Þorvaldur Kristjánsson is the Icelandic horse breeding leader in Iceland. He is an agronomist, breeding judge and horse breeder, and in 2014 he defended his thesis "Riding Ability in Icelandic Horses– Effect of Conformation and the ‘Gait Keeper’ Mutation in the DMRT3 Gene".
We met Þorvaldur in his office in Reykjavik in September 2018 for this interview where he tells us about his research.