Services:

Else and Phil offer the following services

Stallion Service:

• Stallion service: Standing Smedsmo Graen stud fee $1200 live cover. Licensed for artificial Insemination breeding contract available on request. We expect to offer frozen semen by May 2007

• Mare care: from arrival to pregnancy ultrasound confirmation $3.50/ day, mare with foal $5.50/ day, after ultrasound pregnancy confirmation $8.00/day       Please view pictures and information regarding the stallions we represent below.

Training:

• Training: Phil trains horses every day. Boarding and training fee is $650/month. Horses are boarded in outside paddocks as individuals or in groups.

Boarding:

• Boarding but no training $300/ month

Hauling:

• Hauling $1.50 / loaded mile

Assessment:

• Phil will advise clients regarding conformation, temperament and trainability of individual fjord horses. Phil will accompany individuals when they are considering a purchase.

Lessons:

• After August 2007 Phil plans to offer lessons in ground manners, driving single and pairs, and trail riding. We expect to have our new 72' x 160' indoor arena available. We have easy access to thousands of acres of county and state forest with miles of trails and logging roads that are fun to ride and drive in addition to our own property. The public property trail-heads are close enough so we do not have to trailer to them. ( 1mile ride ) We have places for people to camp on our property. I have well trained horses to use for driving or riding. Fees yet to be determined.             

Stallions Service

Offering three outstanding Norwegian Stallions with high performance scores and excellent Dispositions

The modern Norwegian Fjord horse is a product of decades of selective breeding through an official and extensive evaluation program for fjord horses in Norway. 

Our Stallion Smedsmo Gråen has been evaluated through the Norwegian system first as a three year old and then as a five year old through the six week station test. Currently the extended station test is conducted on four year old stallions. The stallions receive conformation scores as three year olds and scores in driving and movement at liberty. Now, as four year olds they again are evaluated for conformation and are tested in a number of ridden and driven disciplines by professional horse trainers. The culmination of the testing period is the annual stallion show at Nordfjordeid, Norway where the stallions either make the cut and remain stallions with a license to breed mares or they are cut and become geldings.

The evaluation process produces scores in a number of categories. There is a set of numbers pertaining to the conformation of the horse and there is a set of numbers that reflect how well the horse can perform in areas such as riding, driving, draft, movement at liberty, driving in traffic, trail riding, behavior in the stall, overall assessment, and finally a score for disposition. The horse also receives an examination by a veterinarian along with a score and written comments. There is an official written description of the horse that corresponds to the numerical scores. At the end of the stallion show and evaluation some of the stallions are places in a special category of Quality. So there can be horses placed in the quality category and ranked from number 1 on down. If the judges feel there are no horses that should be placed in the quality group, then there do not have to be horses ranked in quality. 

Smedsmo Gråen

Villa Loius Carriage Classic 2006 

Smedsmo Gråen N-96-2695 born 1996 is certainly one of the finest and most unusual stallions ever imported to the United States from Norway. Smedsmo is a slate gray color with dark points and a long forelock over a handsome head with a strikingly kind eye. This up-headed horse stands 14.2 with good legs and plenty of bone. He looks almost medieval in appearance.

Villa Louis Carriage Classic 2006

Smedsmo Gråen has earned ten solid points for disposition in the five-year-old station test at Nordfjordeid, Norway. During this test all licensed five-year-old stallions were evaluated over a five-week period by two professional horse trainers. At the end of the five-week test the horses were evaluated again by a team of five fjord evaluators over a three-day period at the annual stallion show. Smedsmo Gråen earned enough points in this evaluation to put him in the top ten % of all stallions evaluated in these tests over many years. He received 10 points for behavior in stall, 10 for trail riding, 10 for draft, and 10 for disposition. His sire Lisjegråen N-92-2877, now standing in Belgium, also had a 10-point disposition. Smedsmo Gråen was judged 9 for movement. 

During the past five years Smedsmo has done very well competing in open ADS driving shows. He has been Grand Champion Stallion at the Blue Earth show twice and reserve champion once. Smedsmo was ranked number three of the mature stallions at the 25th anniversary national fjord show at Winona 2006.  An experienced Dressage rider and trainer has said that Smedsmo rides like a $30,000 dressage horse.  Several of his progeny did well in the halter classes of the 25th anniversary show as well with two first place and two second place ribbons.

This outstanding stallion is available for breeding quality mares on a private treaty basis. Price $1200 Live foal guarantee.

It is a great pleasure to experience 10-point disposition in any horse. With a fjord you should expect it.

We expect to offer frozen semen starting April 2007.

You are most welcome to come look at our stock. Call us at 715-468-2780.

Phillip Odden and Else Bigton, Barronett, Wisconsin

Contact Phillip Odden at:  nww@norskwoodworks.com
   

                          Phone 715-468-2780
                                      

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