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Kavalier

(MARWAN AL SHAQAB x KARESS by MAGNUM FORTY FOUR)

Third-Generation Mulawa-Bred Gold Champion Member of the KARMAA Family Two-Time Australian National Gold Champion Mulawa Chief Sire

“THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DREAM TO CREATE THE FUTURE.” Victor Hugo

A DVA N C I N G E Q U I N E E XC E L L E N C E www.mulawaarabians.com.au Greg, Julie & Jane Farrell 61-65 Bay Rd, Berrilee NSW 2159 P: (02) 9655 1000 M: 0412 517 188 E: enquiries@mulawa.com.au

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Klassique

(KLASS x MUSTANG’S MAGNUM by MAGNUM FORTY FOUR)

Second-Generation Mulawa-Bred Champion Sire Member of the SAHTARAH Family Mulawa Chief Sire

“THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE BEAUTY OF THEIR DREAMS.” Eleanor Roosevelt

A DVA N C I N G E Q U I N E E XC E L L E N C E www.mulawaarabians.com.au Greg, Julie & Jane Farrell 61-65 Bay Rd, Berrilee NSW 2159 P: (02) 9655 1000 M: 0412 517 188 E: enquiries@mulawa.com.au

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Vangelis

(DA VALENTINO x ALWAYS AN ANGEL by SK SHAKLA KHAN) Seventh-Generation Mulawa-Bred Gold Champion Member of the M ANGELIQUE Family Two-Time Australian National Gold Champion Mulawa Chief Sire

“IMAGINATION IS EVERYTHING. IT IS THE PREVIEW OF LIFE’S COMING ATTRACTIONS.” Albert Einstein

A DVA N C I N G E Q U I N E E XC E L L E N C E www.mulawaarabians.com.au Greg, Julie & Jane Farrell 61-65 Bay Rd, Berrilee NSW 2159 P: (02) 9655 1000 M: 0412 517 188 E: enquiries@mulawa.com.au

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Allegiance

(MAGNUM FORTY FOUR x AUDACIA by PARKVIEW AUDACIOUS) Fourth-Generation Mulawa-Bred Champion Member of the KARMAA Family Australia’s Leading Sire of National & International Champions

“THERE ARE FAR, FAR BETTER THINGS AHEAD THAN ANY WE LEAVE BEHIND.” C.S. Lewis

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From the editor

hen I sat down to write ‘From The Editor’ last year, I had an overwhelming feeling of both relief and excitement, because at that time, it seemed as though life was going back to normal.

Who would have thought that we would still be in the position we find ourselves right now? At the time of writing most of Australia is in lockdown, in many areas the strictest lockdown enforced on that community. For our community, our shows, endurance rides and other such gatherings are being postponed or cancelled in droves, leaving many who enjoy such pursuits ‘all dressed up with nowhere to go’ so to speak.

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There are many other outlets available to enjoy your horses....trail riding, learning a new skill, or even simply a photo shoot where you can get really creative. If there is one thing I have learned from working on Arabian Studs & Stallions, it’s that one can never have enough good photos of their horse. Invest in them, with either time, money or both. It is both useful and so very rewarding for years to come.

the breed, and others who may not be breeders, yet whose dedication to the Arabian is just as inspiring.

To that end, we are focusing on Australian photography in this year’s edition, with no less than three features on celebrated Australian women who have forged a career photographing Arabian horses. We also meet breeders from all over the world, and wonder at their achievements and their continuing dedication to

I hope you enjoy reading the latest Arabian Studs & Stallions as much as we all enjoyed producing it.

Our yearly Leading Stallions chart is of course featured, and being at the start of a new decade, I thought it would be interesting to also look at our leading contemporary sires, based on numbers of registered foals, in this edition.

David Gillett

T H E P R E S E R VA T I O N O F A L E G A C Y … N A A J M I

T H E D R E A M C O N T I N U E S … Naajmi represents 50 years and 5 generations of continued dedicated breeding at Hawley Arabians. We honour the mares in her tail female lineage, all descending from Naadirah (1966) by Aswan; followed by Nara (1970); Nazli (1977) and Nakourah (1995). Naajmi is poised to continue the tradition passed down from her dam line, highlighted by her own special qualities that will take her branch of the family in to the future.

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Connecting to an Arabian Horse is powerful (imp iiu Ger)

Straight Egyptian Stallion A Dahman Shahwani

Safeen

IBN Saﬁnaz

Mussallah

Montasar

Abitibi Madeena

(imp Ger) Mohebba Bint

Maymoonah

Myth Haven Arabian Farm Macleay Valley Way Seven Oaks NSW 2440 P: 0422 755 421 E: mythhavenarabians@gmail.com

.... allow yourself to truly love it! Straight Egyptian Colt A Hadban Enzahi

Haﬁd Jamil Ashquar HM NK NK Asila (imp Ger)

Stav Stavs Simbel Simeon Simeon Sima

We welcome the opportunity to show you our beautiful Egyptian Arabian Horses, visitors always welcome by appointment, occasionally youngstock available for purchase.

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From the Editor...............................................................................4 Crabbet Preservation Breeding and the Importance of Australian Imports................................12 The Journey to Arabeska....................................................24 Sabble Farm.................................................................................. 49 Nicole Emanuel Photography......................................... 54 Al Dawla........................................................................................... 62 Mulawa Angelica......................................................................68 Naajmi................................................................................................ 78 Boxwood Estate......................................................................... 82 Ulyssia................................................................................................ 87 Arabians of South Australia.............................................90 Carole Hore and the Legacy of Coolinda Park ...........................................................................100 Hoofprints in History............................................................. 104 Shaikh Al Badi............................................................................. 110

ABOVE: Ulysium | Image courtesy of Nicole Emanuel COVER PHOTO: Shazir de Lafon (Shiraz de Lafon x FM Athena) Owned by Karin Bardi | Arabeska Image courtesy of Kerry Hill

Why Arabian Ponies?........................................................... 120 Alkeynos EA...................................................................................122 Sarah Sullivan Photography...........................................124

DEDICATION: This issue of Arabian Studs & Stallions is dedicated to the memory of its founders, JUDITH AND HERMAN VINK

Bostocks Arabian Stud........................................................128 Future Farms................................................................................136 Khalid Arabians........................................................................ 140 Amaki’s Coloured Arabians.............................................144 The Art of Cary van Dansik..............................................149 The Arabian Head...................................................................154 Neonatal Isoerythrolysis in Foals................................158 Our Leading Men.....................................................................162 2021 Leading Sires of Champions............................... 167 Australia’s Leading Endurance Horses 2020..... 174 Index...................................................................................................176

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Lost and Found THE IMPORTANCE OF AU STRALIAN IMPORTS IN CRABBET PRESERVATION BREE D IN G

ack in the days before Arabian breeding became global, the travel of Arabian horses between Britain and Australia was strictly one way: Britain exported horses and Australia imported them. In the early days, the Arabian horse population of Australasia was firmly based on horses imported from Great Britain, including the first Polish and Egyptian lines. But the vast majority of foundation stock was of straight Crabbet or Crabbet/Old English breeding. This was also true of the British Arabian horse population up until the 1980s. Following the first Polish and Russian imports in the 1960s, the number of imported horses increased steadily during the 1970s and 1980s. Initially most of them came from Poland and the USA, followed by horses from Spain and Egypt. No one seemed overly concerned at the time, since Crabbet horses were omnipresent. No one could possibly have called them endangered. But as more and more imports poured into the country, they increasingly replaced the original bloodlines. British breeders began to breed pure Polish or

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straight Egyptian horses, or simply bred their Crabbet mares to imported stallions. Nor could you blame them, because Crabbet mares breed well when crossed with literally all other bloodlines. It’s a principle on which Arabian breeding in many other countries was built, whether it was Russia, the USA or Australia. Today’s fashionable bloodlines and show ring glamour rest on a solid Crabbet foundation.

continued to breed these horses, defying all modern tendencies, foremost among them the late Rosemary Archer and both her daughters. But most of the Crabbet breeders were already gone and the remaining horses distributed among a number of dedicated, but usually small breeders. In addition, the once rich Crabbet gene pool had shrunk to just a few lines, dominated by the descendants

While this craze for new and more fashionable bloodlines was going on, Crabbet horses were increasingly pushed into the background in their native country. When the first Crabbet Convention was held in 1985, it was a celebration of the Crabbet influence rather than of straight Crabbet breeding. It was only in the 21st century that British Crabbet breeders woke up to the fact that precious bloodlines were getting scarce and, in some cases, had already been irretrievably lost. There were very few breeders left who

4 1. PALMA BENAY WITH PALERMO, 2013 2. ARABIAN PARK FARABAND 3. BREMERVALE EMPEROR 4. INSHALLAH SIGNATURE WITH BISMILLAH, 2013 5. AUTUMN DEW (IMAD X AUTUMN SUNLIGHT) AND DAUGHTER AUTUMN MUSCARI BY MARBON MASADI, 2019 6. BINLEY RONALDO 7. RALVON ELIJAH, 1985

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TAYWOONA QARIIM X MARICOL NARELLE

2020 Australian Arabian Ambassador In 2020/2021 Manny has competed in a range of events in open company, achieving: ﬁrsts in dry pattern at the 2020 Lower Lakes Cracker Challenge, Gold in harness, Bronze in elementary dressage and Silver and Bronze in show jumping at the 2021 Masters Games. Second in elementary dressage at MCDC.

2001 Purebred Stallion. LFS/SCID clear, carrier one copy CA. Available at stud via AI – fresh, frozen & chilled.

Jessie & John Preece & Caroline Payne

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TRINCADA STRIKE X KIRRONG TUPPARA

Competing regularly and successfully in open company. First in obstacles and second in jumping at the 2020 Lower Lakes Cracker Challenge. Gold in 60cm jumping, Bronze and Silver in show jumping and Bronze in elementary dressage at the 2021 Masters Games. First in elementary dressage at MCDC.

High % Arabian Pony Stallion. Clear CA/LFS/SCID. Available at stud via AI – fresh, frozen & chilled.

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of Indian Magic and Bright Shadow. In addition, the horses that were left were almost invariably grey or chestnut. The bay colour which had dominated Crabbet Park in the day of the Blunts had all but vanished. Most of this was due to Lady Wentworth who, preferring chestnuts and greys, sold off many of the bay horses when she took over the stud. There were still some bay Crabbet/OE horses left up until the 1980s, but since no one made any attempt to preserve them, those lines – chiefly represented by the descendants of the mare Farette and her sons Fari II and Bey Shadow, the maternal grandsire of Carmargue – eventually vanished, or at least their colour did. We’ll get back to this aspect later. While all this was going on in Britain, Australia was developing its own unique population of straight Crabbet and Crabbet/

8. DANDINI (MARBON MASADI X PALMA BENAY) 9. ANNE BROWN WITH PALMA BENAY AND INSHALLAH SIGNATURE, 2013 10. S AAN (RALVON PILGRIM X SOUHAIR) AGED TWO 11. PALERMO (ERIN PARK EXCEL X PALMA BENAY), 2019

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OE horses whose genetic background was very different. It featured lines that had been completely lost in Britain, including the female line of the Blunts’ desert-bred mare Dahma, and a much larger population of bay horses, thanks to the strong influence of foundation stallions like Royal Domino and Riffal. In Britain, Riffal’s influence was mostly limited to his chestnut son Oran and had taken a back seat to Indian Magic and Bright Shadow. In Australia, it had shaped a whole population through many different lines of descent. Given all this, Australia was the logical place to look for fresh blood to revive the ailing Crabbet population in Britain. In actual fact, a few attempts to bring back Crabbet blood from Australia were already made in the 1970s and 1980s, but there was no master plan behind them and they did not have much impact on the British Crabbet population. The first Crabbet/OE horse from Australia to come to Britain was Ralvon Pilgrim (Rikham x Trix Silver) in 1977. It was certainly a historic occasion. He was brought over to Britain by his breeders and owners, Ron and Val Males, to be shown at the Arab Horse Society’s Silver Jubilee Show at Ascot, where he triumphantly took the title of International Champion Stallion. A positive side effect of this was that it made people suddenly aware of Australian Arabians.

Michael Pitt-Rivers of Tollard Park Arabian Stud is primarily remembered as the breeder and owner of the Crabbet stallion Haroun, who was a British National Champion as well as the first ever All Nations Cup Champion Stallion in 1983 before being exported to the Middle East. The Tollard Park breeding programme was based mostly on Crabbet lines, with a small addition of Polish blood. During Ralvon Pilgrim’s stay in England in 1977, Mr. Pitt-Rivers bred two of his Crabbet mares to him, Souhair and Nameesa. They delivered a colt and a filly, respectively, after their sire had returned to Australia. Nameesa’s filly, Nazeena, left no descendants in Britain and was sold to the Emirates. Souhair’s colt Saan was used at stud at Tollard Park and sired seven Crabbet/OE foals, of which a line to his daughter Nalina survives, but it is doubtful if there are any within the Crabbet/OE gene pool today. During the following years, Mr. Pitt-Rivers imported three horses from Australia. The best known of them was the magnificent Ralvon Elijah (Ralvon Nazarene x Mill Hill Sharmarl), a grandson of Ralvon Pilgrim. Imported in 1981, he had a stellar international show career and was a popular and much used sire whose blood survives in both British and American breeding. But while being predominantly Crabbet, he also carried a line to the Egyptian stallion Talal. He was by far the Australian horse with the

11 greatest influence in Britain, but not within the Crabbet gene pool. Intriguingly, Mr. Pitt-Rivers also imported the very first bay Crabbet stallion from Australia, which could have been a real landmark but, strangely enough, remained somehow below the radar. This horse was Talquah Jesse (Arim x Kehilan Star Queen), imported in 1984. He took his colour from his grandsire Royal Domino and, being entirely of Crabbet, Old English and Colonial bloodlines, seemed ideally suited to give a new impulse to English breeding. He sired three bay Crabbet/OE fillies for Mr. Pitt-Rivers, but none of them bred on, nor did the few outside foals he sired, and he fades from the picture as unobtrusively as he entered it. You might say this horse came to Britain before the time was right. Two other Australian Crabbet stallions were imported during the late 1970s and early 1980s, of which one at least was far more successful. The first was Arabian Park Faraband (Banderol x Farah), imported in 1979 by the Silverdale Stud. He was a very impressive stallion with fascinating bloodlines, but he was barely used at all and sired only one Crabbet/OE foal, a colt that did not breed on. The other was Bremervale Emperor (Oxford Decimus x Bremervale Phaedra), imported

by Caroline Murray of Foxbury Stud in 1983. You could call this the first Australian import with a real purpose, because Mrs. Murray was a highly successful breeder of Crabbet/OE horses and was deliberately looking for an outcross stallion within the gene pool. Bremervale Emperor, a striking plum-coloured liver chestnut, proved to be an excellent sire and delivered one beautiful daughter after the other. Several of them bred on and his line still exists within the Crabbet/OE gene pool through his daughter Autumn Sunlight. Caroline Murray’s daughter Fiona Leng keeps this line going today with Autumn Sunlight’s daughter Autumn Dew, who has already produced two Crabbet/OE daughters.

mares as well as stallions. It turned out to be a rocky road for some of them, for various reasons.

These horses were the last Australian imports for many years.

The resulting colt, named Binley Ronaldo, was imported to Britain as a yearling. He slowly matured into a beautiful stallion, but the first breeding attempts failed. It was discovered that he had very low fertility and it was only possible to breed mares to him successfully via AI. His first foal only arrived in 2015 and because of this, he has sired just a few foals so far and is not at public stud. At this point, one daughter is being retained for breeding by Binley, while just recently a son has joined a new Crabbet breeder.

It was only in the early 21st century that Crabbet breeders, realising just how much had been lost, once again turned their eyes to Australia. Having a Crabbet Convention in Australia in 2005 must have helped. And so, for the first time ever, British breeders started to import 100% Crabbet horses from Australia,

The first of the modern imports were a son and daughter of the stallion Arfaja Robard. Caroline Sussex-Archer, daughter of the late Rosemary Archer and owner of the Binley Arabian Stud, currently one of the largest breeders of Crabbet Arabians in Britain, had seen both Arfaja Robard and his sire Rasham in Australia and wanted to incorporate these bloodlines into her breeding programme. Following the 2005 Crabbet Convention, she leased the mare Arfaja Silver Mist in Australia to breed to Arfaja Robard for a double Rasham foal.

