#trs: leased horse

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ST Kahlua ‘Kahlua’ horse by Silver Throne Stables - on lease from @lcsporthorses, ridden by Nik Sharpe

19.01.24 Hanoverian Competing for IRE @ the Indoor Derby du Fléau Even with the biting winter chill creeping into the arena, seen in both horse and riders frosty breath and the creeping stiffness in Nika's fingers despite the gloves, the anticipation to dive into their first indoor derby was unmistakable. While the run was far from perfect, Kahlua took to each jump without hesitation.

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Monday 9 September 1839

6 40/..

10 10/..

very heavy shower about 5am fair and fine at 6 40/.. F63° now at 7 ¾ - breakfast over at 10 ¼ - a man came to offer 1 80 3/4///100 rouble per dollar banco – sent John again (he had been just before) to the banker merchant to say this - .:. the clerk (Mr. K- himself not in town) said he would give ½ copek [kopek] more i.e. 1 rouble 81 cokeps [kopek] per dollar banco – sent John with the money (300 dollars banco) to be changed at this price while I went to the bookseller – out at 11 10/.. to our banker

Mr. Abraham [Krŭgelŭr]: Åbo Mr. Muralt our Pasteur went chez

Mr. N.D. Indren Restaurateur. Åbo of the [?] [?] church at St. P-

Mr. K- keeps a large shop – woollen (coat) cloth – china, glass etc. etc. – very civil and useful – in correspondence with Tottie and Aufwedson [Arfvedson] Stockholm – gave 1/81 per dollar banco and let us have what small money he had and [someone] gave us a letter to Helsinfors [Helsingors] to get the value of what would not pass on road – said 10 wersts = 1 mile. one horse 60kop. per mile above an hour there – home about 12 ¾ - looking over money – paid the custom house officer – 1/75 très content – grumbled at the landlord’s charging for lodging 5 rigs dollars – c’est une volée – off at 1 ¾ nice partly foresty partly well farmed corn and grass land – Sweden like – pretty picturesque drive – at 2 ¾ pretty lake in sight right – at 3 8/.. Rungo small low neat single house but picturesque little hamlet or village scattered at a little distance and by and by pass pretty picturesque village church – picturesque rounded wooded hills, or if sometimes bare, mammelonné granite – mossy – very picturesque – nice clean farming – all the corn almost housed – a very little in stook –

at Rungo pay 5Kop. per horse bridge-toll for bridge to come – just from here 1st observation the narrow rosemary lowered low willow poor land but tho’ warty here and there yet well cleared and farmed chiefly Scotch fir and no old wood – quite young in general pretty picturesque drive from Rungo –

Pay by west, 6Kop. per horse from single house stations and double from towns

SH:7/ML/TR/13/0026

September 1839 country very picturesque the little unpainted cottages scattered about and little unpainted windmills scattered here and there – the good new wooden bridge now at 4 20/.. that we paid toll for at Rungo – and now a minute after another less wood bridge and soon pass by neat little whitewashed village church right and several fields of corn in stook – Swedish like fences – just like a pretty picturesque good repetition of Sweden – fine day – fine afternoon and charming drive – little chesnut horses and cows grazing in the stubble – generally left as long as we at H-x even leave shorn wheat – peas-holm hung out high stakes and railing to dry as in Sweden and Norway – much potato here as there – a few cottages red with white chimneys the effect of this at Åbo Gotheborg [Gothenburg] etc. etc. and everywhere picturesque and pretty –

Wista at 4 32/.. pretty picturesque neat little red low station house the village scattered picturesquely about – and in 5 minutes enter forest – the wood here often cut down there can be no timber – capital road all along from Åbo – the rye 6 or 7 inch high beautifully green – much taller and greener and better looking than we have anywhere seen it before – Grotzas’ news was that there were several Scotch farmers about Åbo within reach of who had land under government on long leases for next to nothing as in America – the scattered farms and cottages, and barns very picturesque – our average of changing horses seems about ¼ hour and our speed about 7 wersts per hour – think of stopping at the next station – having done 42 ½ wersts from 1 ¾ to

good deal of birch all along little else except fir – generally broad lands hereabouts 8 or 10 yards broad and sometimes much more with deep broad drain-like furrows – road good and a few steeepish [?] but as good and little hilly so from Götheborg [Gothenburg] to Stockholm – but at this moment

