Sigrun Brynjarsdottir

An old Arabian proverb says, “The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.” Sigrún has felt that way since her first ride on a horse at the age of two.

Her parents did not have horses, so she rode a friend’s horse. His name was Gamli Grani (old grey). At the age of 6, she started riding school. But going to riding school was not enough activity for her; therefore, she got her first horse at ten in order to fulfill her passion of riding. Her parents had told her that the only way she would get her first horse was to buy it herself. Thus, Sigrún collected money for years and then finally had enough to buy a horse.

His name was Neisti and he was untrained. Sigrún decided that she was going to train him herself. Well, that did not go so good. After a few months, Neisti was going more backwards than forward. As a result, her parents stepped in and sent both horse and girl to “boot camp.” The “boot camp” was conducted by a well-known trainer. Sigrún studied under the trainer until she was fifteen years old. But before she went on her own, she had started training horses professionally.

Sigrún’s competition career started at the age of twelve with the tryouts for the 1996 Landsmót. Sigrún made Landsmót and all the Landsmóts after that until she moved to the United States to go to school in 1999. Sigrún has three Icelandic Championships titles, has been a finalist at Landsmót, and received countless other titles, such as the sportsman of the year two times in her Icelandic club. She has about two hundred awards for her achievements. In 1999, she rode Hrafn frá Garðabæ into first place at theWorld Championships in Germany.

Sigrún was born with the horse fever and ever since birth, her passion and love for theseunique and wonderful horses has consumed her. (Source)