Wow. It has been such a long time since I've posted. My apologies to everyone ... especially those whose beautiful horses we have shipped since the last posting.
Terry and I made our last flight of the year on November 30th when we accompanied horses to Luxembourg and then on to Dammam. Tanner La Grone, one of our ranch hands, made his first-ever trip to Luxembourg with us and then on to Kuwait. Everything went well with the horses and I want to give a very big Thank You to our dear friend, Mohammad Agha, for taking care of Tanner during his visit to Kuwait. Your hospitality and friendship are greatly appreciated, Mohammad, and we hope to have the opportunity to repay the favor when you come to visit us in Bigfoot some day.
Many thanks also to Abdullah, Dhafer, Jamal, Salehm Ahmad, Burhan, Adwan and Lafi for sharing your horses with us. As always, it was our pleasure to work with you and we look forward to future opportunities.
Henry is on is way home now from another trip to Kuwait. Thank you, Ayman and Yasser for sharing your horses with us. We look forward to helping you again in the future.
Next week, Jolinda and Mac will fly to Amsterdam with two more containers of horses. Thank you, Mandy, Kevin and Desiree for the opportunity to work with you and your horses. They are doing fine. Jolinda has been coming over to the ranch to spend time with her traveling companions prior to flight day and they are becoming great friends.
We are gathering horses now for quarantine groups that will begin next week and are looking forward to a wonderful new year of Flying Horses with EZ 2 Spot Ranch.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Horses to Amsterdam and beyond
Six lovely horses left Houston on Wednesday afternoon for their flight to Amsterdam. Thank you, Hans Silvius and Florence Pierreaux, for accompanying these horses to Schiphol and for sharing your lovely mares with us.
Barlnk Tuffys Coosa, IBA Fantasy and J Los Secret, three gorgeous paint mares,went home to France with Florence. We have heard from her that they arrived safely and are doing well.
Shes Finally Famous, a beautiful QH mare, has arrived safely at home with her new owner, Bjoern Lauer. We have heard from Bjoern and are happy to report that all is well with her. Thank you, Bjoern, for sharing Lila with us!
Brego, a sweetheart of a QH gelding, went to join his family who moved from the USA to Switzerland. We have heard from Tammy Boron that he is home now and all is well. Thank you, Tammy, for sharing Brego with us.
And Abilene PCF is on her way to her home in Italy. She should be arriving very soon to meet her new owner, Giovanni Pietrarelli. Thank you, Joao and Giovanni, for allowing us to be a part of Abilene's journey. She is a beautiful mare and I know you will enjoy her.
It was a pleasure for us to work with each of these horses and we appreciate the opportunity to work with their owners, as well.
We will be starting our next quarantine for shipping to the EU on November 28th and we have spaces available ... so let us know if you would like to add your horse to that group. They will fly in early January.
Barlnk Tuffys Coosa, IBA Fantasy and J Los Secret, three gorgeous paint mares,went home to France with Florence. We have heard from her that they arrived safely and are doing well.
Shes Finally Famous, a beautiful QH mare, has arrived safely at home with her new owner, Bjoern Lauer. We have heard from Bjoern and are happy to report that all is well with her. Thank you, Bjoern, for sharing Lila with us!
Brego, a sweetheart of a QH gelding, went to join his family who moved from the USA to Switzerland. We have heard from Tammy Boron that he is home now and all is well. Thank you, Tammy, for sharing Brego with us.
And Abilene PCF is on her way to her home in Italy. She should be arriving very soon to meet her new owner, Giovanni Pietrarelli. Thank you, Joao and Giovanni, for allowing us to be a part of Abilene's journey. She is a beautiful mare and I know you will enjoy her.
It was a pleasure for us to work with each of these horses and we appreciate the opportunity to work with their owners, as well.
We will be starting our next quarantine for shipping to the EU on November 28th and we have spaces available ... so let us know if you would like to add your horse to that group. They will fly in early January.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Horses arrived safely in Dammam
I am happy to announce that our latest shipment to Dammam arrived safely and all the horses are now in their new homes. CargoLux was delayed - again - but other than that, everything went smoothly with this shipment. Thank you, Osman, Mohammad, Saeed and Ahmad for sharing your amazing horses with us. It was truly a pleasure caring for them and working with you. Thank you, also, to our groom, Henry Quintanilla, for your flexibility and willingness to go the extra mile when faced with unexpected challenges.
