2014
14.08. We had a nice visit by Prisse Könönen and Maria-Katariina Leinonen from Finland again. They came to take Maria-Katariina`s mare Sapaly Gelingyz back home.
11.08. We had a lovely 1-week visit by Sigrid Hauser-Berndt from Germany who came with her niece Silvia Gumbold. Silvia is going to do her 1-month horse management practice at our farm.
04.08. Aniek Oosterhoff from Holland came to us to do her 3 month horse management practice of her studies.
01.-02.08. Kätlin and Kaido were working again at the Austrian Championship in endurance (120km) near Graz. During the time in Austria we could go and see Markus Hubmann`s horses again and on our way back to Estonia, we could also visit Alania Stud in Slovakia.
25.-27.07. Kätlin and Kaido were working at the CEI 3* ride in St.Petersburg, Russia.
19.-21.07. Kätlin and Kaido were working at the CEI 3* Simlangsritten in Sweden.
03.07. We had a lovely visit by Prisse Könönen and Maria-Katariina Leinonen from Finland. Maria-Katariina brought her mare Sapaly Gelingyz here for the breeding with our young stallion Kadjaran.
16.-20.06. Kätlin and Kaido attended the ICEEP 9 in Chester, England.
28.05. Kim van der Kloet from Holland came to us for 2 months to do some endurance riding with our horses.
17.05. Kaido was working at the CEI 1* Kronborg Ride in Denmark.
10.05. Kätlin and Kaido were working at CEI 1* Rimboritten in Sweden.
28.-30.03. Kätlin and Kaido worked at the Springtime Ride CEI2* in Jokioinen, Finland - Kätlin as a Foreign Vet and Kaido as Treatment Vet.
08.-09-03. We attended the Helsinki Horse Fair in Finland with our stallions Serdarjan and Kadjaran to introduce the Akhal-Teke breed.
22.-25.02. Kätlin and Kaido drove to Rosbach, Germany by car to pick up the new trailer. Now we can also offer the transport service to our horse buyers!
14.-15.02. Kätlin and Kaido were at the FEI 3* endurance veterinarian course in Graz, Austria. During the time there it was lovely to meet also Renate Lang again!
07.-08.01. We had a great visit of Anne Öman and Mark Veldhuis from Sweden again! Anne came to take Kichidjik to her new home in Sweden.
2013
26.-28.11. We had Nadejda Abramova from VNIIK/MAAK (Russia) here to grade our horses.
20.09. We had a very nice visit of Max Ots from the USA with his Estonian family. Max is running Ots Sunrise Farm in Wisconsin. Max`s son Endel Ots is a successful dressage rider who was named the alternate for the US Dressage Team at the 2011 Pan Am Games. Endel Ots is running Lionshare Dressage in Florida.
07.-08.09. We had a lovely visit of the artist and graphic designer Maria Taari from Finland. Maria has a creative studio Flukso in Helsinki.
01.08. We had again a great visit of Sigrid Hauser-Berndt with her husband Uwe.
20.07. We had a great visit of Sofia, Eva and Liselott from Sweden.
08.-10.06. We had a lovely visit of Anne Öman from Sweden. Anne runs the Swedish Akhal-Teke Association.
26.05. We had more visitors this week-end. This time the Russian endurance riders from St.Petersburg and Moscow came to visit us to see our Akhal-Teke horses.
24.05. We had a nice visit of Karin Landin from Sweden. Karin is a vet
who came to work in the Vet Commission at the Nordic-Baltic Championship.
23.05. We had a lovely visit of Melinda
Lonning from Norway. Melinda is a vet who came with the Norwagian endurance team to the Nordic-Baltic Championship.
24.-26.05. Kätlin and Kaido were working at the 2* Nordic-Baltic Championship in endurance at Kurgjärve, Estonia.
01.-02.05. Kaido was working as a Foreign Vet at Spassk-Ryazanskii in Russia at FEI 2* endurance race.
