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 small 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, our imported glorious red dun stallion Gio. and our "oldie but goldie" Danish import stallion Kian Klattrup. Kian is co-owned by us and Jayne Olson.
In 2025 we will be welcoming our co-owned (with Aurora Skurtun) junior stallion DD Tjasse back for his initial breeding season.
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!
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.
Gio and Chloe had a super successful weekend as well at the Equestrian Institute HT at the WA State Horse Park in Cle Elum! The pair finished AGAIN on their dressage score with double clear in cross country and stadium jumping and ended up in 2nd place with 0.1p away from 1st place. Soooo close again!
Congratulations to Chloe and Gio for this great success and excellent representation of the breed!
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!
First Horse Trial for Gio and Chloe Dunsmoor is a wrap! We couldn't be any prouder of both of them!! The pair finished on their dressage show with a double clear in stadium jumping and cross country. Technically, they are tied for 3rd place, but the deciding factor was the closest to optimum time in the xc (Chloe was at 5:00 min and optimum was 5:02min and the other rider was apparently right at 5:02min). Difference to 1st place were only 1.8 points ... super close!!!
We are looking forward to watching this pair grow together even more and having a lot of fun this season!
LVG Faksi and her daughter DD Flora both confirmed in foal on their foal heat to our stallion Siljar. We are super excited to see these foals next year!
Havenwood's Jorun is also confirmed in foal to Siljar. This foal is available for an in-utero purchase regardless of gender (we do NOT give a color or gender guarantee). This foal will be a full sibling to our very own DD Jorina.
Emelianna is confirmed in foal to Tsjalle! This will be our only Tsjalle foal in 2025 and we are very excited for Emelianna's first foal for us!
Kervan's Farm Elleah (Tuppen's dam) is confirmed in foal to Tsjalle again, too!
Our senior mare Ironwood Helena is confirmed in foal to Gio!
To say the first 2024 show weekend had its challenges, would be an understatement! On the bright side, Tsjalle really tried his hardest in his classes, earning his first qualifying score (technically 2 but it was only one show and we need two scores from two different shows) and rode 2x First, 1x Second and 1x Third Place with scores of over 3x65% and 63%.
His tremendous work ethic and wonderful partnership he and Denise have really shined this weekend!
Our last mare for this season, DD Jorina, delivered a handsome brown dun colt on 05/08/24 around 11:20pm. DD Giovanni is sired by Gio, but has a lot of his grandsire Siljar's frame and disposition. He is super personal, brave and curious. We love the neck attachment and uphill build. Gio patterned again strongly the head and the rich dark color. |
DD Giovanni is available!
Congratulations to Dr. Miranda Cleveland on her purchase of DD Skål! We couldn't have hoped for a better home and are beyond excited! Skål will be staying at DDungard and we raised in our youngster herd. We love watching this boy grow and be part of his journey!