Around the same time as Ronaldo, the beautiful Arfaja Robard daughter Wentworth Estate Bellissima (out of Eveeta)

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was imported jointly by sisters Elizabeth and Diana Whittome. She has produced a filly for each of them, one of them Crabbet/ OE, but she is no longer being bred because apparently she is overprotective of her foals to the point of becoming dangerous.

The first two bay 100% Crabbet Australian horses arrived in Britain in October 2007. They were a two-year-old colt, Erin Park Excel (Erin Park Thor x Erin Park Belle), for Llain Arabian Stud, and a two-year-old filly, Palma Benay (Pevensey Safari x Petra Benay) for Gadebrook.

who achieved high grades from the British Endurance Futurity and went on to compete successfully in endurance. Somewhat inexplicably he was gelded after siring just one foal, a bay 100% Crabbet colt, who was also gelded. Next was a filly by Klinta Sultan, Palmyra, also bay, but who turned grey. This was followed by the inevitable match of Palma Benay with her fellow Australian import, Erin Park Excel, resulting in a bay colt named Palermo, foaled in 2013. Both Palmyra and Palermo were sold to Moonlight Arabians, a new and dedicated stud that has been collecting Crabbet horses for an extensive preservation breeding programme. Palmyra, to date Palma Benay’s only daughter, sadly turned out to be a nonbreeder, while Palermo is still awaiting his turn at stud, not having been used so far. Moonlight Arabians also own a bay 100% Crabbet daughter of Erin Park Excel, Llain Murjanah, who has already delivered an excellent bay 100% Crabbet daughter by their chief sire Crystal Red Drift.

Palma’s first foal for Gadebrook was a bay 100% Crabbet colt by Silver Zaanif, Kaalif,

Erin Park Excel himself was sadly lost at only seven years of age, having sired

It was in 2007 when a master plan was set into motion to bring back not only lost Crabbet lines to Britain, but also the lost bay colour. This ‘Boomerang Plan’, as it was called, was initiated by Anne Brown of Gadebrook Stud. It got off to a great start but, like so many things within the Crabbet breeding community, it has suffered from setbacks and disasters.

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four sons and four daughters. Two of the daughters are breeding and have produced daughters, and hopefully Palermo will sire foals in the future. Palma Benay continued her trend for producing colts, the next one being a beautiful bay colt named Dandini by the 100% Crabbet stallion Marbon Masadi. Dandini went to Seren Arabians, then a major breeder of Crabbet horses, where he sired a number of foals. Disaster struck when the farm’s owner Dom Atkinson died unexpectedly in 2018 and his widow was forced to reduce numbers. Dandini currently resides in Spain with other Seren horses, so hopefully is still siring Crabbet foals. The second phase of the ‘Boomerang Plan’ began in 2012, when Anne Brown imported another two bay 100% Crabbet mares from Australia: Inshallah Signature (Crenel x Inshallah Tranquility) and Pevensey Zariffia (Ghazari x Verian Za’aria). Inshallah Signature was in foal to Monarch Lodge Ambition and in 2013 delivered a superb bay colt who, based on his quality and unique

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breeding, looked just what the doctor ordered. But, inexplicably again, he was gelded. Inshallah Signature had another two bay colts, also gelded, until finally in 2020 coming up with a filly – which is chestnut, but at least has the potential to breed on. Pevensey Zariffia’s story unfortunately was a short and tragic one. She came over in foal to the Australian Crabbet stallion Mill Park Blaidd, but turned out to be carrying twins and lost them. After producing a lovely chestnut 100% Crabbet filly in 2014, she was bred to the 100% Crabbet stallion Binley Prince Salim for 2016. She duly produced a bay colt, but died in the aftermath of the birth. The colt, Hadiya, was raised with the aid of a draught mare and developed into a splendid young grey stallion who looked set to be the future of the breeding programme. But in 2020, only four years old, he broke a leg in a freak accident and had to be put down. Only three foals were born by him in 2020, two of them Crabbet: a chestnut filly out of Inshallah Signature and a bay/grey colt out of Azarina. It can only be hoped that these two will be able to carry on his legacy.

In recent years, there has been an exciting new addition to the programme: Gadebrook is now offering frozen semen of the Australian 100% Crabbet stallion Mill Park Blaidd (Arfaja Harlan x Millbanda Bellalina). He is closely related to Binley Ronaldo through his sire and has inherited the bay colour through Ruberto from his dam’s side. At Gadebrook, Palma Benay was the first mare to be inseminated, in hopes of finally producing a bay filly. In 2018, she produced – a flaxen-maned chestnut colt! Not quite according to plan. He has now gone to an endurance rider, but will hopefully remain a stallion.

Breeding straight Crabbet horses today is definitely a challenge. It takes dedication and patience, because within the context of our fast-moving times, it is a slow process, moving ahead one step at a time. But in spite of all difficulties and setbacks, progress is being made, and without the horses from Australia, it would not have been possible. The Australian contribution to Crabbet preservation breeding in Britain is there to stay, even if that elusive bay colour insists on playing hard to get! Author Betty Finke Images courtesy of Betty Finke

12. B INLEY SILVER SUNSET (BINLEY RONALDO X SA’IRA) 13. I NSHALLAH SIGNATURE, 2013 14. P EVENSEY ZARIFFIA IN 2013 15. K AALIF (SILVER ZAANIF X PALMA BENAY) 16. AUTUMN SUNLIGHT (BREMERVALE EMPEROR X AUTUMN GOLD) 17. LLAIN MURJANAH (ERIN PARK EXCEL X VELETTA PEARL) 18. TALQUAH JESSE 19. B ELLA MIA (IMAD X WENTWORTH ESTATE BELLISSIMA)

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Fairview Touch of Magic AUSTRALIAN SHOW & BREEDING ICON Reserve Australian Champion Stallion Sired close to 40 AHSA registered foals Bred by Peter Hall, sired by the famous SK Shakla Khan and out of the legendary Windella Silver Shadow Al Dawla Arabians look forward to continuing his breeding career

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RHR HEIR OF MARWAN’S AUSTRALIAN-BRED & SHOWN YEARLING FILLIES Jazzaba Al Dawla – out of Sa-har Sweet Malody (GG Magnetism direct daughter) who went Silver Champion at the 2021 Aussies

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Shuwayma Al Dawla – out of Bremervale White Rose (Desperado direct daughter) who went third at the 2021 East Coast Championships

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Beauty Beyond Boundaries THE J O URNEY TO ARA BESK A

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How the love for Arabian horses led one woman around the world.

SUMMER DREAM (EL SIDAQA X DIAMOND DREAM)

arin Bardi is a free spirit, with a heart as big as the world she has travelled time and time again. Although for Karin, the grand scale of the world does not seem to impose the same kind of roadblocks that some others may find too daunting to even attempt, they are merely obstacles that with persistence and hard work, become small hurdles that are easily overcome. Sitting with Karin on her verandah on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, drinking strong coffee and looking out over the surrounding hills and eucalypt forest, which I am embarrassed to say I sometimes take for granted, it occurs to me just how impactful this moment must be for her. ‘I find myself amazed at the journey my life has taken me, from the snow-covered French Alps to this equally beautiful, but opposite side of the world,’ she begins. ‘When I turned eight years old, my parents announced we were moving from our home

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in the French Alps where I was born, to Oran, a city in Algeria in North Africa, where my parents went to work in a small hospital. My brother and I were very excited by the change and most importantly the big boat trip coming up across the Mediterranean Sea.’ Always obsessed with horses, it did not take long for Karin, after arriving in this new country, to find a little piece of paradise recommended by new friends…a horse-riding club! Established in the grounds of an old racecourse, the little riding centre was warm and friendly and nestled between nearby plantations. ‘I remember my first day at the club, learning to ride on a quiet old white mare, Beida, lunged by a friendly young instructor. It all went so fast and we, as a family, fell in love with the Arabian horses of the area, the Arabian-Barb horses.’ The Arabian-Barb is a breed of saddle horse native to the Maghreb in North Africa,

resulting from the crossing between the Arab and the Barb predominantly of Berber origin. The breed was recognised at the end of the 19th century, and the first Arab-Barb studbook published in Algeria in 1948. Of medium size and square, the ArabianBerber has the typical morphology of a saddle horse adapted to speed, with a large chest circumference. Used in particular for fantasias (traditional exhibition of horsesmanship), it is also used for agricultural traction work in the rural areas of the Maghreb. ‘The members of the riding club were a mix of locals and expatriates and we all gathered after riding, to share some pleasant moments. The horses were kept close together and most, if not all the males, were stallions! I fondly remember the beautiful rides in the clementine trees plantation, mares and stallions together, where we were just at the right height to pick the delicious clementines grown by the local farmers!’

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It did not take long for Karin’s mother to purchase a young and beautiful liver chestnut stallion she named Chemsoun. With the help of a friendly young and excellent rider, Mohammed, Chemsoun was put under saddle and the family all progressed together. ‘I loved him and rode him often but he was definitely my mum’s stallion. We started attending jumping competitions on weekends and discovering beautiful small Algerian towns at the same time. It was magical and a completely new world which I adopted immediately.’ On one of those trips, Karin noticed a beautiful and unusual coloured ArabianBarb mare that was ‘small and yet jumping mountains, with a heart of gold and rare palomino colour to match’.

chunky and uncomfortable” Selle Francais horses instead of small and beautiful Arabians. Nevertheless, I persisted and purchased my first purebred grey Arabian mare “Hafza” at the age of 15 years old.’ After a few short years, things changed for Karin…she simply grew up. Years passed by during which her life and work have taken her to live in many countries and have many adventures, nonetheless they were countries where it was impossible to keep Arabian horses with her.

While living in Hong Kong around 2005, Karin joined another small riding centre. ‘Despite riding Thoroughbred ex-racehorses, I was attracted once again by the Arabian horse world, this time taking a keener interest in bloodlines and breeding, and decided I would purchase a purebred mare and keep her in Europe.’

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KARIN AND HER PALOMINO MARE IN ALGERIA

Although so young at the time, Karin remembers the kindness of the Algerian riders, and this mare’s specific rider Touhami, who let her ride the mare Jauna between the shows, creating a lasting impression much like so many of our childhood interactions with horses. ‘I was only nine years old and felt on top of the world.’ Karin’s family spent a few wonderful years in Africa, and she was devastated when, as a teenager, her parents announced they would return to France. ‘Upon our return, I joined a riding centre but was very disappointed to ride “big,

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Karin found her foundation mare in France, a lovely grey whom I have had the pleasure of meeting in her pasture at Mas de Lafon, approximately halfway between Toulouse and Montpellier and owned by one of France’s most iconic trainers, Bertrand Valette, and his wife Christine, known for skill as a reproduction manager. Avalon Shiva is of predominantly Polish blood, with a touch of Egyptian and Crabbet thrown in for good measure, with interesting line breeding of both sides of her pedigree and boasting a platinum level tail female line.

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Avalon Shiva’s dam Emelia Bint Eternity V1, is sired by one of the most-loved show horses of the last two decades, Eternity Ibn Navaronne D, twice World Champion Stallion in Paris and twice Champion at the All Nations Cup in Aachen. Her dam, OFW Elycja is sired by RSD Dark Victory (Bey Shah x Kamasi Sabaha) from G Edycja, who is herself also by Pilot (Fawor x Pipi) and from Etana (Aloes x Etruria)… and what more could one want from a Polish

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Her sire AH Kuda, an exotic black stallion who was Top Five at the World Championships, was sired by Polish super sire Pilot (Fawor x Pipi), International Champion Stallion at Towerlands and Polish National Champion, and full brother to two of Poland’s most celebrated broodmares, Pilar and Pilica. The dam of AH Kuda, My Midnite Dancer (MS Rafiq x My Raven) offers the Polish blood of Aladdin and Gdansk, with a line to Bey Shah just two generations back.

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ABOVE SHAZIR DE LAFON (SHIRAZ DE LAFON X FM ATHENA) BELOW AVALON SHIVA (AH KUDA X EMILIA BINT ETERNITY VI)

‘With the help of my friends Bertrand and Christine, I started to breed with her. The program worked well with beautiful Arabian horses who did well at French shows, and her son by Ajman Moniscione was successful in endurance.’ I first met Karin while she was still living in Asia, when I received an email enquiring about one of the foals I had bred that year. She wrote to me saying ‘she had been looking for information about Arabian horses, and had found herself stopping at a photo of a beautiful and refined palomino filly, who reminded her of Jauna, her favourite African mare so many years back’. I remember thinking how lovely it was for this filly to have been noticed by someone overseas, however I also remember thinking that would be as far as it went. Karin and I began exchanging emails and before I knew it, Karin had arrived at my farm to meet her. It was a short visit, however we had time for a ride and so Karin and I saddled up two of my mares and we went out into the bush, chatting for hours and watching the world around us. I had never actually done this

with anyone who had come to buy a horse, however I felt such a connection with Karin immediately, and wanted to share what I did with my horses with this person who had flown all the way from Singapore to visit this delicate little filly, still on her mother, of whom I was so proud. We became firm friends, and this filly from the first foal crop of Ray of Light was christened Diamond Dream on this very trail ride. And while initially the idea was for Diamond Dream to head to France to live with Shiva, two years later Karin followed ‘her’ dream and moved to Australia.

Fast forward ten years and now Karin has married an Australian, her husband Paul, and become an Australian citizen. Six years ago, Karin and Paul bought a small acreage property in the beautiful area on the mid-north coast, not far from my farm and where Diamond Dream was born to become the new home of her breeding program ‘Arabeska’. During this time, Diamond Dream has won an Australian National Reserve

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damline than the Polish National Champion Etruria (Palas x Etna).

Championship, plus a Champion win at The Challenge, but most importantly she has become the mother to a beautiful liver chestnut daughter, Summer Dream. Sired by El Sidaqa (Tehama Na Sidaqa x El Badoura) of Valinor Park Arabians, this lovely young mare is soon to foal her first progeny, which will be a palomino sired by Ray of Light, the first time he has been bred to any of his grandget. Back in France, Karin took a chance and bred her mare Avalon Shiva to a well performed but as yet unproven three-yearold colt who was also living at Mas de Lafon,

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Shanghai EA (WH Justice x Salymah EA). Of course today, every Arabian horse enthusiast knows of the heights of what Shanghai EA has climbed, both as a show horse and a breeding stallion, and for Karin, this gamble paid off in the form of the exotic grey stallion Shanghai Star, who became French National Champion Yearling Colt and has also competed in endurance races of up to 80km. ‘After much deliberation, mostly questions regarding how horses adapt to sudden changes in seasons and so on when being imported to a new hemisphere, I decided to bring my Arabians to Australia.’ Shanghai Star arrived in Australia in late 2020, alongside Karin’s latest purchase, a stunning chestnut colt from Mas de Lafon, Shazir de Lafon. Sired by Jadem Arabians’ Shiraz de Lafon (Shanghai EA x Diacara de Lafon) and from FM Athena (WH Justice x Resaca), Shazir

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de Lafon shows all the beauty and bounce one would expect from his double cross to WH Justice, with the structure and power of his Spanish damline and double cross to Khidar (Ansata Sinan x El Izja). He is an exotic and exciting young horse, and plans are in motion for Shazir de Lafon to be campaigned at halter this year. ‘Even though he will be much younger than the horses he is competing against due to his European birthdate, I am so excited to simply share him with people, I just cannot wait. Win or lose, we love him and that is all that matters.’ Neither Shanghai Star nor Shazir de Lafon have any progeny as yet, however both have mares lined up for the 2021 season. ‘I am so looking forward to seeing their first foals, I think they have a lot to offer Australian breeders both in their pedigree as well as conformation and type.’ Despite loving Arabian horses all her life and being a remote owner and breeder for

many years, Karin is very open about her experience with the day-to-day work with her horses. ‘I am still very new to doing it myself! We are lucky to be supported by an incredible and friendly horse-minded community, helping us each step along the way. ‘As a child, I had dreams: travelling and discovering the world, living with beautiful Arabian horses and living in Australia. My love for an incredible African Arabian mare started a journey that has taken me around the world. Years of travel have brought me to the Eastern Coast of Australia where we live a happy life with our children and beautiful Arabian horses, now grazing on the hills of our home…life is good, and there is still so much more to look forward to.’ Interview with Karin Bardi Images courtesy of David Gillett, Sharon Meyers, Tracey Bavinton & Karin Bardi

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Shayala (Imp USA) (Shael Dream Desert (IT) x Cassiopeia BPA (USA)) 2021 Silver Australian National Champion Mare

Breathless Vision PCF (Imp USA) (PCF Vision (USA) x Breath of Spring PSY (USA)) 2021 Bronze Australian National Champion Mare

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Zanzibar (Imp NL) (San Remo x Reska (x Montecristo)) 17.3hh Black KWPN Grand Prix Warmblood

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SF Jamaggio (Emerald J x Jalilah FF (x Crave FF)) Bay Purebred Arabian Colt “The future is exciting”

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Concherto FF (Burren-Dah The Wizard x Aloha Symphony) Brown Anglo Arabian Available at public stud – semen available in Australia and NZ

Emerald J (QR Marc x Emandoria) | SCID/CA/LFS clear Bay Purebred Arabian Owned by Jadem Arabians and available via frozen semen through Future Farms

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Fever FF (Crave FF x Double TT Fevia (x Penmarric Killarney)) Black/Brown Arabian Warmblood Stallion Multi National, East Coast and Australian Champion led and ridden Proving himself year after year to produce National Champions! Available at stud PC Holly, Sally

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Bella Mirelle SBA (Imp USA) (EKS Alihandro x Martini Thyme RTA (x Pyro Thyme SA)) Grey Purebred Arabian Mare

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hen it comes to the Arabian horse show scene in Australia, Sabble Farm may be viewed somewhat as a ‘new kid on the block’…and I say, ‘thank goodness for that!’ Refreshingly unbridled by pre-conceived notions or ideas regarding their horses or how things are done, in their short two years of being involved in showing Arabians, owners Sam and Brett Thomas have demonstrated bucketloads of enthusiasm and an eagerness to learn, coupled with a keen eye of what is required to own and produce a show team such as they now have…their dedication and positive spirit have been rewarded tenfold, with a slew of wins at the highest level. Teamed up with the Future Farm family of Kate, Doyle, Kody and Jessica Dertell, the Sabble (pronounced ‘Sable’) Farm horses

have enjoyed an incredible year this past show season…one that even the most successful of studs would find exhilarating. With a collection of horses, sourced from both Australia and around the globe, Sabble Farm have proven they are a force to be reckoned with. And that their Arabian horses can indeed, do it all. Although Sam Thomas herself appears quite gregarious and social, she is notably uncomfortable when asked to talk about herself. ‘I am happy to talk about my horses, I love them with all my heart, and they deserve to be celebrated for their wins, because they are just so fabulous. We have chosen each and every single one of them because of something special, and I am so thrilled that they are being given their opportunity to shine.’