01.-02.03. Kätlin and Kaido attended the 6th European Equine Health and Nutrition Congress (EEHNC) in Ghent, Belgium
2012
22.10. We had a nice visit of Edita and Josef Sluka from Farma Achalteke, Czech Republic. They came to pick up their new mares Bibigiz and Regina.
19.-21.10. Kätlin and Kaido were working as vets in Vesilahti, Finland at the endurance competition in 120km
22.09. This week-end we had a visit of Murat Keneshbaev and Abral Abdramanov from Kazakhstan. Murat and Abral are doing a part of their MSc degree at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Estonian University of Life Sciences. Murat is also training and riding Akhal-Teke horses at «Ахал – Теке МиД РК» - Akhal-Teke stud in Kazakhstan.
18.-22.08. We had a great visit of Emma Deraze and her boyfriend Marc from England
14.-16.07. We had a great visit of Eva de Vrijes and Willem Koet from Holland. They run endurance horse farm Genghis Khan Horses and riding center Paard & Jij.
10.-12.07. We had a great visit of Christina Hoyle from Sweden.
06.-08.07. Kätlin and Kaido were working as vets in Kurtuvenai, Lithuania at the endurance competition in 120km.
29.06.-01.07. Kätlin and Kaido were working as vets in Uppsala, Sweden at the Uppsalaridet in endurance 120km.
21.-25.06. We had a great visit of Renate Lang and Markus Hubmann from Austria from the Endurance-horses-Austria.
15.-17.06. Kätlin and Kaido were working as vets in Jämsä, Finland at the Nordic-Baltic Championships in endurance of 120km.
26.04-02.05 Kätlin and Kaido were again invited to Turkmenistan to the Turkmen Horse Holiday celebrations. During the days there we could also visit an Akhal-Teke stud farm and spend a day at the new race track to see the horses in training there.
9.-11.03.2012 Kätlin and Kaido attended the FEI I & II level Endurance Veterinarian Course in Pecs, Hungary.
2011
01.10. We were invited again to work as endurance veterinarians at the Austrian Championship near Graz in Austria. We had a great time to stay there at Markus Hubmann and Renate Lang and saw their lovely horses again.
17.09. We got a visit of Edita and Josef Sluka from Farma Achalteke, Czech Republic who came to pick up their new mare Sayathanum from us.
19.-24.08. We had a great visit by Sigrid Hauser-Berndt and her daughter Alice from Germany.
29.-31.07. Kätlin and Kaido were in Lapinlahti in Finland at 3* eventing competition practising the veterinary work.
20.-23.06. Tatjana Ryabova and Nadejda Abramova from VNIIK / MAAK came to visit us and grade our horses.
Prisse Könönen from Finland also visited us and attended the grading.
15.-18.06. Kätlin and Kaido attended the FEI event veterinary course in Ypäjä, Finland.
01.-05.06. Geraldine Montani from Switzerland visited us with her friend Caroline.
20.-25.04. Kätlin and Kaido were invited to Turkmenistan to the Turkmen Horse Holiday celebrations. We could spend four great and busy days there and meet so many Akhal-Teke breeders and lovers from all over the world. Kätlin was also invited to the meeting with the President of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov together with other presidents of national associations where EST-ATA was taken as an official member of IAHA (International Akhalteke Horse Association).
14.-17.04. Kätlin and Kaido attended the 5th European Equine Health and Nutrition Congress (EEHNC) in Waregem, Belgium. The subtitle of the congress was "Feeding the muscle" and the subjects focused on sport horse muscle physiology and feeding to avoid and treat the muscle problems. Kätlin also had a poster presentation there "Age related changes of MyHC and MyLC isoform composition in Akhal-Teke horses` skeletal muscle".
On our last day back we visited Clara de Vos van Steenwijk at Argamak Studfarm in Holland.
2010
27.-30.10 Katherine`s family from England came to visit Estonia.
17.-22.10 Kätlin attended the course "Reproductive Endocrinology" in Sweden.
28.09-4.10 We had a great trip to Austria, altogether 4000km by car. We were invited to work at the Austrian Championship in endurance as vets. We were hosted by Markus Hubmann who also organized the competition and who himself owns and competes Akhal-Teke horses.
