Since we now are the proud agents for Kambarbay's frozen semen in the USA, it is natural we follow up on his succes.
In Australia, Kambarbay is making a "splash" in the color warmblood industry...
It is Spring time there now, and the breeding season in full swing, he has 2 confirmed pregnancies.

Grandview Sport Horses, Coloured Warmblood Sport Horse Breeding is the agent for frozen semen of Kambarbay in Ausrtalia.
Not only did they choose Kambarbay to improve their breeding program, they have Olympic caliber riders competing their horses!

We can't wait to see what they will do with Kambarbay's offspring...and how far they will make it in sport.

On the frozen side...they told us his sperm is of very good quality.

Since I was all the way across country, it would have been a shame not to go to Virginia and visit Shenandoah farm owned by Phil Case. Phil has a large herd of Akhal-Teke horses and he houses Adam Dixon's horses too.
I was in heaven! Sabina works for Phil, and took the time to show each horse, and then saddle up and ride, then let me ride too! Sabine has done an amazing job training the young stallions!

We had our ATAA meeting all day Saturday and the banquet and awards that night. And the auction.
The awards were very nice, drawings of horses by a Montana artist put on a coffee cup and plaques for the various disciplines. Nice embroidered saddle pads and logo coffee cups that where hot items.

Last Friday I flew to Minnesota for the ATAA conference. I met Pat at the airport in Seattle and our flight left at 12.30 midnight to arrive in Minneapolis at 5.30 am,...no thanks to me not paying attention to am/pm while purchasing a ticket.
But...it all worked out well. We drove to Pat's mom's house for a nap, got up at 10am. I had printed our directions to the Sweiss's sisters hoping to see their AT'sd and cross country course, but they had an event going and only one AT mare left who was competing, so we drove to where the filming for the Horse Flick was, looked at the horses there, then visited Reeny's farm.

Reeny sent m these pictures of her horses, since I only had my pocket camera, and would not have done her herd justice!
We then drove to the conference hotel just in time for the board meeting.

We had the ATAA conference in WA state this year. Friday night was meet and greet at the hotel in Snohomish, next day membership meeting and visit to Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes, followed by Sunday showing the horses here.

Shannon Mayfield did an amazing job MAKING year end award plaques...yes...she is very creative and makes these herself! She also made some horse decorations and other items she made to fund her award program that sold quickly.

Showing the horses was fun! After lunch some of the kids who ride here arrived and Zoe got her awards for competing on Paelka in eventing and showjumping!
Then Seda on Pasabi showed her vaulting in front of everyone...she has only started vaulting this summer.
Marina on Penta, Mia on Kegas and Zoe on Paelka rode in the front pasture and did some jumping and Zoe did some XC jumps.

Then everyone had to run for the ferry...and the girls rode some more, jumping triples!

The ATAA conference will be held in WA state this month, and Sunday the 23rd people are invited here at SWF AT.
We have a list of items we have donated for the auction...
Please check out the ATAA webiste!
http://www.akhal-teke.org/ataa-conference-2012.html 

We now have the dates for the 2012 Akhal-Teke Conference to be held in Washington State outside of Seattle (SeaTac airport).  It will be held Sept 21, 22, 23. 

Amrita and I are co-hosting this year’s conference and we’ll have more information on it very soon.

Come have a great time with us – we’ll see you there!

Cathy and Amrita