miniature horsesworldwide

Christina Zeitelhack

finest facts from breeders around the world

world trip

On 280 pages you will see beautiful horses

living on farms around the world.

This book takes you on a trip around the world

to explore different types of Miniature Horses

and interesting farm backgrounds. You travel

from country to country, showing off some of

the world's best equines.

Through the photographs, every reader will

have the chance to examine their own personal

tastes and objectives as a breeder. In the interest

of horse lovers everywhere, the images in this

book will help give you a closer look at the true

nature of the Miniature Horse.

The readers of this book have an opportunity to

admire many of the world's most beautiful horses,

as well as to study their lineage which gives

insight into many breeding programmes around

the globe.

A handsome tribute to the beauty – both physical

and spiritual – of these magnificent creatures,

this volume is a comprehensive work to

be treasured by horse and animal lovers

of all ages.

“A beautiful representation showcasing the variety of Miniature Horse farms from around the world.”AMHA – The American Miniature Horse Association

“We are very pleased that this book has been produced to bring attention to these wonderful small equines and the people who breed and promote them around the world. Enjoy this book and as we love to say, Think Big and Go Small!”Johnny Robb, Director of MarketingAMHR – American Miniature Horse Registry

“I am really impressed, what a beautiful collection of horse and human interest. Any small equine enthusiast will cherish this collector-quality volume for a lifetime. A pleasure to read, this literary work is a unique visual voyage into the world of the Miniature Horse… No library, display cabinet or coffee table should be without a copy of this photojournalistic work of art.”Liz McMillan – International Equine Photographer, equineimagery.com

about the author

Christina Zeitelhack

was born in Munich

in 1975. Horses have

been the central

focus of her life for

as long as she can

remember.

She learned to ride

almost before she

could walk. And

in one “language”

or another, she has always communicated with

horses, understood them and known them on

a level beyond simple comprehension.

Her passion has been the Arabian horses. She

showed extensively on the Arabian circuit and

won several Championships. At the age of 13

she showed her Arabian stallion in halter classes

and won every time. It was her own bred straight

Egyptian stallion Mohamed by a direct Nazeer

daughter, who was imported from Egypt. She

was growing up with this beautiful horse on her

parents’ farm and spent most of her time as a

child with him. He was her best friend till he died.

He was that once-in-a-lifetime gift. He was her

riding and show stallion. After his death the

breeding of the Arabians ended at the farm.

Although her passion for the horses never wavered,

she started breeding and showing with American

Shetland Ponies followed by Miniature Horses.

She visited farms and shows in the US.

Today there are 20 Miniature Horses and

10 American Shetlands on her farm. From time

to time she imports new horses of both breeds

to add new lines to her breeding programmes.

Some of us are born with a passion; a knowing

in their hearts what they were put on this earth

for, some discover their “calling in life” as a

young adult; others still don't discover what

gives meaning to their life until later in adulthood.

Contact the author at: www.miniaturehorses.de

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PhotographerAmie Anderson

Andreas Maschke

Christina Zeitelhack

Frida Erixon

Joanna Jonientz

Liz McMillan

Sandy Revard

Shannon Troglauer

Washburn Photography

AuthorChristina Zeitelhack

IntroPrologue Author 6

Prologue from the Publisher 8

Finest Facts

AustraliaLindan Park 12

CanadaFirst Knight Miniatures 18

DenmarkMarielund Miniatures 24

EnglandDonabi UK 30Hailstone Miniature Horses 34

FinlandFly High Miniatures 40

FranceAdonis Mini Horses 46Elevage de la Buise 50Les Minis de Bel Air 56Maryhorse Miniatures 60Modello Horse Farm 64So Chic Miniatures 72

GermanyBavarian Miniature Horses 78Gestüt Moritzberg 82Kuisl Miniatures 90

LithuaniaLithuania Miniature Farm 98

NetherlandsSchuwacht Stables Miniatures 104Stal Hazelberg 108TF American MiniatureHorse Stables 114Whistle Mountain Miniatures 120

