LIPIZZAN EVALUATIONS JULY 24/25 2010 So imagine this. I take my stallion to be evaluated at Lipizzan Connection. The evaluator is Atjan Hop a man we are told is one of the worlds formost authorities on Lipizzans and with decades of experience evaluating horses. The evaluations were done Saturday morning and we were told we could see our scores that day but that Hop would sign all the evaluation papers that evening, copies would be made for the studbook and then we would recieve our original sheet on Sunday Morning. On Saturday at lunchtime my husband read the evaluation sheet for our stallion and all the marks for the different areas he was judged on. He told me the results and I was satisfied with the score. Next morning we get our signed evaluation score sheets and wham! No less than FOUR of my stallions marks HAD BEEN CHANGED from the day before. That means that MANY HOURS after my stallion's evaluation was done the marks were altered. And to the negative, giving us a total score around 2% LESS than what was originally marked! 2% is quite a bit on an evaluation. How is it that a judge or evaluator can go back HOURS later and change a score?? And I'm told that he was not alone when these score sheets were being looked over again. A certain person(!), who was involved in setting up the evaluations, was present at the time and pouring over my score sheet with Hop. How is it that a person who has also several horses being evaluated, how can they in any way be involved when the judge is calculating the percentages and signing the papers?? When Hop was asked about these alterations (and at first he couldn't even remember which stallion we were asking about) his reply was that he was not familiar with the scoring system and therefore had to go back and change the score. Not familiar with the scoring system??? Isn't this guy supposed to be an expert?? Isn't this experise the reason he was brought here? And if he couldn't remember my stallion how could he dare to change the scores HOURS AFTER the fact? And there were more than a dozen horses evaluated before my stallion was. If Hop was having difficulty with the scoring system(!), then that certainly could have been worked out much earlier on. To my knowledge no one else had their scores adulterated like ours was. Something stinks. Smells like BULLSHIT. Smells like only the evaluator and NO ONE ELSE should have had anything to do with those score sheets. Smells like dishonesty and UNPROFESSIONAL, unethical behavior. I will never ever again have any of my horses evaluated by Hop. And I will never ever again have anything to do with the other person who was also involved in this situation. 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.. 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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