WF in Slovenia
The first Icelandic horses were brought to Slovenia in 1993. Since then, the population has slowly been increasing and there are now about 450 registered Icelandic horses in Slovenia.
In year 2007, Slovenia (DRIKS – Drustvo Rejcev Islandskih Konj Slovenije) joined the WorldFengur project. Before this, registration was done by the National Horse Breeding Service at the Veterinary Faculty Ljubljana on basis of identification and registration checks, but without parental verification or entry of the horses into any database.
From 2007 on, registration and issuance of documents for all foals as well as entry into WorldFengur was done automatically and it was mandatory.
All other Icelandic horses, born before 2007, were only entered into WorldFengur if needed – for example breeding mares or sport horses that wanted to participate in a competition.
It was really a lot of work, as many horses did not have complete data, UELN numbers in most cases did not exist at that time.
IS1999184970 – Vonarneisti frá Lynghaga and Timotej, just before the WorldChampion 2007 (photo: Sibil Slejko)
IS2002235027 – Gyðja frá Skipaskaga with the total score of 8.18 the highest judge breeding mare in Slovenia
Although the cooperation between the different FEIF member countries was beneficial, it was still difficult to collect the necessary information from other countries – but this was important to us as most of the breeding horses were of foreign origin.
Slovenia was not actively involved in the further development of WorldFengur, except for entering data on Slovenian Icelandic horses into the database. The fact that WorldFengur offers a great variety of information in one place about the Icelandic horses breed all over the world made it an important tool for the Slovenian Horse Breeding Service which in the daily work used it i.a. to look up information on UELN and FEIF numbers, pedigrees, DNA profiles and DNA results from parentage verification.
When comparing the database as it is today with the early years, it is now a transparent and easy-to-use tool where upgrades are rational and adapted to the situation – to sum up, WorldFengur is extremely important and a very helpful and useful tool for the registration of Icelandic horses in Slovenia!
Text: Nataša Gorišek
Young riders are the future of the equestrian: Ana and Tia are happy with two handsome boys IS2005136211 Höfði frá Höfða and IS2008101136 – Kinnskær frá Ólafsbergi
Two days old SI2011200004 – Völsavilla Agatina
Monika and DK2007102107 – Gáski fra Eskildsminde at the afternoon training (photo: Catherine Gratzl)
IS2001188221 – Ísak frá Efra-Langholti: he has excellent offsprings in Slovenia
Bareback fun
Happy grazing together on the pastures of Vonarneisti farm in Palčje village
A wonderful pleasure riding mare DE2003241726 – Lukka vom Debihof – a day before giving birth….
Kindergarden…
Vonarneisti farm in the middle of nature park of Seasonal lakes of Pivka river
Pasture life…..Völsavilla, Stjörnuhiminn, Sólargeisli
SI2001200514 – Jora Slovenia, endless trustworthy and enjoyable mare
A bit of Slovenian breed: SI2019100002 – Hvirfilvindur Agatin (father DE2001110126 – Naddur vom Schluensee, mother DK2006205831 – Valbjörk fra Eyfjörd
The first Slovenian championships in riding icelandic horses – IS1988186757 – Sleipnir frá Skarði and Aleksander