Our Hornafjörður breeding

Hanný has a strong connection to the old Hornafjörður bloodline. She started to work as a horse trainer in Hornafjörður in 1987 and was a trainer there for 26 years, till 2013. Back then there was still a lot of horses from the old bloodline, so she got to know the bloodline very well and has been wanting horses like that ever since.

Horses from the old Hornafjörður-Breed are usually very friendly towards people and calm in the herd, but have big personalities and are independent characters. They are usually easy to break in if you handle them right and give them the time in the beginning of their training. Their forward willingness usually grows with their training and there is a quote that describes it pretty well. It was said about the stallion Blakkur frá Árnanesi “skap og fjör svo mikið, að ekki væri þörf á meiru fyrir kröfuharðan hestamann.”

Roughly translated: "so much willingness that even a demanding rider could not ask for more."

The tölt is usually the best of the gaits. They are also known for their almost supernatural endurance and speed range in their gaits.

Þorkell Bjarnason, former "horse-breeding-minister" of iceland, describes it very well in his quote:

“Enginn maður heldur út að ferðast svo lengi, án hvíldar, að hann nálgist það að vera til frásagnar þegar viljinn fjarar út í hornfirskum viljahesti.” (Jódynur 1990)

Roughly translated:"no man has the endurance to travel (riding) for so long, without resting, that he will experience the willingness fade in a Hornafjörður powerhorse"

We have been breeding Hornafjörður-horses for many years. We know the horses well and like their qualities.

It is also our belief that it will be good to have access to this bloodline later because the horses in Iceland are getting more and more related.

The main ancestors of our Hornafjörður breeding are; Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri, Flosi frá Brunnum and Gustur frá Grund.

Stallions

In 2010 we started to think about what stallions we could use for our Hornafjörður mares. There are not many stallions left from the bloodline, and we had to find someone that would fit to the line. After careful consideration we made a breeding experiment in 2011, where we bred mares from the Hornafjörður bloodline with Akkur frá Vatnsleysu. This was a great match and we continued to do this for many years. You can read more about it here. Including why we chose Akkur.

Now we have chosen to use Nökkvi frá Syðra-Skörðugili for our Hornafjörður mares. His pedigree combines strong Hornafjörður lines.

Our Hornafjörður gene pool

Mares

Gargandi-Snilld frá Dynjanda

FF: Gustur frá Grund.
MFF: Flosi frá Brunnum.
MMF: Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri.

Gargandi Snilld is a high spirited fivegaited mare. She is bred by us and is a daughter of Muska frá Viðborðsseli who was a very good 5-gaited mare. Gargandi's father is Kolskeggur frá Oddhóli, a well known stallion. He is a son of Gustur frá Grund and was for many years one of the best A-flokkur horses in Iceland.

Gargandi's mother, Muska, has a strong Hornafjörður bloodline. Her father is Kópur frá Mykjunesi, a son of Flosi frá Brunnum and her mother, Raun frá Flatey, was a sister of Skór and Fífill frá Flatey and her father was Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri.

hornfirsku garg muska Gargandi left and her mother Muska to the right

Fimma frá Dynjanda

FF: Tígur frá Álfhólum.
FMFF: Flosi frá Brunnum.
FMFM: Hrefna frá Höfn.
FMMF: Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri.
MF: Gustur frá Grund.
MMF: Flosi frá Brunnum.

Fimma is a fun fivegaited mare, sired by Skuggi frá Dynjanda and her dam is Bylgja frá Lambleiksstöðum.

Fimma has a very strong Hornafjörður bloodline. Her father, Skuggi, is a son of Tígur frá Álfhólum and his mother is from the old Hornafjörður bloodline who includes Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri, Flosi frá Brunnum and Hrefna frá Höfn.

Fimma's mother, Bylgja, was a daughter of siblings; Gustur frá Grund and a daughter of Flosi frá Brunnum.

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Fimma frá Dynjanda

Edda frá Hlemmiskeiði I
F: Byr frá Mykjunesi
M: Apríl frá Árnanesi (pure bred from the old breed in Árnanes)
FMF: Skór frá Flatey
FMMF: Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri

Edda is a breeding mare with a strong Hornafjörður-Bloodline. Her mother is pure bred from the old Árananes line. Her father is Byr frá Mykjunesi, who has Skór frá Flatey as FMF and Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri as FMMF.

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Edda frá Hlemmiskeiði I

Stjarna frá Runnum

F: Moli frá Skriðu
FFMMM: Irpa frá Kyljuholti
MFF: Fífill frá Flatey
MFMF: Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri (8,55)

Stjarna is a daughter of Moli frá Skriðu, who is a son of Glampi frá Vatnsleysu. Stjarna has a rather strong Hornafjörður bloodline in her mothers pedigree. She has Fífill frá Flatey as her MFF, Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri as her MFMF and further back you can find Nökkvi frá Hólmi several times.

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Stjarna frá Runnum

Melkorka frá Miðfelli, born 2012

F: Akkur frá Vatnsleysu
MFF: Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri (8,55)

Goodlooking fivegaiter with much forward willingness. Melkorka is from the first year of Akkur x Hornafjörður offsprings
(you can read more about that mix here).

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Melkorka frá Miðfelli

Mön frá Hindisvík, born 2017

F: Nökkvi frá Syðra-Skörðugili (8,48)
M: Gargandi-Snilld frá Dynjanda
MM: Muska frá Viðborðsseli 1

Mön is a daughter of Gargandi-Snilld and the landsmót winner Nökkvi frá Syðra-Skörðugili. If you take a look at Nökkvis pedigree you can find rather much Hornafjörður blood. He is also a son of a Glampi-daughter, so it is not far back to Bára frá Ásgeirsbrekku (Hornafjörður x Lýsingur).

Mön frá Hindisvík

Youngsters

Herdís frá Hindisvík, born 2019

F: Akkur frá Vatnsleysu
M: Hæra frá Dynjanda
MF: Skuggi frá Dynjanda
MFF: Tígur frá Álfhólum.
MFMFF: Flosi frá Brunnum.
MFMFM: Hrefna frá Höfn.
MFMMF: Ófeigur frá Hvanneyri.
MMF: Flosi frá Brunnum.
MMMF: Flosi frá Brunnum.

Herdís is a very funny charakter and seems to be a typical Hornafjörður horse in many ways.

herdis Herdís with her mother, Hæra