About The Owner

Kara has been playing SIM for 7 years. She began in the game Victory Gallop, before it closed in 2000. She did (and still does to a lesser degree) participate in All-Sim, owning the farm Kildeer Creek. She joined Horses Forever in the fall of 2004 and has not looked back! In real life she owns a 15 year old chestnut Thoroughbred gelding, Hop Ashore, a Border Collie, Apache, and four barn rescue cats, Lacy, Kitten, Beryl, and Hope. She can be reached at any time through e-mail at kclissold@comcast.net or hopashore2002@yahoo.com


About The Dream

Although I have always enjoyed the warmblood breed, I had never focused on them, previously giving my attention to Thoroughbres, Paints, and Welsh Mountain Ponies in All-Sim. I decided I wanted something new, something different, and something specific in which I could succeed in. Not only did I want to become a respected member of the HF community, but I wanted my horses and farm to make an impact in whatever I chose to do. Rather than allow myself to become unorganized, owning horses of many breeds and disciplines, I decided to focus on Trakehners. Their grace, majesty, and athleticism has long since impressed me, especially since a mare at the farm I ride at, Olney Zoe, is a half-Trakehner, and was an extremely talented Advanced level eventer before an injury caused her retirement one event short of planned. Two Moon Trakehners was envisioned as becoming a cornerstone of Trakehner breeding and showing within this game, with the only outside mares being of suitable crosses with Trakehners (such as Thoroughbreds, Arabians, and Morgans).

About The Farm

Two Moon Trakehners is located near Leesburg, Virginia, nearby many equine show opportunities in any discipline. The farm is a sprawling 70 acres of barns, riding rings, paddocks, fields, and trails. We bost a fine six-stall stallion barn and breeding facility, where are stallions and stallion prospects over three years of age are housed. Each stallion is given a large individual paddock. There is a separate foaling barn, with ten spacious stalls installed with the finest video technology available. Each stall has a small run-in that can be accessed through a sliding door in the back of the stall, allowing mares and foals time outside before joining the herd in a larger field directly behind the barn. A smaller ten stall barn is located some distance away, which houses the foals during weaning, with its own separate pasture. Our main competition barn houses forty horses, mares , geldings, and youngstock only. Four neighboring fields house 10 or fewer horses at a time, and generally at least one field is left open to rotate and prevent overgrazing. Six paddocks surround the main barn as well, and there are several horses on individual turn out schedules. Finally, a quarantine barn is located at the end of the drive, housing four stalls. These stalls are used for sick horses, new imports, or horses to be shipped. Each barn has sliding front wooden stall doors, stall mats, a concrete aisleway with matted tread, two water buckets per stall, a wash rack, a tack room, a feed room, a hay loft or shed, a sawdust shed, and a manure flat. We use high quality low-dust shavings, except in the quarantine and broodmare barns which uses high quality straw bedding.

We boast a large (120' x 300') indoor arena with both dressage letters and a full jump course, a large show jumping ring (which can be easily divided into multiple rings) (380' x 270'), a large dressage arena with letters, a smaller (250' x 150') schooling ring with a full set of schooling fences, a full cross country course offering cross country fecnes from Elementary through Intermediate level, including a state of the art water complex, banks, ditches, coops. logs, ramps, trakehners, hogsback, planters, stone walls, and coffins, that uses most of the fields (which can all be accessed through gates and paths), and 10 acres of wooded trail land with natural obstacles safely and stragically placed along the trails with alternate routes around each obstacle.


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