The calibre of mares that have been purchased to be the foundation of this stud is unusually high. It would be difficult to recall another program, most certainly in recent years, that had gone to such lengths to purchase so many outstanding mares and fillies in such a short time. The possibilities for this fledgling stud are endless. Two years ago, after 25 years without horses in her life, Sam Thomas dipped her hat back into the ring by purchasing the well performed buckskin Part Arabian mare Gleniph Tiramisu, after falling in love with her while having a riding lesson by Kate Dertell at Future Farms. Sired by Crave FF (Mash x Bremervale Charmed) and Gleniph Bombe Alaska (Edenvale Arctic Snow x Brandy Crème Pussa), Tiramisu is the eldest of three full siblings, all buckskins, and had been an Australian National Champion, as well as East Coast Supreme Saddle Horse while owned by her breeders, Richard and Kerry Chapman. Originally purchased as a riding horse for Sam, their first ventures into the show ring were fraught with nerves…for Sam, not Tiramisu! ‘I wondered what I was doing. Getting back into riding seemed at times to be a silly fantasy rather than the wonderful, life-changing experience that it was. I was given some words of wisdom from Kody

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Emandoria) in 2020, and we look forward to showing him when he is ready for it,’ says Sam.

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Sabble Farm has a focus on developing and showcasing the versatility of the Arabian horse. Every horse at Sabble Farm is ridden, whether it be for pleasure, show, dressage or western. However during my conversation it appears that Western Pleasure specifically is very much on the agenda. The imported purebred stallion RD Dynamo (Bey Ambition x TF Falconsimprint) is well known for his success in the discipline, and so I ask Sam if this is by design, or chance.

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Dertell, who asked me if I liked riding my horse and was it fun? I answered “Yes”, and his response was “Well then just go out there and have fun” .. and that’s exactly what I have done ever since.’ Gleniph Tiramisu has gone on to win more awards than this article could manage, however a snapshot of her 2021 East Coast and Australian Championship wins include: • • • •

Gold Champion Part Arabian Mare Gold Champion Prix St George Silver Champion Ridden Part Arabian Mare East Coast Champion Ridden Part Arabian Mare

Perhaps most impressively of all, Gleniph Tiramisu was given the 2020 AHSA Derivative Ambassador of the Year award. The AHSA Ambassador of the Year award is awarded annually to two individual horses – one Purebred Arabian and one Arabian Derivative, who best exemplify the spirit, attributes and excellence of the Arabian breeds, specifically those who demonstrate considerable positive exposure for the Arabian and Arabian Derivative breeds within the greater equine community as well as to the general public. Horses participating in all disciplines of equine sport from Pony Club to Olympic level competition, as well as those involved in equine therapy and rehabilitative services, are equivalently considered by the AHSA Board during the selection process.

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Teamwork makes the dreamwork, and the relationship between Sabble Farm and Future Farms that began with riding lessons, has blossomed into one of the most fruitful alliances in the Arabian horse world in recent times. With guidance and support from everyone at Future Farms, Sabble Farm have purchased internationally and imported a total of eight horses, while in Australia they have purchased approximately ten Australian and internationally bred show horses. Today, Sabble Farm is home to some of Australia’s most decorated Purebred, Part Arabian, Arabian Pony, Arabian Warmblood, API and Quarab show horses. The next purchase for Sabble Farm was another from the Future Farms stable, a purebred filly Jalilah FF. An extremely beautiful bay, like Gleniph Tiramisu she is sired by Crave FF and out of Mystica Jamarlee (Marwan Al Shaqab x Mystica Jameelah). Jalilah FF is tail female to the great mare Silver Glint (El Shaklan x Silver Glimmer) through some of the most memorable and outstanding Windella mares, and like these mares, Jalilah FF has enjoyed her fair share of wins including an Australian National Silver Champion Junior Filly win. Shown at both halter and various under saddle disciplines, during the past season alone she has been Barastoc Champion Mare and Australian National Silver Champion Western Pleasure. ‘Jalilah FF has produced a beautiful bay colt via embryo transfer by Emerald J (QR Marc x

‘Our adventure into Western Pleasure is very much by design,’ she replies. ‘I love Western Pleasure, it is absolutely where I see myself going as far as ridden competition in the future, and we are supporting Western Pleasure classes in Australia as much as we can. In America, the Western Pleasure classes are huge, and we hope it will take off here in Australia. One of the greatest things about Western Pleasure is that it really does suit everyone, regardless of their age or body shape. Western Pleasure is the gift that keeps on giving to the rider, and to the horse! ‘Whilst Dynamo looks amazing as a Western Pleasure horse, he is such a fantastic addition to our stable. He is part of the world renowned Rae-Dawn breeding program and is proving himself to be an incredibly versatile stallion competing across English, western and dressage. And of course he is a foundation stallion for our breeding program and we are delighted with his first crop of babies.’ In keeping with the focus on Western, Sabble Farm have also imported from the USA a black Quarab mare, HF Moon Dancing. Well credentialled in America, with success mainly in Youth and Amateur competition and some wins at National level, Moon Dancing is now shown here in Australia ridden by Doyle Dertell. The team have already won a Gold Australian National Championship in Western Pleasure. ‘We hope that Moon Dancing will help lift the profile of Western Pleasure here in Australia. That said, I can’t wait to be able to breed a foal from her…I have everything crossed that she produces an amazing black and white Western Pleasure horse – I can’t wait!’ Another American import who is proving herself under saddle is Bella Mirelle SBA. Sired by EKS Alihandro (Marwan Al Shaqab x OFW Psylhouette) and from Martini Thyme RTA (Pro Thyme SA x Martina Van Ryad), Bella Mirelle was one of the first mares imported by Sabble Farm and has

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enjoyed an enviable show career at halter. This past season, Bella Mirelle SBA was crowned Australian National Champion Purebred Mare Under Saddle at Boneo Park in March 2021. She went on to compete at the East Coast Arabian Championships later that month where she was Supreme Purebred Mare Under Saddle, Supreme Bridlepath Hack as well as Champion Purebred Mare 4–8 in Halter. Most interestingly, Sabble Farm have managed to acquire two of the four special mares imported by Lusia Abbott of Alphalea Arabians in Western Australia, who has made the difficult decision to downsize her stud. The first mare purchased from Lusia was RD Caprice, bred in Canada by Murry and Shirley Poppewell, who also bred Sabble Farm’s imported stallion RD Dynamo. She is sired by Bey Ambition (Regal Actor JP x Bey Shah’s Lady) and from Gyselle (Concensus x Flashdance LTD), a special grey mare of Polish bloodlines with both Monogramm and Eukaliptus as her grandsires. Unshown as yet by Sabble Farm, she has produced a lovely colt this season by Enzo (US) (Padrons Psyche x RD Bey Shahmpane). The second mare purchased from Lusia is Breathless Vision PCF, an exotic bay mare of extreme type. Bred in the USA and sired by PCF Vision (Marwan Al Shaqab x Veronica GA) from Breath of Spring PSY (Padrons Psyche x Takmy Breath Away), in Australia she has produced three foals and is currently in foal to RD Dynamo, which will be a very exciting foal for Sabble Farm.

impressed by her when she was at the presentation, and when he went back to her stable and met her, he fell in love with her. Brett may not have a lot of experience with horses, but he has a good eye and knows what he likes...and he got it right! Shayala hadn’t been shown in the US, however once we brought her out she was show trained for halter, broken to saddle and is ridden, like all of our horses. We will bring her out next year in ridden classes, she is so fancy and divine under saddle, and she loves it too! ‘Shayala really has become Brett’s horse – she melts when she is with him. Of course, he was a nervous wreck at the Australian Championships. I have never seen him quite like that…. we backed ourselves putting three mares in the class, Brett was pacing, these were his girls!’ As history now shows, the Gold Champion Mare that night was one of Sabble Farm’s original imported mares, the elegant grey Joi El Jiuliusz (US). From where I was standing, it was a very close call between these mares however Joi was able to just nudge ahead to take out the gold. Sired by Jiuliusz De Wiec (Debowiec x Jiullya El Jamaal) from Enjoi E (Enzo x Oso Padova), she is similarly bred to

some of the other mares at the farm, with a double cross to Ali Jamaal (Ruminaja Ali x Heritage Memory), which absolutely shows in her phenotype. She is a glorious white mare, the type that would be at home in any of the finest studs the world over. ‘The vibe at the Aussies was great. People thanked us for sponsoring the dinner, we loved it. Getting together for dinner was really special, we all connected because we love horses. We were all quite overwhelmed when the winners were announced that night. I remember Jamie from Future Farms cried as much as anyone when Joi won. She is so invested in taking care of the horses. These are people that just love their horses…I love the team spirit that is the backbone of everything we do. ‘We do the horses because we love them, and we work with others because we enjoy the people and want to participate in and support the Arabian horse industry.. Why do anything if you don’t enjoy it – right now we are having the time of our life!’ Interview with Sam Thomas Images courtesy of Glenys Lilley & Samantha Taylor

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With Breathless Vision PCF being awarded Bronze, it was the most recent import by Sabble Farm who was awarded Silver. An ethereal white mare, Shayala trotted into the arena as if she wore glass slippers, so light and airy, she flew through the air with her mane and tail cascading around her…she was glorious. Shayala is sired by the Italianbred Shael Dream Desert (Ansata Shaamis x Elettra), the first of his progeny to be imported to Australia. Her dam, Cassiopeia BPA (Odyssey SC x LC Mon Amie) has Versace and Padrons Psyche as grandsires.

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Breathless Vision PCF was one of a trio of incredible mares owned by Sabble Farm who at the 2021 Australian National Championships, took out Gold, Silver and Bronze titles in the Senior Mare class. For those of us lucky enough to be there, under the floodlit arena, these mares sparkled and danced their way into the hearts of us all.

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Photographer Nicole Emanuel shares her first road trip after lockdown

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FAZENDA ZA’JARNE AGAINST THE SPARKLING BLUE SKY OF DIAMOND ROAD ARABIANS, UPPER LANSDOWNE NSW OPPOSITE PAGE: DP AL JOHARAH & ANGELINA DARAIO OF DARA PARK, BUNYIP VICTORIA

s a Victorian ‘stuck’ in lockdown during most of 2020 due to Covid, I was absolutely ‘champing at the bit’ to get out on the road again and photograph Arabian horses the moment I was able. It had simply been far too long, and there’s only so much I can do photographing my own small herd at home! Two weeks on the road took me from my hometown in Neerim South, through soaring mountain ash and out onto the river flats and open plains country of North East Victoria, over the border and straight up the Hume Highway to the cool climate farmland of the Southern Highlands just south of Sydney. I next visited the beautiful lower Hunter Valley and the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, and then circled back to Victoria. I was blessed with wonderful weather until my last stop in Western Victoria, where even the rain could not dampen my spirits, and I was able to capture beautiful images with almost a sketch-like quality.

AVONDALE CRUISE IN LIGHT RAIN AT AVONVIEW ARABIANS, ARARAT WESTERN VICTORIA

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When I am behind my camera, I am in another world. Nothing else gives me such absolute joy I get from capturing the spirit and character of horses. I seem to lose time and space when looking through the lens, taken to another level, another place. It’s just me and the expressive eyes I see in my viewfinder, ears flicking and mane cascading. I assess where they will go and what they will do next, and in that moment together I can virtually read what horses say by their expressions, their ears, their eyes and their body language. All I have to do is select lighting, composition and timing then watch as the moments are frozen in time. Talking with fellow breeders, owners and lovers of Arabians, and seeing the open skies and contrasts of both climate and scenery throughout our beautiful big country, is such a joy and I look forward to next spring when I can do it all over again.

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Al Dawla AN ARABIC WORD THAT T RA NS L AT E S INTO E NG LIS H AS

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ince I last spoke to Diaa Karaali for Arabian Studs & Stallions, I can’t help but think that this new name for his stud, Al Dawla, is so much more appropriate for where he is today, compared to just a few years ago when we first met. There is a sense of freedom about him, a sense that he excludes doubt when making decisions, and just follows his heart. At that time the stud was named Southern Chariot, Diaa had recently purchased the twice Australian National Champion Stallion RHR Heir of Marwan (Marwan Al Shaqab x LC Psychesheiress), one of the highest profile stallions in the country, and was busy looking for a few mares to breed to him and a property to house them.

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The love and admiration Diaa feels towards RHR Heir of Marwan is almost palpable. The tall, masculine and charismatic stallion had been a sensation from the moment Karin Panuccio imported him from the United States in 2009. ‘Heir is a consistent sire with a golden pedigree, and now an international show icon. He is one of the most influential Marwan Al Shaqab sons and out of LC Psychesheiress, a Brazilian National Champion mare sired by the legendary Padrons Psyche and out of Jamaara Fa who also is in the tail line of DA Valentino. It was based on Heir that our breeding program was initiated and later on developed.’ With Diaa, in 2017 RHR Heir of Marwan embarked on a journey to Europe to be

shown, returning home with a Senior Stallions win at the World Championships in Paris and a Bronze Championship at the Milan International in 2018, amongst other wonderful results at Menton, the Chantilly World Cup and winning his class at Aachen with the third highest marks for a stallion. His contribution to the stud and to the Arabian gene pool is assured – the world knows the name RHR Heir of Marwan. In a bid to calculate his best chances for success, Diaa has bred Heir to mares of a variety of bloodlines, both in Australia and around the world. ‘We collected valuable information over the past few years and it is very interesting to reveal the latest results of our structured experience and knowledge.

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‘Secondly, we named another Heir daughter, Haneen Al Dawla. Haneen is out of Chelleason Crown Empressa who goes back in her tail line to Fairview Amira Enshallah, one of the golden cross products of Amir El Shaklan and Esperanza (Shakhs x Esperada).’ Both these fillies have moved from their home in Australia to now join the Schoukens Training Center in Belgium. ‘They are the cream of our crop and we are looking forward to seeing them campaigned in Europe this season.’ Left to fly the flag for Al Dawla in Australia is the recently crowned Silver Champion Yearling Filly at the Australian National Championships, Jazzaba Al Dawla, from Sa-har Sweet Malody (GG Magnetism x Santa Padova Silhouette) and Shuwayma Al Dawla out of Bremervale White Rose (Desperado x Bremervale Bey Accolade), Top Five Yearling Filly at the 2021 East Coast Arabian Championships.