New ZealandSheokes Miniatures 126

Northern IrelandKwaimoon Miniature Horses 134

SpainMade in Spain 140

SwedenSimplicity Miniature Horses 148

SwitzerlandArura Miniature Horses 154Buechbuehl Miniature Horses 160

USAArizonaLost Spoke Ranch, LLC 170

ArkansasErica’s Tiny Trotters 176

CaliforniaCascata Farm 180

DelawareReece Family Miniatures 184

IndianaVermilyea Farms 188

IowaCentury Farm Miniat. Horses 192Timberview Miniature Appal. 196

KansasWindemere Farm 200

KentuckyJSW Farm 204Nostalgia Farm 208

LouisianaWisteria Mini Horse Ranch 212

MarylandWooded Acres Miniatures 216

MichiganAbria Miniatures 220

MissouriLTD Quarter & Miniat. Horses 224

North DakotaTriple K Miniatures 228

OregonScott Creek Miniat. Horses 232

TexasEl Rancho Loco Miniatures 238Oasis Miniature Horses 246Shortview Stud Farm 252

UtahLittle r Minis 260

WashingtonLymrick Farm 264Mountain Meadows Miniat. 268

WisconsinLOT-SA-FUN Miniat. Horses 272

Prologue from the Publisher 8

CreditsImprint 279

Index

finest facts from breeders around the world

On 280 pages you will see beautiful horses living on farms around the world.

This book takes you on a trip around the world to explore different types of Miniature Horses and

interesting farm backgrounds. You travel from country to country, showing off some of the

world's best equines.

All these ingredients together result in this book being a very unique one.

A perfect gift for someone special.

Christina Zeitelhack

Page 6

Prologue Author

The creation of this photo book is not as easy at it might seem. Different skills have to be brought

together, the needs of the various farm owners have to be met and the necessary knowledge you wish

to portray has to be acquired.

Through the photographs, every reader will have the chance to examine their own personal tastes and

objectives as a breeder. In the interest of horse lovers everywhere, the images in this book will help give

you a closer look at the true nature of the Miniature Horse. The readers of this book have an opportunity

to admire many of the world's most beautiful horses, as well as to study their lineage which gives

insight into many breeding programmes around the globe.

A handsome tribute to the beauty – both physical and spiritual – of these magnificent creatures,

this volume is a comprehensive work to be treasured by horse and animal lovers of all ages.

Without Carsten Knopf (Service Crew – EDITION Verlag) and his support the whole project would

not have been possible. I am grateful to each of the photographers, especially Liz McMillan,

without their work this book wouldn't have been possible.

Let us take you on a trip around this small world, where we will tell you the stories behind the photos,

the horses, the farms and the people who love them.

Sit back and enjoy a photographical thrill and adventure…

Christina Zeitelhack

finest facts

finest facts

australia

finest facts

germany (deutschland)

Germany · Page 90

location and owner

Kuisl Miniatures is a family horse farm located in the centre

of Germany near Dortmund.

Joerg Kuisl got into Miniature Horses when he saw one on

the web, fell in love and had to have one. As you know you

can't have just one.

”We are a small breeding farm, all of our horses are

handled everyday. We enjoy having the minis, and the

babies are lots of fun. We believe the horses are great

for families and teach so much to our children.”

breeding programme

Joerg Kuisl has specialized in breeding high-quality small

Miniatures under 30" with a variety of bloodlines, colours,

good conformation and temperament. The horses are per-

formance horses are with good breeding, brains, as well

as being beautiful. All of the horses to start out with a great

pedigree of documented award winners or producers. Joerg

Kuisl started in 2008 with 2 stallions and has 5 selected

mares that are Champion and World Champion bred.

The grey stallion Beloveds Imperial Dream Creation is a

gorgeous, big, easy-going young guy. Dream lives up to his

name, he is a dream to own! Dream is a direct son of the

legendary stallion, NFC Egyptian Kings Creation and out of

a daughter of Dream Merchant. Dream’s pedigree includes

multiple World Champions and Grand Champions! This

stallion is a pleasure to handle and be around. Joerg Kuisl

and his team are looking forwad to see what he puts on

the ground next year with all the mares they< bred to him.