September Monday 9 (6p.m.) a little bit of forest and road rather sandy and mossy rock among the firs as in Norway and north of Sweden – soon out of the forest and at Keala [Kealanoja] at 6 10/.. – nice nice little wood single house yellow with white window frames and red roof – and a pea-green red painted roofed wing, and coachouse on each side – we stay all night like Handbook – on the square heard of the red post in front of the house

Keala [[Kealanoja]

till

Helsingforss [Helsingfors]

167 2/3 werst

till

Kaewola 22W.

till Sala [Salo] 12 2/3 werst

till

St. Petersburg 577 2/3 werst

till

Wista 15 1/3 werst

till

Åbo 42 1/3 w:

A- sketched – the house but had not time to do much for our dinner served at 6 50/.. – 2 roast coqs de bois (as at Österby near Dannemora) and pancakes and bread and butter and preserved [Lingboer] (cranberries) – enjoyed it and sat long over it – had not done with Grotza till after 9 – very fine day F64° now at 9 50pm. taking my chronometer at 1 ½ hour too late +3/4 hour put forward at Roeskilde [Roskilde] in Denmark = 2 ¼ hours earlier time here than in London  

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Monday 9 September 1839

[Rubles are obtained, yet another innkeeper is added to Anne’s ever-growing grudge list of daylight robbers, and off we trot eastwards from Åbo, at 7 versts per hour, through picturesque foresty and lakey countryside. After the day’s travel, Ann sketches, and then both linger over a hearty dinner.]

[up at] 6 40/”

[to bed at] 10 10/”

very heavy shower about 5 a.m. fair and fine at 6 40/”  Fahrenheit 63º now at 7 3/4 – breakfast over at 10 1/4 – a man came to offer 1 80 3/4 /100 rouble per dollar banco – sent John again (he had been just before) to the banker merchant to say this – therefore the clerk (Mr. Kingelin himself not in town) said he would give 1/4 copek more i.e. 1 rouble 81 cokeps [copeks] per dollar Banco – sent John with the money (300 dollars Banco) to be changed at this price while I went to the bookseller – out at 11 10/” to our banker

Mr. Muralt our Pasteur of the German protestant church at St. Petersburg

went chez

*Mr. Abraham Kingelin: Åbo                          

*Mr. N. D. Indvén Restaurateur. Åbo

Mr. Kingelin keeps a large shop – woollen (coat) cloth – china, glass etc. etc. – very civil and useful – in correspondence with Tottie and Aufwedson Stockholm – gave 1/81 per dollar Banco and let us have what small money he could and some torn gave us a letter to Helsinfors to get the value of what would not pass on the road – said 10 wersts = 1 mile. One horse 60 kopecks per mile  and double that out of towns –  above an hour there – home about 12 3/4 – looking over money – paid the customs house officer – 1/75 très content – grumbled at the landlord’s charging for lodging 5 rigs dollars – c’est une volée –  

off at 1 3/4  nice partly foresty partly well farmed corn and grass land – Sweden like – pretty picturesque drive – at 2 3/4 pretty lake in sight right –  at 3 8/” Rungo small low neat single house but picturesque little hamlet or village scattered at a little distance and and by and by pass picturesque village church – picturesque rounded wooden hills, or if sometimes bare mammelonné granite – mossy – very picturesque – nice clean farming – all the corn almost housed – a very little in stook –  at Rungo pay 5 kopecks per horse bridge-toll for bridge to come – picturesque from here 1st observe the narrow rosemary leaved low willow poor land but tho’ warty here and there yet well cleared and farmed chiefly Scotch fir and no old wood – quite young in general pretty picturesque drive from Rungo –  Pay by werst, 6 kopecks per horse from single house stations and double from towns

