No. 2/2017 (Vol. 10)

Without a Past no Future

At the moment, we are bombarded with “Jubilees”: “200 Years of Weil-Marbach breeding”, “200 Years of Janow Podlaski”, “200 Years of Shagya-Arabian breeding”. What was going on, 200 years ago, that “almost everything” started around that time? Quite simply, Napoleon had overrun Europe with his wars and had robbed it not only of his men, …

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Prikhot – Born to Win

Prikhot is the founder of a very sought after family in Russian race horse breeding. She comes from the Rodania damline (see our last issue) in combination with the stallion Sport. He did his name justice, but his conformation was not that of an ideal Arabian. The use of Sport to procreate mares for the …

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A Window to the Present

WAHO Conferences do have a great appeal, and so around 200 participants followed the invitation of the Royal Family to come to Bahrain for the 22nd WAHO Conference. But it is not only the social gatherings and meeting with friends, the horses and sightseeing that make a WAHO Conference attractive, there are also interesting hard …

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Über die Regenbogenbrücke – Amer

Im Alter von 33 Jahren starb der Rennchampion und Rennpferdevererber Amer. Er kam einst als Geschenk von Saudi Arabian in den Besitz des Gestüs Umm Qarn von Sh. Abdullah bin Khalifah Al Thani in Qatar. Er stand als Deckhengst erst in Dependancen dieses Gestüts in England und Frankreich, wo er jetzt im Haras de Le …

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The Royal Jubilee with Emperial Weather

On a sunny weekend in May, the State Stud Marbach celebrated “200-years of Weil-Marbach Arabian breeding” in honour of the founder of the Royal Stud of Weil, King Wilhelm I. Marbach is home of the oldest dam and sire lines in Arabian horse breeding, i.e. those of Murana I and Bairaktar, which originated in the …

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Ein guter Jahrgang

ZSAA-Körung in Alsfeld 2017 Zur diesjährigen Körung stellten sich insgesamt 21 Hengste, davon erhielten zwei Drittel ein positives Ergebnis, drei Hengste wurden prämiert. Das kann sich sehen lassen. Zur diesjährigen Körung des ZSAA waren insgesamt acht Vollblutaraberhengste angereist. Für diese ist die Körung auf freiwilliger Basis, es sei denn, sie sollen für andere Rassen eingesetzt …

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