2008 Breeding Special Offer:
Mirrabook Farms welcomes the New Year with a Special Breeding Offer for a fully paid breeding to Kingston or Tramino at 50% off the regular fee when paid in full by January 20th, 2008. The regular fee of $1500 is discounted to $750 which includes the GST, 1st collection and a LFG. After that date, the early booking discount of $1200 applies for a breeding booked by March 30, 2008.
View Our 2007 Christmas Card here:
Mirrabook Farms wishes you and yours the very best of the 2007 Christmas Season and a marvellous New Year in 2008. To all our wonderful friends, clients, new owners of our young horses and mare owners who bred to our stallions, thank-you for your support over the past season. Marilyn & Lynne
Our sales list was updated December 12, 2007 with some new photographs, video clips of some of the sales horses as well as new/updated listings of up and coming prospects. We have a number of 3 & 4 year olds that are not started yet, primarily because of Marilyn's enforced inactivity for 3 months summer 2006 while recovering from surgery. She is great now, but these horses did not get started and our riders are now back at school with less time available! Give us a call ... some great deals to be had if you can start your own!
Summer staff:
Stephanie Cox has returned for the summer and Fall. She will continue working with the young horses and assisting Lynne in the barn as well as competing Southern UrthAngel by Tramino and a couple of sales horses for the show experience. She will be returning to college in January.
Stallion video now available on DVD:
DVD copies are now available of our updated stallion video. New editing and footage. Call or write for a complimentary copy.
View Our 2006 Christmas Card here:
Mirrabook Farms wishes you and yours the very best of the 2006 Christmas Season and a marvellous New Year in 2007. To all our wonderful friends, clients, new owners of our young horses and mare owners who bred to our stallions, thank-you for your support over the past season.Marilyn & Lynne
GELAN _R.I.P. April 3, 1983 - November 19, 2006
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our foundation stallion, Gelan, on November 19, 2006. He was a very large part of our lives for over 23 years and was a good competitor as well as a good sire. His many offspring have gone on to great successes and brought a lot of pleasure to their owners. Though Gelan had been retired from riding for several years after old injuries lead to arthritis, he maintained a wry sense of humor and had a zest for life.
That final day started as any other and Gelan enjoyed the success of dumping Charlie's wheelbarrow and he often tried to do. In the early afternoon, Gelan had gone down in his paddock to roll and was unable to stand again ... his right hind leg would not push up or support him. Without any power in the left hind after a previous stifle injury, he relied on the opposite hind. Our Veterinarian attended quickly and determined a loss of sensation in the right hind, possibly a neural trauma. Although we did manage to get him up, he was not able to support his own weight or walk. The day had been a grey, cold and rainy one, yet the weather broke for a short while and Gelan enjoyed the feel of sun on his face and a patch of green grass at his passing.
Thank you to everyone who has been a part of Gelan's life, and ours - Linda, Charlie, Glen, Julie, Kip, Desiree, Nico, and many others. He was a very strong personality and chose his friends and work partners carefully. For those he respected there was no quitting or stop ... he would go to the ends of the earth. Though not particularly tall by today's standards, he had a magnificant presence and to those who were at all intimidated by him he enjoyed the game and missed no opportunity to look sideways at them ... we could see him enjoy the wry humor of the situation and be convinced he was smiling, yet he never took advantage of it. He was so confident of his own strength of personality as was his dam. Partners such as these do not come along very often and we had the priviledge of knowing two. Thank-you Gelan and Gaylorn.
"Run free old friend without the limits of age or infirmity .. we will meet again." Our sales list was updated October 1, 2006 with many new photographs, video clips of some of the sales horses as well as new/updated listings of up and coming prospects. We have a number of 3 & 4 year olds that are not started yet, primarily because of Marilyn's enforced inactivity for 3 months this past summer while recovering from surgery. She is great now, but these horses did not get started and our riders are now back at school with less time available! Give us a call ... some great deals to be had if you can start your own!
Summer staff:
Stephanie Cox has joined us for the summer and will be working young horses and assisting Lynne in the barn. Stephanie has been a student of Marilyn for many years. She has just returned to college after having completed a year working for Dietrich von Hopffgarten where she had the opportunity to develop her riding skills with upper level horses.
The foals of 2006 have arrived! Check out the new arrivals, and the list of client's foals already on the ground, some with photos.
Updated stallion video now available on DVD:
DVD copies are now available of our updated stallion video. New editing and footage, including Kenner at his SPT. Call or write for a complimentary copy.
2005 Stallion Performance Test:
Marilyn, Jessica & Kenner headed off to the CWHBA Stallion Performance Test in Olds, Alberta on August 22, 2006. The actual test ran from August 24 to September 6. Ken was a superstar and handled the whole thing very well. Unfortunately a puncture wound that happened on the first actual testing day in the jumping chute did hamper him slightly, though he completed the entire test and finished a respectable 3rd with an above average jumping index.
