Bar 2A Ranch Haflingers
6651 Highway 20 V0L1K0 Hanceville, BC, Canada

Horses and myself are on an exercise plan to get in shape for spring :-)

Grooming session for our 2 stallions Bandito and Antourage this morning! They sure enjoyed it ;-) .....look at those beautiful tails!!! :-)

Beautiful BANDITO son !!!!!

I want to welcome our new addition to the broodmare band: 'Nicky FHF', bred to ' Simba EGR' (by Samson). She is due sometime in May ! She is setting in quite nicely ;-)

‘Samson-C’ ,1999 AHR Haflinger Stallion, standing at stud at Bar 2A Ranch Haflingers in Hanceville, BC. He just arrived yesterday after a 4-day/5000kms haul fro...m Carina Krahn out of Aiken, SC. Thank you so much again for everything! Can’t tell you how much we love him!!!! A stunning, genuine South-Tyrolian Haflinger, with the most gentle mind! Photos by Sarah Zuberbühler! Great work!

Two Golden beauties ! On the left Karla's colt Benelli and on the right Nyssa's filly Nina !

This breeders note to a potential buyer. I love that you thought my horse was worth inquiring about. Thank you. After all the time, money, and effort that has ...gone into each and every horse it is beyond exciting to see other people appreciate the horses. However, please remember that these horses are mine. They are part of our family now, and if I have my way, even after they leave... we will simply adopt their new people as part of the family. I am in no way shape or form obligated to sell you any of my horses. If you inquire on horse, and refuse to tell me which trainer you work with, I will not sell you a horse. These animals are my responsibility, and if I sell them to an owner that sends them off to someone I believe will mistreat them... that is my fault. It has happened a time or two when people have switched trainers, and that is something that weighs on me every day. If I sell a horse, and I see a previously happy horse unhappy, it breaks my heart. If I sell a horse, and it goes from trainer to trainer never settling into a program, without any consistency, it breaks my heart. If I sell a horse that has a ton of potential, only to see it at a show looking less than it is, it breaks my heart. So you understand, to protect my heart is to protect my horses. I will not sell a horse just to have it sold. Yes, that is absolutely the smarter way to go about being a Breeder. Without a doubt. However it’s not something I am capable of doing, and something I am not obligated to do. I have found plenty of great people to sell horses to, that send them to good trainers and let me be part of their life. Please keep this in mind when inquiring on horses, not everyone is like this, but I know some others are. There have been a couple of times I have even been lied to about what the future held for that horse, and while I cannot control it, I can never sell a horse there again. If you think selling a horse means I no longer have to worry about it, think again. I stress about them constantly, hoping they are ok, hoping their trainers like them, hoping they are loved by at least one person that works with them daily. These are the things I lose sleep over, and really, I can’t afford to lose anymore sleep than I already do!! I can never thank the owners of the WA horses that keep in touch and let us continue to be apart of their lives enough... even some of the trainers are nice enough to send pictures and videos from time to time.

Tribute to Haflinger......

Dyhlia, Dunja and Bandito...looking good still living in the valley! They come up for a few flakes of hay and minerals ;-)

An old photo of the Queen riding a Haflinger. In 1969 the Queen was presented with two Haflingers from Austria. She keeps her Haflingers, Fells and Highlands together at Balmoral Castle. Pretty cool that the Queen is a golden pony girl. Ponies are cool.