Melroe CVA

Haflinger Gelding: 7 year old, "Melroe CVA", AHR Registery #17457-01

Asking price: $6000

1. Working with a Professional Tainer
2. English & Western Pleasure--Successful in Open Shows
3. Dressage moung-Great Potential
4. Trail Rides
5. 2008 "Supreme" County Fair Champion Draft Horse
6. 2008 "Supreme" County Fair Champion Pleasure Horse
7. '03 AHR National Grand Champion

Mel is a glistening copper chestnut, with a strip, double white mane, full white tail, and stands 60" tall. His sire and dam are both Dutch imports.

Mel will be at the AHR SHOW, September 10-13 and the GLHA Show, October 9, 10. He has been in OPEN SHOWS this summer performing both English & Western disciplines a well as Halter classes--and doing very well! Mel was the '08 Supreme Champion at our County Fair in both the DRAFT and PLEASURE Divisions, and was the 2003 AHR National Grand Champion!

Jim and Mel have been working wiht a Professional Horsemanship Trainer to:

• disengage hindquarters
• move the front end
• leg yield
• forward motion
• lateral and vertical flexion
• achieving lightness and responsiveness to rider's seat and legs

They will be working on:

• counter bends
• haunches-in
• shoulders-in
• half-passes
• lead changes
• rollbacks
• spins

Mel is GREAT on the TRAILS--crossing creeks and jumping logs! Check out video at the top of blog.

He has a quiet disposition, balanced confirmation, and flowing movement. He stands very well for trimming, shoeing, washing, spraying, clipping, and loading.

E-mail: jnewsted@ncats.net

Haflinger Yearling Filly: Stateside News

Our filly is for sale! Registered Haflinger AHR Reg. #3001-07, "Stateside News"
Asking Price: $1500

A beautiful blonde chestnut with white mane and tail. Should mature to 58". Her sire was the '03 AHR National Grand Champion, "Melroe CVA". Her dam is the daughter of the 1995 WORLD Champion, "Amadeus". She has nice barn manners and has been handled twice daily since birth. Stands for spraying, trimming, clipping, washing, and loading. Very quiet, easy going and fun filly to work with and be around! Working on Ground Training, Round Pen training, and Line Driving! E-mail with questions: jnewsted@ncats.net

More Horse Shows, More Pictures

Well, well, well! A flurry of activity this weekend and 2 horse shows! The Newaygo County Fair went on all week long, and on Friday they hosted an open Horse Show for all horses. We brought Sunny and Mel (It was just Jim and Billie Jean showing) and all we can seem to handle with just 2 of us is 2 horses! Anyway, we entered them into Halter classes, and put them in the Pony division. Mel won first place and Sunny won second place! They went on to enter the Grand Champion Halter Class, and Mel won Grand Champion Supreme! Out of all the horses there, he showed the best at Halter! Jim rode him English & Western Pleasure and Horsemanship (at a walk/trot class), and placed well in all of them. Actually, placing higher in English than in Western! There were Many horses here!

Saturday, we arrived early at another show, called Sunset Riders Open Show, near Muskegon. We've been here a few times in the past, and it's usually quite busy, with many horses and riders. We received the bad news that this is the last year this show will take place, as the property will be developed into a soccer complex! The halter classes here are organized by Registered Quarter Horse, Registered Stock horse, Registered Pleasure Horse, and Unregistered horse. We entered Mel in the Registered Stock Horse (At the judge's suggestion), and he placed 2nd!

We have a few pictures from this show, but not available yet. These pictures are still from last Sunday. 2 pictures are labled, the middle 2 pictures are Jim riding Mel in the Western riding class.

Some other classes at the Fair

We had 3 entries in Western Riding: Billie Jean riding Atta-Boy, Jim riding Mel, and our daughter Jenni riding Sunny. We took 1st (Billie Jean), 2nd (Jim), and 3rd (Jenni) places. Our granddaughter, Megan, helped us in halter for the best of 3 head (we got 2nd place), and she showed Sunny.

Newaygo County Draft Horse & Pony Show

Wow! What a fantastic Day! We brought home more ribbons than I could stop and count! And 2 large trophies! The show only required one fee per horse, with unlimited events that you could enter. So, of course, true to fashion, we entered all we could find! We also invited our granddaughter, Megan, to show with us, as well as our daughter, Jenni. Our grand-niece, Destiny, also showed up with her grandparents, and she, too, showed for us. We brought our 3 geldings, Sunny, Atta-Boy, and Mel. We entered them in halter classes, showmanship classes, and best 3 head from a farm, and best 2 head of a farm. We placed in all of these, with Mel taking 1st place in gelding ponies/Haflingers, 4 years and older. He went on to win champion of all geldings, and then won GRAND CHAMPION HAFLINGER/PONY of the show! I promise, the trophy was at least 3 feet tall! He was so showy and flashy! Definitely a standout!

These pictures are all of Mel and Jim. I especially like the one of them standing together by the fence...after one of their events, they stayed to watch Megan & Destiny's riding class. I just couldn't resist clicking a few of these photos of their backs. It looks like the 2 of them--cowboy & his horse--have become best buds!

Melroe Video

We've posted our video of Mel at the bottom of our blog! Scroll down and press play to watch. I uploaded it to Google Video today.

After much deliberation and debate, we decided to geld Mel. Because of how the horse market is, we thought that Mel would be more desirable as a riding horse, family horse, and show horse this way. We are taking Mel to his first horse show at the Newaygo County Fair Draft Horse show this Sunday. Come check us out if you're in the area! It's all day long. At the end of the day, we're going to do the Wagon 8 again, just like last year. We'll be using our team, Sunny and Atta Boy for this. We'll be taking lots of pictures of our day, so check us out next week for some updates!