Dungård is a Norwegian Fjord Horse breeding and training farm, owned by Dan Watanabe & Denise Vogel. It is currently located in Valley, Washington. Dungård is dedicated to excellence in Norwegian Fjordhorses that exemplify the breed's character and convey their Power, Elegance and irresistible Charm!
We have a progressive breeding program which represents top quality blood-lines from North America and Europe and are working to establish national and international partnerships that promote quality, genetic diversity and, by extension, long term sustainability in the breed. From the very beginning we have chosen to focus on versatile, highly capable Fjords and innovative training methods.
Dungård's stallions are top quality, yet different from each other and very complementary.
We are currently standing at stud our gorgeous grey dun German import stallion, Tsjalle and our "oldie but goldie" Danish import stallion Kian Klattrup. Kian is co-owned by us and Jayne Olson.
Our former stallion Siljar is breeding with Dun In farm in Capac, MI and our imported red stallion Gio is breeding with his new owner, Pappy Van Fjords in Fair Grove, MO.
In 2025 we will be welcoming our co-owned (with Aurora Skurtun) junior stallion DD Tjasse back for his initial breeding season. Hatton's Oskar (FSF Ole x Levitah by Fair Acres Sven II) owned by Ashley Ralph will be standing at DDungård for breeding from June - September 2025.
For 2026 we are planning on breeding with our homebred colts DD Skål (Siljar x DIF Megan by Mogly), owned by Dr. Miranda Cleveland and DD Merkur (DD Malibu x LVG Faksi by Prydarson), owned by Lisa Otten.
Please check with us for availability for each stallion for 2025.
Check back regularly for exciting developments!
We are very proud to be the only North American dealer for Brockamp Special Bareback pads and treeless saddle pads. Visit our online shop and order your pad today!
Another HUGE THANK YOU to Ashley Ralph and Dreamfield Fjords for making Pebble Creek Fjords Nora (HF North x Effi by PHF Dakota) available to us! Nora is a stunning grey dun 2020 mare with excellent conformation and movement. She is unrelated to our stud lines and also mostly to our other mares. Nora is sweet, easy to handle and is already a real joy to be around. We are hoping that we can convince Nora to become a mom and pass on her wonderful traits. Nora will stay open in 2024 and we are hoping that Tsjalle can do the trick in early 2025.
Huge THANK you to Ashley Ralph and Dreamfield Fjords for entrusting us with her gorgeous grey dun stallion Hatton's Oskar for the 2025 breeding season.
Oskar is sired by FSF Ole and out of Levitah by Fair Acres Sven II. We are excited to be offering actually new genetics in the PNW and can't wait to see how he crosses with our mares!
Please contact if you are interested in breeding your mare to Oskar in 2025! He will be standing from June - September in Valley, WA.
Our gorgeous red dun import stallion Gio is moving to Missouri! Even though we had never intended on selling Gio this soon, sometimes the universe has it's way of opening doors and presenting opportunities that just work out well for everyone. Congratulations to Kendal Pappas and Pappy Van Fjords on her new extraordinary stallion! Kendal has carefully build up her program including DD Matilda (Siljar x Megan) and a Tsjalle granddaughter by DD Tjalve. We have no doubt that Gio will work exceptionally well with her mares and are excited for future opportunities for him being located more central in the USA! We could have not asked for a better place for Gio and wish him and Kendal all the best!
This is the last Gio filly we will be offering for sale!!
Bristol Bay is a brown dun filly out of Trinity's Bastiana by Bastian vom Oderhaff. She has a lot of presence and is a super nice mover!
Should mature around 14hh and is red and possibly grey recessive.
Our annual August getaway took us this year to an other point on our bucket list: Riding on the Pacific Crest Trail!
The Pacific Crest Trail is a long-distance hiking and equestrian trail closely aligned with the highest portion of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. The trail is 2,653 miles long and ranges from the Canadian to the Mexican border.
Of course, we only rode the small portion of it along side the Mt. Rainier National Park at Chinook Pass, WA. It was absolutely stunning starting from 5430ft elevation heading 627ft further up. The views were amazing and the vegetation around was breathtaking!
Tsjalle and Megan have proven themselves again as sure footed trail partners and friendly ambassadors for the breed. Parts of the trail were very rocky and narrow with steep drop offs (not places we took pictures lol), but our horses were very smart, careful and good in assessing each situation and the challenge in front of them.
It was an amazing experience and certainly one we are looking forward to repeating!
We are thrilled to have DD Merkur (DD Malibu x LVG Faksi by Prydarson) and DD Skål (Siljar x DIF Megan by Mogly) stay with us and be raised as stud prospects. They will both be standing at stud with us in 2026! DD Skål is owned by Dr. Miranda Cleveland and we have sold his sire Siljar this year to the midwest. DD Merkur, owned by Lisa Otten, is by our homebred boy DD Malibu who is now in Quebec, CAN. Both boys are white duns and are carrying grey (Merkur possibly red too) and have excellent conformation and dispositions to pass along to the next generation. Thanks for Lisa and Miranda to be making it possible for us to continue our bloodlines!
Congratulations to the NorthWest Therapeutic Riding Center on their new addition! We are very excited for his handsome gelding to have found such an excellent home.
While Tryggve was not bred by us, he is a Siljar grandson and his dam is a fullsister to Greta's dam.
An era is coming to an end! It was surely not an easy decision to make, but to make room for new bloodlines and since Siljar's paternal genetics are saturated in the PNW, he is moving to our friends with Dun In Farm, Pat and Warren Hofert in Capac, MI. We are excited to see the foals he will be producing with their exquisite mares, including DIF Megan's dam and Tuppen's dam.
Siljar was bred and raised by Dan and has been co-owned and breeding for DDungard since 2016.
We are currently having two white dun daughters of his with DD Jorina (out of Havenwood's Jorun) and DD Sunnyside Vivian (out of Vikkelsoe's Kunst) and a grey dun granddaughter with DD Grå Perle (by Tsjalle through DD Princessa/Greta) in our program to continue the bloodlines.
For 2025 we have a large number of broodmares in foal to Siljar to hopefully get one more Siljar daughter. Mares confirmed in foal to Siljar include: LVG Faksi, DD Flora, Tuppen, PHJ Gina, Havenwood's Jorun and DD Finja.
Tsjalle earned this last needed qualifying score in 1-3 with over 69% at Dressage at Rebecca Farm in Kalispell, MT. He also got a nice 68% in 1-1 and took First place in both classes. These classes were pretty good sized with 11 and 14 riders and we are particularly proud that he didn't just earn these first places with the highest score at AA but also highest score in the class against open competitors. Tsjalle was again super solid and no one even suspected he was a stallion, even with other stallions acting up in the warm up, he kept is cool 😎. Of course, he received many compliments in regards to his cuteness and excellent disposition and was a great advocate for the breed this weekend!