Haircuts, Posters and Magazine Articles

Newflash: Mihran cut all his hair off.  Just warning everyone before they stumble down the drive and think we hired a new instructor.

We’ve had even more exciting things happen this week:

Bramblewood was featured in a poster of Tryon horse country farm signs.  This three poster series is a lovely representation of the rich equestrian culture in our back yard.   Find Bramblewood here (hint: there was snow! when I took the shot):

And then go order a copy for your wall by contacting Libbie Johnson at Tryon Horse Country:  Posters are 18”x24”, $20 each ($55 for the series) and for a limited time the Green River Gallery in Tryon is offering a framing special at $29.99 (regularly $79.99) for this series only.

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Bramblewood made European news this month! 

A lot of you might remember Mihran’s friend Hakan Alkan who visited this summer.  He and Mihran spent several days exploring Tryon and Landrum and when Hakan returned to Istanbul, he wrote an article for At Dünyası featuring Bramblewood in a full-page spread. At Dünyası is the Chronicle of the Horse for Istanbul and we were supremely honored to have the farm, and the local equestrian venues, showcased. 

I can’t make Mihran sit still long enough to help me translate the article, but one interesting note is Hakan’s excitement about Bramblewood’s turn out, which he calls green space.  Now, we all know there’s not anything green about our paddocks, which has been a good thing overall because the diets are micro managed and we’ve had an eighty percent reduction in colics since moving into the facility four years ago, but . . . the limited turn out we do offer is like grazing land in the American west to our Turkish visitors who are accustomed to the inner-city horse clubs in Istanbul, where they might hold FEI competition on a regular basis, but turn-out is a hand walk by a groom several times a day.

Here is the cover of the issue and a scan of the article: