Norwegian Fjordhorses & Brockamp Bareback Pads
Welcome to DDungård, LLC
DDungård is Norwegian Fjord Horse breeding farm, owned by Dan Watanabe & Denise Vogel, located in Valley, Washington.
DDungård is dedicated to excellence in Norwegian Fjordhorses that exemplify the breed's character and convey their Power, Elegance and irresistible Charm!
Norwegian Fjordhorses
As one of only a few progressive Fjord breeding programs in the USA, we are proud to be offering top quality bloodlines that have carefully been selected and developed to promote versatile, highly capable Fjords with excellent conformation, movement and people-oriented personalities. (read more in Breeding program).
From the very beginning we have chosen to focus on individuals that meet most of these criteria (no one is perfect!), while being genetically diverse, to breed forward to complementary stallions to improve upon the next generation. Applying a strict selection system, our broodmare band is constantly evolving with the help of top quality stallions, who we periodically import from Europe. This helps us enhance overall quality, genetic diversity and, by extension, long term sustainability in the breed.
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.
For 2025 we welcomed 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 was standing at DDungård for breeding from June - September 2025.
For 2026 we are thrilled to be breeding a small number of mares to our newly imported junior stallions OstFin (Nygåards Gurven x Edelfin by Brijol) and Vetch (Jakobsgardens Junar x Füress by Drafur)!
Starting in 2026 we will not be offering stud service to outside mares. If you are interested in purchasing a foal sired by our stallion(s), make sure to enter our waitlist. We are casually planning on offering limited stud service again in 2028 with our domestically bred stallions DD Giotto and Dreamfield Matteo.
Check back regularly for exciting developments!
Frozen Semen
Gio and Prydarson semen available!!
Save on shipping by ordering multiple doses from one stallion at once (semen stored at different locations, so can't get shipped together).
Brockamp Pads
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!
For everyone looking to find their Fjord!
If you are looking for a purebred Norwegian Fjord Horse make sure to check out our Sales Page!
New since 2025 is our waitlist pool for people who are looking to find their dream Fjord. That may be a foal from our upcoming foal crop, a future consignment horse or matches the description of a Fjord from another Seller we may know of.
Please be mindful when putting your name on the waitlist and let us know when to take you back off the waitlist. If we are contacting you regarding a possible match and don't hear back, you will be found ineligible as a prospective Buyer for future sales horses. So, please be serious and considerate about our time helping people find their new Fjord friend.
Announcements
First 2027 foal arrived!
Foaling season has officially started with our "runner up" DD Linnea (Gio x Lillian by Orka)! Linnea and DD Tjasse (Tsjalle x LVG Faksi by Prydarson) produced a petite red dun and grey recessive filly, born at 11pm on May 5th!
Linnea is doing super as a first time mom and we can't wait to see how little L is unfolding.
First pregnancies for 2027!
We are over the moon excited that our junior stallion ØstFin has his first mares confirmed in foal with our lovely Siljar daughter Vivian and our treasured Faksi!
ØstFin was imported from Sweden and is sired by the 1pr. stallion Nygårds Gurven. We can't wait to see this foal!!
Our Mogly daughter Megan is confirmed in foal to our Danish import stallion Kian Klattrup. This little nugget will be heading to KY!
Matteo joined the weanlings
Matteo joined the weanlings
Dreamfield Matteo (Sunnyside Mevan x RBP Britta by Kjor Didrick) arrived at DDungård LLC from KY!
We were not really looking for another stud colt, but liked the idea of a buddy for our 2025 stud colt Giotto once we start separating the fillies and colts. We really liked Matteo since Ashley shared the first pictures of him and kept coming back to him .... sometimes it's just meant to be! Thanks Ashley for making it all work!!
We are excited to see what the future will hold for this guy! We are a wee bit limited in his use since besides being a grey dun, he is also white and therefore will not be an eligible match for our white dun ladies! Nonetheless, it's not like we are short on Fjords.
Stay posted on more information about Matteo, we are working on setting up his own page and are excited to get some new pictures of him soon!
Wenar arrived in the US!
First USDF show in the books
Matteo joined the weanlings
Together with Ashley Johnson Ralph and Dreamfield Fjords, we imported Wenar van Stal De Heale Moanne from Fjorden Stal De Heale Moanne in the Netherlands to the US!
Wenar is sired by the French bred stallion King d'Ober by the German stallion Ilmar. His mother is sired by the Norwegian bred stallion Rudsmo Rune, bred to a Lyckängs Tempo (Swedish bred) daughter. Quite an international pedigree with yet no common ancestors in the first 3 generation represented in North American breeding! We are expecting Wenar to mature into a beautiful big boy with his sire standing proud 15hh and dam 14.2hh.
While we are currently pretty full with young stud prospects ourselves, we have partnered up with Ashley on both Wenar and our 2024 grey import Vetch, who also boasts a very unique and diverse pedigree! These two boys will be alternating breeding here with us in Washington and with Ashley in Kentucky. It means more genetic diversity for both programs and overall more diversity in the North American gene pool! We are very excited and thankful for this opportunity!
First USDF show in the books
First USDF show in the books
First USDF show in the books
Tsjalle and Denise attended the first USDF show in January in Washington State ever! The PNW dressage series is held in Lynden, WA and even offered NDPC classes. After not showing at all in 2025, the show jitters were certainly there. Nonetheless, they pulled two lovely 1-3 tests together with 64.5 and 66.9, both technically qualifying for Region 6 Championships (but would need to be from two different shows).
Thanksgiving tradition
First USDF show in the books
First USDF show in the books
It has become a tradition to spend Thanksgiving weekend at the Oregon Horse Center to school their National Championship Mountain Trail Indoor course. This year was the 5th time that we chose fun and play instead of turkey coma!
Since Faksi has the year off from breeding, it was the perfect time to take her out and give her more exposure and experience under saddle.
We also opted to take our junior stallion ØstFin for his first outing since we imported him a year ago!
With two green horses who are new to mountain trail, we also brought our 5 year old Nora back, who went to OHC last year for the for the first time and gained a lot of trail experience in Glacier National Park this summer.
All three horses did amazing! Nora was solid as expected, Faksi really rose to the occasion and ØstFin will do everything if food is involved. We had a lot of fun and laughter about some "interesting" choices.