Oct 20 2015
Thanks to modern reproduction technology, we have today a wide range of possibilities of how to bring oocytes (eggcells) and sperms together. But is everything that is technically possible also sensible, desireable and ethically justifiable? The fertility of his breeding stock is an important factor for any breeder not only with regards to breeding as …
Oct 19 2015
Queen Pianissima is dead – this incredible message travels around the globe since this morning. She was the icon of Polish, yes, of global Arabian breeding. She was the most successful show horse of all time and she was a lovable personality, with friends around the globe, who brought her banana, one of her favorite …
Oct 15 2015
Die Stute Amurath Mahiba (Gazwan Al Nasser / Dahab), Z.u.B: Bernd Zimmermann, hat ihre Stutenleistungsprüfung beim Pferdezuchtverband Baden- Württemberg mit 7,56 Punkten bestanden. Damit landete sie im vorderen Drittel unter 29 weiteren Warmblutstuten. Besonders hervorgehoben wurden ihre Rittigkeit, ihre Springmanier und Springvermögen (siehe Foto), die alle mit einer 8 bewertet wurden. Der Fremdreiter bescheinigte ihr …
Oct 14 2015
The fleabitten grey Tajar (the Flying, the Fast in Arabic) was one of the most important Arabian stallions imported at the beginning of the 19th century to Hungary, for which reason the Hungarian Arabian Horse Breeders Association has chosen this stallion as its emblem. The fleabitten grey Tajar (the Flying, the Fast in Arabic) was …
Oct 13 2015
Die Abonnenten haben sie schon seit zwei Wochen im Briefkasten, aber wer lieber ein Einzelheft kauft, kann dies jetzt in unserem Webshop tun! Die Ausgabe 3/2015 enthält folgende Beiträge: Michalow – In diesem zweiten Teil unserer Serie über die Stutenlinien in Michalow geht es in erster Linie um einige der kleineren Stutenlinien, allen voran die …
Oct 12 2015
The Arabian horse does no more or less than other breeds suffer from genetic defects, but each breed has some specific hereditary diseases, which breeders should know in order to make a responsible breeding plan. In the following article Alban Krösbacher explains the major hereditary diseases in Arabian horses, and those which are predominantely found …
Oct 10 2015
ZSAA – Hengstleistungprüfung in Marbach Sieben Hengste sollten ursprünglich zur Hengstleistungsprüfung des ZSAA in Marbach antreten, einer fiel schon im Vorfeld aus, einer verletzte sich auf dem Transport und einer während der Prüfung – da waren’s nur noch vier. Von diesen aber war der Kleinste letztendlich der Größte: HAB Grand Couleur zeigte allen, was in …
Oct 08 2015
Recently, I witnessed how a DC has actually applied and enforced the rules in the “Blue Book”. Much to the dismay of the affected exhibitors whose horses were disqualified because they did not show up on time in the collecting ring and thereby missed the common walk round in the main ring (see rule 23b …
Oct 07 2015
International Amateur Cup at the Kauber Platte show On 6th and 7th August 2016, an international Amateur Cup will take place during the Kauber Platte Championships. This will give the “small breeders” and owners of Arabian horses the opportunity, to participate in the show with their horses and show them themselves, without being in competition …
Oct 07 2015
And again, one of the performance stallions has left us by the rainbow bridge: The stallion Normativ (Mascat / Narta by Topol), born 1987 at the Russian State Stud Chrenovoje, peacefully died earlier this month. I saw him in 2003 at his last home, the Doubravsky Stud of Jürgen Schäfer in Czechia – what a …
