Jameela, Kiwi Sport Horse Filly, 3 years
Jameela meaning graceful, beautiful, lovely is Anke's personal horse. She has got Thunder's stunning looks and movements and Jaffa's loveliness. With her being a dun adds a little bit of variety amongst our bays;-). For the first 2 years fo her life she got treated like a princess in the herd. If Jameela raced around and bumped into the other horses at full speed they didn't even tell her off. Several times when she was a bit younger she would just stand in the paddock and the others would come over to groom her and even fighting over it, never seen that before in our life. Even Vic who usually sets very quick very firm boundaries used to allow her everything...so it was up to me, Anke, to set some boundaries. Now being a bit older she does get told of by the others but still being an anying teenager...and we think the lead mare in training. Like her halfsister Kola she has amazing jumping abilities. Climbing through or jumping fences (even electric ones), exploring the next paddock is just sooooo much fun. Well, she has learned to respect a person's space, we are working on the long reining without jumping out of the roundpen...being lead amongst all the the other ground work exercises are the beginning of our jorney together.
Merlin, Kiwi Sport Horse Colt
On the 8th of February 2012 the little colt got born on a fullmoon. Out of Jaffa and by Thunder he is a full brother to Luca & Jameela.
According to Ian he is the biggest foal ever born here on North River, no wonder Jaffa was as huge as a bus. So far he looks like his Dad Thunder, a Golden Dun. Merlin will definately be bigger but if he keeps that colour who knows, he is loosing his first foal fur already... so fingers crossed;-). As Ian was the first human he said hello to, Merlin will be his personal horse and we decided Ian should be the one to name him. On his first few days which prolonged for over a week, he had several names: "Bruce" (Ian first idea;-), "the little man" and "Prince Charming" (named by our guests from Switzerland who saw him first). Well, in the end Anke woke up one morning with the name Merlin on her mind, ran it passed Ian and he approved;-). At the moment the little North River Magician is the star for all our guest here and the most photographed foal of our herd ever (yes, there are even more pictures of him already than of Jameela).
According to Ian he is the biggest foal ever born here on North River, no wonder Jaffa was as huge as a bus. So far he looks like his Dad Thunder, a Golden Dun. Merlin will definately be bigger but if he keeps that colour who knows, he is loosing his first foal fur already... so fingers crossed;-). As Ian was the first human he said hello to, Merlin will be his personal horse and we decided Ian should be the one to name him. On his first few days which prolonged for over a week, he had several names: "Bruce" (Ian first idea;-), "the little man" and "Prince Charming" (named by our guests from Switzerland who saw him first). Well, in the end Anke woke up one morning with the name Merlin on her mind, ran it passed Ian and he approved;-). At the moment the little North River Magician is the star for all our guest here and the most photographed foal of our herd ever (yes, there are even more pictures of him already than of Jameela).
