January 1, 2010 A Happy and Prosperous New Year to everyone! Well a couple new things to share - first our hay barn concrete slab was poured on December 18th - photos of The Grand Event below - and second we acquired a new Lipizzaner mare Almadira into our herd on December 21st. Almadira, a very sweet and calm mare, will be our new ponying and companion horse for our youngsters. She is half sister to our Astoria. Both of them bred by Tempel Farms sharing the same sire 230 Neapolitano IV Fantasca. So good bloodlines here and Almadira will probably be bred to our stallion if not this year then next year. I'll have some photos of her up some time in the future. Now that the hay barn floor is done next comes the roof so a few more weeks before that is accomplished. Here are some photos of the concrete pouring event.. December 1, 2009 On 11/4/09 we had to put down our lovely Mustang mare Paloma due to severe colic. She was a very valuable and much loved horse on our farm and will be missed. A lovely alpha mare that always did what she was asked and smart as a whip. Taught my kids to ride. I trained her to grand prix. She had the most lovely piaffe and a passage to die for, canter pirouettes etc. I ponyed our youngsters off of her. Only 16. I had trailered her thousands of miles. She never fussed. She had the funniest whinny. Sounded like an old diesel engine starting up. Rest in peace and happy trails my beautiful girl. November 1, 2009 Well a cool new thing happened. Our stallion Maestoso Fadra was chosen to be the Lipizzaner horse featured in a new childrens book entitled Fold-Out Horse and Pony. It's a lovely kids sticker and poster book with photos/stickers of most of the well known breeds. It's published in the UK and should be available soon. I'll post a link to it here when it's published. October 1, 2009 So what's new? Well we now have a YouTube site for our farm and we have uploaded our very first 'video' of Akira. Click on the link to the left to check it out. We also have other videos of Lipizzaners from around the world on the YouTube page. As I gradually learn how to use a camcorder I'll be posting more videos of our young horses and their training. Should be fun. We've also added a GuestBook page and a Lipizzaner Links page. (menu on the left) We invite you to leave general questions and comments on the Guestbook. We've updated the Gallery page as well since I didn't care for the old format. Our hay barn is now becoming a reality. The site has been graded and the poles are up, leveled and topped.  Next comes the concrete slab, then the roof. Here's a photo shot taken just before the poles were leveled and topped. Having a hay barn means that we can buy good hay at a discount and have enough to last a year! I guess you can tell we're really excited about having a hay barn, lol. Here's the view from our round corral.                              September 1, 2009 On August 12th at approximately 1:00 am our broodmare Astorria foaled a beautiful healthy filly which we named Akira. Akira was immediately imprinted by my husband Kiran, then she stood and nursed. I had checked on Astorria at just a few minutes after midnight and found her standing quietly in her corral still very much in foal. Something told me to check her again soon after and I arrived at her corral at about 1:15 to find a calm Astorria and a perky little filly laying at her side. What a joy!      Thank you for visiting our website. Please contact us with any inquiries. You may visit our farm by appointment. Celeste & Kiran Mehra KC Ranch Lipizzaners 2727 N. Dera St. P.O. Box 1345 Inyokern, CA 93527 Celeste@KCRLipizzaners.com Copyright © 2009 KC Ranch Lipizzaners, Inyokern, CA, USA The contents of this site may not be reproduced in any form without the permission of KC Ranch Lipizzaners.

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