Steinsholt is driven by Jakob Svavar Sigurðsson and girlfriend Torunn Maria Hjelvik. Part of the farm is also owned by his parents, Sigurður Guðni Sigurðsson and Margrét Jakobsdottir.
Here are taken in horses to break in or training for breeding shows, competitions or sale. The stable takes at least 40 horses and it is connected to a small riding hall. Great training facility with good ridingtrails, pacetrack and ovaltrack. Steinsholt got the honour of recieving the enviromental award 2008 for farms in our area, Hvalfjarðarsveit.
Jakob is educated from the Hólar university with FT training and riding teacher C. He has worked in places like Ketilsstöðum, Skálakot and Mið-fossum. He bought the farm Steinsholt in 2004, with his parents. They then changed the cow-stables to horse-stables.
One of the competitions that stands out for Jakob in 2009 must be the "gæðingadressage" in MD VÍS, where he won on the stalllion Auður from Lundum II, putting on a great show.
At landsmót 2008 he was given the award from FT for great riding. Theese are some of the good results he got:
-stallion with the highest breeding marks in the class of 6 year olds, Glotti fom Sveinatungu.
-made a new world record beeing the first to get 10 for canter. The horse was of course Auður from Lundum II.
-5. place in tölt, on Fróði from Litla-Landi.
Torunn is also educated from the Hólar university with FT training and riding teacher C. She has worked in places like: Hofsstaðasel, Holtsmúli (Lisbeth and Siggi Sæm), Þúfum, Vesturkoti and Stall SP (Stian Pedersen).
The winter of 2007/08 Torunn worked full time in Norway as a teacher on a high school with equine studies. She is now working on getting more experience in competitions and breeding shows.