The second stallion on the farm and most recent import at

Kuisl Miniatures is SRF Noble Flaire. He has an awesome

bronze gold buckskin colour accentuated by many dark

points of black. He is only 29" small and moves like a

dream! His sire Little Kings Buck Echo retired from the

show ring after his win in 1994. He went out with a bang!

To add to his already numerous Champion wins, Echo won

the AMHA National Grand Champion Senior Stallion title.

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He is sired by one of the most well-known Miniature

Horses in the world today, Boones Little Buckeroo.

Buckeroo holds the unequalled record of winning 3 AMHA

National Grand Champion Senior Stallion titles, and is

truly the “Sire of Sires”.

Noble Flaire is a multiple National Champion AMHA and

AMHR Formal Pleasure Driving and Viceroy horse. He won

2005 National Top Three Open Park Harness – Under 2005

National Grand Champion Open Park Harness Stake. He

has produced show quality halter babies that have World

Class bloodlines for performance.

He is passing on his beautiful head, conformation, and

great disposition to his babies. His bloodlines include

some of the all-time great foundation… His combination

of Foundation breeding is a rare find, and he shows great

promise of producing some Foundation Greats himself.

The broodmares have been imported from the US and

surely a few more will follow. At present there is a nice

variety in bloodlines and colour.

Grosshill EKs Top This is a double Egyptian King bred. This

small silver dapple mare is by the World Champion NFC

Egyptian Kings Top Account. Her dam is a National Top

Ten. She is by Flying W Farms Little Boy Blue. Champions

all over her pedigree!

As Joerg Kuisl says: “We think Top This will live up to

her pedigree as she is a pretty mover, a lovely producer

and has a super sweet disposition. So we are sure

to have a great addition to our breeding programme

and it is planned to breed her to our NFC Egyptian Kings

Creation son.”

Breeding Farm · Kuisl Miniatures

finest facts

united states of america

USA · Page 170

location and owner

Lost Spoke Ranch is a small breeding ranch located in

Benson, Arizona. Benson is a little town of about 8,000

people that is about 40 miles east of Tucson, Arizona. This

ranch usually maintains a herd of approximately 40 horses

at an altitude of about 4,200 feet maintaining a comfort-

able temperature range throughout the year.

The owners of Lost Spoke Ranch are Tommy and Dawn

Thompson. Dawn Thompson has been involved with hors-

es since she was 12 years old being brought up with the

POA (Ponies Of America) organization. Her first horse

(Navajo Js Sunoco) was a stallion that she started, trained

and showed herself. When Tommy and Dawn Thompson

got married, Dawn introduced Tommy to the world of

equines and showed him the finer points of picking quality

horses.

For some years Tommy and Dawn Thompson bred and

showed Quarter Horses, they are lifetime members of

AQHA. One day while working in Rome, New York, in 1993,

there was a programme on TV that presented Miniature

Horses of Winner Circle. That show was the programme

that started it all for them in the world of Miniatures.

It was a time before the Internet and Dawn Thompson

wrote over 600 letters and mailed them to various breed-

ers for information on these little ones. Lost Spoke

Miniature Horse Ranch was born.

breeding programme

Tommy and Dawn Thompson had a lofty dream of produc-

ing a new breeding of Miniature Appaloosa type horses

that would be competitive in the showring in the top halter

classes. Loud Miniature Appaloosa types did well in

colour classes but Tommy and Dawn Thompson wanted to

take the breeding of these colourful Appaloosa types a

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step further. This meant to also improve the conformation

to show how this Miniature type could be sought by all

breeders for any breeding programme.

As of this writing the current culmination of this effort is

seen in the stallion known as Catch (Lost Spokes Winter

Dream Catcher) with his 6 World and National titles in

colour and halter, to date so far. Catch may be the first

Leopard Appaloosa type that earned a Hall Of Fame in

Halter as a two year old stallion.

