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Call (903)
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Happy Valentine's
Month!
Surprise your Sweetheart with a
visit to our farm. Come ride and hug our Friesians with
pictures to remember.
On this
page you may read about how and why we share our Friesian Love with
others through
Friesian Love Opportunities,
sharing
the joy of the Friesian horse and the
blessings bestowed upon us throughout our life-long Friesian journey
(since 1981).
Are you
in love with the Friesian breed and want to spend time with them? We
get it! We live it! And we
invite you.
We hope to inspire and help with a genuine, heartfelt
Friesian experience as well as provide online info (see
the Friesian Roadmap
and E-newsletter
pages).
Click on
the index below or scroll down the page.
Anneke's Friesians =
Friesian Love
We LOVE
Friesian horses and gladly share our 31 Friesian-filled years.
They helped us overcome many situations in life.
We
educate, enjoy putting a smile on people's faces, and make good
horses, products, and services available. Check out the Friesian Love opportunities (click
or scroll down), and get a chuckle out of our History paragraph
below on how simple, low
budget, yet solid the beginnings were, and you don't want to know
what hurdles we have had to jump since then.
Friesian
Love Fever starts with the opportunity to meet the breed in person and
then the opportunity for continued ed to both aid in the breed's success
and have the tools to make choices and decisions.
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Friesian Love Opportunities
Having a
hard time learning about and/or getting hands-on time with Friesian
horses? Need a smile on your face? Click on the links below to read about the opportunities
or e-mail us
at
AnnekesFriesians@yahoo.com or
Frisian@earthlink.net if
you have questions/requests.
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History
We had a
blast going through old photo albums, back to where it all
started. You may find a selection of scanned photos below this paragraph
or click here.
Part 1 of
the story about Anneke's Friesians can be viewed on the
About Us page. Below we
share the rest of the journey, which started in 1981.
Anneke's
Friesians as a business (per 2005) was completely accidental, something we
always dreamed about but never thought was attainable, not to
mention that it has been an unimaginable experience, with many
blessings for equally as many disasters. Keep reaching and things
will happen!
Anneke's
Friesians made our passion and experiences
come full circle from hobby to full-time business but in recent
years it also completely burnt us out in as far as
that the horse world is no different than any other world and it
became so toxic with egos and politics that we had to let go for a
while and retreat in the horse barn on a sabbatical, still working in the
background, to get back to the heart of it: Friesian love
and blessings.
Our breed
knowledge and language skills give us the responsibility to make
no-nonsense, translated education available
with factual information
to
demystify and dissect. We gladly continue to do
so like we have for so many years
before with our translation work, e-newsletter, and Friesians 101
page.
Let's
share the photos here and if you really want to know the nitty gritty
read on below the photos.
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Photos
Anneke with then 17 year old Pitie/Petra (ster
mare out of Ritske 202 pref) in 1982, riding through town and
here in the driveway of her childhood home for a cookie for
Pitie. Bareback, driving bridle with ropes as we didn't have the
funds yet for real riding tack or clothing for that matter. |
Anneke learning to drive with
Pitie in 1982 in our childhood street in The Netherlands. |
Anneke with then 2 year old Alice
in 1983 (Pitie's
daughter sired by Lammert 260 pref and our Sanne's mom, later a
Lammert ster mare),
riding bareback across the premises of Uddel where she made 1st
premie and reserve youth champion. Notice the driving bit to
save money. |
More photos
after more scanning. |
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Anneke
was born and raised in The Netherlands and would ask for
a pony since being able to talk. At the age of 8, riding lessons
started. It was customary to take care of other people's
horses in exchange for riding and so the search soon started for
someone who would say 'yes.'
Back in
1981, we accidentally came across what was then a rare find,
especially outside of the province of Friesland: two Friesians just
down the road in the neighborhood; the grand dam of our Sanne at
then age 16 (a ster Ritske mare named Pitie, called Petra) and the
dam of our Sanne/Petra's weanling filly (a ster Lammert mare named
Alice), thank you, Beerten family!
Friesian
Love Fever set in immediately! Petra had been a working agricultural and
carriage horse before she came to the Beerten family and was kind
but also reserved from probably bad treatment in the past, had very modern conformation especially
for that time, with an incredible willingness to work in spite of
the wear and tear from a hard life, and a dislike for trucks and
tractors, which made her prance beautifully when going through
traffic.
KFPS
published Phryso as a small, thin, black and white magazine-booklet
throughout the '80s and we still have a stack of those treasured
publications. We devoured them and quickly noticed patterns and
breed traditions. We were hooked!
As Petra
wasn't used as a riding horse and money was tight Anneke rode her bareback
through town and the fields, with a harness bridle with ropes for
reins, riding her and her filly to and from the far pasture bareback
with a halter, tied together and a rope for reins. The breed's
wonderful personality was obvious.
Anneke
learned to 'break' horses by playing with Petra's filly Alice and
over the years playfully trained her to ride, trail ride and even
jump sizeable jumps. We went to keurings where Alice made 1st premie
reserve youth champion, then 3rd premie stb, and on the second try Ster mare.
Did we
ever get ridiculed for riding Friesians, not having the proper gear
or our own horse but who cared: not us! For a
couple of years, Anneke switched to riding KWPN warmbloods simply
for being able to ride more at that barn, and that is where Anneke
really learned how to 'break' horses by doing it a whole lot
with horses that had barely been handled. It all went smoothly but
it was completely unsupervised, unstructured, and could have been very dangerous.
We clearly were naturals but never realized it was a special skill.
In 1991, Anneke left for the United States.
Fast
forward to 1995, when there was still no internet in common use and barely any
Friesians in the U.S. Anneke accidentally came across the Hekstra's
in Michigan, who referred to Fryslan Farm outside Chicago and the
Friesians returned full force.
Our mare
Sanne B. arrived fall 1997 from our Dutch hometown as a weanling. We really wanted a mare
for breeding but meanwhile we love geldings and stallions just as
much. Thank you, Hekstra Family and Fryslan
Farm! The rest of our substantial Friesian resume from 1995 through
now you may read on the About
Us page.
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(Photo header: Anneke on her
stallion Tropical Rider's Wieger, February 2011, photo by Anna Tate.)
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