Welcome
to the site featuring Gail's Friesian Mare
  Isobel's 2018 Show results Isobel's 2017 Show results Isobel's 2015 Show results At
the 2017 Ohio October 3, 2017 KFPS FHANA keuring,
Isobel not only received her first premium ster, but also was the Mare
Champion, as well as the Day Champion over more than 50 horses.
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Because
we
are downsizing and ending our Friesian breeding program, this mare is
being offered for sale. An incredible performance mare, Isobel is the
most talented driving Friesian in the country. Originally bought to be
a broodmare, she spent her first years here in training and competing,
but now she is fulfilling that duty. Currently in foal for an April
birth, Isobel
will have her second Hessel foal, and can best be described as an outstanding performance
broodmare. Isobel had sensational 2015, 2017, & 2018 show years,
excelling in
every driving discipline: CDEs, CTs, pleasure driving shows, breed
shows, and keurings. With trainer and whip, Suzy Stafford, in
the box the pair was nearly unbeatable in even their inaugural events.
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 Isobel and her 2019 Hessel filly, Jewelee  |
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Isobel thrived
while in training with gold
medalist carriage driver, Suzy Stafford,
during 2015. In retrospect my
goal of a ster keuring title did not raise the bar high enough for her
potential, because she earned a driving sport predicate title (only the
3rd Friesian outside of the Netherlands to do so) and had the highest
driving IBOP score in North America of the 2015 FHANA keuring circuit.
Her phenomenal performance ability is problematic, because she should
be a performance horse, not a broodmare;-) But my oh my, her babies
will be awesome.
Here are
highlights of her phenominal
2015 performance record:
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 November 14, 2012 The day she arrived at DCTF |
Wanting to diversify our breeding program, for the past 2 years I have been watching for a very well bred, full-papered, stam 50 Friesian filly. I found Isobel through Facebook and she arrived here November 14, 2012 from Kasteel Friesians in Colorado Springs, CO. She is registered with both FHANA [the Friesian Horse Association of North America] and the Dutch FPS [Friesch Paarden-Stamboek (Friesian studbook)], which is the world-wide authority on the Friesian horse and recognized as the European Mother Studbook of the Friesian Horse. Isobel, born in 2010 and sired by Sipke 450, was a 2nd Premie Champion Filly as a weanling (missed 1st premie by 1 point!) and has a fabulously bred momma, Ypkje D, a 1st Premie Ster and Preferent Mare (+6), out of the Dam of the Approved Stallion, Thomas 327, and sired by the Preferent Stallion, Feitse 293, Stam 50, full papers, Ster double Pref (+8) Crown Jewel (Dam of Thomas 327), Model Pref, Model, Model Pref (Dam of Fokke 219), Model Pref, Model Pref (Dam of Rinze 254), Model Pref (GrandDam of Rouke 155) Isobel has settled in nicely, and she and Lillee, our 2011 Sape filly, have become best friends, and I am now taking her through my natural horsemanship training program and very pleased with her progress. After a month of settling in she is learning to cross tie and allow her feet to be picked up. I have discovered that she is very alert, bold, inquisitive, and loves being the "chosen" one when it is training time. |
 November 14, 2012 The day she arrived at DCTF |
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| Isobel when she arrived at Dreams Come True Farm as a
2 YO |
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 Isobel and our 2011 Sipke filly, Lillee, became immediate friends and our border collie, Brodie, enjoys herding them |
 Isobel and Lillee run and play while our broodmare, Wietske, watches their antics |
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 Within a month Isobel (in the foreground) was assimilated into the group of mares here at DCTF |
 Isobel in the background & Lillee enjoy a Christmas Holiday day of grazing |
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Created on December 31, 2012 by Gail Aumiller, the
owner/photographer, and last updated February 22, 2020.
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