Diaa has also purchased the extremeheaded Nalla Al Kha-dafy, sired by the USA import Al Kha-zar (Thee Asil x Inifdels Princess) from Fairview Sweet Dreams (Estasan Ibn Estopa x Ultimate Dream), adding a little Egyptian blood to his preferred mix of Spanish and Crabbet blood. This stallion has not been used extensively as yet, however the quality of his few foals makes his addition to the breeding program rather exciting.

Marwan. The second is Nalii Del Falco, by AMG Dalii (WH Justice x Abha La Luna) from Isabel Lady Del Falco (Mial x Aja Sanagors Lady) who had a very promising filly by Heir last season, and is currently in foal to the Straight Egyptian stallion Bashir Al Rayyan (Ansata Nile Echo x G Shafaria). ‘We have leased a mare named AD Stella BGP (Hadidi x Carina Dei Mori), Gold Champion at Forli International Arabian Horse Show, who gave us a beautiful filly.

Overseas in Europe, Al Dawla is utilising frozen semen from Heir to use on mares he has purchased or leased, with exceptional results. ‘We have used Italy and Belgium as a base for our mares, however we do keep one mare in Poland as well. In Italy, we leased the Shanghai EA daughter Nihal, who is from GS Libera (Wahid x M Charlize). She is the 2021 Gold Champion Mare at L’Arte del Cavallo, and as a filly was Gold Champion at Citta di Castello. To Heir, she produced a beautiful filly of a similar type to the Heir fillies produced so far in Australia.’ Also in Italy, Diaa purchased another two WH Justice granddaughters, the first being Nouhaila (AM Emiro x Nagiba AB) who has produced a beautiful grey filly by Heir of

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Bandagold is one of the most important acquired broodmares for Al Dawla. Bred by Jenny Rogers of Aspin Hill Arabians, I know this mare well and she is absolutely divine…the type to take your breath away. She is herself by SK Shakla Khan and out of a mare named Trystan Bandamira, an Amir El Shaklan daughter from a mare who tail females to Rafina (Rusteem x Risala). Bandamira was known for her extreme length and shape of neck, and this trait continues to be inherited in each generation.

Champion Stallion and has sired some exceptional foals with close to 40 currently registered in Australia. We will continue his breeding career with us at Al Dawla Arabians and we are looking forward to seeing the results next year. He has bred some of our best mares and is a joy to simply have at the farm.’

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‘In my opinion, the most successful lines to cross to RHR Heir of Marwan have been the Australian dam lines which combined classical Crabbet families with El Shaklan sire lines, in most instances those borne from the imported stallions Amir El Shaklan (El Shaklan x Sascha) and SK Shakla Khan (Sanadik El Shaklan x Sunking Raindrop). One of my favourite foals of this cross is the chestnut filly Lulu Al Dawla by Heir and out of Bandagold.’

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‘All four are chestnut fillies with the stamp of their consistent sire, RHR Heir of Marwan. There is a noticeable consistency in the Spanish lines uniquely yielding the best cross within our Australian program. ‘As an educated development resulting from this experience, we recently acquired the aged grey stallion Fairview Touch of Magic, bred by Peter Hall.’ Touch is sired by the famous SK Shakla Khan and is out of the legendary Australian National Champion Windella Silver Shadow (Amir El Shaklan x Windella Silver Glitter), arguably one of Amir El Shaklan’s best daughters. Touch is a Reserve Australian National

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The purchase of embryos from this mare led to Diaa acquiring from Talitha one of the most talked about colts of the last few years, the jet black ASE Justice El Jamaal. As his name may suggest, he is sired by WH Justice (Magnum Psyche x Vona Sher-renea) and is from Geraldyne El Jamaal (Ali Jamaal x Gai Natasha), a magnificent mare who at 18 years of age is still competing successfully in endurance, an important discipline for her owner. ‘Justice El Jamaal will stay in Europe for now,’ says Diaa ‘and he will join our show team there. Of course, we cannot wait for him to come home to Australia, but for now he has the opportunity to reach his full potential across the international shows.’

The mare we bought at the Polish State Stud auction, the beautiful grey Elgora is currently in foal to Heir. She is by Poganin (Laheeb x Pohulanka) and out of an Ekstern daughter Elgina, who is out of a Eukaliptus mare. This is a cross we have chosen for Heir, dreamed of for many years and the fruit will soon be available for all to see.’ At the Elran Cup this year, a filly bred in Europe by the stud Raneem Al Dawla was awarded unanimous Gold Champion Yearling Filly. Sired by FA Rasheem (FA El

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halter ring, the endurance track or as a broodmare. Before her untimely death, she produced a bay filly by Heir, Bisharat Al Dawla, who was purchased by Talitha Bakker, who bred and owned her dam. Diaa has retained the WH Justice daughter he bred from ASE Bisiriya Hlayyil and she will be campaigned in Europe this season.

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Shawan x Virtuosa MLR) from GW Frida (Ajman Moniscione x Primadonna PA), Raneen is a very impressive young filly with a big future ahead of her. In the Netherlands, Diaa was able to secure an embryo from the famous mare ASE Bisiriya Hlayyil (Bishr x Manilah). A splendid mare of a similar type to her much-admired grandsire Hlayyil Ramadan (Kamar El Zaman x Haboub), she was as well known for her beauty as she was for her athletic ability, equally at home in the

Also in Europe is a young mare Diaa purchased in Australia, Van Gogh’s Dream, sired by Van Gogh AM from Mystica Laos (LC Prince Magnum x Shakla’s Silver Dream). ‘This filly is appropriately named, she is a dream come true. From the moment I saw her I knew she had to join our stud. It took some time, but we got there, and I cannot wait to see her in the ring. She of course goes back on the tail female line to those magnificent Windella mares and I am sure she will cross well with Heir when her time comes.’

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Meanwhile, here in Australia Diaa continues to expand his Straight Egyptian program alongside his Purebred program. ‘I have always loved the classic, grey Straight Egyptians such as those bred by Ansata Arabians, and I have bought one or two over the years to breed to Heir, but I have not bred them Straight. Now that I have purchased what I consider to be the most ideal to my type stallion in Australia, I will further delve into this exciting project.’ The stallion to which Diaa so nonchalantly refers to is Halimas Egyptian Prince. Bred by Peter and Jenny Pond of Forest Hill Arabians, Halimas Egyptian Prince is sired by Royal Jamill (Royal Jalliel x Bint Jamilla) from AK Faressa (Prince Fa Moniet x AK Nameesa). ‘I have also purchased his full sisters Halimas Bint Faressa and Halimas Monessa, and two daughters Halimas Egyptian Princess from Halimas Desert Temptation (Anaza El Nizr x Joda Desert Temptation) and Halimas Royal Ma’isah from Halimas Bint Maisa (Royal Jamil x Rusima). Together with Simeon Stella (Anaza Bay Shahh x Raffaalaa), this group will form the nucleus of my Straight Egyptian program.

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My long term goal with Al Dawla Arabians is to utilise those broodmares selected from amongst the historical treasures bred in Australia, and blend them with the greatest sires in Europe and the Middle East. ‘RHR Heir of Marwan has allowed us to filter out the broodmares and bloodlines from our initial selected group of mares, and today we are focussed on yielding the best Arabian horse produced from all Arabian lines, spread across the globe. Through that particular experience we seek to expose the secret of a conceptual structure for successfully breeding these beautiful beings.’ Al Dawla has foals due in 2021 by the Australian National Champions RHR Heir of Marwan (Marwan Al Shaqab x LC Psychesheiress) and Vesuvio (Azteq LBA x Valouria), and Australian National Reserve Champion Fairview Touch of Magic (SK Shakla Khan x Windella Silver Shadow). Such is the freedom which the Arabian has historically given the human and continues to do so in present and will do so into the future, universally across time and space. Interview with Diaa Karaali Images courtesy of Alessio Azzali, David Gillett, Peter Pond & Renato Sorvilo

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volution is a natural, hopefully progressive, occurrence in every breeding programme of significance that has endured for decades. The last two years at Mulawa Arabian Stud have borne witness to this anticipated evolution, the passing of the torch from one generation to the next, as we bid farewell to several of the most influential breeding horses and industry icons within the programme from the last quarter century. Chief sires Fame Maker R, TS Al Malik and GLF

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Apollo whose careers began at Mulawa in the 1990s have all moved on to greener pastures and on the final day of the most unexpectedly challenging year that was 2020, we also bid adieu to one of the most beloved and esteemed matrons of that same generation: Mulawa Angelica. Angelica’s arrival at the very beginning of the foaling season in 1992 coincided with Mulawa’s transition from its second decade of existence to its third,

a period in which the programme was expanding in earnest beyond the traditional Polish and Crabbet bloodlines that had comprised its solid foundation in the 1970s and 1980s. While the aforementioned, recently departed, chief sires were all essential to this bold expansion of breeding vision, it was mares like Mulawa Angelica that would provide the reliable and proven genetic canvas upon which the newest generations of excellence would be constructed.

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A Regal Heritage

M ANGELIQUE WITH GREG FARRELL

An Australian success story of epic proportions, the existence of Mulawa Angelica is one entrenched in the very foundation of Arabian horse activity on the continent. An intertwining of the ambition and efforts of many of Australia’s most successful and influential breeders and horsepeople, her modern-day tale of triumph is firmly established in the continental ideal of creating the authentic Arabian comprised of an abundance of both beauty and utility. On the distaff side of her distinguished pedigree, Angelica’s origins can be traced directly tail-female to Crabbet Park, to the only daughter of the immortal sire Skowronek (Ibrahim x Jaskolka by Rymnik) ever to be imported to Australia: Nasirieh (x Nisreen by Nureddin II). A foundation mare for Dora Maclean’s seminal Fenwick Stud in Victoria, Nasirieh and her prolific female descendants were ingeniously crossed with generations of either Crabbet-bred or pure Crabbet-related stallions not only at Fenwick, but at the equally essential Ennerdale and Arabian Park Studs, to arrive at Dimity (Banderol x Tamara by Rami), a legendary mare synonymous with Australian Arabian brilliance on the world stage. It would be Dimity’s daughter and granddaughter, Arabian Park Lady Constance (by Ivan) and the intensely-line bred Abanda (by Banderol), respectively, that would establish this invaluable dam line of the desert-bred Dajania or.Ar. at Mulawa in the spring of 1980, as the programme was decisively transitioning from family pastime to serious breeding farm. It was in the next generation, the first envisioned by the Farrell Family, that genetic variety beyond primarily Crabbet bloodlines was introduced into the direct line of female descendants with the Straight Egyptian sired Vision (by Jamil), a recent in-utero import from Dr. Hans Nagel in Germany. Vision’s dam, the Janow Podlaski-bred Euni (Bandos x Eunice by Comet) would go on to establish herself as an invaluable foundation matron, further elevating Mulawa’s reputation as one of Australia’s leading source of Pure Polish and Polish-related Arabian horses. This infusion of both Pure Polish and Straight Egyptian genetics with the inherent goodness of Abanda’s primarily Crabbet heritage resulted in an exquisite bay filly born in September 1986, elegant and refined, with an aristocratic femininity, exceptional quality of skin, harmonious proportion and natural athletic ability, all attributes predictably indicative of her esteemed hybrid heritage. Prophetically named M Angelique, the

“M” designating the stud prefix at the time and the “Angelique” denoting her heavenly phenotype, she would go on to establish one of the most important dam families at Mulawa, creating in the process an entire legion of “Angels”. Nearly thirty-five years later, her resulting “Angel” legacy of descendants has consistently achieved global success as beautiful athletes of world-class calibre eight generationsstrong and counting. To create the first of her destiny-altering “Angels”, Angelique was bred to an outside sire of pure-Mulawa heritage, the King Estate-bred Wanted KE, sired by Warranty (Aladdinn x Wizja by El Paso) and out of Feature (Vision x Mulawa Fantasy), who was in turn a daughter of the very first Pure Polish Mulawa imports from Lasma Stud in the United States – Ambition (Bask x Bint Ambara by Comet) and Dzina (Buszmen x Dzisna by Naborr) – the pair of horses most responsible for Mulawa’s initial breeding aspirations and direction. Fondly remembered by Greg Farrell as one of his “favourite Australian-bred stallions”, it is Jane who enthusiastically cites her brother’s handling of Wanted KE at the East Coast Championships in his senior stallion triumph as “the best show of his life – a very special night and an unforgettable performance”.

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With so many of the Mulawa foundation horses in her pedigree, Mulawa Angelica was destined to become a consequential mare in the breeding programme. Like many of the mares for which the Farrells have the highest hopes, Angelica was first tasked with achievement in the show ring, a responsibility she embraced with

enthusiasm and confidence while being honoured with prestigious titles such as East Coast Champion Yearling Filly and National Stud Show Reserve Champion Mare, credentials earned amongst some of the deepest competition in Australian Arabian history. With these accolades now a permanent part of her enduring legacy, Angelica assumed ultimately more important broodmatron duties with greater acclaim, producing ten foals, seven of which were fillies. With this enviable record, Mulawa Angelica has established herself as the most prolific and profoundly influential of all the M Angelique daughters. Multiple generations of Mulawa Angelica descendants now enrich the lives of happy owners and contented breeders in every Australian state, while her most accomplished successors, those with achievements at the most elite competitions across three continents outside our own, are beloved as incalculable and essential treasures within several of the most respected breeding programmes internationally. Upon reflection, Mulawa Angelica’s breeding career reads like a diary of the chief sire roster at Mulawa. Bred to five different sires over the course of her lifetime, Angelica never failed to produce a quality foal with every sire to which she was mated. Despite her excellent filly to colt ration, Angelica’s first foal was in fact a colt: a tall, superbly conformed, inherently charismatic showstopper named Anthem (by GLF Apollo). A solid, substantial, distinctly masculine bay, Anthem proved to be a major force in the show ring as a yearling, taking championship honours at the East Coast Championships and the National Capital, and finishing runner-up at the Aussies as

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influential impact on the Arabian breed worldwide, continues through her eldest daughter, the predictably named Angel Of Fame. A product of the very first Fame Maker R foal crop sired in Australia in 1997, Angel Of Fame would follow in the footsteps of her distinguished dam in the show ring as a yearling filly, earning the East Coast Reserve Championship title in the final year of the millennium.