The foals of 2005 have arrived! Check out the new arrivals, some with photos. Mirrabook Farms' first foal of the season is a strong, healthy colt by Tramino out of Southern Quest, by Pacific Sunset ... we now have 6 foals with only one more to come. The first Autograph foals have arrived, and they are little clones of each other ... beautiful type, friendly, with refinement and lots of movement.
The Canadian Warmblood Horse Breeders Association and the Canadian Sport Horse Association have commenced discussions towards amalgamating the two associations. Read the Press Release here.
Our sales list has been updated July 10, 2005 with some new photographs, video clips of some of the sales horses as well as new/updated listings of up and coming prospects.
Updated stallion video now available on DVD:
DVD copies are now available of our updated stallion video. Thank you for your understanding and patience while this was being produced. It is still a work in progress as much of the footage is old and dark. Call or write for a complimentary copy.
TRAMINO: 2004 competition photographs & Video added
New photographs of Tramino from the 2004 show season. Special thanks to Wayne Rilley of On-Site Digital and Steve Charles of Totem Photographics for permission to use these photographs.
New photographs from 2004:
We have added new photographs of some of our sales graduates from the 2004 show season. Thanks to the various photographers and the owners of these lovely horses for allowing us to use these fabulous photographs. Check back as we have more to come and will load them as soon as they arrive. Kashmere, Southern Illusion
We have added a reference section with articles pertaining to our horses and the horses in their pedigree. As articles and photographs become available, we will continue to add to this section. The first two articles come from Starting Gate Communications and feature the Pacific Sunset son, Fleeceworks Pacific Storm, winning in Advanced CCI** for owner/rider Stuart Black of Canada.
Our sales list has been updated July 23rd with new listings of up and coming prospects. We are thrilled to announce that the dressage schoolmaster, belonging to a former student, has been sold to new owners in Washington State. It was love at first site! Max will be a schoolmaster for a Young Rider.
The foals of 2004 have arrived! We have four foals of 2004 - 2 colts and 2 fillies - 3 by Kingston and a filly by Tramino that we will retain. Congratulations to all our clients whose mares have safely foaled. We would love to see photographs of the ones we have not seen yet. Check out the 2004 Beautiful Babies!
TRAMINO Returns to the Competition Ring:
Tramino, in his first recognized show since 2002, was the highest scoring Prix St. Georges horse over all 3 days of the Southlands Spring Dressage Show, May 7th - 9th in Vancouver, B.C. He scored 66.25% in his debut show with new rider Esther Mortimer - shown below with Tramino, the 'Claire & Telf Maynard Memorial Trophy', and of course, the bottle of champagne! We have some lovely yearlings & two year olds by Tramino available for sale. Please contact us for more information.
AUTOGRAPH NOW LICENSED BY CWHBA:
This 2000 Westfalen stallion by Artenstolz, is now licensed for breeding by the Canadian Warmblood Horse Breeders Association. Despite having been injured as a yearling, sustaining a serious fracture to one coffin bone, this young horse shows exceptional gaits with a good walk, expressive type and a lovely temperament. Unfortunately, this injury will preclude a sport career. Please check his page for special offers to approved and permium mares.
PALMAR SOLD:
Congratulations to new owner Lisa K. Niva of Los Gatos, California. Palmar will be standing the 2004 season at Five Star Farms in Morgan Hill, California. Contact new owner at: wigniv@comcast.net
CWHBA Stallion Service Auction 2004
Donated to the 2004 CWHBA Stallion Service Auction are Artenstolz and one breeding, successful bidder to choose between Tramino or Kenner. All services sold!
CSHA Stallion Service Auction 2004
Donated to the 2004 CSHA Stallion Service Auction are Gelan and Tramino.
At the 2003 Canadian Warmblood Stallion Licensing, this 2000 colt by Kingston was Champion with scores of '9' for jumping and '8' for correctness of gaits. We are proud to offer this exciting young stallion in 2004 to a select group of mares. His world class Dutch and Thoroughbred pedigree is sure to be of interest to all breeders - he demonstrates prowerful movement with tremendous push from the hind leg; exceptional scope, technique and power in jumping; size ... he is 16.2+ hh at 3 years of age; all in a compact package with a puppy dog temperament! Inquire about special concessions for the first 20 mares booked as well as for premium and proven mares.
The foals of 2003 are now weaned and have been moved up country to winter pasture. Congratulations to the new owners of Foals of 2003 - we have several more available for sale. Check out the Beautiful Babies!
Southern Panache (Eddie):
This 1998 gelding by Kingston won his last event at Spokane (Washington State), finishing on his dressage score of 23.5. This was the 2nd lowest dressage score of the day out of 246 horses. High point was 23. Eddie is the August feature horse in the CWHBA newsletter in Horse & Country magazine. Eddie has continued his winning ways throughout the season, taking Champion of the Training Division at the Campbell Valley HT in August. Look for him to move up to Prelminary in 2004.
