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February 1, 2011


It's been a bit slow working on the website lately. Lots of activity with the young horses and their training though. Aurellia and Theodora have had their first saddlings, and as I've found in the past with all my youngsters, they acted as if they'd done it all before. This is due to the training method I've developed and the fact that I "make haste slowly".







Aurellia wearing the saddle for the first time. At 3 1/2 years she is already 15+ hands high. Aurellia is to become my riding horse and a future broodmare on our farm.





Thea First Saddling


Theodora's first saddling. Again, she is also very calm about the whole thing. Just waiting for her carrot. At 3 1/2 years she is 14.3 hands high. A bit scruffy and dirty looking from being out in the field in winter.












F. Abiqua, M. Abiqua, Tarala, and Akira, are all coming along very nicely in their respective training. I'll be updating about them soon. I will be creating a page for each individual horse and their training etc. I'm not much of a photographer and I generally work alone so when I can round up a helper I hope to add more photos or video to the new pages.


Thanks for visiting!




January 1, 2011

KC Ranch Lipizzaners Wishes A Very Happy And Prosperous New Year
 To Everyone!

  • A new page on the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, entitled The SRS, has been added. Sub-pages with articles and photos will be added later.

  • Our yearling filly Akira has now fully recovered from her umbilical hernia surgery and is back in her basic training and again on the sales list. This is an alpha type filly who thrives on attention so she takes the training very well. To see my basic training outline go here.

  • We have several major farm projects planned for this year including:
    - a roof to cover the isle of our 72 foot mare motel
    - creation of a new two and a half acre turn out field with new shade tree plantings
    - beginning creation of an obstacle training course
    - lighting the round corral for night training during summer
    - adding live cameras to the foaling stalls
    - professional photographer to photo all our stock

  • Aurellia and Theodora will be saddled and backed fully this month. These two three and a half year old fillies will become my riding horses for a time before switching to broodmare status.

  • Again, if you have any Lipizzan stories and photos you would like to add to our Happy Lipizzan Owners page please email them to me. We love to share stories and photos to help promote this wonderful breed!

  • I'm trying to find the time to write a few more 'How To' articles, namely my method for training young horses to tie and using the overhead tie, plus a few others. Please check back often.

  • The new Lipizzan Rescue page has is ready and with a heartwarming story by Shannon Rogers Simpson and her rescue of Siglavy Actress! If you know of any Lipizzan horses that need rescue/re-homing please email me.



    Happy Trails to You in 2011 !!!!






Dec 1, 2010

  • Winter is here! And broodmares are definitely getting rounder :)     
  • Tarala and Akira had their first long distance trailering and they handled it like seasoned haulers. I'm very proud of them.
  • My 'General Training Outline' has been added to the new Articles page. It's a timeline that I use with my young horses up to the level of basic riding walk trot, canter.
  • The new 'Happy Owners' page has been started. If you would like to add your photos and stories please email me. I'm especially interested to hear from owners who drive their Lipizzans.

  • Our FaceBook page  is added to frequently. Please 'friend' us and we welcome photos, discussions links etc., anything Lipizzaner related. Also our YouTube page has some new Lipizzaner video favorites added. 
  •  We have begun our in-utero sales program. Our 2011 foals may be reserved now. Please see the link for details or email with any queries. 
  


Nov 1, 2010

  • Our beautiful mare Astoria 791 has (again) been confirmed in foal with a viable growing 90 day fetus. We are very excited about this long awaited and precious pregnancy! Many thanks to our wonderful vet Dr. Milici of Bishop. This in-utero foal may be reserved now.
  • I will be starting up a special page for networking/re-homing Lipizzaners. Our Lipizzan breeders community is small but strong and very dedicated to the breed. Anyone please contact me regarding re-homing or rescue.
  • The sales list has been updated with a few more photos of Favory Abiqua. I have recently hired a new barn worker who is also an expert photographer, (which I definitely am not!), so I'm hoping to get some quality shots in the future.
  • I would like to encourage Lipizzan enthusiasts to send me any pics you would like posted. I have a plan for a "happy Lipizzaner owners" page. I would especially love to see horse show photos.
  • The How to... page has been updated with a new article on how to get urine/crud stains off white mare's tails and fetlocks. You'll be amazed ;)
  • A new Articles page is under construction. Topics include Lipizzaner growth patterns and how dressage riders can benefit from (true) Natural Horsemanship. Still working on it though.




Oct 1, 2010

Here's the current news:

  • We are happily welcoming beautiful, cool, blustery fall weather here in our desert valley.
  • Abiqua, Tukwila, Astorria (R2), and Astoria (!), are all confirmed in foal for 2011! You may reserve an in-utero foal now. Please email us for details.
  • The new hay barn's finishing touches have been completed and hay for a year has been stacked.
  • Our handsome colt Maestoso Abiqua will be weaned this month.
  • Both 3-year-old Aurellia and Theodora are continuing in their classical lunging and will have their first saddling this month.
  • Glenita has been sold to Kimberly Alley. Congrats Kim!
  • Tacoma has retired to the green pastures of Connie Erickson's Carrousel Farm in Sublimity, Oregon. We will miss beautiful sweet Tacoma.



May 1, 2010

What a glorious spring we are having! On April 20th at 11:30 pm our broodmare Abiqua foaled a big healthy colt, the first colt by our stallion Maestoso Fadra. Very leggy with all black hooves and a very calm disposition. Imprinted by Kiran, then he stood and nursed rather quickly. So as per tradition for colts he will have the names of both parents - Maestoso Abiqua - but we're still working on a barn name.


















April 1, 2010

KC Ranch Lipizzaners is enjoying a beautiful new spring season! On 3/28/10 a new filly was foaled at 01:30 am. Dam Tukwila and sire Maestoso Fadra. We have named her Tenaya. She came out all black with all black hooves, no white anywhere. Of course that will change as she grows. Her mother is a very white grey. Almost impossible to express how beautiful and sweet she is. She was imprinted by my husband Kiran as that is his specialty in the horse handling area.

We uploaded a video of the events just after the birth namely Tenaya's first standing and nursing.




Please view some of our other videos on our YouTube channel. Link is on the left.




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..

Pouring the slabKiran overseeing
Working fast

View from the round corral - perfect!








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.

                             Building the Hay Barn



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!


Just Born
A Lipizzan Foal is Born Dark




    
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Celeste & Kiran Mehra
KC Ranch Lipizzaners
2727 N. Dera St.
P.O. Box 1345
Inyokern, CA 93527
Celeste@KCRLipizzaners.com


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