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National Reserve Champion Yearling Colt. Anthem has since enjoyed a wonderful life with Diane Miller at her Diamond T Stud. Angelica’s most frequent mate proved to be TS Al Malik, with whom she had four produce in succession between 2000 and 2003. She split the total evenly – two colts and two fillies – with one grey and one chestnut in each pair. The daughters of this mating, after successful careers as young show fillies, both ended up in Queensland. The elder of the two, Australian National Top Ten Yearling Filly Angels Song (2001), became an important broodmare for Brad Strahan’s Burralga Stud. Younger sister Mulawa Ariva (2003), a striking, superbly conformed and powerfully moving liver chestnut, was Australian National Top Ten as well, as a Junior Filly, after winning the East Coast Championships and a National Stud Show Reserve Championship as a yearling. Mulawa Ariva spent her last days as a treasured broodmatron for Rod and Carolyn Strahan at Shardell Arabians. Mulawa Angelica was also amongst the select group of broodmares bred to Magnum Psyche (Padrons Psyche x A Fancy Miracle) when his frozen semen was first introduced in 2003. Of the four foals produced that first season, Angelica produced the only bay of the superlative quartet – the aptly named Mulawa Dark Angel – who embodied everything one would expect from her esteemed heritage: tall, substantial, superbly conformed and supremely athletic, attributes she

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faithfully passed on to all five of her Mulawa-bred produce. Given the successful mating with Magnum Psyche that resulted in Mulawa Dark Angel, Mulawa Angelica was logically bred to his son, Mulawa Chief Sire in residence Magnum Forty Four, resulting in three delightful bay fillies, born successively from 2007 through to 2009 to cap off her stellar breeding career. The eldest of these was Majelica, a tall imposing bay with an abundance of natural athleticism and very similar in overall phenotype to older three-quarter sister Dark Angel. Shown as a halter filly in her youth and earning a Top Ten Yearling Filly title at the Australian National Championships, Majelica later found her true calling as a racehorse, proving once again the versatile athleticism of the M Angelique family across the entire spectrum of equine sport. Now retired from the track, Majelica has become a cornerstone broodmatron in Scott and Fiona Green’s Proride in Far North Queensland. Majelica’s younger full sisters were both given very similar names: Angelic MI (2008) and Very Angelic MI (2009). Angelic, a near replica of her venerated dam, is now proudly owned by Linda Keogh in Armidale, while the very pretty Very Angelic has left an enduring legacy in Queensland. Despite Mulawa Angelica’s stellar production record and her proclivity to create fillies, it is only fitting that her enduring legacy within the Mulawa programme, and thus far her most

Purposefully designed by adding new genetics from outside the Mulawa programme, a destiny-altering secondgeneration filly, first born to Angel Of Fame was sired by US import SK Shakla Khan (Sanadik El Shaklan x Sun King Raindrop by Hilglor Rainmaker), a stallion Julie Farrell had long admired at Fairview Arabians. Blessed with the celestial name Always An Angel, as to ensure instant recognition of her family heritage, this heavenly vision would first elevate the recognition of her dam family in the show ring as Reserve Champion Yearling Filly at the National Stud Show, the East Coast Championships and Australian National Championships, later earning Senior Champion Mare honours at the Victorian Classic, as well as three Australian National Top Ten titles, one as a Junior Filly and two as a Senior Mare. It was, however, her eventual contribution as a broodmare that would secure her most admirable place of honour in the record books of the Arabian breed. DA Valentino (Versace x DA Love by Padrons Psyche) would prove a superlative cross for Mulawa Dark Angel, the result of which was the only colt born in the initial Valentino foal crop of 2009 at Mulawa. The formidably named Dark Knight MI, a true testament to the abundant athletic ability inherent in all of the Mulawa Angelica descendants, has proven to be a dominant force as a versatile and archetypal Arabian saddle horse at nearly every major Arabian event in Queensland and New South Wales over the past decade. Most often with owner Katherine Hopkins aboard, Dark Knight has earned an array of the most prestigious continental titles at the East Coast Championships and the Australian National Championships, as well as at the Queensland Horse of the Year Show, with recent successes both in Dressage and halter to add to his astounding list of well-deserved accolades. Dark Angel’s impressive production record also includes two exceptional siblings by Klass (TS Al Malik x Karmaa by Kaborr). Klassical Desire MI (2016) is a cherished young matron for Nicole and Damien

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As Mulawa Angelica’s breeding career was coming to a close near the end of the first decade of the new millennium, the affirmative ascension of her enduring influence was gaining extraordinary momentum with the produce of granddaughter Always An Angel. A perennial favourite of Greg’s, he shares these sentiments about the ever-ascending Always An Angel, “She has become such a great broodmare after her successful show career. It has been wonderful to witness her special nick with DA Valentino, the result of which is three international show winners that have elevated the prestige and awareness of the Mulawa brand around the world. Given her prolificacy to produce both world-class sons and daughters, we expect her long-term impact within the breed, both at home and abroad, to be significant and abiding.”

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Setting the benchmark as the first of the three record-setting full siblings out of Always An Angel by DA Valentino was the logically named Always Valentine MI. Retaining the characteristic elegance, attitude and structure of her dam, Always Valentine was blessed with the greater scope and size of her sire, as well as with his trademark length of neck and distinct refinement, in a complete package of very North American appeal. Born at Mulawa during the expansion of the programme when both the quality and quantity of horses was on the rise, the decision was made to send Always Valentine to the United States to compete with the best young horses in the breed. This decision put Mulawa firmly on the map as a source of international quality Arabian horses, with Always Valentine enriching her resume with several major achievements in the most competitive global show arena, including the Region 13 Two Year Old Filly Championship, and three Reserve Junior Filly Championships at the most prestigious events on the continent: the Scottsdale All Arabian Horse Show, the Arabian Breeders World Cup and the United States National Championships. This latter trio of titles would initiate

Mulawa’s most successful decade of accomplishment on the international stage, a record that would be expanded to Europe and beyond by both of her soon-tobe-as-equally-famous younger full siblings. In a fitting bookend to her trailblazing performance overseas as a junior filly, Always Valentine returned home to compete as a Senior Mare, bringing her special brand of show ring appeal to the highest level of continental competition in Australia, while earning the Senior Mare Championship at four shows in succession in the 2014–2015 show season – the NSW State Titles, the National Stud Show, the East Coast Championships and the Australian National Championships – in an unprecedented, unanimous and undefeated triumph. Prior to Always Valentine’s record-setting run as a senior mare, her younger full sister, Valentino’s Angel MI (2011), had already set the Australian show ring ablaze with an undefeated season of success as a yearling filly. A gorgeous flaxen-maned filly with an exuberant self-confidence, Valentino’s Angel was more exquisitely refined than her elder sister from the onset, with more

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Show, as well as a pair of Bronze Supreme Championships, one as a junior filly and the other as a senior mare, at the Arabian Breeders World Cup in Las Vegas. Valentino’s Angel, who is still ardently competing in the most senior mare division in Europe, is now proudly owned by Helen and Kay Hennekens of Flaxman Arabians in Belgium.

definition and dish to her face, greater length, cleanliness and shape to her neck, a softer European-style femininity and a more dynamically animated trot, essential attributes which contributed to her dazzling debut season as National Stud Show, East Coast and Australian National Champion. Valentino’s Angel would springboard from this local success to international acclaim just months later, now in the ownership of HRH Prince Abdullah bin Fahd Al Saud and his Al Mohamadia Stud, Saudi Arabia, on one of the world’s biggest stages: the All Nations Cup in Aachen, Germany. Having just turned two years old just fifteen days prior to the show, Valentino’s Angel won the first section of two year old fillies while simultaneously achieving the highest score amongst all the junior filly entries, going on to earn the Bronze Junior Filly Championship on the final afternoon of the show. Since 2013, Valentino’s Angel has gone on to earn major titles at the elite level on three continents. These honours include the first United States and Canadian National Championships earned for a Mulawa-bred competitor, as well as Gold Champion honours at the US Arabian Open in Central Park, a trio of Gold Champion/Best in Show/Highest Scoring accolades at the Elran Cup, the Emerald Trophy and the Bruges International

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The final contribution to the Always An Angel x DA Valentino golden cross was Vangelis MI, a commanding dark chestnut colt of impressive size and scope, possessing the show ring presence and superlative build of his celebrated sire, coupled with the VANGELIS MI aristocratic quality and refinement, harmonious balance and effortless athleticism of his acclaimed dam. Blessed with enormous eyes, an astoundingly long, clean, shapely and upright neck, faultless structure and an intense desire to please, Vangelis was an undefeatable superstar in the show ring in his debut season, repeating the successive wins of older sister Valentino’s Angel in the colt division as National Stud Show, East Coast and Australian National Champion Yearling Colt, an Australian first for full siblings. He won each of these titles at the same shows where his elder sister Always Valentine was named Senior Champion Mare in 2014–2015, another first for full siblings, made even more impressive by the fact that each feat was accomplished with a different full sister. Vangelis’ Australian National Champion title was won not only by unanimous decision, but with the highest score of the entire show, a feat he would repeat later in the year at the Australasian Arabian Breeders Showcase, while earning the title of Gold Champion Junior Colt. The next Gold Championship earned by Vangelis MI was on the other side of the planet, at the 2016 Scottsdale All-Arabian Show, making his debut at the largest and

most important of Arabian events on the annual international calendar just five years after older sister Always Valentine MI had set the stage for Mulawa’s expanding success abroad. Competing in the Scottsdale International Breeders Classic Championships, Vangelis scored an impressive 331.5, the highest amongst all the junior colt entries and identical to the score earned just three months earlier at the Australasian Breeders Showcase. His inspiring presentation in the final comparative championship line-up earned Vangelis the prestigious honour of Scottsdale International Breeders Classic Gold Champion Junior Colt by the unanimous consent of five international judges, his most impressive win amongst his celebrated career as a show horse. Vangelis would later go on to earn the US Arabian Open Gold Championship in Central Park and the Bronze Supreme Championship at the Arabian Breeders World Cup, like elder sister Valentino’s Angel MI, as well as the highest continental honours of Australian National Gold Champion Senior Stallion once returned home, now fully on duty as resident chief sire for Mulawa. While Always An Angel has also produced two champion geldings – Aston MI (by MI Klassique) and Kall MI (by Klass) – it is her son, Author MI (by Allegiance MI), that looks to extend her legacy most profoundly beyond her trio of full siblings by DA Valentino. Already a successful show horse himself as East Coast Reserve Champion

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In the grand tradition of the eldest daughters from the M Angelique Family paving the way for each new generation, it should come as no surprise that Always Valentine MI has proven herself the stellar producer and most significant contributor to Mulawa Angelica’s fourth generation of enduring influence. As her dam proved to be an ideal nick with DA Valentino, Always Valentine has proven to be an equally efficacious cross with resident supersire Allegiance MI (Magnum Forty Four x Audacia by Parkview Audacious), setting the trend for Mulawa’s newest “Golden Cross”. With an impressive eight full siblings to her credit, Always Valentine has already established herself as an Aristocrat Dam of four champions and counting, including Australian National Gold Champion Vain MI (2018), East Coast Reserve Champion Valor MI (2020) and multi-champion halter and saddle athlete Vantage MI (2014). Two of the flamboyant full sisters – Versai MI (2017) and Viva MI (2018) – now reside in Victoria with Nikki Davis and Vicki Lewis, respectively, while a third, Admire MI (2018), has been retained as an eventual replacement for her distinguished dam. The banner carrier, however, for this generation of aspiring show and breeding stars is eldest sister A Vision MI (2016), a prophetically named, improbably gorgeous MULAWA DARK ANGEL

MULAWA ANGELICA AND HER GREAT-GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER A VISION MI WITH GREG, JULIE AND JANE. THE MATRIARCH AND THE INGÉNUE, LIVING PROOF OF AN INSPIRING FIVE GENERATIONS OF UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO THE ARABIAN BREED, AND TO THE BRILLIANT REIMAGINATION OF THE DISTINCTLY AUSTRALIAN FAMILY INITIATED BY M ANGELIQUE.

chestnut that stands at the pinnacle of Mulawa breeding excellence to date. Her wildly popular wins as East Coast Champion and Australian National Gold Champion Yearling Filly, the latter win by unanimous consent after achieving highest score of the show honours, set the stage for ascendance within the international arena in the ownership of Sheikh Mohammad bin Saud Al Qasimi. Competing close to home for Albidayer Stud in the United Arab Emirates as a young three year old, A Vision earned the Gold Junior Filly Championship in back-to-back captivating performances at both the Sharjah and Dubai International Shows, the latter a major title show of the highest global prestige. Most poignantly, A Vision was sashed Bronze Champion Junior Filly at the All Nations Cup a few months later. Early in 2021, A Vision blessed Sheikh Mohammad with the first of her progeny, a stunning chestnut filly named Vision Albidayer, sired by the homebred Wahaj Al Bidayer (Versace x Baila de Joon OS by Ajman Moniscione). The Mulawa Angelica legacy is also expanding within the Mulawa programme with the get of Vangelis MI. His initial modest foal crops in 2019 and 2020 have resulted in several promising daughters and sons, with the first of his progeny, Van Halen MI (out of A Love Note MI by Allegiance MI) already achieving in the show ring for owners Nina and Phil Crowhurst. Vangelis appears to be a reliable cross with the daughters of Magnum Forty Four, Allegiance MI and Klass, with the expectation that his daughters will

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comprise the next aspiring collection of breeding superstars within the broodmare band at Mulawa. Most remarkably, across five generations from Mulawa Angelica, to Angel Of Fame and Always An Angel, and further through Always Valentine MI to A Vision MI, each of the standard-setting females has been the eldest daughter born to her dam. This fortuitous sequence of events allowed all five generations to exist at one time within the Mulawa programme, with Angel Of Fame and Always An Angel in retirement at BelleVue in Tasmania, Always Valentine MI in residence as a premier broodmatron at Alabama, and the eldest and youngest close to home in Berrilee, Mulawa Angelica fulfilling nanny duties for Mulawa Performance and A Vision MI in show prep with Team Mulawa. To have lived in the presence of Mulawa Angelica for nearly three decades was a privilege everyone at Mulawa still treasures immeasurably. She was the essential connection of past with present, the critical step forward that has decisively facilitated Mulawa’s modern day success both at home and abroad. Though her physical presence is no longer with us, her spirit endures, still flourishing in the abundantly pleasing phenotypes of her many generations of beloved descendants that enrich the Arabian breed. Farewell, sweet Angel. You have, most assuredly, earned your heavenly wings… Author Scott Benjamin Images courtesy of Stuart Vesty

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CONTINUING THE ARABIAN DREAM

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NAAJMI CONTINUING THE ARABIAN DREAM

or the past 53 years, Tanya Hawley has been a breeder of Purebred Arabians. Like all breeding programs, the ebb and flow of life has resulted in certain milestones that have helped define moments, or eras, that have chaptered the Hawley Arabians’ story. The purchase of foundation mare Naadirah in 1969 and her untimely death in 1981, the birth of Nara in 1970, the publication of ‘NAADIRAH The Arabian Dream’ in 1983, the expansion from Dural in NSW to the charming Gippsland area of Victoria, then the death of a partner and cherished mares, combined with the relentless march of time, have led to the closing chapter in the story of Hawley Arabians…Naajmi (BP Naajman x Nakourah).

T Naazifah is an interesting mare to bring back into the Hawley Arabians’ breeding program. Born in 1985, she was the third full sibling produced by breeding National winning Naazirah (Mustafa x Naadirah) to the exciting imported El Shaklan son, Simeon Sa’ar (ex Damirah), the others being East Coast and Challenge Champion Mare T Naazarah, and the unshown beauty Naazika. Fate would determine that the then yearling Naazifah would begin her life with one of the success stories of the time, Kerrilyn Arabians. In her only showring appearance she rewarded her new owner with a first at the National Stud Horse Show in the hotly contested Yearling Filly class, shown by Michael Larkin. Her first progeny, a chestnut colt by the El Shaklan son, Amir El Shaklan (ex Sascha (DE)) was Kerrilyn Ibn Amir, who was exported to the United Kingdom. While his show record there is unclear, he is best known today for siring the mare Halina Shaklana, foundation mare for Georgian Arabians and granddam of British National Champion Stallion SG Imagine (WH Justice x SG Hessta Shaklana)… a combination of bloodlines not unlike Naajmi here in Australia.

A glowing chestnut, with a flaxen mane and tail and thin stripe along her delicate face, Naajmi is somewhat reminiscent of several of her well-known relatives yet has a look that is uniquely her own.

Deceptively tall, most likely due to her impressive breadth of chest and depth of girth, Naajmi is a fine representation of the tapestry that Tanya has been weaving over the past five decades.

Ibn Sterling Shaklan by the ill-fated Sterling Shaklan, and reportedly an extremely beautiful grey mare by Anaza El Nizr, Glen Eden Naazara, who sadly did not breed on. It was not until she was an aged mare that Byrnlea Park procured Naazifah and bred two foals from her by Ajman Moniscione via embryo transfer, thus ensuring her continued influence within the breed. The sire of Naazifah, Simeon Sa’ar was from the first foal crop by El Shaklan. He became an important sire and was himself Champion Stallion at the National Stud Horse Show here in Australia. His dam Damirah (Hadban Enzahi x Hamdi) was purchased at Marbach in Germany by Marion Richmond of Simeon Stud, and she became an Australian Champion Mare. Before Damirah was imported she was bred to the then up-andcoming young colt El Shaklan to produce her first foal, Simeon Sa’ar, who was born in England. Interestingly, Damirah and Sa’ar travelled to Australia alongside another

Throughout her life, Naazifah produced eight further registered progeny, among them the bay stallion

When one glances at the immediate pedigree of Naajmi, it is clear the mare carries the blood of many of Tanya’s most cherished and successful horses including Naadirah’s most influential daughters Nara and Naazirah and their progeny, mixed with a sprinkling of the world’s most prominent sires, tracing back on the sire line to the one and only Aswan (Nazeer x Yosreia), sire of Naadirah.

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‘I had long admired Ajman Moniscione,’ begins Tanya, ‘and tried to breed one of my mares to him via frozen semen many years ago, but it was not to be. When a son of his was born, not too far from my farm and from a mare that I had bred, he seemed to be the logical next step in my breeding program.’

