Ayanna

Last night the lady in charge of the breed and sport demo's at the IL Horse Fair called to introduce herself and go over a few things. She asked about the horses we are bringing and explained because we have such a big group of horses the Friesians would be performing in the coliseum each day. There are pros and cons to that, it is a huge arena and plenty of seating but last year the crowds were not aware that some of the groups would be there instead of the livestock arena and missed the show. She is going to be posting schedules up in barn 18 and other places and hopes to have the entire schedule posted in the fair books.
We decided to profile each of the horses coming down to the fair and today we start with Ayanna.
Ayanna was born March 21st, 2010 out of Lily by Raven. Pictured below right after birth.

She has the extreme upward movement so desired for dressage.
Check out the video of Ayanna at 6 months of age:
She is a tall big mare standing 16.2 hands plus. She was bred to Evan in 2013 and delivered Violet June 8th, 2014. She was bred again to Evan in 2015 and is expecting her second foal. Most of the mares we are bringing are in-foal but far enough away from a due date it isn't a problem. Of all the mares we are bringing Ayanna is due the soonest. She is due April 17th and the fair is the first weekend in March so is at least 6 weeks away. The good thing about her is pregnancy does not slow her down. She is very fit. The picture below was taken last week of Karin working with Ayanna.

Ayanna will still be impressive even if she is big. Ayanna's first foal by Evan was a filly born in 2014 we named Violet. As Evan always throws the mega hair and big movement this new foal is going to be another superstar. Below is a video of Violet.

So looking forward to meeting this next foal. If the foal is a filly she is already reserved, if a colt he will be for sale.