Happy New Year and welcome to our first issue of
“The Havenwood Times” !

We’ve been kicking around the idea of starting a farm newsletter for a couple of years now and over Christmas we finally got down to it. We'd like to use this newsletter to keep folks up to date on what’s happening here at the farm... upcoming clinics, new foals, horses for sale, as well as sharing training tips and information on new products that we’ve tried... in fact, any items of interest relating to the wonderful Rocky Mountain breed.

Happy Trails,
Havenwood Farms

A few weeks ago photographer Shawn Hamilton sent us a note to let us know that one of her shots of our stallion Tim would be featured in Blaze Kids magazine. That was pretty cool. But, even better, they also chose this picture to use as the banner for their booth at this years Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, so we can say that Timmy really is a "poster boy" for the Rockies! To read the full story and more about upcoming articles featuring our horses, click here.

Havenwood Farms will be back at the Can-Am Equine Show in St. Thomas again this March.  This year we were invited to present a clinic on a “gaited horse topic”.  With only a one hour time-slot (twice each day of the show), it was a challenge to come up with a subject that would be of interest to both the gaited horse enthusiast and the uninitiated as well.  Since the first step in correcting gait is the ability to recognize it, we settled on “Identifying Gait” as our topic, which will also allow us to explain the difference between gaited and non-gaited horses to those unfamiliar with the gaited breeds.

All the news that's fit to print?
Our farm was recently featured in a cover story in "The Weekend Post". The two page spread featured a brief history of the Rocky Mountain breed and an interview with Colleen. We received many calls from people who had never heard of Rockies before reading the article but were intrigued by the reporter's description of their "delightful disposition" and "rocking-chair ride".

The two colts that we purchased last year to replace Northern Drifter in our breeding program are now coming of age! They’ll both be two in the spring and are shaping up every bit as well as we hoped. Sons of Hammertime (Carl Vivian’s heir to Buddy Roe) and Bounty Hunter (whose pedigree reads like a “who’s who” of Rocky bloodlines), this pair are destined to add whole new dimension to a breeding program founded around our legendary son of Clemon’s Tim, Tim's Choco. Click here to see their photos and learn more about the “dynamic duo”!