country very picturesque the little unpainted cottages scattered about and little unpainted windmills scattered here and there – the good new wooden bridge now at 4 20/” that we paid toll for at Rungo – and now a minute after another less wood bridge and soon pass by neat little white washed village church right and several fields of corn in stook – Swedish like fences – just like a pretty picturesque good repetition of Sweden – fine day fine afternoon and charming drive – little chesnut horses and cows grazing in the stubble – generaly left as long as we at Halifax ever leave shorn wheat – peas-holm hung out high stakes and railing to dry as in Sweden and Norway – much potato here as there – a few cottages red with white chimneys the effect of this at Åbo Gotheborg etc. etc. and everywhere picturesque and pretty – Wista at 4 32/” pretty picturesque neat little red low station house the village scattered picturesquely about – and in 5 minutes enter forest –  the wood here so often cut down there can be no timber – capital road all along from Åbo – the rye 6 or 7 inches high beautifully green – much taller and greener and better looking than we have anywhere seen it before – Grotza’s news was that there were several Scotch farmers about Åbo, within reach of, who had land under government on long leases for next to nothing as in America – the scattered farms and cottages, and barns very picturesque – our average of changing horses seems about 1/4 hour and our speed about 7 wersts per hour –  think of stopping at the next station – having done 42 1/2 wersts from 1 3/4 to good deal of birch all along – little else except fir –  generally broad lands hereabouts 8 or 10 yards broad and sometimes much more with deep broad drain-like furrows –  road good and a few steepish pitches but as good and little hilly so far as from Gothenborg to Stockholm – but at this moment (6 p.m.) a little bit of forest and road rather sandy and mossy rock among the firs as in Norway and north of Sweden – soon out of the forest and at Keala at 6 10/” – nice nice /sic/ little wood single house yellow with white window frames and red roof – and a pea-green red painted-roofed wing, and coach house on each side – we stay all night like Handbook – on the the /sic/ square head of red post in front of the house

Keala                                                  

till                                                       till

Helsingforss                                Sala 12 2/3 werst

167 2/3 werst                                      till

till                                               St. Petersburg 577 2/3 werst

Kaewola 22 w[erst]                             till

                                                   Wista 15 1/3 werst

                                                           till

                                                   Åbo 42 1/3 w[erst]

 Ann sketched the house but had not time to do much for our dinner served at 6 50/” – 2 roast coqs de bois (as at Ӧsterby near Dannemora) and pancakes and bread and butter and preserved lingbaer (cranberries) – enjoyed it and sat long over it –  had not done with Grotza till after 9 – very fine day Fahrenheit 64º now at 9 50/” taking my chronometer at 1 1/2 hour too late and 3/4 hour put forward at Roeskilde in Denmark = 2 1/4 hours earlier time here than in London

 Anne’s marginal notes:

Mr. Muralt

off from Abo

corn housed

Red cottages with white chimneys

autumn-rye. Scotch farmers.

Keala.

difference of time here and in London

Notes:

*written in a different handwriting - perhaps Mr. Muralt wrote useful information down for Anne on board the steamer?

(French) c’est une volée = it’s a robbery

(Swedish) till = to

WYAS pages:   SH:7/ML/TR/13/0025       SH:7/ML/TR/13/0026

Trömper’s Inn, an 18th-century inn just a couple of miles before Keala  (today just a name not even featuring on most maps) on Finland’s King’s Road that Anne and Ann largely followed eastwards from Åbo; the station house at Keala where they stayed would likely have looked similar to this.

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2019 Volvo XC40 First Drive Review: Redheaded Stepchild

Volvo’s three SUVs are all similarly dressed and obviously related, but line them all up, and the new little 2019 XC40 kind of stands out like a brutha-from-anutha-mutha. Like maybe dad stepped out on the XC60 and XC90’s handsome blonde mom and knocked up a vixen from the other side of the tracks. Short overhangs push the wheels to the corners, the beltline swoops up into a blind-spot-inducing C-pillar, the other vehicles’ LED headlight hammers morph into Thor’s divining rods here, and the XC40 wears the XC90’s grille inside out. It is designed so that you can assign digital keys to the smart phones of family members, loved ones (or perhaps the occasional renter) for car sharing. And the XC40 won’t force you into an arranged marriage involving laborious purchase or lease negotiations with a dealer. You can effectively “swipe right” on an app and hook up with one for as little as a year (learn about Care by Volvo below).

BLACKTOP R-Design models all get a black roof and roof rails, grille, mirrors, and an embossed black R-Design logo on the C-pillar. Momentum trim levels can have a white top for $300.

All of this is carefully planned to steer upscale millennial buyers away from the established players and into Volvo’s open embrace. As the first product on the Geely group’s new CMA small-car platform, the first 40-series car Volvo has offered on a global basis, and the brand’s first entry in the fast-growing premium compact CUV space, expectations for the XC40 are pretty high. So is the body (Volvo asserts best-in-class ground clearance and height) and the equipment specification, with the safety gear list mostly identical to an XC90’s—Pilot Assist (adaptive cruise and lane-centering), City Safety, run-off-road protection and mitigation, cross traffic alert with brake support, and a 360-degree camera system to help drivers maneuver their car into tight parking spaces. To assess its chances of success, we channeled our inner entitled, lazy, selfie-snapper and headed to Barcelona to sample what might be the most youthful Volvo since the 1957 P1900 roadster.

