AN EASTER SURPRISE AND CONGRATULATIONS TO CATHERINE and FAMILY ….
The Easter Bunny delivered a frisk filly named Faline Lingh at 2:30 Easter morning!
Faline is a doe in Felix Salten’s novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its sequel, Bambi’s Children as well as in the Walt Disney movies Bambi and Bambi II. Her mother is Ena. First shown as a fawn and later as an adult doe, Faline’s role is as Bambi’s friend and later mate. Faline was featured as one of the guests in Disney’s House of Mouse.
Bambi is a 1942 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942, and it is the fifth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series.
The main characters are Bambi, a white-tailed deer, his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother), his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit), and Flower (a skunk), and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. For the movie, Disney took the liberty of changing Bambi’s species into a white-tailed deer from his original species of roe deer, since roe deer don’t inhabit the United States, and the white-tailed deer is more familiar to Americans. This film received three Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Best Song for “Love Is a Song” and Original Music Score.
Faline Lingh’s grandsires are Ferro and Roemer. (Her sire is Darwin who made a splash in Europe briefly i believe but died of colic before he became better known. She is Dutch all the way! Born in Canada. I got her at 3 through one of my mentors, Charlotte Bredahl Baker, and one of Charlotte’s sponsors in Japan. Registered name is Wraine Dancer, born in a “w” year on a rainy day apparently, i write it as Rain Dancer to be more clear, but unfortunately that spelling not official. She is now 6 coming 7. Her nickname is Willow.
Note from Karin. Catherine’s Lingh colt Ellinghton died this winter. You can read about this very brave colt in New News some months ago.
Interesting Ellinghton was the spitting image of Lingh in all ways, color, bone, and movement. Faline Lingh looks to be a carbon copy of Rain Dancer, on the other hand, and is incredibly frisky and bold at just a few hours old, she really strikes me as incredibly powerful and game (at birth!) for such a refined, doe-like creature. She is named after the beautiful doe (fawn?) in the book Bambi. I expected her to be fawnish-red bay like Ellinghton and Lingh, hence the name. Looks like she will be a dark red bay though. Still she will always be my little deer. 😉 she is so gorgeous. Flawless conformation, perfect legs, they don’t even need to thaw-out/unbend, straightest foal legs in the world! These legs should be photographed for posterity. Could not be more perfect all over. Incredible shoulder angle. Dainty pretty head. C
Wraine Dancer (Willow) and her foal 'Faline Lingh' born on Easter morning
GOOD LUCK TO ALL BREEDERS ON THIS SPECIAL DAY,
MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE !
A suprise April shower caught our pretty girl by surprise on day 2.
