Olympia Miniatures (previously called Engmarkshus studfarm) is situated in beautiful surroundings just outside Jelling, in Jutland Denmark. We breed mainly miniature horses, but there are other races at the farm, for example Danish warmbloods, Welsh and different crosses of ponies. We also have a dog called Diesel, a lovely cross between labrador and rottweiler.

It all started with a Danish Warmblooded gelding at a riding school. We bought a property called Engmarkshus in 1995 and of course my horse should come home. We bought a friend for him, a mare that we covered. There was just this one problem, - when I took the gelding to a ridingcompetition, the mare was very insecure, she did not like to be left alone in the stable. So - we had to buy a friend for her too! We bought a little ponymare that we covered too. Spring came and  the mares each got a lovely colt, and our interest in breeding was born.
We bought another mare, a licensed Danish Warmblood that we covered, but we didn't have much money, and  we didn't have as much space as we would like, so when she got very sick and died, we didn't buy another Danish Warmblood.

Someone told me about the miniaturehorses, very small horses with the grace and beauty of  the arabian  horse or a noble ridinghorse. They didn't need a lot of space, and they were beautiful ! 
It was love at first sight, so we bought a licensed miniaturemare!

THE FUTURE

It was my dream to breed a little horse, no more than 34 inches, with the grace, the beauty and the type of the Arabian horse, that led me to use the Welsh-pony to improve the miniaturehorse, it had been done years ago in the USA, and the american miniaturehorses are incredibly beautiful.
In the future these welsh/miniature crosses will be bred to small  beautiful miniaturehorses.  A few  American miniaturestallions have been imported to Denmark, it could be interesting to use these to cover my welsh/miniature mares. I would like to show these future offspring outside of Denmark, to see if  they can follow the  miniaturehorses of  Europe. 

The future will show if my dream can come true.
 
 

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