On our way back to Estonia we visited Petra Maresova at Achalteke Tukleky in Czech Republic and saw her Akhal-Teke horses there.
26.09-8.10 Emma Nelson from England visited us again.
24.09 Christina Hoyle from Sweden visited us again with her friend Helen.
04.09 Katherine Lumsden from England came to stay at us for 3 months to work with our AT horses.
20.08.-04.09 Jeanet Wolf from Holland visited us here again with her friend Hilrieke.
12.-16.08. We were invited to Turkmenistan by Turkmen Atlary for foundation of new International Ahalteke Horse Breeding Association (IAHA). We want to thank the organizers for theinvitation, we had a very pleasant time there in Ashabad!
15.06. We got our promotion as 2* FEI endurance veterinarians!
14.02. Emma Nelson from England came to stay at us to work with our Akhal-Teke horses for 4 months. Emma is an endurance rider who has been crewing for the Young Rider endurance team in Germany and Spain and also for Senior team in Portugal. She is currently qualifying for the Young Rider championship team in England. We plan to send couple of our young horses for her to England to be trained and competed in endurance.
2009
10.-13.09. Kätlin and Kaido attended the FEI I and II level Course for International Veterinarians in Warka, Poland.
During the event we could also visit Jacek Kobus at Boska Wola and see their Akhal-Teke mares.
17.-25.08. Christina Hoyle from Sweden/England came to visit us for a week to see our Akhal-Teke horses in their every-day life.
24.-26.07 Kätlin and Kaido were at Kuznia Nowowiejska in Poland at CEI3* endurance competition (distances 80, 120, 160km) practising the vet work.
We also met Jacek Kobus from Boska Wola who has AT horses there in Poland.
20.07. Maris Kaldoja with her family from Estonia/Finland visited us to see our horses.
15.07. Anne and Heigo Rohtla visited us to see our AT horses. They are the best endurance riders right now here in Estonia, Heigo competing up to 160km level. He also won Nordic-Baltic Championship in endurance in 2006.
06.07. Today Jeanet Wolf from Holland came to us again for 1 month to help to train the young horses for riding.
24.-28.06. Kätlin and Kaido attended the 2nd International Endurance Veterinary Seminar and FEI Course in Newmarket, England. After the seminar we could follow the official vets` work at the FEI CEI*** endurance race in Euston Park. We fulfilled the criteria of the 1st* level for FEI 4* international endurance veterinarian official.
07.06.-12.06. Kätlin attended an animal reproduction course in Uppsala, Sweden.
29.-31.05 Prisse, Sanna and Kirsi from Finland visited us this weekend to take Prisse`s horse Kuvandyk to Finland.
06.04. Today Sonja Shaikh from Finland came to our farm for 1 month practice of horse-breeding.
07.-08.03 Prisse, the owner of Kuvandyk, visited us this week-end.
03.-05.02 Clara de Vos van Steenwijk from Argamak Studfarm in Holland came to visit us with Jeanet Wolf. Jeanet is staying at us until March, the 12th to do her practical studies of school about horse management.
2008
29.10.-5.11.2008 Prisse attended the Mirjam`s training at us.
24.-26.10.2008 Markus Hubmann from Austria came to visit us with special interest to Kamilotta for endurance sport.
25.10.2008 Kristi from Latvia visited us to see our horses with her family.
11.-12.10.2008 Prisse, Anna-Elisa and Emma from Finland came to visit us.
27.-28.09.2008 We had Mirjam here again to train our young horses.
06.-07.09.2008 Prisse visited us this week-end again.
02.-03.08.2008 Prisse from Finland visited us this week-end.
16.-18.07.2008 We had Mirjam and Anu here to start the training of our 2- and 3-year old stallions with Natural Horsemanship methods.
09.-11.07.2008 Kätlin attended the 7th Equine Embryo Transfer International Symposium in Cambridge, England.