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Naajmi is sired by the striking chestnut stallion BP Naajman, bred and owned by Byrnlea Park Arabians in Victoria. A rare combination of size and extreme beauty, the lofty and elegant BP Naajman inherited much of his beauty from his internationally renowned sire Ajman Moniscione (WH Justice x Anthea Moniscione), while his size and power are a direct product of his dam, T Naazifah (Simeon Sa’ar x Naazirah).

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Marbach-bred mare Sascha (Saher x Smoky) and her chestnut colt by El Shaklan, Amir El Shaklan, bred by Peter and Vivienne Hall. Four generations back in the pedigree of Naajmi one can find Hawley Arabians’ foundation mare Naadirah (GB), Champion Foal at Kempton Park in the UK, National Stud Horse Show Grand Champion Female here in Australia and foundress of a dynasty. On the third line, one finds two lines to her daughter Naazirah, by Mustafa (Hadban

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Enzahi x Masarrah), certainly one of the most successful broodmares of all time at Hawley Arabians, a National Stud Horse Show winner and unbeaten under saddle. Naazirah is the dam of T Naazifah and the 1996 Unanimous Australian National Stud Horse Show Champion Stallion Naavah, sired by Vision (Jamil x Euni). It was Naavah, together with one of Tanya’s all-time favourite mares, Supreme Champion Nazli (El Shareef x Nara)

who produced the delicate chestnut filly Nakourah, who would grow to move hearts and minds with her beauty and personable nature and become the mother of the subject of our story. A tall chestnut mare of whimsey-like beauty, Nakourah was unshown however she was broken to saddle and enjoyed her time being ridden. She is the full sister to the well-known bay stallion Nazzai, with whom she spent a lifetime bond. Tanya had always

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thought of her as ‘the baby’ of the herd, and thus she was in her teens before she was bred for the first time, producing the filly Nourah, by Naa’Zahar (Vision x Naazirah).

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At 19 years of age, she was again bred to produce Naajmi, who would be her final foal, and the last foal born at Hawley Arabians. ‘I’ve been winding down the stud since the death of Nazelle in 2008,’ says Tanya, ‘finding partnerships for the younger mares and giving the elder mares and stallions the retirement they deserve. Now, with one young mare left, it seems appropriate to have her taken care of by people I trust and enjoy spending time with.’ Like her mother, Naajmi has been broken to saddle and enjoys being ridden. Much like her great granddam Nara and granddam Nazli, Naajmi has a great sense of humour, and time spent with her is often punctuated with laughter as she steals a sponge while being washed or opens the feedroom door to help herself to a bag of carrots. ‘Naajmi is indeed a character, and while it might seem that she may be the last, my hope is she is more likely to be known specifically as the last foal to be born on the Hawley Arabians property…. as there is no longer a Hawley Arabians’ property! With the property now sold Naajmi is in the loving care of Louise Flores at Matcham, NSW. Louise will be remembered as the one who guided Naajmi’s grandsire Naavah to his many show successes, culminating in unanimous Australian Champion Stallion in 1996. ‘Louise is entranced by the many likenesses to Naavah – not just the chestnut coat colour. It is the superior intelligence, her spirit, her quirky character, that reminds of Naavah. She can be a snorty show off one moment, followed by a calm and well-mannered companion the next. She is always interested in what her humans are doing and enjoys their company.’

Interview with Tanya Hawley Images courtesy of Tanya Hawley & Jennifer Ogden

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Tanya Hawley is one of my absolute favourite people, someone I admire greatly, and although she may be ready for this next phase of her life, I am not quite sure I am ready for her to quit breeding Arabians just yet. When quizzed about this, Tanya replies, ‘I am a breeder for life. Arabians have been my life’s work, my passion, and the tapestry is never truly finished.’ And thus, it appears that Naajmi may indeed have the opportunity to make her mark for Hawley Arabians.

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Boxwood Estate

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BOXWOOD ESTATE BRINGING A DREAM TO LIFE

With a passion for beauty, learning and connection, Jessica Bollen is a young breeder whose determination has her on the path to success.

ocated in the heart of Victoria’s northeastern cropping country about half an hour south of the Murray River, Boxwood Estate is home to a small Purebred Arabian stud. Named after the grey, yellow and white Box trees indigenous to the area, my husband and I moved here from Melbourne chasing affordable real estate, enough room for his trucks and transport business and of course room for our beloved horses. I’ve always been horse mad. However, it wasn’t until around 14 years of age I discovered Arabians. My story is like so many others…forever changed by Tanya Hawley’s book, Naadirah the Arabian Dream. I spent many lunch breaks in the school library memorising every part of the book. I couldn’t get over the beauty of the horses and the love story between a young girl from country Australia, her beloved mare and the dynasty they created together. The book left an impression on me that would last a lifetime. It would take a number of years before my own Arabian dream came to life. I was involved with Quarter Horses and the Western world, and pursuing my career in the little town of Warragul, Victoria. There, I had the pleasure of dealing with a customer who was a recent migrant from NSW. She was the most curious thing… so dainty, well-spoken and completely unpretentious…she quickly became my favourite client.

pretty heads, large nostrils, elegant necks and beautifully balanced bodies. Tanya arranged for one of her mares, Mimrah (Nazzai x Maaza) to run loose in the arena. I was blown away, I didn’t know horses could move like that! She somehow floated and powered across the arena floor in a display of contrasts; fire and explosion, combined with poise, grace and elegance. Hawley Arabians and Tanya Hawley are subsequently entwined in our story. So much so that in 2008, when my husband and I married, our wedding ceremony and reception were held on the grounds of Hawley Arabians. The stud was the perfect location. Tanya had turned an old run-down dairy farm into a grand estate, with impressive trees and expansive lawns, and fairytale white Arabian mares. It was ideal for an early November wedding and of course a memorable twist in my story with Arabian horses. My first Arabian was an on-farm lease at Hawley Arabians. Nahla’s Mahabbah (Shahir Ibn Naadella x Nahla) was a tall, sensible and highly trainable mare who relished in her elevated status of the riding

horse for the new girl. For the next two years, I visited Hawley Arabians a couple of times a week, indulging my teenage dreams and getting to know all of the horses well. The first Arabian I owned was a gelding sired by Nazzai, out of Nyraanah (Alii x Naadella). Nevel grew to be a big, solid and very fun companion. This was my first time living with Arabians and it’s where I fully understood the loyalty and companionship Arabians give their special person. When Nevel’s full brother Al Shebet was born a couple of years later, he also joined us because, let’s face it, one just isn’t enough! He still resides with us now and is, as far as he is concerned, King of Boxwood Estate. He is the reliable, calm, riding horse for visitors, no matter their riding abilities. After moving to our current location, we purchased our first Arabian mare Cover of Vogue (Vegas x Niecha). Cover of Vogue was bred by the Roach brothers of Sunvue Arabians from Baddaginnie in North East Victoria and this connection was the beginning of an ongoing friendship with Ian Roach.

NAHLENAH (SABTAH NASSOR X NAHLIA) OPPOSITE PAGE JESSICA & SALAM DARK IMAGE

Can you imagine my delight on that very first visit? Not only was I able to view my favourite stallion Nazzai (Naavah x Nazli) in the flesh, but here I was, looking at the descendants of the actual horses from the book. I was awestruck. The horses had the biggest eyes I had ever seen, refined and

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Within time I made the unbelievable connection that this lady was actually the writer of my most treasured book, Tanya Hawley. Through the years, I had maintained my connection to the Arabian horse via the annual Arabian Studs & Stallions and the impact of this serendipitous connection grew as it became apparent the Hawley horses I had been following throughout the years were living only minutes from where I was based at the time. A visit to Hawley Arabians was promptly arranged.

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Though Sunvue Arabians have since wound up their stud, Ian now visits me a number of times a year and enjoys watching the next generations of horses featuring the bloodlines he admires. His visits are filled with conversations about pedigrees and reflecting on the traits of many of the great horses some of us could only wish to have seen in real life, and I am flattered when he sees their likeness in my horses. Not long after Cover of Vogue arrived, an opportunity presented itself to purchase a little filly that I used to play with in the earlier years of my time at Hawley Arabians. Nahlia is by Nazzai, the same sire as my beloved geldings, and from Nahlanah, a special daughter of Naavah and Nahla’s Mahabbah, the mare I rode at Hawley Arabians all that time ago. Now a mature mare and located in Western Australia, she was soon making her way back to Victoria to Boxwood Estate. Nahlia is the classic white fairytale Arabian mare,

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with the amazing movement her family are well known for. My goal and vision for my stud was essentially to recreate what had made my adventure so meaningful to me. I wanted to create a foundation whose pedigrees featured horses from the Naadirah Family ensuring a consistency of qualities and traits I had come to know and love. I wanted the Arabian Dream to continue and I was determined to play a part. From there, with a foundation built upon that legacy, I intend on extending out to create my own story. In 2014 Tanya and I undertook a stud tour in New South Wales with the goal of visiting and viewing in person a stallion I wished to breed my two mares to, Sabtah Nassor (Desperado x Clifton Park Nefisa) of Salam Arabians. It was such a great adventure, not only being able to spend time with such an experienced breeder so willing to share

their many years of experience and learnings, but to see how other people run their studs and to view stallions in the flesh. We visited Forest Hill Arabians, Eagleridge Arabian Farm, Diamond Road Arabians and Salam Arabians. Sabtah Nassor did not disappoint, and so the mares were duly bred and in time gave birth within three days of each other in early December 2015, each blessing us with a beautiful filly. We named Nahlia’s grey filly Nahlenah, and the bay filly from Cover of Vogue, Nayeli. Nahlenah has matured into a most impressive young mare, with the same powerful movement of her mother, along with such lovely, kind eyes. She has been broken to saddle and is a wonderful ridden horse, however she is of course destined to continue this branch of her family and for us, she is our future. We expect she will play a pivotal role in not only the continuation of the Naadirah family but will also be where our breeding plans are focussed. Nayeli has developed into a deep bodied, exciting saddle horse. Incredibly smart, her trainer was able to harness her intelligence in such an effective manner that she progressed her education beyond just the basics, laying the foundation for a Western Pleasure career.

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While visiting Eagleridge Arabian Farm in 2014, Tanya and I saw a stallion whom we admired greatly, Fazaar ERA. He is out of the Nazzai daughter Nehima (x Neshika) and by Afrikah ERA (Sanadik El Shaklan x Arabian Park Egyptian Echo) and is to me, the most true to my ideal Arabian I have ever seen. No other stallion has ever moved me like Fazaar ERA did, and like meeting Mimrah, I had another ‘blown away’ moment. I had found a stallion I could use next and the plans for laying the foundation of my stud seemed to be coming together.

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My first foals were such a seamless experience that I now fear at times I may have used up all my luck. Since that time, Boxwood Estate has been trying to expand our program via various means, with no positive outcomes. Our attempts to use Fazaar ERA have not yet been realised; delayed couriers, an aborted foal, placentitis and most profoundly of all, the loss of a beautiful filly from Nahlia. Nahlia wasn’t the only mare we tried breeding to Fazaar ERA. There were many attempts with our other mare, Nurelee Zaafina. Zaafina, at the time of purchasing her, was a 16-year-old maiden. A beautiful bay mare with a luscious long black mane, huge eyes, extreme femininity and the sweetest disposition of any horse I’ve

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Boxwood Estate ––– Breeders of purebreds whose pedigrees feature The Naadirah Family, continuing the dream –––

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had the pleasure of living with. Zaafina’s sire, Nurelee Zadran is out of the Hawleybred mare, Latifa Bint Naazirah (Vision x Naazirah). Now, after years of trying, it has become apparent that for Zaafina, motherhood is not part of her destiny. I’m sure most can relate that after so much disappointment and heartbreak trying to move the stud forward, I wanted to give up, sell most of the horses and really downsize. However it wasn’t long before my grief was parked and I was inspired to begin again. I was ready to bring my dream to life, and I purchased my own stallion, Salam Dark Image (Windsor Park Ibn Bayang x Hartz Naadja), thinking that live cover would give me greater potency and not leave me at the mercy of unreliable couriers or unavailable stallion owners. I first saw Dark Image while visiting Terry Hardcastle of Salam Arabians in 2014. Though we were there to see Sabtah Nassor, Dark Image left an impression that remained with me. He possesses that same kind, gentle, loyal temperament so endeared to me by the Hawley-bred horses, a large, kind eye, wonderful conformation and the most exceptional movement. Arabians

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are known for exceptional movement, yet occasionally you come across one who really has superior movement…Dark Image is one of those horses. Interestingly, Nayeli and Salam Dark Image share the same grandsire in their dam line – Clifton Park Naadar (Nile x Nazli), coincidentally owned by the Roach brothers of Sunvue Arabians. The calm, sensible natures of both Nayeli and Salam Dark Image continually impress us. We plan on breeding Nayeli to Salam Dark Image expecting offspring suitable for the more mature rider looking for pretty, calm, easy going, trainable horses. The delay in progress of offspring for the stud has meant that many of the dreams of training, showing, educating and just generally getting out there, being seen and getting known have been delayed, although we have used the time we have to focus on progressing the saddle careers of our first born fillies. Along with competing, financial priorities like fencing, a planned barn and arena, career and so on all mean Boxwood Estate currently has a low profile in the Australian Arabian horse community. Not everything has gone

according to plan but that doesn’t mean the dream has waned. The good news is that this year, it’s possible our luck is finally turning around, and I have two mares settled in foal. Dark Image has one foal due this year out of Nahlia, and her daughter Nahlenah is in foal to an exciting young stallion of Polish bloodlines, Moondarra El Tessara (Pogrom x El Tessa). One of the key lessons imparted to me by those who’ve been in the Arabian horse industry much longer than I have, is the importance of seeing the horses yourself. Of making the time to visit studs, reducing reliance on photography and making an assessment with your own eye. To that end, over the years I’ve had the pleasure of visiting quite a few studs and meeting a number of you and your beautiful horses. Each visit is treasured and contributes to my learning and the development of my friendships with you. Australian Arabian breeders have much to be proud of, hopefully together we can secure the future of the Arabian horse for our country. Author Jessica Bollen Images courtesy of David Gillett & Nicole Emanuel

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Ulyssia A SUPERSTAR IS BORN

lyssia’s story began thirty nine years ago with the purchase of Fenwick Ramona (Fabulous x Renura). It was in the autumn of 1982 that I purchased her from Fenwick Stud, in partnership with my friend Greg Dallaway. A few years later I married my husband, Graeme, and we purchased twenty acres in Longwarry, the heart of dairy country in Gippsland, Victoria. We subsequently purchased Greg’s share of Ramona and there began some of the best years of my life. Graeme’s idea of horsepower was rather different to mine, as he had owned, built and successfully raced drag cars for some years. At that stage, he was building and racing HQ Holdens at the Thunderdome in Calder, and I decided that I needed a little part time job to fund my Arabian passion. In August 2021 I will have been at Burra Foods in Korumburra for twenty three years…what started as a ‘little part time job’ finished up as a full-blown career in the dairy industry, and even created travel opportunities. I was born in Scotland, and I think from the time I could walk and talk the only thing that mattered was horses. While we could never afford one, I made sure that my friends had one, and cultivated those friendships religiously so that I’d be able to ride and

share in all things horsey! We emigrated to Australia when I was fourteen and, come hell or high water, I was going to have a horse. I sallied forth with my lifetime savings of eighty dollars (from birthday money and part time jobs) and purchased a chestnut gelding named Sheikh. Though unregistered, he had substantial Arabian blood, and that was enough for me, however I swore that one day I would have a Purebred. Fenwick Ramona was my first Purebred and, while she wasn’t purchased as a future broodmare, her progeny were useful, smart and quite successful show horses who were much enjoyed and loved by their owners. She produced five colts (all gelded) and one filly, Romance ‘n’ Roses, sired by the imported Straight Egyptian sire Monteego Bay. I had much admired Monteego Bay, and had not been entirely happy with the results of my previous breeding choices for Ramona, so after delving into various crosses and bloodlines, I determined that perhaps the Egyptian/Crabbet cross was the way to go. While she let us know that the showring was not for her, she retired with a few wins and Supremes under her belt. I have never been interested in breeding for the sake of breeding, so Rosie was bred to a Welsh Pony for her first foal in 2002, then

produced a gelding by Malabu in 2007 and a filly by Malabu in 2009. In 2013, she produced her last foal Narcisse, a filly by BP Naajman (Ajman Moniscione x T Naazifah). I am very lucky to have been friends with Denis and Dianne Hewat for over thirty years and have always enjoyed visiting and catching up with them as frequently as our busy lives allowed. When Naajman was born, he stole a piece of my heart, and when he was at a breeding centre only a few kilometres from home, I took a chance and bred Rosie to him. Sixteen days later, Cameron Hinkley arrived to scan Rosie and advised that, while there was an embryo, he wasn’t sure that it was viable. After much discussion, we decided to do nothing, wait a week and rescan. A week later, lo and behold, we had a nice, healthy little twenty-three-day embryo and a very happy vet! Narcisse arrived in January 2013, a little bit windswept, but otherwise in good health. She went to Jayne Bellchambers as a two-year-old for halter training and a few shows, winning her classes at the WDARAB Inc. Arabian Spectacular and the Victorian Arabian Classic. Despite these early successes, however, Narcisse obviously found the show environment stressful. She wasn’t happy, so we made the decision that

