NOVEMBER 2010 NEWS UPDATE: Congratulations to our friends at Dreamfield Manor Farm for their amazing show season! Chelsea Deephouse and her 4-year-old gelding, Always Alert GVS, had a most incredible show season in every venue they participated in. This fall they were honored repeatedly at the Bucks County Horse Park Year End Banquet for their wonderful achievements. At the Hunter/Jumper Shows this pair was Champion of the Low Hunter Division, Champion Adult Equitation Division and Reserve Champion Model Hunter in Hand. At the Dressage Schooling Series they earned Reserve Champion of the Adult Training Level Division with a median score of 67%. Chelsea was honored with the Rider of the Year Award at the Bucks County Horse Park, in Revere, PA, based on her excellent achievement in so many different disciplines. AND, Jennie Deephouse was awarded the BCHP Trainer of the Year Award based on the accomplishments of Chelsea and the other students who train with her!

OCTOBER 2010 UPDATE: CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FRIENDS AT GENESIS FARM AND ALFA OF GENESIS FOR BEING NAMED THE 2010 STALLION INCENTIVE PROGRAM (SIP) STALLION OF THE YEAR!! Alfa is the sire of two of our 2010 foals, A Black Tie Affair NW HRZN (now owned by Dreamfield Manor Farm), out of our mare Ricola DTA, and our filly, Rhapsody of New Horizons (currently offered for sale), out of our Arno daughter, Romantique of Lilac Farms. Ricola is expecting another foal in 2011 out of Alfa!!

     

     

 

OCTOBER 2010 NEWS UPDATE: CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR "EXTENDED FAMILY" AT DREAMFIELD MANOR FARM FOR MAKING WAVES IN THE SPORT HORSE WORLD AT THE BUCK'S COUNTY HORSE PARK FALL JUMPER CLASSIC!! A Gold Review HMF (aka "Ayla") Jennie Deephouse's 5 yr old mare who has represented their farm at the Horse World Expo and shown very successfully in Dressage, along with rider Chelsea Deephouse, won the Prudential $500 Mini Prix Jumper Classic over nothing but warmbloods and TB's and also won the Itty Bitty Speed Round over 29 other entries--including warmbloods and thorougbreds--just a few hours before the Prix!!!

SEPTEMBER 2010 UPDATE: HORSES BRED BY NEW HORIZONS WIN BIG AT KILE (KEYSTONE INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK EXHIBITION HAFLINGER SHOW) IN PENNSYLVANIA!! Reahna of Lilac Farms took home Grand Champion Mare, in addition to Senior Champion Mare, 1st place three-year-old mare, and 1st place horse bred and owned by exhibitor! Reahna, along with her full sibling Rosina, also won 1st place in the Produce of Dam class for her dam, R Noble Rose APF! Rosie's offspring also won first place Produce of Dam at the 2010 AHR National Show, and her son, Arturo of New Horizons, was the 2010 National Champion weanling stallion! Additionally, Reahna's half brother out of Rosie, Antonio Rose of Lilac Farms, won his class and was named Reserve Grand Champion Gelding/Stallion! AufWiedersehen MLF, who was formerly owned by us and is now owned by Cheryl Zimmerman, won 2nd place in the three-year-old and older stallion/gelding class, behind Tony! And, Rosina of New Horizons won 2nd place two-year-old filly, and A Black Tie Affair NW HRZN (a weanling) won second place two-year old and under stallion/gelding! Rosina (Zeena) and A Black Tie Affair (Tux)were bred by us and are owned by Dreamfield Manor Farm. Tony was bred by us and is owned by Kate and Kris Bergey. A HUGE thank you to Jennie and Chelsea Deephouse and the Dreamfield Manor team for doing such a fantastic job!

SEPTEMBER 2010 UPDATE: CONGRATULATIONS TO STELLAR TVR, ARTURO OF NEW HORIZONS, AND RICOLA DTA FOR THEIR SUCCESSFUL INSPECTIONS AND BRANDINGS BY THE AMERICAN WARMBLOOD SOCIETY!! ALL THREE HORSES SCORED VERY HIGH RED PREFERRED, JUST MISSING BLUE PREFERRED BY A HAIR!! THE AMERICAN WARMBLOOD REGISTRY IS A PERFORMANCE SPORTHORSE REGISTRY, WITH VERY WELL-RUN, COMPETITIVE, AND EDUCATIONAL INSPECTIONS. SEE THEIR INDIVIDUAL PAGES FOR MORE PHOTOS AND COMMENTS FROM THE AWS INSPECTOR.

