular the article about "The cost of breeding a foal" Brilliant!!! I would like to invite you that we exchange links. I am sure Robin will fix that in no time. Good luck to your enterprise. Kind regards Berny & Jutta from Vollrath Hanoverian Stud August 02, 2002 at 04:29:30 From: Demelza Location: Canterbury Great site, well done. August 01, 2002 at 03:38:50 From: Lee Location: Otago Hi Gabrielle, Great to see you on the web. Super site and very informative. July 31, 2002 at 05:03:52 From: Regan Williams Location: Golden Bay Great site! They're even better in the flesh tho'.. Beautiful horses, especially AH Elegy. Temperaments, beauty, movement and function! July 30, 2002 at 22:13:56 From: Pam Saville Location: Waikato NZ Great site Gabrielle, lovely old blood that is out there doing what it was intended for, and some very nice horses. July 29, 2002 at 18:32:46 From: Kimberley Nichols Location: www.geocities.com/ninsiroc Hi Gabrielle, lovely website! Great to see more arab sites on the net! July 28, 2002 at 08:21:24 From: Robin @ Horsetalk Greetings, and welcome to the web, and welcome to Horsetalk! Robin July 28, 2002 at 02:18:52