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there’d be no more shows in her future, and brought her home to a life of leisure. I hadn’t thought much about breeding Narcisse, but scrolling through Facebook one day I noticed that Jason Hodgins and Jess Wilson of JH Training were offering some breeding packages to Ulysium, their young colt who was, at that stage, still in the USA. After some investigation into Ulysium’s breeding, I managed to bully local friend Jason Lucas into joining me in the purchase of a breeding package. Ulyssia was born on a beautiful, sunny afternoon in September 2018. I thought she looked alright, and Narcisse certainly found that motherhood was far more to her liking than the showring had been. Jayne visited about a week later to take some photos, and it wasn’t until I’d received those photos and had a good look that I thought to myself ‘gee, you’re not too bad, are you’. I didn’t really know Jason Hodgins particularly well before Ulyssia went to him for training and show preparation. I’d judged his horses at some shows and bought a few breedings from him but I wasn’t sure that I liked him all that much, and I don’t think he liked me that much either. However, he and Jess Wilson were professional to deal with, and that was fine by me. Jason finally managed to meet Ulyssia between my work commitments and his at his new training location at Hideaway Farm

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I will be forever grateful to Jason for what he has done for Ulyssia and myself; he has gone above and beyond to enable her to fulfil her potential. Everything that he has done has been in her best interests, and you only have to look at them together to see how much she adores him – for Ulyssia, nobody else exists while Jason is around. I would also like to think that Jason and Jess now number among my dearest friends. Ulyssia created quite the stir at her first few shows. She was High Point Horse at the 2019 Double Diamond, Supreme Female at the 2019 Victorian Classic and 2020 East Coast Champion Yearling Filly. Her final and greatest yearling triumph was Gold Champion Yearling Filly at the 2020 Australian Arabian National Championships and she repeated this remarkable feat when she was awarded Gold Champion Junior Filly at the 2021 Championships.

When I have time, I enjoy judging, sponsoring and helping at shows. I’ve assisted in the running of the AANC between 2015 and 2021 with the same team of dedicated people and receive a great feeling of satisfaction from being able to assist in any way that I can. In the next couple of years I am hoping to reduce my numbers, although the senior ladies will remain with me to enjoy retirement. I have a couple of nice geldings and a lovely colt by Justin MI that need caring new homes, so perhaps four sounds like a good number for my ‘downsized’ years. There are, however, some exciting opportunities coming up in the next year or so, and I’m hoping those will come to fruition. There are many people I admire in the Arabian horse world in Australia, including David Ross, Marion Richmond, Tanya Hawley, the Farrell family, Scott Benjamin, Allan Preston, Jason Hodgins and Jayne Bellchambers. Of particular note is one of my dearest friends, Katherine McMahon, who is an organiser extraordinaire, generous friend and tyrant. I have also drawn inspiration from overseas, especially from Lenita Perroy, Sheila Varian and Sigi Siller, who all followed their aspirations and gloried in the results. My advice for breeding, for what it’s worth, is to choose your female carefully. Study bloodlines, choose your path, listen to established breeders that you respect, ask questions and follow your dreams. I hope that you may be as fortunate as I have been, and breed a Ulyssia of your very own. Author Sheila Jones Images courtesy of Diane Hewat, Nicole Emanuel & Samantha Taylor

Today, Ulyssia still seems to be at JH Training avoiding the Gippsland winters! Meanwhile, we are expecting a full sibling to Ulyssia in November and can only hope that we might be so lucky as to blessed with another as special as she is. I don’t breed many foals a year, and in fact think I’ve probably bred fewer than thirty foals in more than forty years of owning Purebred Arabians. I tend to not even use my prefix (Istashra) when registering my foals, mainly because I like short, catchy names. I always think that if people are interested in who bred the horse, they’ll look it up. I enjoy breeding but I try not to overbreed, partly because I worry that perhaps I’ll find some of my horses finishing in less than desirable homes.

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in the north of Victoria. He arrived and we wandered up to the mares for an inspection. She was nearly ready to wean but when he looked at her he didn’t say much. I didn’t say much either. After a few prolonged silences, I asked if he had a yearling filly for the coming season, and he said he didn’t. I asked if he’d be interested in taking this one and he said he wouldn’t mind. I secretly thought that she might be special, although I hadn’t mentioned that to anyone, and Jason thought the same. I have to laugh to myself when I think back on that day – we were like a couple of very poor poker players!

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ast swathes of ochre outback, dramatic coastline, first class vineyards, and historic towns and cities…you’ll find all this and more in South Australia, most notably some of Australia’s most wonderful Arabian horses. Covering some of the most arid parts of the country, it should hardly come as a surprise that Arabian horses thrive in this region…albeit most live in the more fertile areas of the state, each as picturesque and astounding to the eye as the next. A native to South Australia, Shane Farrell of Mabrook Stud is currently studying for a BA in Indigenous Community Development. He has lived both interstate and overseas, even spending some time working at the famed Forest Hill Stud in NSW, however South Australia will ‘always be home’. The stud is named with an Arabic word, literally translated it means ‘congratulations’ however it can loosely be used as a term of goodwill. ‘I named the stud because of

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my love of Arabian horses and the Arabic language, knowing that at some point I would be diverting from my Welsh B and Arabian Pony Breeding program to return to breeding purebreds. ‘At fifteen years old I bought a palomino gelding of unknown breeding, who gave me the confidence to take on anything. We were hugely successful in the hack ring and dressage arena, then after meeting Gill Harding, I became more interested in showing ponies and at halter.’ Shane did purchase for a time the purebred stallion Hillsley Park Ethan (Wellworth Djebl x Glenferrie Soraya), who played a huge role in his developing love of the Arabian, however it would be many years before he would own another purebred. Mabrook Stud was registered as a stud in 2016. ‘Our first mare was a beautiful Part Arabian mare called PB Coco Chanel, bred by Pernilla Butters by the Section B Welsh Stallion Salient Master Bronze out of the

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beautiful Part Arabian Diamonds ‘N’ Lace (Jahahan Ezram x Beetaloo May). We are a small stud with only four Welsh B and two Purebred Arabian mares. All mares are currently in foal.’

Lipa. This year at the Australian Arabian National Championships both placed in the top ten, and to have a horse I had bred compete successfully at this level gave me immense pride.’

Another young South Australian native with a history with derivatives who has recently made the switch to purebreds is Nikki Frisby of Rosebury Arabians. Growing up in the Adelaide Hills with a very supportive mother in the form of Debbie Frisby and an Arabian Pony mare named Leica Tch DantiLini (Cherox Tchaikovsky x Leica Mystic Shar-Lini) gave Nikki the opportunity to hone her ability with handling horses, and a lifetime love for the Arabian.

Although Nikki is only just at the beginning of purchasing a group of mares for her stud, at the 2020 East Coast Championships she was so taken by a striking chestnut colt about to head into the ring that she simply had to find out more. ‘He was ticking all the right boxes to be my next saddle horse. He wasn’t just tall with a pretty face and a big front, he also had great legs and feet, and he exuded style and class. I guess the judges agreed, as a few minutes after I met him, he was awarded Champion Junior Purebred Colt!’

‘In 2016 I was able to make a long-held dream come true when I bought the mare Pravia MI (Guiliano x Parada) in foal to Allegiance MI (Magnum Forty Four x Audacia), who produced a chestnut filly, Rosebury Prucia. In 2019 I sent her and her dam to Mulawa to be prepared for the show season. Being my first interstate show with my own horses entered, I was quite nervous and went without expectation, however I was so thrilled when Pravia MI was sashed East Coast Reserve Champion Senior Mare while Prucia was fifth in the yearling filly class, shown by Mariusz

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Marc of Magnifficoo (Echos of Marwan x Briarwoods Sarah Beth) now calls Rosebury Arabians home. ‘Within a few weeks of arriving at the farm, he had outside mares arriving on agistment ahead of the 2020 breeding season who are safely in foal, and we are also awaiting a couple from our own specially chosen ladies including Audrey H JCA (Falcon BHF x Von Herte Only One).’ An auditor by trade, Nikki credits her profession with giving her enough time

between busy periods to spend with her horses. ‘I enjoy breaking and educating young horses when time permits, having taken on a few over the last few years. My mother has recently bought a purebred gelding to enjoy in the show ring and at home, so I look forward to spending time together doing what we both love.’ One of the most important aspects to the Arabian show ring for Nikki is support from and for others. ‘I recall standing ringside as a young junior at the SA Arabian Championships, when a gentleman introduced himself as Kevin Howard. Within a few weeks, he had encouraged Mum and I to fly to the East Coast Arabian Championships in Sydney to spectate, where he also introduced us to the Farrell family at Mulawa Arabian Stud and “the bug was caught”. It may have taken a few years to make it back to the interstate shows with my own horses, but had he not reached out that day, I would not have had the guidance and support from him over the years, to make it this far. ‘Support is so important, not necessarily only from the professionals, but from other competitors and owners. We all share the same passion and it’s up to all of us to make it enjoyable for each other. Reaching out

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to someone, particularly someone who is young or new, can be invaluable to their journey forward in the breed.’ Another stud in South Australia with a family focus is Arreton Arabians, breeding purebred and derivative performance horses. I first spoke to Jessie and Pom from Arreton just last year for Arabian Studs & Stallions, and was so impressed with her commitment to proving that the Arabian is both a functional and beautiful animal. ‘Temperament, trainability and versatility are incredibly important to us, and many hours of research are put into any breeding we do. Horses we have bred are competing and training in a wide range of disciplines from harness to rossfechten (mounted sword fighting), dressage, show jumping, endurance, cattle work and pony club events. They are also seen out on trail rides, enjoying the scenery with their riders.’ The farm is named after a village on The Isle of Wright, from where Jessie’s family come from and Pom’s would holiday as a child. Located on the edge of the Barossa, the combined breeding program began in 2009, however their history with horses goes back somewhat further. There are a number of lines represented in the stud, each as important as the other, however Jessie

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singles out the mare Jakassa Serabi (Mirakh Hajjal x Temula) as ‘her queen’. While Jessie and Pom don’t measure their achievements based solely on awards, they have been incredibly successful with numerous Australian and Reserve Championships with their stallions, the purebred Malleegrove Mandalla and Arabian Pony Arreton Majnoun, and A-grade placings with Arreton Malakeh and Arreton Nabilah. ‘All of our home-bred horses have been awarded a state championship in at least one state, and the stallions have both taken them out over three states. ‘Malleegrove Mandalla has taken out the Versatility Award, at both state and national level, and had the incredible honour of being awarded the 2020 Australian Arabian Ambassador Award. In 2019 Malleegrove Mandalla was used for the Junior Driver class at the Adelaide Royal. The driver had a five minute warm up in the marshalling area, having never met Manny before, and won the class against stiff competition.’ Continuing this tradition of sharing their horses with others, the mare Arreton Malakeh has multiple juniors who share her for showing and pony club events, with sister Arreton Nabilah soon to be offering

the same. ‘We are always excited to see what the next adventure is, and are always happy to help those who are interested and would like to learn. ‘We love our amazing lifestyle in South Australia. Within approximately one hour’s drive in any direction we have the Clare Valley, kilometres of beaches, the stunning Adelaide Hills and the Murray River. We also have an incredible equine support network surrounding us. ‘We would love to see more people out there enjoying their horses, achieving their goals and sharing their successes. We have an amazing community and an incredible breed, and we hope everyone can work together and continue this into the future.’ Continuing the South Australian tradition of a family-run stud, Samphire Park began on a five acre allotment on the edge of the dunes and clay pans on the western side of Whyalla. Due to the nature of the landscape, saltbush, or more specifically ‘samphire’, grew in abundance…and thus the breeding program was named. Today, Samphire Park is run across two locations, with Beth and Terry situated at Hamley Bridge near Roseworthy and Kass and Darren at Monteith in the Murray Lands.

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Breeding both purebreds and derivatives, foundation stallion Azraq Tamojen (Arabesque Prizam x Baronet) left a legacy of purebreds, Australian Stock Horses and Australian Riding Ponies for the breeding program to go on with. Today, a purebred grandson Azraff Amir (Meadow View Valour x Samphire Park Philadelphia), and a son, the Arabian Riding Pony Samphire Park Castan Righ (from Sanlirra Divine) continue the tradition of producing all-round animals that can do anything their owners put them to.

and Kass are both involved in the SA Arabian Riders and Breeders Society, and Beth is also on the Balaklava Pony Club committee.

‘We admire breeders who aim to produce a useful animal. We would really like to see more encouragement at grass roots level for people who may not be wanting to show at National level, or have the prize-winning animal in halter. We celebrate our Arabians and Derivatives excelling as the pony club mount, or the family horse that has taught the district to ride over the years. These horses are the ones that make up a big portion of the population of our Arabians and they should be treasured.’

Located in Gawler, just outside the Barossa Valley, is one of South Australia’s longest running studs, Revlis Park Arabians. Carolyn Potts and her family have been breeding purebred Arabians since 1962, however have owned horses much longer after having settled in the region in 1838. ‘My family have had horses for five generations, so there were always horses and ponies around. There was a brown pony that we rode to school, and later she was bred to our parent’s stallion Maraja (Silver Cloud x Malinga) to produce a partbred, and thus my love for the Arabian began.’

The family is heavily involved in other activities in the horse world. Kass teaches a small group of students and is involved in the Mount Crawford Dressage Club; Beth

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When asked about South Australia, Kass replies, ‘South Australia has some of the best climate and farming land around. We are able to grow enough feed for all our livestock and have ample space for the horses to really be horses. And, let’s not forget the wine! Really, why would we want to live anywhere else?’

For many years the stud was one of the most prolific breeders in the state, however today

Revlis only breed purebreds for themselves. The stallion Fames Presence (Fame Maker R x Presence) is head stallion for the stud, and his gelding son Haraani Fames Standing Ovation has been an outstanding show horse for the farm with several championships to his name, including an Australian Championship Non Pro. ‘As a judge, I would like to see breeders and owners that are more objective in the evaluation of their own horses. I see too many leg and conformation faults that should not be included in any breeding program. I have been fortunate to have seen breeding programs around the world, which have given me a preference towards Spanish and Polish lines, and was fortunate to acquire the imported stallion Fad Bravo (US) (Sidi-Brahim x Fad-Aflame) in 1999. His last daughter, Tunamura Majeeda, from Jirrima Time for Glory (Ennerdale Nomad x Chip Chase Sinarli) is still with us, and she has produced two lovely fillies by Fames Presence who have both been retained. “I love living in South Australia. We have some of the best food and wine producing areas in Australia, if not the world, however the lack of an international class equestrian

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facility does offer setbacks for a horse breeding enterprise. Still, I would not want to live anywhere else…where else could I indulge my ultimate fantasy job as a food and wine critic!’ The final stud on our virtual tour of South Australia is Brechenridge, approximately one hour north east of Adelaide. ‘Brechenridge roughly translates to “Broken Ridge”,’ begins owner Stella Harbison. ‘Our farm in One Tree Hill is situated at the top of a string of ridges on the edge of the Mount Lofty Ranges. ‘I grew up in South Australia, then travelled and ridden all over the world and I honestly wouldn’t live anywhere else. We have some of the most beautiful scenery, farming land and riding country available to us in SA, along with that small country town feel in Adelaide. Sometimes South Australia does feel a little isolated especially in regards to the horse world, however that isolation has been a blessing for us all over the past 18 months!’ Together with sheep and cattle, Brechenridge breeds Arabians and Warmblood horses. ‘I started with a grumpy little one eyed pony as a kid, then moved up to a beautiful flea bitten grey purebred mare called Mirakh Hejira (Gahila Hamidi x Waveny Julia), from whom we still have a

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daughter. Having such an incredibly smart, strong willed mare when I was young was a blessing in disguise! ‘Some of my favourite bloodlines that feature in our breeding stock include Stefan (GB (Rangoon x Samara), Wenceslas (Nasmeshnik x Good Friday), Kevisan Park Kentucky Blue (Talawa x Arabesque Stardust), ZT Ali Baba (Moniet El Nafis x Imperial Al Ahbab), Chip Chase Sadaqa (Cherokee Mecca x Silala) and Princeton (Arabian Park Egyptian Magnetic x Arabian Princess). These names are all proven performance horses in their own right, and our horses have had a performance career either before breeding or alongside.’ Together with her business partner Dr Paul Lubbe, Stella is busy running the Adelaide Equine Breeding Centre. ‘Operating the breeding centre really opens up the doors to every aspect of the horse world. It’s beautiful to get hands-on with some of the best stallions South Australia has to offer.’ When not working, Stella has found time to accomplish some impressive goals with her horses. ‘I rode at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, USA and in 2019 I won the Australian FEI Endurance Championship to qualify to ride at the 2020 World Endurance Championships. I competed on a horse

that we bought as a foal, Minton East Chaucer (Musical Gully Allegro x Minton East Willows Gift), affectionately known as “Socks”. We now own Socks’ grandsire Suncrest Sadaqa’s Pride (Chip Chase Sadaqa x Ghabra), and have a paddock full of exciting youngstock coming up the ranks.’