We are gathering horses now for our next shipment to Dammam, so let us know if you would like to add your horses to this group.
And on a personal note, Happy Birthday to our darling granddaughter, Madison Elizabeth Jurek, who is 11 years old today. We love you so much, Maddie, and can't wait to see you when you are back in the USA!
We are gathering horses now for our next shipment to Dammam, so let us know if you would like to add your horses to this group.
And on a personal note, Happy Birthday to our darling granddaughter, Madison Elizabeth Jurek, who is 11 years old today. We love you so much, Maddie, and can't wait to see you when you are back in the USA!
Friday, November 11, 2011
Free transport from APHA World Show
We are very excited to announce that we will be providing free transportation to our quarantine facility for all overseas horses that are purchased at the show, currently going on in Ft. Worth, TX. Megan and Tanner will be at the Will Rogers Center all day tomorrow, so give them a call on the ranch phone +210 861 4191 and let them know who to see about picking up your new horse.
We are starting a quarantine group next week for a flight to Amsterdam on December 19th ... and we have a few spaces still available in that group. Spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so don't delay! Your new horse can be home for Christmas!
If you have any questions, give me a call at +210 861 0269 or Terry at + 210 244 3404 or drop us a line at ez2spot@hotmail.com.
We are starting a quarantine group next week for a flight to Amsterdam on December 19th ... and we have a few spaces still available in that group. Spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so don't delay! Your new horse can be home for Christmas!
If you have any questions, give me a call at +210 861 0269 or Terry at + 210 244 3404 or drop us a line at ez2spot@hotmail.com.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
News from an old friend
We received this email a few days ago from Monique Stam of Holland. We always will remember Monique and Scout. She had fallen in love with him while attending a riding camp in California. Her parents helped arrange to buy him for her and we had the privilege of taking him to Amsterdam for her. It was such fun for us to see the look on her face when she was reunited with her equine friend at Schiphol Airport back in 2008.
Monique wr
ote:
I’m not sure if you remember me but I’m the girl who took the great pinto Scout to Holland in 2007-2008.
I hope you are doing fine! I just read an message on a Dutch Horse forum that somebody got 2 pinto’s out of Texas and I asked her if she had done that with you. And she did! How great is that!
So I just thought, maybe you like a short update…
I had such a great time with Scout! I never noticed that Scout have done a big trip around the world. He was just to Holland like he always has live here. We had some great years together.
We did a lot of riding in the forest and dressage. We won 3 dressage competitions and one includes a cross country! Everybody loved him and asked where he came from. I always said he came all the way from California to Texas and then to Holland. I always mentioned that you guys did a great job ;)
Unfortunately a year ago he got lame. We went to the vet and the discovered that he had a serious way of bone spavin/arthritis in both of his hind legs. Normally they can give him an injection but his case was so serious that it wouldn’t help. So we put him in the pasture for almost a year and hope with rest and just some walking he could live with it. In May this year it got more serious and when he tried to canter in his pasture (I was running and playing with him) he just stopped and couldn’t move one of his legs. At that moment I knew it was over. We went to the vet and he took x-rays again. The bone spavin/arthritis was more serious that the year before and the vet said it was the worst case of spavin he ever saw. So we took him home and in the weeks after we said goodbye. We took some beautiful pictures with him and in July we put him down. I stayed with him to the end and he was so calm, like he would say, it’s okay.
I still miss him so so much!!! He was sooo special! I think I never get a horse like he was!
I’m now looking for his bloodlines etc. just to get more information about him. I’m even wondering if there are any filly’s of him walking around somewhere…
Well, just want to let you know how this beautiful fairy tail ended. Unfortunately not the way it should but having him here with me the last few years were like a dream come true…
Hope you are doing great !! I attached three pictures of him, the first 2 were made a week before we put him down, the other one I think from 2 years ago.
Monique
Monique wr
ote:
I’m not sure if you remember me but I’m the girl who took the great pinto Scout to Holland in 2007-2008.