Catch’s Sire, Lost Spokes Winter Hawk, was the product

of JTR Loud and Clear and JTR Spotted Horses

Exotica. Catch’s Dam, Southbrookes Cinnamon Spice,

is the result of Flying W Farms Warbonnet and Hobby

Horses Chiefs Lady.

Lost Spoke wanted to take the colourful and excellent con-

formational background of JTR Loud and Clear and cross it

with the beautiful head and excellent conformation of

Catch’s Dam, who is affectionately known as Mums.

The result was beyond any expectations. The conse-

quence is to continually move this Miniature Horse type to

even higher expectations.

The bloodlines that created this renowned stallion, Catch,

are to be crossed with those of several other recent

World/National Champions which include but are not

limited to the offspring of First Knights Lord of the Ring,

Prince Tennessee Monashee, First Knights Breaking All

The Rules, Mountain Meadows Amir Al Ahmar aka Prince,

and other recent and first generation halter champions.

Breeding Farm · Lost Spoke Ranch, LLC

Lost Spoke Ranch also continues to maintain Catch’s dam

and her Falabella bred daughters in their breeding pro-

gramme. These girls were the result of crossing Mums

with Grosshills El Hombre Falabella aka Hombre. Hombre

is a tiny 28" Falabella stallion that has another beautiful

head and wonderful disposition in the pasture. His

Argentinean background added stamina and robustness

to the breeding programme.

Lost Spokes Bambi Kiss aka Bambster, picture herein, is

out of one of these Mums daughters, Lost Spoke Kiss From

A Rose. Bambster did very well at her first showing at

the World, with two reserve World Championships and

several World Top Fives.

To name some of the great broodmares:

The beautiful black mare Conders Miss Ocala aka Miss O

(First Knights Breaking All the Rules x Cascadas Midnight

Blue) is a 2008 AMHA Top Ten Honour Roll and twice 2007

AMHA World Champion Junior Mare.

The bay SunBreaks Latte Tyme (Celebrations Tennessee

Tyme x R CS Naomi). She was 2006 AMHA Reserve World

Champion Mare, AMHA World Top Ten Honour Roll,

Yearling Mares 28" to 30".

2008 marked the third year since Lost Spoke Ranch

entered into the showring with their Miniature Horses.

During that show year alone, their horses won 4 National

Champion titles, 2 World Champion titles, 2 Reserve

World Champion titles, 11 Top Five Champion titles and 4

Top Ten Champion titles.

USA · Page 172

Page 170 CatchPage 171 LightningPage 172 Miss OPage 173 CatchPage 174 LegendPage 175 Bambster

breeder contact

LOST SPOKE RANCH, LLC

Dawn and Tommy Thompson25345 Castlerock Kennel DriveBenson, Arizona 85602United States

Phone 001.520. 4 015 710

lostspokeranch@theriver.comwww.lostspokeranch.com

The years to come should be extremely exciting for Lost

Spoke Ranch and Miniature Appaloosa types around the

world as the new challenges are to be encountered.

Dawn and Tommy expect to take their breeding pro-

gramme into the next phase being the performance arena.

Catch is making his introduction into

the Driving world in 2009 for the

beginning of the performance phase

for Lost Spoke Ranch.

There are a couple of other horses

waiting in the “wings” for their time

in the harness driving arena, one of

them being Lost Spokes Lightning

Strike aka Lightning. He is a minia-

ture few cap Appaloosa type, with

the propensity to produce a lot of

colour. Lightning has a heart and

style with a lot of presence that few

miniature homozygous Appaloosa

types have to offer. He is another to

look for in the show arena along with

his up and coming colourful offspring.

philosophy

The original philosophy of Lost Spoke Ranch was to find

different bloodlines that would help improve the

Miniature Appaloosa type conformation and to help in

“toning down” some of the coarseness noted with this

breed type. That goal is being achieved as seen with Catch

and other Lost Spoke Ranch offspring. The current focus is

to reduce the herd size to the immediate bloodlines that

not only created Catch and his siblings but other current

champion lines that are renowned for their contributions

to the enhancement of the Miniature Horse. The intent is

to continually improve with the introduction of new blood-

line combinations that are proven not only in the showring

but also in the “breeding shed”.

