•1974

Unto and Marjatta Halonen bought the Mannisto estate and started the repairs lasting for a year.

•1975

The farm was ready to be moved in. Horses for the riding school were bought to fill the 8-horse-stables. As a first riding instructor we had Mr. Matti Riekki.  An 11-year-old pony gelding Winter was bought for 12-year-old Tiina Halonen as a competetition pony. The first Finnhorse of the farm, Tahka-Pimu, won silver in show jumping Championships with Mr. Kimmo Kinnunen.

•1976

•Mare Alchemia, later competed by Ms. Sari Nikkanen, foaled a filly Henriette, who was later as a 4-year-old accepted for breeding by the 1. price in national Quality competition. "Pipa" is still, now 26 years old, in good condition with her new owner Mrs. Susanna Kuustonen.

•1978

Winter and Tiina won silver in show jumping Championships.

•1979

Winter and Tiina won bronze in show jumping Championships.

•1983

Company named Leppavirran Laatuhevoset Ky was founded to import and sell horses. By 1992 appr. 500 horses were sold in Finland.

•1985

Two colored, 180 cm mare Cinderella was sold to Austria and her 5-month-old foal Tom Jones (sire Lavallo) was sold to Denmark.

•1987

•Importing of horses lived it´s high lighs, now including Norwegian Ponies and Welsh Cob-mares from England. Together with the mares Gooch-trailers and Jackrussell-puppies, totally 40 of them, were brought to Finland.

•1992

Tiina Halonen bought the farm from her parents.

A warm riding hall of 25 x 45 m was built and the 12 boxes in the stables were renoveted.

•1993

•Winter participated his last competition at the age of 29 with Eveliina Miettinen an d was naturally placed.

Because of the depression in Finland, horse dealing was turned up side down; in 1993-1995 horses imported from Russia we sold to Germany, including a third best jumping horse from World Cup east European league.

•1994

•Co-operation lasting till today with Olympic winner Mr. Ivan Kizimov was founded.

•1997

The first riding camps "only for adults" were started lead by Riding master Mrs. Irma Vaisanen.

•1998

Pinewood Stables Ltd owned by Tiina, Viivi and Lilli Halonen and Pekka Myllyla, was established to breed Pinewood-horses. Gorgeous anglo-arabian Noiret x was bought from State Stud Hessen in Germany. Unfortunately he died the same summer.

•Tiina ja Pekka were anyhow luckyly and finally wed.

•In December new stables for eight horses and a course house for 16 people were built.

•1999

•English thoroughbred stallion Zinntaler xx, recommended by the director of Stud Farm Hessen Mr Bert Petersen, was bought for breeding.

For the stud laboratorium, phantom and suitable examination room especially for riding horses were built.

35-year-old Winter is burried in Mannisto garden.

•2000

•The first embryo transfer done in private premises was conducted and led by skillful veterinarian Mr Jussi Aalto.

Co-operation with Grand Prix show jumping rider Dominique Barthelaix and a "horse wisperer" Kari Vepsa was started.

•2001

• Pinewood Her Highness as a seregate mother gave birth to embryo tranfer foal Pinewood Rosenprinz, whose biological dame is a Rheinland-mare Rosennacht and sire Zinntaler xx. 

3-year-old Pinewood Wyatt Earp was aproved for young horse competition´s finals for movements and jumping as well as 2-year-old Brunet D´Éte trained by Tiina. (Un)fortunately they were not able to participate because of Max being born.

•2002

2222-year-old Pinewood Ludmila was placed 2nd in young horses´s national competition both in movements and in jumping.

2003  

Ludmila won the above mentioned competition´s movements.

Mannisto was sold in November. A week later Tiina and Pekka bought the Sihvola farm in Mantsala, 60 km north of Helsinki. 

2004

22 horses are moved to the new farm in Ratsutilantie in a great news stables: 600 square meters, 15 big boxes, laboratorium, phantom, tiled walls etc. In this stables there is no mucking: straw is added daily and boxes are emptied with a machine every two months. Warmth from underneath the boxes is directed to saddles and tack rooms. 

2005

Construction goes on...