The only trim level available for test-driving was the range-topping T5 AWD R-Design, and we gravitated to a white one with the “molten lava” orange carpet and door insert trim (a $100 option on R-Design models only). As with the exterior, the XC40’s Sensus vertical iPad-like infotainment screen, A/C vent design, gauges, and fonts say Volvo, but the lack of a woodgrain trim option and the techie metal trim—not to mention that bright orange carpet—all reflect Volvo’s desire to lure the youth. Nothing’s getting lost on this floor or in the gigantic door storage pockets, which benefit from ditching the bass speakers from the lower door trim and replacing them with a single big bass speaker mounted to the firewall just under where the right wiper parks. The interior bristles with clever storage solutions. There’s a retractable hook above the glove box described as a place to hang carryout food bags (an owner’s mom could hang her purse there, too). A console trash bin with a lid comes out for easy emptying, and Volvo introduces its first wireless phone-charging doc in the console. The rear cargo floor folds to form a divider, with three hinge points that serve as bag hooks (another pair of bag hooks flank the cargo area for when the floor is left flat). We also like the rigid cargo cover that stows beneath the floor when carrying taller items.

XC40 T5 models are powered by a 2.0-liter turbo that’s rated for 248 hp at 5,500 rpm and 258 lb-ft between 1,800-4,800 rpm. The engines in the senior XC T5s make two more horses and reach peak torque 300 rpm earlier. A T4 front-drive base model will trail the T5 to market, outfitted with a smaller turbocharger producing 14.3 pounds of boost (down from the T5’s 20.0), so output peaks at 185 hp and roughly 195 lb-ft (full specs are not yet available). In other markets, the XC40 will introduce Volvo’s forthcoming I-3 engine making 150 hp and 207 lb-ft, and we could yet see hybrid and/or fully electric variants. The XC40 uses its elder siblings’ eight-speed automatic, ratios and all.

The all-new CMA platform employs struts in front and a fully isolated four-link rear suspension. Base cars get twin-tube shocks, the optional sport suspension (standard on R-Design) gets fancier mono-tube shocks with stiffer damping and spring rates, and an optional Four-C suspension will eventually be available with continuously controlled damping courtesy of Tenneco valves on Öhlins dampers. In another departure from SPA practice, the electric power steering system’s electric motor moves the steering rack via a second pinion instead of via parallel belt-drive and worm gears. The effort map looks like a deep notch, ramping up quickly just off center in each direction. Base cars get 18-inch wheels, 19s and 20s are optional, all shod in all-season tires for the U.S. There’s a 21-inch accessory wheel that gets summer tires.

FLAGGED The first 5,000 XC40s will feature this little rubberized Swedish flag, adhered to the clamshell hood on the driver’s side and echoing the cloth one that’s been affixed to Volvo seats for years.

So how does it feel, zipping around the twisting Catalonian roads below Montserat? Compared with an XC60 T6 AWD sampled on these very same roads in May, it’s considerably lighter, more compact, and nimbler. Volvo estimates our XC40 will hit 60 mph in 6.2 seconds, and indeed it feels nearly as quick as our last XC60 T6, which hit 60 in 6.1 seconds. Clearly trimming 600 pounds is roughly equivalent to adding a supercharger, as our XC40’s engine is towing just a fraction of a pound-per-horsepower more weight than its big stepbrother. Bury the throttle to pass a slow-moving local, and revs build quickly and class-competitively, but we wish the engineers had better differentiated this engine’s sound signature. When it’s on the boil, it has the exact same angry-horseflies buzz one hears in the big-boy XCs. Oh well, crank up the Harman Kardon jams.

