(b. 4/29/05). Arno van het Neishof x R Noble Rose APF. Every bit as outstanding as her dam (and maybe even moreso!) "Teake" is out of the two-time National Champion Pleasure Stallion, Arno van het Nieshof, a Holland import whose offspring are dominating shows and topping sales throughout the country.

Teake is the perfect example of a sporthorse-type Haflinger, with excellent movement, size and conformation. At about 14.2H and growing, Teake has a wonderful head and neck set and long, clean refined legs. This exceptional mare will remain at Lilac Farms as a future broodmare and performance horse.

At the 2007 AHR National Show, Teake won 2nd place in a very competitive two-year-old pleasure mare class, as well as 2nd place in produce of dam and get of sire! She also won second place two-year-old mare at the GLHA Futurity.

In 2006 Teake took home the blue ribbon in the yearling filly pleasure classes at the Buckeye Haflinger Show (OH) in July, at the Twin Birch Farm Haflinger Classic (NY) in August (double-judged-1st place under Austrian judge Lucas Scheiber and 2nd place under American judge Jennifer Rousseau), and first place at the American Haflinger Registry National Futurity MI) in September. In 2005, Teake won first place junior weanling filly in a very competitve class at the Great Lakes Haflinger Futurity.

    (above) pictured as a two-year old (below) pictured as a yearling and a weanling

Teake has been working on ground-driving and long-lining, and will begin pleasure driving training this spring. She was inspected SILVER as a two-year-old in August 2007. Since Teake was a "young" two-year-old, we plan to have her reinspected for her final inspection in 2009 as a four-year-old. As a "young" three-year-old at about 14.3H, Teake still has some growing and filling out to do, so we will wait until next year before breeding her. Stay tuned for future updates on who she will be bred to in 2009!

We are expecting great things from this special mare in the future, and eagerly await her career as a dressage horse! Teake will begin her under saddle training in summer 2008.

(above) Teake pictured as a weanling
(below) Teake's "baby" photos!