How Did We Get Here?

From the first moment my husband and I saw a Friesian being unloaded from his trailer we were smitten.

I had contracted to design a marketing brochure for a woman I had corresponded with on a carriage driving list. She had a small carriage business in the Austin Texas area and wanted to expand. We had never met at this time just communicated back and forth about creating her brochure.

Along the way in the process, it became necessary for her to send me pictures for the brochure. She had pictures of herself driving a lovely carriage with a bride and groom, the horsepower provided by a handsome grey gelding and then there was another curious picture.

At a quick first glance, he looked like "just" a black horse, a Percheron perhaps. No this horse is much more sculpted than a Percheron. As I walked to the trailer I could see this horse was not a breed I had seen before. Once my husband and I reached trailer, I think our jaws had dropped to the ground. In front of us was the most elegant, majestic and regal horse we had ever seen. He stood quietly as we approached and deep within his eye was a gentleness of spirit and the knowing look of an old soul. He dropped his head to allow us to enter his space and give him a scratch under his long flowing mane and a forelock that reached well beyond his muzzle. It was at this moment in time that my husband caught my glance and with out a word being spoken we both knew our lives would forever change and center around this magnificant breed of horse, a Friesian.

So had our lives changed on a Saturday in the winter of 2001.

We were motivated ! Within 24 hours we found a buyer for our Percheron mare, listed two of our paint mares and a foal for sale and started reading everything on the www.kfps.nl Het Friesch Paarden Stamboek and on the www.fhana.com, Friesian Horse Association of North America. And so began our journey in 2001.

In 2010, Crown Friesians relocated to Parker County, Weatherford, Texas. In Weatherford, the town is about all things horse. We are conviently located 29 miles west of Ft. Worth, Texas and about an hour from the Dallas Ft. Worth International Airport.

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