About us at Escania Morgans
Our
Breeding philosofy
We strive for breeding Morgans that have a great
foundation of capacity to take the rider far,
no matter what disciplin the rider is interested
in. Except the fact that we of course breed
towards Morgan type, we also want to be able to
offer horses that carries that extra something.
A horse should be beautiful to look at, it's as
simple as that. The first things we notice in a
horse is his head and neck - you should see that
it's a Morgan just by watching his front. We
have also noticed that horses with a bad placed
neck is having a harder time working properly
with his body, and therefor we're extra careful
and just crosses horses that has a good neck
set. We want our horses and their riders to have
it easy when they work together!
We are very selective when it comes to movements
and attach great importance in this when we
chose stallions for our mares. A
natural self carriage matters of course, we also
strive for breeding horses with big, spectacular
movements - we want people to watch a Morgan and
say Wooow! when he moves around in the arenas.
We have seen many beautiful Morgans but we would
also want our Morgans to attract attention on
competions, just by dancing around a little...
To us, a good horse has no color, but that
doesn't mean that we don't approve of horses
with special colors - neither do we try to breed
for color. Sometimes our foals will get a
special color anyway, with the reason that the
parents were well enough to be approved in our
breeding program.
Our Riding philosofy
We believe that no matter if you want to ride a
piaff, a slide-stop or jump a fence - you'll
need a horse that is supple, keen and willing to
work. We uphold that there's not any difference
between
riding och riding, despite the discussions that
are held about the variance between western and
english riding. The goal in every disciplines
will be the same; a well-balanced, soft and
sensitive horse with a great ability to carry
himself and his rider and perform his task with
joy. We educate our horses after these
statements. And of course there are many ways to
reach the goal.
Here, we try to focus on doing as little as
possbile but as much as is needed. We want
sensitive horses that read the tiniest signals
in the same moment we ask them. We are careful
with retaining the action from behind and that
the horse accept the bit in an honest way. We
vary the work and the horse's forward thinking
is a l w a y s most important. Without
forward thinking you can't request for self
carriage and collection. We vary working in
paddocs and forest - it's just as easy to do
muscle building exercises in both! We also like
to vary the horse's posture as we've seen that
we get more responsive and attentive horses and
we also believe that it helps strengthen more
muscles in their bodies. We also vary the ground
on which we ride - then we get strong and
durable horses. It should be fun to ride and we
want to jump off the horse with a big smile
every time. We also hope that those who come and
try our horses will have a big smile when
finished riding. But, there's also some reasons
we are into this breed - two of them is the
willingness to work and the rideability they
have. We get so much for free.
About me
I'm Sara and I was born in 1986. I was
almost born on a horseback. When I was 1½
years old, my mum worked in a stable and
there was a very kind mare who my mum used
to put me on while she was cleaning the
stalls. So there I sat and the mare just
stood there like she had eggs on her back.
My best friend Kim had two shetland ponies
that we used to have fun with.
When I was turning 10, I got a christmas
present that was a welsh/Gotlands Russ cross
named Aby Gail. She was such a doll, she had
have a bad life so far (she was afraid of
men and brooms) and was so grateful for
everything we did for her. She always
carried younger kids with patience and
calmness but as soon as she felt they could
handle it, she gave them some problems to
solve and she was extremely sensitive in her
mouth so you had to learn to be kind with
your hands. We had to put her down May 28
2005 due to chronic laminitis. I miss her
sometimes, but I see some of her in both
Kitty and Penny so I guess Aby did put a
stamp on my horsetaste forever. Aby got a
son with mum's horse Golden Star in -97 - so
that's where my breeding career started.
Just kidding, I was only eleven and of
course thought that the foal was the
sweetest ever.
Anyway, I got tired of riding when I was
twelve and wanted nothing to
do with horses in my early teens. At least
not the ones in the backyard. Then I started
to work at Hässleberga Semenstation 2002 and
well, I was stuck in horses and breeding. I
learnt a lot about dressage and breeding
high quality dressagehorses. I learnt a lot
about mares and breeding problems.
I learnt to handle stallions, youngsters
and to work with horses with the help of
Natural Horsemanship, which methods I was
told by my mother. I worked
there four summers and in the summer of 2003
two mares came there to be inseminated with
frozen semen. These two mares were Falkas
Amalia and Tronshagens Penny. Amalia took a
big place in my heart that summer and so did
the Morgan Horse. The more I figured out
about morgans, the more
I knew that this was the right breed for me.
I never wanted a huge warmblood myself,
although I appreciate them for what they
are. Then the search for my special morgan
started. Well, it took a while, but Kitty's
here and she's a lovely start of my breeding
program. And to be able to add Penny to our
herd is great!
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