So the Icelandic horse is quite unique.

They are probably one of, if not the most pure breed of horse in the world.

It's the horse that the Vikings brought with him when they found Iceland.

We say that.

So like they sailed from Norway or wherever, wherever they came from, and they brought with them kind of the best of the best of their animals.

You know, they've been isolated in Iceland for over a thousand years.

There's no importation of horses to Iceland.

There's not a horse been imported to Iceland for a thousand years.

We believe that this is what nature created through survival of the fittest.

And we don't believe that we can do better with cross-breeding.

We think we have a very good horse sound from Iceland and Iceland.

There's a little island in the Atlantic Ocean, so you can kind of imagine if you're flying from here to, you know, Scandinavia, we are kind of in between.

Iceland is actually the size of Kentucky.

So so it's not that big.

And we only have about 300,000 people there.

It has a lot of natural, beautiful places.

It's becoming a very, very popular place to go to.

As far as tourism, Is this by far the biggest growing industry there?

The biggest misunderstanding is that it's always freezing cold there, which is not it's called Iceland.

But when I was in Iceland this winter, it was it was probably, temperature wise, colder here.

Most of the time that it wasn't.

Iceland also doesn't get the warm good summer days 6570.

But when I try to spend the summers in Iceland to escape the heat here, as much as I can, I really like spring and fall in Kentucky.

I think it's just beautiful.

So I feel like I get the best of both worlds a little bit.

I've been writing Icelandic horses since I was five or six years old, and when I was a kid I always said that my goal was to be a horse trainer and I'm going to live in two countries.

I'm going to spend first of a year in Iceland, then part of the year outside of Iceland and and train horses.

And that's that's kind of what I'm doing now.

So worked out, I guess here on the farm is kind of like like my center.

This is this is where we we train, we, I do some teaching here.

I sell horses here.

I also travel quite a bit and do clinics all over the US.

Then I also have a farm in Iceland, so I have a few mercenaries then starting a breeding program there.

There's also, you know, training happening there, some buying and selling because they have a partner in another business called America to Iceland, the company that takes people to Iceland on educational trips where I teach them in Iceland, take them trekking in the Highlands, take them shiver on the forefront of sightseeing, very fun trips.

And this business is really growing.

The first thing I usually point out when it comes to only course is the temperament.

I think they're really have great temperament.

I think they're very fun to work with.

Then they're full of common sense and therefore they're very enjoyable too.

They are in general very confident and brave.

They are realistically between 13, two and 14 to 3 hands, something like that.

They are even a little bit low to the ground.

They're they're very strong.

Muscle system is like a horse, not related to a pony.

The bone structure is is is much more related to a strong horse than the pony stocky build.

But we still want them rather elegant but strong stone built.

They're probably only breed in the world known to be written on five different gates and that means they are ridden on diagonal gait, lateral gait and the single foot gate.

So that means they can walk, trot and canter.

They can also do a gate through controlled with a single foot for kids.

Then many horses have the six kids we call flying face.

That's a lateral raised gate where they can reach up to 35, 40 miles an hour.

The road system developed kind of late in Iceland, so they were used as a written transportation.

When you have a horse for a written transportation, you don't want a bouncy horse when you're going far and you're going over mountains and stuff.

So so you want a smooth horse.

And that's kind of what developed the gates.

That is the gate that is used by far the most by especially by the placid riders where they want to go trekking or trail riding or whatever told is the gate that it's usually the gate of choice.

Total definitely has has different speeds to it.

It can be anywhere from from very slow, like just the bulwark to to extremely fast.

What makes it so smooth is only one leg hits the ground at a time.

So there's no suspension, there's only one leg at a time, and there's always one or two legs on the ground because of the breed.

But of course, being the only horse in Iceland, we've created this huge variety, right?

Very typically other places in the world.

Early on we had specialization, right?

If you wanted to jump for jumping those of universal security researchers racehorse, you get a racehorse and those worlds don't mix that much.

But when you only have one breed and you want to do it all, you kind of have within that breed the different, different kinds of horses are suitable for different things.

So within the breed you can find a suitable horse for pretty much whatever you want.

They have quite a bit to offer and like I said, power, energy, flashiness.

You know, you can go within the same breed, you can go anywhere from the family horse, the kids horse up to a very flashy, powerful, energetic show horse.

But the other thing is quite amazing is that powerful show horse that you will take to a performance and we go 35 miles an hour, a flying pace.

It's the same horse.

I would put my five year old daughter on a little around the barn like my main show horses.

I usually in my best riding horses too.

It's been a goal for a long time to be able to create a semiprofessional show team.

But my Paterson the nice to watch them.

I've never really nights and I think that we consider ourselves the first ones we started just taking part in shows like Equine affair plus other.

It came from Germany and the one two person games with the main goal of promoting us and the Brits.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of it.

In the US, they're registered between four or 5000 live courses.

That's it in Canada.

I think about the same though.

I think there's just to give you an example, I think there's is about 60,000 them in Germany alone.

So we are just starting here.

I just want to see the breed.

Keep growing.

I want to see people realize what a great horse it is.

I've no doubt in my mind that the breed will grow here just like it has everywhere else.

I feel like I have.

I kind of dedicated my life to this and I would love to this thing to grow as long as I live.