I hope you are doing fine! I just read an message on a Dutch Horse forum that somebody got 2 pinto’s out of Texas and I asked her if she had done that with you. And she did! How great is that!
So I just thought, maybe you like a short update…
I had such a great time with Scout! I never noticed that Scout have done a big trip around the world. He was just to Holland like he always has live here. We had some great years together.
We did a lot of riding in the forest and dressage. We won 3 dressage competitions and one includes a cross country! Everybody loved him and asked where he came from. I always said he came all the way from California to Texas and then to Holland. I always mentioned that you guys did a great job ;)
Unfortunately a year ago he got lame. We went to the vet and the discovered that he had a serious way of bone spavin/arthritis in both of his hind legs. Normally they can give him an injection but his case was so serious that it wouldn’t help. So we put him in the pasture for almost a year and hope with rest and just some walking he could live with it. In May this year it got more serious and when he tried to canter in his pasture (I was running and playing with him) he just stopped and couldn’t move one of his legs. At that moment I knew it was over. We went to the vet and he took x-rays again. The bone spavin/arthritis was more serious that the year before and the vet said it was the worst case of spavin he ever saw. So we took him home and in the weeks after we said goodbye. We took some beautiful pictures with him and in July we put him down. I stayed with him to the end and he was so calm, like he would say, it’s okay.
I still miss him so so much!!! He was sooo special! I think I never get a horse like he was!
I’m now looking for his bloodlines etc. just to get more information about him. I’m even wondering if there are any filly’s of him walking around somewhere…
Well, just want to let you know how this beautiful fairy tail ended. Unfortunately not the way it should but having him here with me the last few years were like a dream come true…
Hope you are doing great !! I attached three pictures of him, the first 2 were made a week before we put him down, the other one I think from 2 years ago.
Monique
Friday, October 28, 2011
Amsterdam,Prestwick, Luxembourg, Dammam and Doha
This has been a very busy week, with 21 equines flying out to various destinations around the world. And, as happens from time to time, there have been some flight delays.
Fancy Me Wisely, Pearl of Justice and HHAA King of Bling were all set to fly out to Amsterdam on KLM's Tuesday afternoon flight with our groom, Anne Figley, when all of a sudden the flight was cancelled due to mechanical problems. Poor critters! They had to be taken back to the TDA Animal Facility and stalled overnight. They finally got out the following afternoon, but it was a bit of an ordeal for everyone - equine and humans alike. Thank you, Anne, for taking such good care of the animals during a difficult situation. Thank you Toni, Lykke and Frank for your patience.
Then it was on to Prestwick, Scotland with five of the cutest miniature donkeys ever - BR Liberty, BR Pixie Dust, FOF Cats Cheetah, Flight of Fancy Raven Beauty and, last but definitely not least, Lil Angels Texas Tease. They all traveled well and should get home today. Thank you, Rebecca, for sharing them with us. I know they will be very happy in the UK.
Luxembourg was the next stop with two beautiful paint fillies (Shesa Classy Brooks and My Precious Maria) and two adorable little P.O.A. mares (Santee Charisma and Santee Spanish Delight). Everything went well with their shipment. Terry had the pleasure of meeting with both Sylvain and Lara this morning before they left for France with their new horses and ponies.
Dammam is the next stop for April at Arabesq, Beauty of the Mohave, Portia SF, AA Gabriella Bea, AA Diva, Malika Bint Dalim ... and Terry . Abdullah and Dhafer, the flight is delayed til 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. I'm not sure exactly when they will arrive, so you might want to check with CargoLux in Dammam tomorrow morning.
Henry will finish the adventure when he delivers Fireflash LNW, Pablo Paez and Three Above to Doha on Monday. Thank you, Mohammad and Haytham, for sharing these cool horses with us - and best of luck in your upcoming endurance races.
We started a new quarantine group this week for twelve horses going to Dammam and Kuwait, and will start another group next week for Luxembourg and Kuwait. We have space for a few more to Luxembourg.
We are moving into the holiday season now, so please be patient if there are delays or scheduling challenges with your horses. 'Tis the season!
