{"id":16736,"date":"2020-01-29T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-the-focus.com\/?p=16736"},"modified":"2024-01-22T09:31:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T08:31:05","slug":"frueh-uebt-sich-wer-ein-rennpferd-werden-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-the-focus.com\/en\/2020\/01\/frueh-uebt-sich-wer-ein-rennpferd-werden-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing-up to be a Race Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Russia, purebred Arabians are racing already as two-year-olds. This is seen very critical in Western Europe, although hardly anyone really knows much about it. We talked to Olga Birukova, breeding manager at Tersk Stud, about rearing, training and racing Arabian horses in Russia.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Historical Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not before the end of the 19th century,\nthat Count Sergey Stroganov became interested in Arabian horses and decided to\ngo himself to the Arabian Desert to purchase\nhorses there. The Count had bought a property in the South of Russia named\n\u201cGrafsky Hutor\u201d (Count\u2019s farm), situated at the bottom of the Northern slopes\nof the Caucasus Mountains. Here, he\nestablished a stud farm for his Arabian horses, but he also bred Kabarda and\nKabarda-Arabian crossbreds. The stud was maintained, even during World War I,\nproducing cavalry horses. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, the nobility was\nexpropriated; the horses were seized and re-organized in Military Studs, where\nthey were bred by their breeds. From 1921 until 1939, Streletsk and Arabians\nwere bred in Tersk, then the Streletsk were moved to Stavropol and Tersk Stud exclusively bred\npurebred Arabians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as a Military Stud, the stud followed the\nmilitary ‘tradition’. To see whether a horse is suitable for the work as a\ncavalry horse, it was first sent to the race track. Racing horses of various\nbreeds have therefore quite a long tradition in Russia. It was at the end of the\n19th century, that Streletsk horses were raced, at the beginning of the 20th\ncentury, also Warmblood horses were raced and they even had races of mixed\nbreeds. To race Arabian horses was a logical thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the purpose of racing in Russia was to\ncheck on the horse’s suitability as a mount, the race training was used as a\n‘health check’, a selection tool to use only healthy and sound horses for\nbreeding cavalry horses. This approach to racing is quite different to racing\nas a sport, as it was established in England\nand France,\nwhere speed was the only criterion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<\/br>\n

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