     

     

     

SEPTEMBER 2010 UPDATE: ARTURO OF NEW HORIZONS WINS NATIONAL CHAMPION PLEASURE WEANLING STALLION AT THE 2010 NATIONAL SHOW! RHAPSODY OF NEW HORIZONS AND ROSINA OF NEW HORIZONS BOTH WIN SECOND PLACE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CLASSES AT THE NATIONAL SHOW!! REAHNA OF LILAC FARMS TAKES HOME FIRST PLACE AND SEVERAL SECOND PLACES IN HER UNDER SADDLE CLASSES AT THE NATIONAL SHOW!!

     

AUGUST 2010 UPDATE: ARTURO OF NEW HORIZONS (LEFT) AND RHAPSODY OF NEW HORIZONS (RIGHT) EACH TAKE SECOND PLACE AGAINST WEANLINGS MUCH OLDER THAN THEM AT THE GLHA FUTURITY!

     

AUGUST 2010 UPDATE: REAHNA OF LILAC FARMS AND RICOLA DTA WIN BIG UNDER SADDLE AT THE NEW YORK GOLD CLASSIC HAFLINGER SHOW! At her first major show Reahna took home 1st place under BOTH judges in the Suitability for Dressage class, 2nd in intro to dressage Test B, and 2nd in English Pleasure walk/trot, after only two months under saddle! Ricola took home first place from BOTH judges in English pleasure walk/trot after only a few weeks under saddle! Thank you to Chelsea Deephouse for all of her incredible work with Reahna, and to Jennie and Stephanie for doing a great job with Rikka!

     

     

AUGUST 2010 UPDATE: REAHNA WINS GRAND CHAMPION JUNIOR MARE AT THE BUCK'S COUNTY HORSE PARK USDF DRESSAGE SPORT HORSE BREEDING SHOW IN PENNSYLVANIA!! Reahna not only won her in-hand class with a score of 70.8%, she went on to win the championship class (three-year-old fillies and younger) over three warmbloods, qualifying her for the Great American USDF Dressage Sport Horse Breeder's Championship Series finals at Dressage at Devon! She also placed 2nd in a very competitive IBC Haflinger Breed Class with a score of 71.3%! Reahna also attended her first dressage schooling show under saddle and earned a respectable 65.5% in Intro level test B!

     

JULY 2010 UPDATE: ROMANTIQUE OF LILAC FARMS AND RHAPSODY OF NEW HORIZONS HAVE A SUCCESSFUL DAY AT THE DRESSAGE AT WATERLOO USDF DRESSAGE SPORT HORSE BREEDING SHOW IN MICHIGAN! Teake won first place in the Haflinger Breed class and took second place (behind a Friesian mare) in the open Four-year-old and older broodmare class! Rhapsody (Diva) took second behind her mom in the Haflinger breed class and third in the open 2010 weanling fillies class, just 2% points behind a friesian filly and only 3% points behind the first place winner--a huge Hanovarian filly! Whenever Diva walked out of her stall there was a fan club surrounding her--she received more attention than any of the warmblood foals there!

     

JULY 2010 UPDATE: REAHNA OF LILAC FARMS SUCCESSFULLY MAKES HER DEBUT UNDER SADDLE! After only a few weeks under saddle, Reahna took third place in large dressage intro classes in both Test A and B at the Buckeye Haflinger Show! She also placed 2nd in the three-year-old mare class and the $100 three-year-old class!

     

     

JULY 2010 UPDATE: ROSINA OF NEW HORIZONS WINS FIRST PLACE IN A VERY COMPETITIVE TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY CLASS AT THE 2010 BUCKEYE HAFLINGER SHOW IN OHIO! We knew this spectacular filly was special when she was a foal, but she gets better and better with each passing year! At @58" and growing, Zeena is a fantastic example of what we are striving to produce in our breeding program! Zeena is very tall with long refined, clean-boned legs, excellent shoulder and hip angles and length of pastern, and a long beautifully-shaped neck set high on her shoulder, with a beautiful, refined Arab head. Add to that her outstanding movement, elegance, expression and wonderful personality and you have the total package!

     

     

     

JULY 2010 UPDATE: NEW HORIZONS WELCOMES OUR NEW STALLION, STELLAR TVR! We are extremely excited to welcome this two-year-old imported stallion to our farm! Imported at his dam's side as a weanling by Twin View Ranch, Stellar is out of Straden, the leading St-line stallion in Austria, and Chione, a beautiful Austrian imported mare already making her mark in the sport horse world in the U.S.! Stellar's pedigree is loaded with Gold classified horses and World and European Champions! We eagerly await this athletic young stallion's performance and breeding career in 2011! For more photos and videos of Stellar, please visit Stellar's page.