Fancy Me Wisely, Pearl of Justice and HHAA King of Bling were all set to fly out to Amsterdam on KLM's Tuesday afternoon flight with our groom, Anne Figley, when all of a sudden the flight was cancelled due to mechanical problems. Poor critters! They had to be taken back to the TDA Animal Facility and stalled overnight. They finally got out the following afternoon, but it was a bit of an ordeal for everyone - equine and humans alike. Thank you, Anne, for taking such good care of the animals during a difficult situation. Thank you Toni, Lykke and Frank for your patience.
Then it was on to Prestwick, Scotland with five of the cutest miniature donkeys ever - BR Liberty, BR Pixie Dust, FOF Cats Cheetah, Flight of Fancy Raven Beauty and, last but definitely not least, Lil Angels Texas Tease. They all traveled well and should get home today. Thank you, Rebecca, for sharing them with us. I know they will be very happy in the UK.
Luxembourg was the next stop with two beautiful paint fillies (Shesa Classy Brooks and My Precious Maria) and two adorable little P.O.A. mares (Santee Charisma and Santee Spanish Delight). Everything went well with their shipment. Terry had the pleasure of meeting with both Sylvain and Lara this morning before they left for France with their new horses and ponies.
Dammam is the next stop for April at Arabesq, Beauty of the Mohave, Portia SF, AA Gabriella Bea, AA Diva, Malika Bint Dalim ... and Terry . Abdullah and Dhafer, the flight is delayed til 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. I'm not sure exactly when they will arrive, so you might want to check with CargoLux in Dammam tomorrow morning.
Henry will finish the adventure when he delivers Fireflash LNW, Pablo Paez and Three Above to Doha on Monday. Thank you, Mohammad and Haytham, for sharing these cool horses with us - and best of luck in your upcoming endurance races.
We started a new quarantine group this week for twelve horses going to Dammam and Kuwait, and will start another group next week for Luxembourg and Kuwait. We have space for a few more to Luxembourg.
We are moving into the holiday season now, so please be patient if there are delays or scheduling challenges with your horses. 'Tis the season!
Friday, October 14, 2011
On the way to Dammam
Wow! So much has happened since our last post! Let me try to recapture the highlights. Our trip to Harbin,China was amazing. We were treated with such hospitality and have memories that we will cherish forever from our visit with Mr. Cheng, Mr. Song and their friends and associates. Thank you, gentlemen, for such a wonderful introduction to your country and culture. We are very excited about being part of your new venture and look forward to many more visits to Harbin.
After our visit to China, we had an opportunity to stop by Seoul, Korea and visit briefly with our son, Matt, his wife, Maria and our grandchildren, Madison and Luke. What a special treat that was - to get to see them in their home in Inchon. Thank you, guys, for picking us up at the airport and taking time to show us around. We love you and can't wait to see you when you PCS back to the USA.
Then it was back to the ranch ... a few days of R & R at the Gulf Coast ... and now we are on the road again, traveling with nine beautiful Arabian horses to Dammam, Saudi Arabia. We are in Luxembourg right now and will fly out to Dammam this evening. Thank you, Mohammad, Thamir, Ahmed, Saleh anand Haytham for sharing your horses with us. We will see you in Dammam early tomorrow morning.
For our clients in South Africa and the GCCs ... we need for you to know that the airfreight rates are going up on November 1st, so this is going to mean a price increase. Contact us for the new rates.
Have a great day!
Dianne
After our visit to China, we had an opportunity to stop by Seoul, Korea and visit briefly with our son, Matt, his wife, Maria and our grandchildren, Madison and Luke. What a special treat that was - to get to see them in their home in Inchon. Thank you, guys, for picking us up at the airport and taking time to show us around. We love you and can't wait to see you when you PCS back to the USA.
Then it was back to the ranch ... a few days of R & R at the Gulf Coast ... and now we are on the road again, traveling with nine beautiful Arabian horses to Dammam, Saudi Arabia. We are in Luxembourg right now and will fly out to Dammam this evening. Thank you, Mohammad, Thamir, Ahmed, Saleh anand Haytham for sharing your horses with us. We will see you in Dammam early tomorrow morning.
For our clients in South Africa and the GCCs ... we need for you to know that the airfreight rates are going up on November 1st, so this is going to mean a price increase. Contact us for the new rates.
Have a great day!
Dianne
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