For the second time, Zorabia Sports Club, together with the Arabian Horse Breeders Association of Romania, held a show for Arabian horses at the end of June. About 40 horses and their owners followed the invitation for the show, which was held in the sports club Zorabia, outside of Sibiu (Hermannstad).
In Romania, purebred Arabians are relatively rare and therefore many spectators came to experience these horses “live”. Most of the horses shown were imported from abroad or bred from imported horses (65%), so that you could also find the blood of QR Marc and Ajman Moniscione, for example, in addition to numerous Polish lines. In many cases, imported stallions were also used on the local Mangalia mares (25%), but rarely were horses shown that were bred directly in Mangalia (10%). Mangalia is the Romanian State Stud on the Black Sea, where purebred Arabians have been bred since the 1920s.
Champion stallion was the El Nabila son Hamad B, bred in Bábolna and imported to Romania (a.d. 227 Hafiza B) * 2003. He was specially imported for the breeding of the Szekler horses, an old horse breed in the part of Romania, where many Hungarian-rooted people live, who want to revive the breed. The champion mare was the Al Maraam daughter Nasira from the stud farm Zorabia, imported from Poland. Both junior championships went to two chestnuts bred by Christian Molnar, of which at least the junior champion goes back to a mare from Mangalia.
Although Romania is not yet an ECAHO member, the event was already held as a “test run” under ECAHO rules and was judged by an international panel of judges consisting of Deirdre Hyde, Nelly Philippot and Dr. Thomas Stohler.
Gudrun Waiditschka
