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We finally got the date for the 2010 GOV Inspection. It is going to be Monday, September 20. If anyone wishes to bring a horse for inspection, volunteer to help with the inspection or simply come to be a spectator, call or send me an email. The new covered arena should be completed by then, so weather will no longer be a problem like it was last year! 6/11/10
First Flight Farm will begin offering Foaling Out services beginning in 2011. We will accept outside pregnant mares for boarding and will allow them to stay until after weaning of the foal if desired. All necessary pre-foaling care and post-delivery care for the mare and foal will be provided.
Each mare would have a 12'x 24' foaling stall equipped with 24 hour video surveillance and electronic foaling monitor beginning 2 weeks prior to due date (unless signs indicate this would be needed sooner). Attending staff on duty 24 hours per day. Pasture turnout will be available with other pregnant mares and mares/foals for the all important socialization skills foals need to learn to be good members of a herd.
Our staff is excellent at working with young foals, so the necessary basic foal training such as leading, tying, loading, feet handling, batheing, clipping and grooming will also be offered. If you are interested in these services, please contact us.
I am so excited to announce the arrival of our newest filly! She is out of Tirana, by Plaisir d'Amour. Her name is Tettiana and this one is definitely a keeper! I told Tirana earlier in the day that I wanted a dark bay or black filly with some chrome and that is exactly what she delivered a few hours later. Tirana and Tettiana are both doing great. She is a very good mom. 3/14/10
It is hard work to keep up when you are only 14 hours old! 3/14/10
Tirana is a very proud mama! 3/14/10
This filly is very friendly and has an outgoing personality. I could not have asked for a nicer foal. She is definitely a credit to her wonderful sire Plaisir d'Amour and her maternal grand sire French Kiss! 3/14/10
All that running makes her very hungry. 2/13/10
Quiana 3 days old 2/13/10
 FINALLY a nice day so we can play!
We are calling her Quiana, which means "Living with Grace". It is a very good description of her. 2/13/10
 Our new Quaterback filly out of DonnabelleWe welcomed our first baby of 2010 February 10 at 12:48 AM. Baby "Q" (still unnamed) by Quaterback out of our Donnerhall mare Donnabelle is very tall, friendly and very energetic. She is very well built and is every bit a Quaterback offspring. I cannot wait to get her outside. The stall is as much room as she will have to run until the freezing wet weather lets up a bit.
Donnabelle is a wonderful mom.
Happy New Year!! Since our two Wynton colts, Wynston and Wellington are for sale, we have had several requests for video clips of Wynston and his dam Olivia. Here are links to the YouTube clips of the first freejumping sessions with each horse. You will be able to see the way they move. Neither one had ever been through a freejumping chute, so you can see that they caught on quickly, both got better each time and clearly seemed to enjoy it! A special thank you to Eva Oldenbroek and Joshua Tabor for their assistance with the video! Olivia : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-ykYri5L8Wynston: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpLxlCQWLlkOlivia is currently in dressage training and will be shown this year by Eva Oldenbroek. They are doing very well together. 1/1/2010
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We are already looking forward to next year
and another crop of outstanding foals.
The pairings for 2010 will be:
Preference with Ampere
Donnabelle with Quaterback
Tirana with Plaisir d’Amour
Also available in the tank we have frozen semen from Quaterback, Wynton, Fidertanz, Furst Romancier, Status Quo, Plaisir d'Amour, Romanov and Stedinger.
For more information on these pairings contact me.
For more information on the other incredible stallions we have available for possible breeding, please see the Stallion Gallery.
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This is our new farm logo, compliments of my longtime friend Kathy Kich of ASENZ marketing. Her 27 y/o gelding dressage horse Justin has been a member of our horse family for the past 20 years. He is the last of the original horses that we brought with us from San Antonio.
MEET OUR NEW ARRIVALS!!
We are proud to announce the arrival of "Wynston" our first colt by Wynton, out of our Oldenburg mare Olivia. He arrived pretty much on schedule on St. Patrick's Day. Wynston is very tall, and elegant like his magnificent father and also has the intelligence, personality and good looks of his beautiful mother. With his incredibly deep pedigree strength in both disciplines, he will no doubt make someone a wonderful dressage or jumper prospect. Wynston is for sale. 3/18/2009
Here is Wynston on his trip outside with Olivia, 1 day old.
 Meet Wellington! Preference presented us with a lovely colt by Wynton, born June 13, 2009.Our second colt of 2009 arrived in the wee hours of the morning. Preference was her usual great Mom and had her dark bay colt without a problem. She is such a pro! Wellington was very content to relax in the straw for the first hour, but once his nap was over, he was quickly up, active and was quite a talker. No problem with the milkbar. Unlike his 1/2 brother Wynston, Wellington was somewhat shy at first, but is very friendly and outgoing now.
 Wellington, about 8 hours old.
 Our beautiful Donnabelle, by DonnerhallFirst Flight Farm hosted a new annual GOV Inspection October 14, 2009. Unfortunately we were forced to move the event at the last moment to the indoor San Antonio Rose Palace due to the incredible torrential rains that just would not quit for the several weeks leading up to the event. This was VERY unusual weather for October in central Texas which is normally quite lovely. Of course the sun came out the day of the inspection, but there was nothing we could do to dry up the standing water in the arena here at the farm. Thank you to Monica Adams for the lovely photos and Cynthia Jones for doing the video of the event. Also I wish to thank all of our participants who were so gracious about the last minute changes, my friend Vickie Kinder who provided wonderful refreshments for everyone during the event, friends Kathy Kich who assisted the judges, her husband Gary Cooper, my tireless and very tolerant husband Rick and my brother-in-law Mark who helped with set-up and clean-up both at the farm and then again at the Rose Palace and of course Eva Oldebroeck of Indian Creek Farm and my wonderful barn staff Jenna Patnott and Leslie Brown for beautifully preparing and handling my horses and making my life so much easier. I could not have done it without you!!! A special thank you as well to Michele Woodford of Favored Bay Farm for providing the gorgeous ribbons for all of the Premium foals! We certainly have some really great people, not to mention lovely horses here in central Texas. Hopefully next year the weather gods will be kinder to us and we can actually have the event here on the farm!
 This mare is absolutely lovely. Donnabelle is in foal to Quaterback for February 2010.
 Olivia (Don Kennedy x Ornella) was accepted into the GOV Main Mare Book.
 Olivia (Don Kennedy x Ornella)
 Tirana (French Kiss x Teodora) was accepted into the GOV Main Mare Book.
 Tirana is stunning.
 Tirana is in foal to Plaisir d'Amour for a March 2010 foal.
 Wynston has grown up quite nicely! This is him at his inspection, 7 mos. old. Wynston is for sale.
 Definitely the class clown, Wynston had a wonderful time showing off for the judges.
 Wynston had fun! This colt has lovely movement on the flat, but he has also demonstrated a talent for and love of jumping, no doubt due to his Argentinus grandsire bloodlines.
 Wynston (Wynton x Olivia)
 Wellington is incredible. The judges and spectators alike were quite taken with him. Wellington is for sale.
 Wellington is so beautiful! He will make someone an incredible dressage prospect for the future. Sire Wynton and dam Preference will be proud.
 He knows he is a fine colt! His disposition is as nice as he is.
 Definitely a Premium colt.
 This is the lovely filly Saraya, by Sarkozy, out of Donnabelle. She is very much our princess around the barn. She was chosen as a Premium filly.
 Saraya will be a future broodmare for us. She is very correct and has a great disposition.
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