Hello everyone, let’s introduce myself also ! My name is Sonja and live in Holland, yes that small country next to Germany and above Belgium at the west side of Europe, with the 
tulips, woodenshoes and windmills 
As a little child in the 70 ties, I watched the tv series Black Beauty and the virus to be a horse then and wanted a horse later never left me. So I took lessons at the local horsestable for several years and found a girlfriend who owned a Welsh pony and was the one always working in the stable just to be with him, and dreamed that one day I got my own. Then As a teenager the focus shifted to boys😉and for decades I didn’t do anything with horses. At the age of 29 I picked it up and took lessons again with a black Fries till I became pregnant 0f my youngest son.
And again two decades later I mounted a horse for riding lessons, in mean while I volunteered with a local breeder of 7 Russian Arabs and 1 purebred AT and 2 partbred AT (AT xArab) and Phileine was the purebred mare. The breeder wanted to breed a fast endurance sporthorse, but Phileine never had a foal. I already fell in love with her, when I got the opportunity to buy her I did it in a heartbeat. So she became mine after all those years of wanting one some day, my wish became the truth in 2022. By then I knew her 1,5 years already.
Because she was ment to be a broadmare they didn’t put any time to make her a riding horse. So I took that challenge and chance. After a few hiccups in the training we are now at the stage that I’m on her back, slowly step by step learning the tricks and putting on the steering wheel with the breaks😜we’re making progress and I’m so proud of her.
Because I’m the owner of Phileine (6 yo) as an AT, I joined the ATHA and since November 2023 in the board in my role as the secretary together with Lindi, Marian,JJ and Silvie everyone in their own role.
So for me a non existing long line of a life with horses or working with them. But luckily for me I know a lot of good friends who do have the knowledge and skills and I love to learn from them and I’m like a sponge absorbing the intell they are giving me.
We are so lucky that our horses willingly share their world with us.