05.07.2008 Hege from Norway visited us this week-end with her friend Elizabeth and took home her new horse Kyssa.
28.06.2008 Prisse from Finland, owner of Kuvandyk visited us this week-end.
24.05.2008 It was fun to have Prisse and Sanna visiting us again.
29.03.2008 Kätlin and Kaido were at Monty Roberts` demonstration course in Finland. They stayed at Prisse and Seppo and could meet and visit other AT owners in Finland - Kirsi Kupsala, owner of AT stallion Sultan Girey; Marita Pyykkönen and her AT gelding Azat; Elena and her AT stallion Dargan and AT mare Erga.
23.03.2008 Prisse and Sanna visited us from Finland.
14. - 16.03.2008 Hege Pretorius from Norway visited us to see our Akhal-Teke horses.
10. - 12.03.2008 Kaido was in Moscow in conjuction to organize at the Moscow Transporters' Association (MAK) the accrediting and licencing Russian drivers and their horse transportation trucks upon EU regulations for driving in European Union countries.
16. - 17.02.2008 We got a visit by Prisse and Seppo from Finland.
12.01.2008 We visited Juris Astic in Latvia at 3 Vitolu Stalli to hear more about Gulistan.
2007
05. -06.12.2007 Prisse and Sanna from Finland visited us again.
10. - 25.09.2007 Kätlin could stay in Belgium, at Kara Leylek Stud to see their doings with Akhal-Teke horses.
04. - 06.09.2007 Michele van Kasteren from Kara Leylek Stud in Belgium visited our farm.
01.09.2007 Prisse and Sanna from Finland visited us again today.
28.08.2007 Today we got back from Moscow, Akhal-Teke World Championship. Pictures coming soon!
20.08.2007 Today Eva Enzell from Sweden visited us with special interest for an Akhal-Teke horse for eventing.
25.07.2007 We had visitors Lene, Björn and Paul from Norway today with special interest to our stallions.
They came to choose among our AT stallions for breeding their mares for endurance offspring (cross-bred).
30.06.2007 Kätlin and Kaido had a great opportunity to partake in the judging board at the AT Show in Ettelbrück, Luxembourg
what was organized by ATHA and held in the framework of the
International Agricultural Fair (Foire Agricole Ettelbrück) 2007. -
There is a lovely video of this event on
www.youtube.com.
The third judge of the AT Show was Kamal Mirhojaev from Uzbekistan who runs an AT farm
Akhalteke-Sher.
We all had great time at staying at Kara Leylek Stud during the event!
05. - 09.06.2007 During her stay at
Utrecht University, the Department of Equine Sciences in connection of her PhD studies Kätlin was happy to visit Argamak Studfarm in Holland again.
2006
02. - 04.12.2006 Camilla Elfsberg from Sweden visited us to see our AT horses, with special interest to Kelchermek.
29.10 - 01.11.2006 We got a visit from family Degrotte from Belgium.
12. - 13.08.2006 Sportpferde-Championat in Germany at Urte L. Kern stud Classic Arabians.
11.06.2006 We had visitors from Finland who came to see our Akhal-Teke horses.
Prisse, Emma, Kati and Sanna - we hope you enjoyed the staying at us and liked our horses. Hope to see you again
in the future!
17. - 21.03.2006 Akhal-Teke Horse Association meeting in Belgium/ Luxembourg.
Visiting also Kara Leylek Stud in Belgium and Argamak Studfarm in Holland.
PICTURES - Meeting
11.03.2006 Breeders from Dalida Achal-Teke.Cz, Czech Republic came to visit
us and transport Bahar and Birinji to their new home.
2005
27.08.2005 We got a visit from Susanna Saari and Tommy Salonen from Finland.
22.07.2005 Lotta Sundström from Finland came to visit us with her family.
17. - 18.07.2005 Nan Cecilie Sandbakk from Norway visited us with her family to take her new horse Kacan to Norway.
2004
July 2004 Trip to several AT stud farms in Russia.
PICTURES - Stavropol Stud
2003
15. - 17.08.2003 V World Championship at Moscow.
July 2003 Ingrid Høvik from Norway with her family visited us.
02. - 04.04.2003 LenExpo at St.Petersburg.