Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Icelandic Horses in the US -- Part II

Here is part two of the documentary of the Icelandic Horse.  Icelandic owners and trainers took a team of horses to a big horse 1990 show in Los Angeles to develop a marketing plan for the breed.  

This section records many of the rave responses of the audience to their first views of the Icelandic horse.  Some of the same barriers occur then as now.  One lady comments that the Icelandics racked better than her saddlebred and then asked if somebody could give her one.

Interestingly, this effort must have had an impact on the import of Icelandic horses to the US.  By far, the largest number of Icelandic horses and owners in the US are in California.

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