Any breeding programme has to continually evolve if the

intent is to improve the breed, be it halter or performance.

That does not mean staying with the bloodlines of yester-

day but taking advantage of the fantastic job several other

breeding farms/ranches programmes have done. It means

taking the best combinations of these breeding pro-

grammes and utilize with their breeding goals. That is the

main guideline for Lost Spoke Ranch.

USA · Page 174

Page 272 Lot-Sa-Funs Tru Look At MePage 273 Flabys Wonder ManPage 274 Sugar Creeks Tru Luvs FlamboyantPage 275 Lot-Sa-Funs Truely Mite T FinePage 276 Lot-Sa-Funs Tru Snap ShotPage 277 Shakira Davis (Granddaughter) and

Lot-Sa-Funs Tru B-Boppin Baby

breeder contact

LOT-SA-FUN MINIATURE HORSES

Michele HalversonW12463 820th Ave. River Falls, Wisconsin 54022United States

Phone 001.715.4 265 666

lotsafunminis@pressenter.comwww.lotsafunminiaturehorses.com

chosen to compliment the daughters of Flabys Wonder

Man. Flamboyant carries some of the oldest foundation

bloodlines in the Miniature Horse world. His bloodlines are

all bond breeding. In 2003 he was awarded three National

Top Ten driving championships and a Top Ten in Get of

Sire. He has numerous National Champion level get in

both AMHA and AMHR, which are

excelling in both halter and driving.

His get pose some of the most

sought-after high stepping leg action

for the showring today.

Two outstanding mares are the base

of Michele’s successful breeding

programme. Jandts Tak A With Tha,

one of the first mares arriving at the

ranch who was in foal to Boones

Little Andy. Tak A with Tha delivered

a breathtaking filly, which started

her love for the Andy bloodline;

which is still part of the bloodlines

included in her programme today.

Most of the Tak A With Tha beautiful

daughters have remained at the ranch

to continually enhance Michele’s

breeding programme. You should

come and see them! Tak A With Tha was bred mostly to

Flabys Wonder Man because the cross was so outstand-

ing Michele did not want to switch. She is now retired

from foaling, but continues her life with a legacy left

behind of her beautiful daughters and sons, many that

were National Champion horses. Tak A With Tha and most

of her offspring are featured in the books Outstanding

Miniature Horse Mares and Stallions – Past and Present

by Pat Elder.

Michele’s second mare came a few years later, Martins

Chorus Girl Leo, who is the other foundation mare to her

breeding programme. As a weanling and yearling, Chorus

Girl was shown by Ray Zoercher and then purchased to

add to the Lot-Sa-Fun Miniature Horse breeding pro-

gramme. This has proven to be another winning combina-

tion with Flabys Wonder Man, this mare has been bred to

Wonder Man exclusively, because these foals are hard to

beat. Only a few of her daughters have been sold, the rest

remain at her ranch after they have claimed their National

Champion Top Ten titles. Chorus Girl and her offspring are

featured in the book and Outstanding Miniature Horse

Mares – Past and Present.

Other mares include bloodlines from L & D Scout, Boones

Little Andy, Rhotens Little Dandy, Flying W Farms

Legionaire, Gold Melody Boy and Whittmack Mickey

Mouse. These lines complement each other and add

refinement and animation in the Miniature Horse like no

other.

philosophy

Michele’s success has not only been in the showring but in

fulfilling her customers’ expectations about Miniature

Horses with honesty and integrity. Their belief is quality

over quantity and Michele breeds for intelligence, beauty,

elegance and athleticism. She enjoys each day with these

horses, breeding, foaling and caring for this exceptional

breed. She feels blessed to have this opportunity to con-

tribute to the American Miniature Horse.

USA · Page 276

Imprint

Concept and Design Carsten Knopf

Text Christina Zeitelhack

Photos A. Anderson, A. Maschke, C. Zeitelhack, F. Erixon, J. Jonientz, L. McMillan, S. Revard, S. Troglauer, Washburn Photography

Cover Painting Tracey Shivak-Anderson

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