     

June 2010 UPDATE: ROMANTIQUE OF LILAC FARMS'S PHOTO IS FEATURED IN THE "Paisley Pony" magazine! The new issue of the Paisley Pony includes a feature article on the Haflinger Horse, focusing on the modern sport horse type Haflinger, and features a photo of Teake with trainer Jennie Deephouse of Dreamfield Manor Farm as an example of Haflingers in dressage! This magazine focuses on sport ponies and smaller sport horses in a variety of performance disciplines. It is available for viewing online, and is free at major shows and performance venues throughout the country. It will be available at the very large Devon Horse Show in Pennsylvania later this month, which will give the Haflinger Sport Horse excellent exposure!

MAY 2010 UPDATE: TEAKE HAS HER FIRST FOAL--A BEAUTIFUL FILLY OUT OF ALFA OF GENESIS! This special, sweet filly is everything we could ever hope for out of this fantastic cross--an Arno daughter x Alfa! One of the very few fillies out there by Alfa, Rhapsody is sure to make her mark in the show ring!

     

APRIL 2010 UPDATE: ROSIE HAS HER FIRST STUD COLT OUT OF ARNO! This tall, elegant colt has long legs, is very typey and has a wonderful personality! We are so happy to see Rosie's first son out of Arno, and look forward to watching him grow!

     

MARCH 2010 UPDATE: RIKKA HAS HER FIRST FOAL--A STUNNING COLT BY ALFA OF GENESIS! This colt is everything we hoped for out of this cross! Extremely clean-boned and refined, with a beautiful eye, head and excellent conformation, A Black Tie Affair (Tux) is sure to be something special! Congratulations to Jennie Deephouse of Dreamfield Manor Farm on her purchase of this colt in utero! Tux is destined to be a future dressage horse!

       

OCTOBER 2009: Romantique and Antonio Rose of Lilac Farms participate in the Bucks County Horse Park (PA) Pink Ribbon Ride to raise funds and awareness for women with breast cancer. The seven mile trail ride winds through woods and fields. Teake and Tony were part of a small group of Haflingers representing our breed with Dreamfield Manor Farm.

           

OCTOBER 2009 UPDATE: ROMANTIQUE OF LILAC FARMS AND ROSINA OF NEW HORIZONS TAKE HOME 2009 TRI-STATE CHALLENGE TOP 5 AWARDS! Romantique wins TWO top five Tri-State Challenge Awards--one in English Pleasure walk/trot and the other in Western Pleasure Walk/Jog--in very competitive classes--demonstrating her outstanding diversity and trainability! Rosina (owned by Dreamfield Manor Farm) takes home a Top 5 Tri-State Challenge Award in halter! Congratulations and a huge thank you to Jennie Deephouse and Dreamfield Manor Farm for all of their hard work and dedication in training, showing and promoting Teake this year!!

       

OCTOBER 2009: ROMANTIQUE OF LILAC FARMS HAS A SPECTACULAR SHOW SEASON IN HER FIRST YEAR UNDER SADDLE! Romantique of Lilac Farms had an amazing year after only a few months under saddle! Shown walk trot in English pleasure, western pleasure and dressage, Teake placed consistently at the top of her class, with a first place and numerous second places at shows throughout the midwest and the East coast! Some of her placings include 1st place in western walk/jog at (KILE), 2nd place (out of 17) English Pleasure w/t (Buckeye Haflinger Show), 2nd place (out of 15) western pleasure w/t (Buckeye), 2nd place suitability for dressage w/t (Judge Gildein; New York Gold Haflinger Classic), 2nd place suitability for dressage w/t (KILE), and 2nd place--with a score of 75.5%--Intro dressage Test B (AHR National Show)!

       

       

AUGUST 2009: NEW HORIZONS HAFLINGERS HAVE A SUCCESSFUL DAY AT THE NEW YORK GOLD HAFLINGER CLASSIC! Romantique of Lilac Farms, Reahna of Lilac Farms, and Aufwiedersehen MLF (Vader) all win first place under judge Moshier in their respective halter classes! Teake and Reahna also took second place in their $100 classes! Rosina of New Horizons (pictured top right), a full sibling to Teake and Reahna owned by Dreamfield Manor Farm, placed third under both judges in a very competitive class as well!

