OCTOBER 2007 NEWS UPDATE: At the 2007 AHR National Show, Antonio Rose of Lilac Farms (Tony) takes home second place in Suitability for Dressage (intro level)--his very FIRST class at his very FIRST show--against eight other horses!
Aufwiedersehen MLF (Vader) is named Grand Champion Pleasure Yearling and 1st place yearling pleasure stallion at the GLHA Futurity, Reserve Grand Champion Pleasure Yearling and 1st place yearling pleasure stallion at the AHR National Futurity, and won second place yearling pleasure stallion at the AHR National Show!
The sire of some of our mares and our stallion prospect is named SIP Stallion of the Year for the second year in a row!
Arno van het Nieshof
(Afloyd x Stefany) owned by Genesis Farm
The sire of our young stallion--Vader--and of Romantique and Reahna of Lilac Farms
AUGUST 2007 NEWS UPDATE: Romantique of Lilac Farms was classified SILVER at the 2007 AHR Inspection in August!
DECEMBER 2006-NEWS UPDATE: Due to unforseen circumstances, Tony (Antonio Rose of Lilac Farms returned to Lilac Farms in December 2006. We are looking forward to having our boy back and showing him at training and first level dressage in 2007!
AUGUST 2006-NEWS UPDATE: Our long search for a stallion prospect ended just a few miles from home! Lilac Farms LLC welcomes Aufwiedersehen MLF (Arno van het Nieshof x Moxie NTF)aka "Vader" as our future herd sire! Thank you to Ken and Kay Tierman for selling us this athletic, exceptional moving colt!
AUGUST 2005-NEWS UPDATE: R Noble Rose APF ties for the 3rd highest rating of all classified horses throughout the United States in the 2005 Inspection and Classification Tour!
Rosie received a 78-SILVER classified by the American Haflinger Registry to World Haflinger Federation Standards. Her scores are as follows:
Type:8, Head:8, Neck:8, Forehand:8, MidSection:8, Hindquarters:7, Front Legs:8, Hind Legs:8, Correctness of Movement:7, Overall Movement:8, TOTAL: 78
Since Rosie had a late foal, she was unfortunately, not as muscled up as we would have like, so she only received a 7 on hindquarters due to insufficient muscling. (Anyone who has seen Rosie in person knows that she has quite a nice hind end--if you will excuse our saying so!--when she is filled out and in shape.)
Some of the comments from her score sheet were:
"balanced, harmonious overall body structure of an all-around pleasure horse"
uphill build"
"long, flat shoulder in balance with overall body"
"back strong and well-suspended"
"clean, well-defined limbs, flat bone, forearm significantly longer than length of cannon"
Rosie is very deserving of her high score. In 2001 when the president of the World Haflinger Federation gave a clinic at the Tudor Oak Farm's Open House, he made the following comments about Rosie (then a yearling):
"elegant, and nice", "a very pretty head, very nice, big eye" and "fine, dry bones"
We feel very fortunate to own Rosie, and are extremely happy that she is producing offspring who are consistently as good or better than herself!
