11/05/2026
We proudly present our collaboration partner GANGMYLLAN ✨🍾🙌🏼 - our choice of quality 🫰🏼
Bergur Jónsson and Olil Amble have been breeding Icelandic horses together since around the year 2000, under the name GANGMYLLAN. Their breeding brings together two long-established Icelandic mare lines with different geographical roots.✨
Bergur comes from a strong family tradition of horse breeding at Ketilsstaðir in East Iceland, where horses have been bred on the same farm for generations — by his grandfather, his father, and now by Bergur himself. This line reflects continuity and deep roots in the eastern landscape. 🙌🏼
Olil’s breeding originates from Kleifar in West Iceland. In keeping with Icelandic tradition, horses are bred under the name of the place where the breeder lives at the time. As Olil’s life and work moved, the breeding followed the place: first Stangarholt, later Selfoss, and today Syðri-Gegnishólar in South Iceland. These locations trace the historical path of Olil’s mare lines and reflect where the horses were bred and raised over time. 🙌🏼
Although the horses are now bred together and share bloodlines from both farms, two breeding names have been kept: Ketilsstaðir and Syðri-Gegnishólar. This preserves the history of the mare lines and makes it possible to see where they originally come from.
Today, all foals are born at Syðri-Gegnishólar, a farm of about 140 hectares in South Iceland. Each year, between 12 and 15 foals are born there and remain with their mothers until they are nearly one year old.
In early May, the young horses are moved east to our farm at Ketilsstaðir, which covers approximately 1,500 hectares. The varied and open landscape — from mountains down to the lake — provides an excellent environment for young horses to grow up naturally. They remain there until they are about three and a half years old. ✨
When the horses return south, training begins on October 1st, and from that point on they stay at Syðri-Gegnishólar.
We work as a close team of around five people, involved in every stage of the horses’ development. We tame and train the horses ourselves, bring them to breeding assessments, and later to competitions. We usually sell our horses only when they are five years old or older, and we rarely sell young horses.✨
It is important to us to keep the horses long enough to train them properly, present them for assessment, and fully understand what our mares are producing. A central part of our work is therefore to bring horses to Landsmót and other major events, as well as to breeding assessments, where the horses are judged objectively. ✨🫰🏼
We place great importance on education in our daily work with the horses. Continuous learning is an essential part of how we train and prepare them. For more than 20 years, we have arranged annual clinics with our trainer Julio Borba, who comes to our farm on a regular basis.
Julio Borba was a rider at the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art for 12 years, and his classical background strongly influences how we structure our training and prepare our horses. ✨
Our aim is to demonstrate that our breeding is serious, long-term, and knowledge-based. For breeders looking to buy horses, we want to offer horses with a strong and well-documented background. We work with mare lines where we have up to three generations of mares awarded an honour prize for offspring.
We also place strong emphasis on evaluating our mares through their offspring. Through this work, we have bred 15 mares awarded an honour prize for offspring, as well as four stallions with an honour prize for offspring, including one stallion awarded first prize for offspring.✨🏆
At present, we are honoured to be named Breeders of the Year 2025. This title has been awarded to us six times previously, and Ketilsstaðir has also received the title once independently. In addition, we have been chosen Competition Horse Breeders of the Year on four occasions. ✨🏆😮💨
Our breeding has produced World Champions, Icelandic Champions, and winners at Landsmót. At present, the siblings Álfhildur and Álfaklettur frá Syðri-Gegnishólar hold the Gletta Trophy and the Sleipnir Trophy, considered the highest honor of the Icelandic horse world.