       

       

SEPTEMBER 2008 NEWS UPDATE: Our young stallion, Vader (AufWiedersehen MLF) shows off his exceptional movement at the AHR National Show in the Stallion Liberty!

       

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Rosie's daughters win 1st place in the Produce of Dam class and 2nd place in the Best Three Mares class at the 2008 AHR National Show!

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Zeena is sold to a new home in Pennsylvania! Congratulations and thank you to Jennie Deephouse and Darrin Slattery on their purchase of this fabulous filly!

JUNE 2008 NEWS UPDATE: Rosie is three for three on fillies! Rosie had another beautiful filly by Arno van het Nieshof and we couldn't be more pleased! Rosina (Zeena) is a replica of her big sister, Teake, with a wide blaze, beautiful, typey Arab-head and long, refined legs! This elegant filly is for sale at a reduced price until weaning. Rosina is the first foal to carry our new suffix--New Horizons.

MAY 2008 NEWS UPDATE: She has finally arrived! Ricola DTA has become a member of our family at New Horizons Haflingers, and we couldn't be more excited! Ricola's beauty and elegance are sure to attract attention. We are looking forward to showing and breeding this mare in the future, and are grateful to Abe Miller and family for selling us this outstanding mare!

OCTOBER 2007 NEWS UPDATE: At the 2007 AHR National Show, Antonio Rose of Lilac Farms (Tony) takes home second place in Suitability for Dressage (intro level)--his very FIRST class at his very FIRST show--against eight other horses!

Aufwiedersehen MLF (Vader) is named Grand Champion Pleasure Yearling and 1st place yearling pleasure stallion at the GLHA Futurity, Reserve Grand Champion Pleasure Yearling and 1st place yearling pleasure stallion at the AHR National Futurity, and won second place yearling pleasure stallion at the AHR National Show!

The sire of some of our mares and our stallion prospect is named SIP Stallion of the Year for the second year in a row!

Arno van het Nieshof (Afloyd x Stefany) owned by Genesis Farm
The sire of our young stallion--Vader--and of Romantique and Reahna of Lilac Farms

AUGUST 2007 NEWS UPDATE: Romantique of Lilac Farms was classified SILVER at the 2007 AHR Inspection in August!

DECEMBER 2006-NEWS UPDATE: Due to unforseen circumstances, Tony (Antonio Rose of Lilac Farms returned to Lilac Farms in December 2006. We are looking forward to having our boy back and showing him at training and first level dressage in 2007!

   

AUGUST 2006-NEWS UPDATE: Our long search for a stallion prospect ended just a few miles from home! Lilac Farms LLC welcomes Aufwiedersehen MLF (Arno van het Nieshof x Moxie NTF)aka "Vader" as our future herd sire! Thank you to Ken and Kay Tierman for selling us this athletic, exceptional moving colt!

       

AUGUST 2005-NEWS UPDATE: R Noble Rose APF ties for the 3rd highest rating of all classified horses throughout the United States in the 2005 Inspection and Classification Tour!

Rosie received a 78-SILVER classified by the American Haflinger Registry to World Haflinger Federation Standards. Her scores are as follows: Type:8, Head:8, Neck:8, Forehand:8, MidSection:8, Hindquarters:7, Front Legs:8, Hind Legs:8, Correctness of Movement:7, Overall Movement:8, TOTAL: 78

Since Rosie had a late foal, she was unfortunately, not as muscled up as we would have like, so she only received a 7 on hindquarters due to insufficient muscling. (Anyone who has seen Rosie in person knows that she has quite a nice hind end--if you will excuse our saying so!--when she is filled out and in shape.)

Some of the comments from her score sheet were:

"balanced, harmonious overall body structure of an all-around pleasure horse"
uphill build"
"long, flat shoulder in balance with overall body"
"back strong and well-suspended"
"clean, well-defined limbs, flat bone, forearm significantly longer than length of cannon"

Rosie is very deserving of her high score. In 2001 when the president of the World Haflinger Federation gave a clinic at the Tudor Oak Farm's Open House, he made the following comments about Rosie (then a yearling):

"elegant, and nice", "a very pretty head, very nice, big eye" and "fine, dry bones"

(left photo-Rosie in 2001 as a yearling with the president of the WHF)
(right photo-Rosie at the TOF Open House in 2002 when she won the Breeder's Award of Excellence, Division II)

We feel very fortunate to own Rosie, and are extremely happy that she is producing offspring who are consistently as good or better than herself!