Foals of 2003
The foals of 2003 are now arriving. We have loaded the list and will update as often as possible. Some photos are loaded on the index page and linked to each sire. Check out the Beautiful Babies!
Reference Pages:
Check out the links on our Sales Horse Page and on the individual sales pages for updated information on reference sires and dams of stallions and broodmares
Palmar: Change of management
Mirrabook Farms wishes to advise clients of a change in management for Palmar for the 2003 breeding season. The management arrangement, as envisioned, has proven difficult to work from a distance especially with the demands of our own breeding program. Patricia Bennett has taken over as the contact person - you can reach her at: 604-856-7559 or fax: 604-856-7520 or e-mail. At Twin Oaks Stables, please contact Gary Brewster directly at: 604-725-1346
New listings of all ages and new photos - weanlings to a going 5 year old and two good Broodmares - one already SOLD. Also a good selection of farm bred and client raised young prospects as well as consignment offerings of sport horse prospects and going horses. New listings as well as information on sire and dam. See who has sold!!! We will have new horses coming onto the barn once breeding/foaling season is finished ... keep checking the sales list.
CWHBA Stallion Service Auction 2003
Once again, all stallions donated to the 2003 CWHBA Stallion Service Auction were sold for good bids with Artenstolz being close to the top bid. Thank you all who bid on these boys Artenstolz, Formaat, Kingston, Oberon, Palmar and Tramino to make this once again a great Auction and fund raiser for CWHBA. We want to see those foals out next year in the Futurity!
2002
Auction for Aiden
Mirrabook Farms donated two stallion services to the Auction for Aiden in December ... Gelan and Tramino. Congratulations to Alixe Cameron and Patricia Carlson on their successful bids. Check out the remarkable story of a little boy with Liver Disease. This wonderful auction raised significant funds for the American Liver Foundation trust fund for Aiden Hawk. Aiden has now had his liver transplant and, after some rocky moments, he continues to improve towards his first lead line class ... way to go!
Many thanks to the Chronicle of the Horse Bulletin Board members who organized this auction and promoted it for a good cause which we were happy to support.
Artenstolz RIP March 13, 1980 - December 16, 2002
Dear Breeders & Friends:
It is with a heavy heart that I post this note. After a lengthy struggle with some form of neurologic problem, Wendy decided to put Artenstolz down due to complications associated with it. As you can imagine, it was hard to come to this decision, but she felt it was best for him. As always, his spirit was indomitable even to the end and he died with dignity as suits him. He will be missed.
Artenstolz was a grand gentlemen and made a significant impact on the scene during the years he was here. We at Mirrabook Farms are blessed to have known him personally through all of those years and to have first hand watched the special partnership that he and Wendy shared. The daughters we have are a living testament to his strength of spirit, his impressive presence and his extreme willingness to work. Those progeny are precious ... look after them.
If anyone has any questions about their breeding, please contact me directly. I am sure that Wendy would be delighted to hear about Arte's kids from those of you who have them, or are expecting them.
After a long wait, we thank you for your patience. The photos we have so far of the 2002 foals are now loaded on the index page and linked to each sire. Please look at the Beautiful Babies! Some are for sale and a number already SOLD!
Find out what has been happening.
Mirrabook Farms has few breeding shares on the imported Rheinlander, Tramino still available ... please inquire. Details
Web pages for our associate farms:
- Expressway Farms Sporthorses, Lumby, B.C.: Marc & Julie Pilon
- Rafter 5 Ranch, Kamloops, B.C.: Shawn Bruins-Slot & home of Autograph and Formaat
- Bonaci Stable, Chilliwack, B.C. - Nanci Besner, owner of Oberon
In light of the tragedy of the events of last September 11, 2001, the stallion previously known as Osama, has a new show name and will now be known as OBERON. He will be developing a performance career in 2002 and will be available to select mares only, and by shipped semen. Please contact his owner directly.
Featuring some farm and client bred foals of 2001. We thank the clients who have sent us photographs ... it is wonderful to see the beautiful results of the planning!! A few of the foals featured are available for sale.
We welcomed in 2001 the imported Approved Rheinland & Westfalen stallion Tramino. In addition to our resident stallions Artenstolz, Gelan, Kingston and Tramino, Mirrabook Farms offers these stallions for the 2002 breeding season: Formaat & Art Nouveau (frozen only).
Results of the 2000 Canadian Warmblood Stallion Performance Test from Olds, Alberta.
Our Links page is up and running. If you would like to be added to our site, please contact the webmaster below.
Reference Pages
Check out the links on our Sales Horse Page and on the Stallions pages for updated information on sires and dams of our stallions and broodmares.