Many horse breeders aim to breed great horses and sell them for a good price to keep their breeding going. Therefor it is interesting to look at how many 1. prize horses have been exported in the last five years, 2015-2020.

Eiðfaxi has done a bit of a research and has put together a list of those 1. prize horses that have been exported in the period, all together 702.

First we look at the list of mares, 303. The list shows their total score before they were exported from Iceland. It is quite common that new owners of mares don’t export them but rather use them in breeding in Iceland where there is easier access to high judged stallions or promising young stallions, so not all of the sold mares are exported.

A large number of the highest judged horses have left the country to take part in the World Championships. The highest judged mare on the list below, Elja frá Suaðholti 2 represented Iceland on the WC2019 in Berlin as well as Eyrún Ýr frá Hásæti which is the fourth highest on the list. Both of these mares got the 1. place in their class.

Hnit frá Koltursey is second on the list and she represented Iceland in the Netherlands at the WC2017. The third highest on the list is Paradís frá Steinsholti who was exported in 2018.

Here below is a full list of the great mares that now are in breeding outside of Iceland:

The competition in the pace disciplines was extremely hard this year and the number of fast horses is growing tremendously. That was an obvious fact when looking at all the Pace events this summer in Iceland.

In the P2, 100m pace, there were 48 horses who ran under 8 seconds this year, but last year they were 38 so that is an increase of around 20%.

Konráð Valur Sveinsson got the best time of the year in the P2 riding Kjarkur frá Árbæjarhjáleigu II at the Sprettur Open tournament when they got the time 7,32 sec. Sigursteinn Sumarliðason and Krókus frá Dalbæ reached the second best time of 7,37 on the final event of Meistaradeild in Selfoss and on the same day Jóhann Magnússon got the third best time of 7,44 riding Fröken frá Bessastöðum.

Here below is a list of the fastes 30 pairs, riders & horses of the year, but each pair is only mentioned once with their best time.

In many training and breeding farms, the work on young horses is starting. For many breeders this season is the most exciting one, because it reveals how the breeding is going, and if their instinct in pairing a mare and a stallion was right. The work on these youngsters start in the fall after they’ve become 3 years old, and this is mainly light pre-training.

Eiðfaxi’s journalist has his information from WorldFengur to see which stallions have the highest BLUP of those born in 2017 and located in Iceland. Here below is a list of stallions with a BLUP of 120 or more, arranged by father.

Draupnir frá Stuðlum has most sons on this list or 18 all togeter. Skýr frá Skálakoti is second with 11 sons and Spuni frá Vesturkoti has 6 on the list.

Listinn er til gamans gerður og birtur með fyrirvara um mannleg mistök.

The stallion Konsert frá Hofi flew from Keflavik to Liege in Belgium the other day, where his owner, Frans Goetschalckx, waited his arrival with excitement.

Konsert won his class of 4 years old stallions at the 2014 Landsmót in Hella, with a memorable performance where he got among other great marks, 10,0 for tölt, ridden by Agnar Þór Magnússon.

The next year Jakob Svavar Sigurðsson got Konsert in training and they tried out the competition track taking part in tölt T1 with great results, like 8,50 in the A-finals of Reykjavík Championships.

This summer Konsert received 1. prize for offspring at the National Breeding Show. He has already 332 offspring according to WorldFengur.

Export-hestar arranged the transportation of Konsert to his new home in Belgium.

We wish the new owner very happy times ahead with Konsert.

Eiðfaxi received a video of an exceptional connection between two youngsters, one being the horse trainer Viðar Ingimarsson and the other the foal Rambó frá Hólaborg.

Solid temperament and a beautiful chemistry between these two, along with mutual respect and trust.

The famous stallion Kveikur from Stangarlækur 1 has been sold. The new owners reside in Denmark

Kveikur was one of the stars of last Landsmót in 2018 where he received no less than 10 for both tölt and temperament. He also scored 8,53 in his first outdoor T1 competition earlier this summer. His rider then and until now has been Aðalheiður Anna Guðjónsdóttir

Kveikur has also been one of the most in-demand stallion for breeding in Iceland in the past couple of years.

The breeders and sellers of Kveikur are Birgir Leó Ólafsson and Ragna Björnsdóttir. They say that the price of Kveikur is confidential and the decision to sell him was not an easy one. „We first thought of the possibility of selling him when Landsmót was cancelled, that was supposed to be his last competition. We then entered discussions about his sale after the Reykjavík sport tournament in July. We only have a relatively small breeding here at Stangarlækur 1 and decided that we wanted to build that around Kveikur‘s mother, Raketta frá Kjarnholtum. We also have now 11 offspring of Kveikur here and more hopefully on the way, so we hope to keep his DNA in our breeding. We want to congratulate the new owners, Gitte and Flemming Fast with their new horse and wish them all the best in the future. We also want to give special thanks to Aðalheiður Anna and Reynir Örn at Margrétarhof that have played a huge part in Kveikur‘s success in the past year and we can never thank them enough for that.“

The new owners of Kveikur are Gitte and Flemming Fast from Denmark. They are very excited about their new star. „Kveikur is of course a star for a lot of people, but mostly for Ragna and Birgir, that have been able to breed and follow him since his birth, and watch him develop into a superstar. For all breeders we think, that is the goal. And they made a good choice with Aðalheiður being his trainer and rider. She has also done a fantastic job.

We have for some time taken interest in stallions on Iceland, which we want to train and show there and later on bring them to our place in Denmark, Lindholm Hoje, – close to Aalborg. We plan to bring Kveikur to Lindholm Hoje this fall. He needs to settle in at our place, and hopefully be ready for some shows and maybe also competition during the winter and next year. For now we haven´t decided on a rider for him here in Denmark, but will have someone later this year. From the spring he will also be covering mares at our place. We want to thank Birgir and Ragna for trusting us with this magnificent horse and hope that he can be a good ambassador for them for years to come.“

Birgir Leó, Ragna, Kveikur and Aðalheiður Anna