In December Cathy Leddy and I drove to Idaho to pick up the last 2 mares belonging to Mr. Sprandell.

We stayed with our registrar Milena Stoszek and had a nice time visiting and admiring her horses.

Clear Water Gold and Kamiah

The 3 of us drove to the Nez Perce to pick up the girls. They had seen better days in the past. Due to mineral deficiencies both girls have leg problems. The Nez Perce horse program is finally under new management and they realize the horses have been neglected. They want to sell all the horses and are trying to keep them in better shape. In March 2005 they will sell all the part breds at auction. They will still manage the Nez Perce horse registry.

They only have a few pure bred horses left. The stallion Pazyrick, and the mares Sentira and Piroshka.

Kamiah and Clear Water Gold are for sale at my farm. They are very sweet and should do a little more growing. Regular trims will help their feet tremendously and free choice minerals to get them back to health. They should make good broodmares since their ailment is not genetic but due to bad management. They are listed under Akhal-Tekes For Sale.

Finally the convention came around, this time we took two horses.
The convention was held in Spokane, Washington combined with a horse expo.

Lot's of AT's showed up, and every day we participated in the parade of breeds in front of the crowds.

The Akhal-Teke was well received.

One of my students, Savannah came with me and so did my son Sam. They were great help, and participated in the parades.

We did "mock gradings" with the horses, nothing official, but fun to all together look at the horse and discuss the grades.

It is such a pleasure to see the horses in the flesh, meet new members, and to all participate in the parade each day was a lot of fun, all helped out and everyone dressed up.

Preparing for the convention has been the kids favorite thing to do, they love to dress up!
Here are some of our favorites...

Sirin has completely changed color!
She also adjusted well to being in a herd.

We have been riding a lot, and the kids are doing great on Dagjeir. We jump, ride in the woods and keep busy all day long.

Then we muck, handle the foals, and start preparing for the convention.

Shazada is another story. We suspected she may have trouble due to her scarring form her first foal, so I took her to Cathy Leddy to foal, where she would be close to a Hospital and Doctors in case she needed it.

She gave birth at 8.15 pm, but not without help! Thanks to Cathy she pulled her front legs out which were behind her head...she rejected the foal. Cathy and I tried to make her drink while holding Shazada, but her nipples are tiny and the foal could not latch on. So we milked her as much as we could to give the foal colostrum as much as possible. Shazada developed a fever, and we suspect she retained some placenta. She foundered and was in a lot of pain. Every one at Cathy's barn helped feed the foal, young and old. 10 days later we went home finally, Shazada is standing in deep sand in her stall, and she may recover fully! Time will tell.

Her daughter, Shirin is doing very well and growing!

On July 10th Olga had her foal early in the morning. She had a filly with no difficulties. As usual she is a very good mom.

This little girl is very adventurous and loves to hang out with her dad!

I took Dagjeir to a cross country clinic on Whidbey island. It was pouring rain at 6am in the morning. By the time we got there it was still raining, but once ready to go it didn't matter anymore. This was his first time, and we have jumped very little. He did great, and towards the end he had fun and jumped in a nice rhythm.
Not surprising, he is so athletic. and when our lesson was over the rain stopped!

Sam and I drove to Montana to pick up Aktepel. She is a mare owned by Lyndi Wiils. She will be bred to Pascha and she is for sale. We had a good trip, and Aktepel is very sweet!

Dagjeir is a good teacher, he's nice and quiet, has a sweet personality and loves attention. Savannah is learning to ride on him.

We got a pony on care lease, Pepper is 35 years old and the perfect teacher.

Now my son and I enjoy riding together. Dagjeir is coming along nicely.