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Limburg Province of the Netherlands
has a great variety of landscapes to offer. We found a
beautiful place for our horses in forest landscape with
additionally many blossom trees. |
Part of the stables with Midnight and
Postmark looking out |
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In the horse barn building we’ve got
ample place for the stallions and some mares. Apart from
our male horses, mares to be bred and those about to
foal are kept here. There’s a kitchen and other
conveniences, so we keep watch there at foaling time. |
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Lad's Black Buster has his stable at
the corner of the building which we call the
"Buster-cluster", as it's also the corner
where his sons Leroy and Tango have their
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Adjacent to the barn is an indoor
riding hall and outdoor riding place available for
us. A good place to start training with Tango,
including preparing him to become a show-jumper!
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| Buster sniffs the air for more
details! Spring is in the air! |
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There are separate meadows with
electric fencing for the mares and the stallions as
well as a sand-paddock with extra high and secure
fencing. The latter is the right thing for our
“jumping-horse” Buster’s Moonshine Tango!
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Postmark Delight has a
look at his mares in the meadow, with his
first 2006 foal frolicking around. |
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What’s more, there is
plenty of opportunity to go out riding the
country lanes and forest tracks. Here, we
can even ride out to the east and invade the
German Reichswald!
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Markus watching things
around.
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Midnight Lunar in the mares meadow,
heavy with pregnancy. |
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| At times, even Midnight,
this big gobbler, stops eating as her belly
is so full already with her foal! |
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Claudia happens to have the same name
as Midnight's former owner, and she likes Midnight as
well as the Dandelions in the meadow of which she took
one. In Dutch, these are called paardenbloem:
"Horse-flower" |
Midnight with Claudia, our horse-girl. |
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At another place at the west side of
the river Maas we keep our other mares. Here, we’re also
in forest region with a horse path network all around!
Limburg, traditionally a province with mostly the heavy
Dutch Draught horse, is a good place for other breeds as
well! The heavy horses are of Belgian stock and they’re
usually called “Belg”, there are still plenty of them
around here, like hallmarks in the landscape. |
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