Fantastic premiere for the Icehorse Festival in Herning!

Graphic designer Stine Sandahl tells. Together with toprider and trainer Rasmus Møller Jensen and schoolteacher Lone Bertelsen she came up with the idea of the event. Now the three build the main team behind the Icehorse Festival.

The Icehorse Festival 2018 was the world’s biggest, international world ranking indoor competition for Icelandic horses with 255 riders from 8 different countries.

As one of the judges stated during the festival, the presentations from riders and horses at this competition have been remarkably good, even though the riding season had just started. Accordingly some of the given marks have been really high.

– with such a great start into the season we are looking forward to the next competitions a lot.

The Icehorse Festival is a really broad event, where also B class riders and Junior riders were allowed to mingle with top riders, both national and international. This ensured a great mood where knowledge could be gained everywhere.

Additionally there was the possibility to take part in 18 different horse related lectures that were organised by the Danish Icelandic Horse Association in the context of their 50 year anniversary. Everybody could take part in those – riders, visitors, volunteers and exhibitors.

The youngest rider of the competition was only 9 years old, which could not be seen in his presentation. The oldest participant was nearly 60 years old and they both showed once again, that age has no meaning within this sport. This also includes the horses – the winner of the fourgait stallion show was the 23 year old stallion Jarl fra Miðkrika.

On Sunday the Festival finished with a row of great finals, where the riders and horses showed their best on a really high level!

“We thank all of those by heart, that helped making the Icehorse Festival such a success!” Stine Sandahl, Rasmus Møller Jensen and Lone Bertelsen conclude.