May 04 2017
Already at the beginning of the year 2017, the Friedmann family had to bid a last farewell to one of their foundation mares, F Samirah (Ali Valentino), a half-sister of European and Reserve World Champion F Shamaal. Bred from American Straight Egyptian lines, she soon became a successful show horse. She was multiple champion mare, …
Apr 10 2017
The Arabian horse is known for its versatility and his human-minded character and as such is the perfect pleasure horse. Although, the term “pleasure riding” or “hacking” is often used derogatively, this type of horse needs to have certain characteristics, to make its owner happy and so, the expectations on part of the pleasure riders …
Apr 09 2017
“Die Freizeitreiter” sind eine reichlich undifferenzierte Gruppenbezeichnung, und dennoch stellen sie den größten Absatzmarkt für unsere Vollblutaraber dar. Aber worauf achtet der Freizeitreiter, wenn er einen Vollblutaraber kaufen will? Frühjahrszeit ist Fohlenzeit – aber welche Bestimmung wird dem Fohlen mit in die Wiege gelegt? Wird es Zucht-, Schau-, Reit-, Distanz-, Rennpferd? Wohl kaum, denn eine …
Apr 09 2017
The oldest Arabian horse at Michałów turned 32 on 7th March: Eldon (Penitent / Erotyka). Born in 1985, Eldon became European Champion (1991) and Polish National Champion (1992) just like his sire Penitent several years before. And he raced – just like his sire – and achieved in 10 starts 3 wins (3; 4; 1; …
Apr 09 2017
On 5th March, Monarch AH (Wiking / Sasanka) celebrated his 30th birthday at his home at W’rsan Stables in Abu Dhabi. Quite a big crowd of international guests gathered to celebrate him, surrounded by a group of his magnificent daughters and granddaughters. But life has not always been so kind, as his dam died when …
Apr 07 2017
Due to domestication, stabling and riding, we have to feed our horse with an adapted ration of food, to compensate for his decreased grazing time and increased burning of energy. When the horse moves forward for several hours, the repeated muscle contractions require energy provided by the burning of fat. It needs obviously more than …
Feb 02 2017
Viel zu früh ist der Leistungssportler Gandalf VM Anfang Januar aufgrund einer schweren Kolik über die Regenbogenbrücke gegangen. Gandalf war ein Ausnahmehengst – nicht nur aufgrund seiner Leistung und sportlichen Erfolge, auch durch seine Abstammung: Gezogen wurde er von Melitta Burger aus einer Vollblutaraberstute Ghani Bint Khaled in Anpaarung mit dem Trakehner Konvoi, der seinerseits …
Jan 10 2017
Feeding the horse athlete is one of the headaches of many endurance rider. Some horses eat too much, others are fuzzy eaters… but all need some individual adaptation of the “standard food plan” to their individual metabolism and requirements by the demanded effort. That’s where “the eye of the owner feeds the horse”. Let’s have …
Jan 04 2017
Just like everybody else, I receive a lot of advertisement – mostly electronically to my email inbox. And there, I read about an auction in neighbouring Belgium, where a mare was supposed to be auctioned who had in 5 years 18 foals by embryo transfer – all full siblings with one exception. Another mare had …
Dec 11 2016
The Arabian horse breeder and practicing veterinarian Dr. Matthias Oster has taken on a huge and difficult task, which intends not only introduce us to the Arabian horse, but also explain its “background”, without which it wouldn’t be, what it is. And so, he devided his book into seven chapters “The Seven Pillars of Arabian …
