{"id":14920,"date":"2019-08-07T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-the-focus.com\/?p=14920"},"modified":"2019-08-07T21:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:48:20","slug":"araberblut-fuer-die-trakehner-zucht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-the-focus.com\/en\/2019\/08\/araberblut-fuer-die-trakehner-zucht\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabian blood in Trakehner breeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Even though it has been a few months, the pain is\nstill deep in breeder Bernd Zimmermann about the loss of his mare Amurath\nMasira (Dahab \/ Mahara) * 2001, who died shortly after the birth of her foal.\nOn Masira, daughter Lena had learned to ride,\nshe was Gabi Zimmermann’s darling, and for Bernd Zimmermann, she was riding and\nbroodmare with a very consistent inheritance. “As a leading mare, she was\nnot as confident as her mother, but much more patient with other herd members,”\nhe describes her. “Foals, also of other mares, were always under special\nprotection with her. She was kind and stubborn at the same time – a heritage of\nKarmin -, soft and yet very spirited, iron-hard and tough to the last\nsecond.” He continues: “Masira and I had a slightly complicated\nrelationship, we liked each other and could always rely on each other, maybe it\nwas not the great love, but I valued her as a riding horse and broodmare, and\nbreeding with her was very easy, no matter whether in purebred Arabian or\nTrakehner breeding, the prognosis for the expected foal was relatively easy to\ncome in. Masira was not immaculate on her legs, but very dry, and her heredity\nwas excellent, as all the foals had very good hooves and joints, correct\nmovement and very good angulations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amurath Masira ox with her colt by the Trakehner stallion Donauabend. Donauabend tails back to the damline of Murana I, Amurath Masira carries this line through her sire Dahab. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

 Amurath\nMasira’s dam Mahara (Gharib \/ Magda) * 1980 was the first Arabian horse of the\nZimmermann family and a foundation mare of their breeding program. And although\nMasira’s sister Amurath Morgana (by Monrad) eventually left more offspring in\nthe stud farm, Amurath Masira (by Dahab) was still an important pillar for the\nZimmermanns, with whom they also ventured a trip to the Trakehner breed. She\nleft a total of nine foals, including only two purebred Arabian mares – but\nboth premium mares! – Amurath Mahabbah and Amurath Mahiba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Amurath\nMahibah (by Gazwan Al Nasser) * 2011 should remain in Gest\u00fct Amurath for the\ntime being. “And as it sometimes happens, already her first foal, Amurath\nMalyah (by Psyrasic) * 2017 was a blast,” enthuses Bernd Zimmermann. Since\nMasira was still fit and healthy in 2017 and had become pregnant without\nproblems, the Zimmermanns decided to sell Amurath Mahibah – after all, they\nstill had Amurath Malyah as another option of that dam line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, Masira’s daughter Amurath Mahabbah was sold,\nnamely to a friend, the purebred Arabian and Trakehner breeder, Annette\nSchnaufer. She used her – due to her size (158 cm) and her frame – as a\nbroodmare for the Trakehner breed (half-breeds for versatility). Mahabbah had two\nvery good colts (2017 by Abendtanz and 2018 by Helium). “The colt by\nHelium was one of the highest-rated half-bred-foals in Germany in\n2018. He is absolutely top-class. He is brown, very elegant and full of\ncharacter, almost flawless in his conformation and very much shaped by\nMasira,” enthuses Bernd Zimmermann. “After the loss of Masira,\nMahabbah was given as a present by Mrs. Schnaufer and is back with us today.\nThat’s no self-evident gesture.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The\nperformance-tested mare Masira was also used in the Trakehner breed and had in\n2017 a colt by Donauabend. Now, it is well known that it is difficult to have a\nstallion with 50% Arabian blood licensed in the Trakehner breed, so the joy\nabout the filly born in 2019, also by Donauabend, was correspondingly high, because\nin this way it is easier, to introduce Arabian blood into the Trakehner breed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Bernd\nZimmermann explains why he choose Donauabend: “This stallion has many\nadvantages in his conformation and he is not too heavy for an Arabian mare. His\nsireline is full of excellent jumping blood and I love the horses similar to\n‘Habicht’.” Donauabend tails back in his sireline to Habicht, which in\nturn originates from the Siglavy db strain (see AP 1\/2019, p. 53). Donauabends\ndam tails back to the damline of the Weil mare Murana 1808.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Donauabend is a late-maturing stallion that\ngets better year by year,” explains Bernd Zimmermann. “As can be\nseen, he inherits very consistently and has an excellent interior. These\nadvantages and in comparison to the conformation of both horses, caused me to\nmake the mating twice. The aim was a very typical, correct, dry horse for\neventing, and Annette Schnaufer was in both cases the grateful customer of the\nfoals. Raising these foals at the State Stud Marbach and further promotion is agreed\nbetween us and is exemplary. The filly of 2019, now, unfortunately, an orphan\nfoal, got the name ‘Masira’s Last Gift’ by Annette Schaufer. This foal is\nindeed a present for all of us: Black Brown with no signs and a ‘Trakehner’\nedition of her dam: Fine and noble, very elegant and with strong movements. The\nfurther development remains to be seen, but it would be nice to see a Trakehner\nline establishing here – but that’s a very long way … “.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 After\nMasira died one day after giving birth, good advice was needed. Masira’s Last\nGift is now growing at the Otte Farm in Lower Saxony,\nwhich specializes in orphan foals. At six months, Masira’s Last Gift will move\nto St. Johann, where she will be raised the next years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0So they still do exist, the “old types” of the purebred Arabian, horses that can certainly be used in warmblood breeding, especially in Trakehner breeding, of course. With Masira, the last mare of “Weil-Marbacher” descent on her sire and dam side at the Amurath stud died, and thus unfortunately also a representative of these “old types”, which are becoming increasingly rare.
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Even though it has been a few months, the pain is still deep in breeder Bernd Zimmermann about the loss of his mare Amurath Masira (Dahab \/ Mahara) * 2001, who died shortly after the birth of her foal. On Masira, daughter Lena had learned to ride, she was Gabi Zimmermann’s darling, and for Bernd … <\/p>\n

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