AthenaArabians.com
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Athenaarabians.com-Bloodlines, history, photos and video
Description
My name is Helena Karlsson I was born in 1973 in Svärdsjö, a small village 25 km northeast of Falun in Sweden. I think I was born loving horses, my father had heavy working horses until I was 25 years old and I learned to ride and drive with those horses. I began taking riding lessons when I was 5 which, in retrospect, wasn't a good idea. I was thrown off badly twice and got scared of riding. It was ok as long as I was on the ground but I panicked at the idea to get up in the saddle again.
Thanks to my aunt, supporting parents and a very nice old dressage pony called Röde Orm I began to ride again. He belonged to another riding school and the owner allowed my aunt to have private lessons for me. Eventually I began to take lessons at that school. When I was 11 my aunt had to find someone to take care of her horse, Salome. A girl had leased her but didn't want to renew the lease and my aunt had a little baby and no time for a horse as well. Since the mare was old the other option was to put her down. Suddenly I had a horse! She was a cross between Arabian and Northswedish Working horse. The funny thing was that everyone thought she was pure something but couldn't pinpoint what so she certainly was a well-made horse.
One of the persons that made my parents agree to this was my friend Marie. She rented our neighbour's stable and I had been around there and helped out ever since she moved in with her horses Natasja x and Chiqui x perhaps 2-3 years before I got Salome. That way I learned how you take care of a horse on a daily basis. Also, her horses would make good company for Salome. It was through Marie that Nellie came in to my life. She is another Halfarabian but out of a Swedish warmblood mare.
Contact
- Helena Karlsson
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- Svaerdsjoe SE
- Sweden 790 23
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- +46.0709329573