As in 60- and 90-series Volvos, the driver can select between Eco, Comfort, Dynamic, Off-road, and Individual driving modes that tailor the throttle and transmission response, brake and steering feel, all-wheel-drive torque bias, and damping level (when so equipped). Sadly, XC40s trade the console-mounted diamond-milled rotary push knob for a plain black button on the center stack. Dynamic mode brightens up throttle response and sharpens transmission logic quite noticeably, but any variation in steering or brake feel were too subtle to notice on this drive. At one point an aggressively driven older VW GTI gave chase, and we were impressed by the flat cornering and high levels of grip afforded by the R-Design’s standard sport suspension. Of course our Euro-spec cars were shod in optional 20-inch Pirelli P Zero summer rubber. America gets standard all-season fitments, so we should expect more tire squeal and fewer cornering gs. None of the bumps we encountered with these sport suspenders threatened to knock passengers’ phones from their hands. If our drive raised one caution it’s on the fuel economy front. If the computer’s self-reporting is to be believed, we managed just 22 mpg over 180 miles or so, probably half of which was gentler highway cruising.

Customer deliveries are expected in the second quarter of 2018. Before then we’ll ask our own millennial staffers to rank this wild Swede amongst its Eurasian peers, the BMW X1, Audi Q3, Infiniti QX30, and Mercedes GLA-Class. Their eagerness to assume the task might be our first clue to the vehicle’s success.

NORWEGIAN WOULD? The interior manages Scandinavian sleekness without wood. It looks upscale despite conventional starter and mode-select buttons. The by-wire shifter requires two taps forward or backward to engage R or D as in T8 Volvos.

Care by Volvo—Netflix for Premium CUVs

Today’s harried millennial has no appetite for the hassle of dickering to buy or lease a vehicle, cross-shopping insurance, contemplating maintenance plans, etc. He or she just wants to pick the colors, twiddle a smartphone screen, and drive off. That’s all it takes to download a movie or TV series from Netflix or Amazon, and now as little as 10 minutes of phone-fiddling can also “download” a nice Volvo XC40 (T5 AWD Momentum trim with five popular options) for $600/month or a nicer Volvo XC40 (loaded R Design) for $700. During that time, Care partner Liberty Mutual Insurance assesses your risk profile and either accepts or declines you for its $500-deductible standard insurance plan—there’s no discounting or surcharging based on your location or driving record. The contract is for two years at 15,000 miles per year, but after just 12 months the car can be swapped for another one by signing a new 24-month contract. These mono-spec cars will be stocked and distributed by Volvo and delivered and serviced by local dealers. All the subscriber pays for is gas and local taxes/fees (this is an ownership model, not a rental model like Cadillac’s Maven). The first Care subscriptions will be offered in March, selling on convenience, not lower overall costs.

Learn more about Care by Volvo here

2019 Volvo XC40 BASE PRICE $34,195-$38,695 VEHICLE LAYOUT Front-engine, FWD/AWD, 5-pass, 4-door SUV ENGINES 2.0L/185-hp/195-lb-ft (est) turbocharged DOHC 16-valve I-4; 2.0L/248-hp/258-lb-ft turbocharged DOHC 16-valve I-4 TRANSMISSION 8-speed automatic CURB WEIGHT 3,450-3,550 lb (est) WHEELBASE 106.4 in LENGTH X WIDTH X HEIGHT 174.2 x 73.3 x 65.0 in 0-60 MPH 6.2-7.0 sec (MT est) EPA CITY/HWY/COMB FUEL ECON Not yet rated IFTTT

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24' Spring Eventing w/ XCEA

Rue Lindgren on Belo A (Belo, ALTO) & BSS Spring Day (Daly, BSS) with Bee Oakes on An Awfully Big Adventure (Peter, SCE) for the TESXCEA's Spring Eventing event.

BSS Spring Day with a 4th place in the CCI*1 class and Belo A with a 10th in the CCI*2 class. Sadly no placement for big boy An Awfully Big Adventure in the CCI*3 class but he preformed wonderfully and we're looking forward to his next event!

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Belo A ‘Belo’ on lease from ALTO, ridden by Prue Lindgren

19.01.24 Iberian Warmblood Competing for IRE @ the Indoor Derby du Fléau "it's too bloody cold, why didn't I bring my gloves?!" Prue grumbled. As they approached the first jump, Prue's grumbles faded into determined focus, chill quickly forgotten as Belo moved smoothly under her. Wrestling their nerves as the first jump goes off a bit rough, the second feeling a bit wobbly, but by the third jump the duo has managed to settling into the familiar comfortable rhythm.

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ST ASSASN-V J213939.3 ‘Ace’ on lease from ALTO, ridden by Cian Barr.

30.08.24 Hanoverian, Gelding August Snapshot - Sydney Dressage Local Event @bridlepath-sims