South Australia… it’s a beautiful place indeed. And if you look further you’ll find a growing number of breeders producing exceptional horses, who are only too pleased for you to arrange a visit. Those who follow their inquisitiveness and visit the state are rewarded for their wonder. Whatever you are searching for, you may find it in South Australia, where ancient craggy peaks glow orange, towering boulders peter on Australia’s edge and outback pilots are the cowboys in the sky. That’s the thing about South Australia, you needn’t travel far in search of a little more. Images courtesy of Kerry Afford Photography, Kerry Frame, KH Photography, Samantha Taylor & Stella Harbison

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THE LEGACY OF COOLINDA PARK A woman who had such passion and dedication to have created a legacy that touched so many is an exceedingly difficult person to describe in just one article.

arole Hore was that type of woman. Her strength was enviable, her determination admired. Those that knew her well described her with such superlatives as ‘remarkable’, ‘knowledgeable’, ‘stoic’ and ‘courageous’. She had a passion that no obstacle could block and was tenacious in achieving her dream of producing a herd of Pure Polish Arabians that were both beautiful and functional. Her legacy is Coolinda Park and the Polish horses that she bred throughout her lifetime. When asked ‘why Polish Arabians?’ her answer was always much the same – ‘I breed

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Polish Arabians because of their stamina, trainable minds, correct conformation, their ability to adapt to any environment and circumstance, and their continuing outstanding beauty which has been proven in every show ring around the world, including Australia. Their presence and movement give you goose bumps!’ Coolinda Park have line bred to proven Polish performance lineage following the expertise and knowledge of the directors of the State Studs in Poland. Polish Arabians are constantly proven to be a horseman’s horse, with the ability to achieve great heights in whatever discipline their

owners set them to, and often at multiple disciplines. These extraordinary horses have withstood human interferences and have maintained their beauty and quality over the ages, emerging as survivors of wars, famine, floods and ‘owners’ whims’. Their heritage is not to be taken lightly. The history of the Polish Arabian horse is exceptional and the seeds that the modern Polish breeding programs sprang from were planted and nurtured during the 1500s. The Polish horses’ courage and boldness is well recognised, as was the devotion shown by their handlers throughout the ages. If not for this loyalty and dedication by the Polish grooms, combined with the

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Carole loved horses. Her parents did not have horses or have anything to do with them, so this love was indeed a blessing she was born with. Her childhood stories kept us entertained for hours, becoming an important part of our childhood in turn. Saving her pennies so she could hire a pony near Sorrento to take it for a ride, not realising the ride was only meant for a short time and that she was in a lot of trouble when she eventually came back later that day! All Mum wanted was a horse of her own and after being told that you needed a job to have a horse, she left school and got a job – and a horse! At 14 years old, horses became a permanent part of her life, with events every weekend and riding for miles every day. Mum loved competing in Novelties – breakneck speeds, twists and turns and what looked to others like something crazy on a horse. Anyone who can be galloping across the Greensborough Bridge, spot a 10 pound note on the ground and reach down and get it without breaking stride was either an extremely competent and courageous rider or a little bit crazy. Probably both! Mum’s greatest passion was for breeding a quality animal and learning pedigrees. There are scrapbooks of newspaper articles and photos of racehorses with all their breeding from when she was a child. Mum did all the hand serving on her own. Her stallions respected her and knew that she would only do her best for them. The mares spent so much time being with her that they treated her as one of them. Never any fuss and all went according to plan. Many times, when helping Mum to move the in-foal mares into their own paddock, I questioned why certain ones that hadn’t been bred were going with the others. ‘Well…. they were in season so I thought I would just see what would happen. And she is friends with this one, so they like to be together!’ Mum also foaled them all down. She was like a human foaling alarm. Without fail she checked those mares every two hours, or more often if needed, and was always there to help them.

There have been many winners and notable horses bred at Coolinda Park over the years. Mostly Polish Arabians but there was one mare of different bloodlines that we all loved, Coolinda Park Aflame (Amir El Shaklan UK x Orionette UK). Aflame was a beautiful horse to look at and be around. She excelled at halter and at one stage she started a saddle career for a couple of weeks. A prominent trainer had her in their stables at Penrith but sent her home because, in her words, halter horses this good are born, not made. Let her be what she was born to be. CP Aflame was a natural. Never professionally halter trained, she loved showing, especially if she had a foal at foot. She adored her foals. They could do no wrong and she could not bring herself to reprimand them in the paddock. They were mostly colts and it made for great times at weaning when they thought they could do whatever they liked! Her last foal was the Arabian Pony, Coolinda Park Aflame N Sin. He was bred to become granddaughter Emily’s pony, and he did that very well, giving Em lots of experiences and fun times.

was living in a chook shed on the outskirts of Melbourne. Barely able to stand from starvation and malnutrition, they loaded him on the float and he made it back to our farm at Coomboona. They did not expect him to survive the trip, but he is Polish, and they are tough! His long journey back to health was slow. At first, he would not eat unless someone stood with him. He had wounds on his hips from where they would bang on the side of the chook shed he was living in, and these wounds left scars that lasted his lifetime. For all that he went though, Lingxiu was a perfect gentleman. His progeny were outstanding and well and truly forged the way for the Polish horses in Australia. Lingxiu and his son Winds of Warr (ex Gedye Lastella) were the only father and son to win races, and both over 1600m. His daughter, Afling (ex Fairview Egyptian Fantasy), was Australian National Champion Mare and her full brother Provocative, won the Quilty. There are not a lot of sires who can claim such success and from only 46 registered progeny. Lingxiu was sired by Mexi DK (Exelsjor x Mimikra) from the immortal Banat daughter, Lillaine (iid UK).

When setting up the stud, Carole and Shelley travelled throughout Australia purchasing the best Polish Arabians they could find. A visit to Lillaine Gedye at Batlow soon had them bringing home more Polish Arabians than expected, many that Lillaine had imported and bred. The first Polish stallion to come to Coolinda Park was Lingxiu. At that time, Lillaine had leased Lingxiu and had lost track of him…Mum found him! He

Lillaine (iid UK), her mother Etelka (UK), together with her daughter Lilliana bint Lillaine (The General imp/exp US) were soon able to join Coolinda Park from Lillaine’s stud. Etelka (UK) travelled the world to bring some of the most influential Polish bloodlines at the time to Australia. Sired by Legend of Europe from the Gwarny daughter, Etyka, Etelka came to Australia from Great Britain, via USA, in foal at the

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Arabians’ great courage, stamina and trust in their handlers, they would never have survived the atrocities of World War II. In all possibility the Polish breeding programs would have been shattered.

In 1975 Coolinda Park was established in Northern Victoria where it co-existed with the family’s Coolinda Jersey Stud. Carole, Lionel and their three daughters, Shelley, Stella and Shannon all spent many years working the dairy farm and exhibiting at shows including Melbourne Royal. 1988 saw the dispersal of the Jerseys and an interstate move to Milton, NSW to concentrate on establishing further the Polish Arabians Carole so admired.

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time with a filly that can easily be described as the foundation to the whole of the Coolinda Park Polish breeding program, the aforementioned Lillaine. Lillaine (iid UK) was bred by Lillaine Gedye and was named after her as they shared the same birth date. Lillaine had a brilliant saddle career as a young mare including being invited to compete in the Salon du Cheval in France. In the current pedigrees at Coolinda Park, Lillaine and her daughters are never too far away. Crème Dynasty (US) was soon purchased as the next Pure Polish stallion and he lived up to his heritage and promise, sired by Aladdinn (Nuredinn x Lalage by Gerwazy) from Mi Daiclare (Fortel x Mortraza). Aladdinn stems from the Koheilan Haifi sire line, known for their great dispositions and ability to perform in classic athletic competition…just what Carole was looking for in her Polish Arabians. Crème Dynasty (US) accidentally started the black breeding program at Coolinda Park. He sired Coolinda Park Diamond Lil, who together with her mother, the Lingxiu daughter Xia Xiang, were both awarded Top Ten Mare at the Australian Championships in the same year. Diamond Lil’s daughter, Coolinda Park Texas Tilly is still at Coolinda Park along with the Crème Dynasty (US) daughter, Dancing in the Dark. Due to a terrible leg injury as a yearling, Crème Dynasty (US) was never able to be shown

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or saddle trained, however that didn’t stop him trotting around the paddock with a milkcrate on his head!

disappointed, and his progeny have been so successful in every aspect, and they continue to breed on.

Khundjur (UK) was welcomed to Coolinda Park in the 1990s. Also bred by Lillaine Gedye, his early career as a dressage mount proved what his pedigree said he could do – be a truly athletic horse. Sired by Legend of Europe and from the Banat daughter, Kula, Khundjur continued to be a performance horse and has bred this into his progeny. His granddaughter, Coolinda Park Hello Dolly, has bred some brilliant performance horses. They are immensely powerful race and endurance horses and follow in Dolly’s footsteps as Halter champions. CP Hello Dolly remains at Coolinda Park with her youngest son, Coolinda Park Wil’sson.

In 2000, Carole and Shelley made their first overseas trip to study the Polish horses. Weeks were spent viewing, talking and learning about horses they had only ever seen in magazines. During this time, they were taken to many places with George Z who introduced them to Emanor PASB (Wosjlaw x Emanacja). They were blown away with his phenomenal movement and his impressive, masculine beauty. They knew they wanted a son to be the next sire to follow on at Coolinda Park. WH Zmanor E arrived in 2001. With his huge, groundcovering trot, long slim neck and chiselled head, he soon proved himself as a sire with progeny winning in the show ring, endurance and racing.

Carole knew that she needed to source another stallion from outside Australia. She started researching, and gaining as much information as she could, which led her to Chronicle DV. Only a weanling at the time, Mum studied his pedigree over and over, and gathered everything she could find about his bloodlines, such as photographs of his family. She endlessly watched a short video of him trotting towards the camera and away from it. His legs were straight and his pedigree proven. Chronicle DV was the one. Sired by Wiersz (Tallin x Wiorsta), his dam is the beautiful Cosmopollytan (Bask Clasix x Widar). The first time Mum saw him was when he came off the plane from America. He never

In 2004, Carole and Shelley visited Poland to attend WAHO and tour studs that had produced the Arabians that they adored and spent their lives breeding. It was a dream come true! Mum was able to speak with the directors of the state studs and had private tours to visit with the horses and take photos. They were able to show and discuss the Coolinda Park horses with them and confirm they were heading in the right direction. It was during this trip they saw Wiliam (PL) when he had just retired from racing. Little did Mum know that she would one day be his owner with his progeny in her paddocks.

Shortly before the devastating loss of Shelley to breast cancer, Walidayt (US) was imported. Bred by Marsha Parkinson, he was sired by Ganges (Monogramm x Garonna) from the Arbil daughter, Weltawa. Walidayt had a huge impact with very few progeny. His daughter, Coolinda Park Dance with Me, was a brilliant racehorse. Running in only five races, she gained four wins and a second including winning the Shadwell Arabian Race in 2013. Another daughter, Coolinda Park Walencia, is a supreme champion at halter and saddle, competes in elementary dressage and is a qualified endurance horse. Both mares are still at Coolinda Park with their Wiliam (PL) daughters. Walidayt’s life was tragically cut short but his influence is being felt in the Arabian world. In 2012 the stud relocated from Cowra NSW, to Invergordon, Victoria. A logistical nightmare, the relocation was over a few short, hectic months, arriving in Victoria during a one in 200-year flood. There were now three generations running Coolinda Park – Carole, Shannon and Emily. We were on the lookout for the next step in the breeding program when the opportunity to purchase some Samsheik (US) semen arose. Samsheik’s pedigree is full of horses that have proven their racing prowess generation after generation in the US, the Middle East and Europe. Horses that are 100% athlete and at the same time 100% Arabian, with all the beauty, stamina, charisma and durability that are the trademarks of the breed and sired by one of the most influential Arabian racing sires ever – Sambor 14 (6-4-1) and is out of legendary Sabellina 7 (5-1-1) – founder of the unbeatable ‘S-line’. Samsheik’s dam line tied in extremely well with Chronicle DV’s. He was bred to Coolinda Park Miss Ellie (Chronicle DV (US) x Dancing in the Dark) and Coolinda Park Dahling (Chronicle DV (US) x Coolinda Park Dzaling). Coolinda Park Sheikan Dance (Samsheik (US) x CP Miss Ellie) is being saddle trained at the moment and will be bred in the spring to Wiliam (PL) while Coolinda Park Sam will begin his stud and endurance career at Fieryrange Arabians. Both are well over 15 hands, have extreme ground-covering movement and classical beauty. They are exactly what their Polish pedigrees said they would be. Mum was at the stage of starting to wind up Coolinda Park when, in 2017, she had the great fortune to purchase the Polish import Wiliam (PL). To say Carole was excited about him just doesn’t cover it. He flared a fire within her that recently had lost some of its brightness. Wiliam (PL) is a true athletic masterpiece and is known

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in Poland as an indomitable racehorse with an incredible record of placing in all twelve Stakes starts including eight Firsts and the ultimate honour of the Polish Triple Crown – Victory in the Derby, Produce and Criterium. Wiliam PASB has most deservedly earned acclaim as one of the greatest racers in Polish Arabian history, competing undefeated as a three-year-old. In the first leg of the Crown, Wiliam vanquished racing legend Druid, considered the best modern Polish racehorse. Wiliam PASB is a masterful combination of both beauty and brawn. A herd sire at Michalow Stud in 2001, Bialka from 2002–2003 and again at Michalow from 2004–2006, his race record includes 12 starts, 8 x first, 1 x second, 2 x thirds and 1 x fourth places. Wiliam (PL) has begun a new future for Coolinda Park and has two new daughters, Coolinda Park Wilenka and Coolinda Park Warmia. Only babies, they are already showing the same beautiful temperament of their father. The colt Coolinda Park Wil’sson has a proven performance pedigree. Sired by Wiliam (PL), his dam is Coolinda Park Hello Dolly, the oldest Chronicle DV (US)

daughter from the Khundjur (UK) daughter, Gedye Lilani. CP Wil’sson ties together the Coolinda Park heritage including the great foundation mare, Lillaine (UK). He is currently starting his saddle training and is shaping up exactly how his pedigree dictates.

Carole was once asked, ‘What do you look for in a performance horse?’ Her answer – What exactly is a performance horse? A halter horse because it is performing when you are competing. A broodmare or stallion as they are the top of the performance scale. A trail riding horse because it is performing the task it is set. The companion horse that is performing its required duties every time it comes up for a pat and makes the owner happy. Every horse that performs a duty for its owner is a performance horse. Each one is equally important especially when they are bringing joy to someone’s life. Carole’s Arabians definitely brought joy to hers. Author Shannon McCormick Images courtesy of Sharon Meyers & Stuart Vesty

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his edition’s Hoofprints In History was originally going to focus on the collection of one of Australia’s most iconic breeding programs. The tyranny of distance and COVID restrictions made collating this material untenable, and thus we looked at other options. The stars aligned as a serendipitous series of events eventuated with being charged with the care of a most precious collection, the photography archives of the late Pat Slater. Renowned the world over for her photography and love of all horses, Pat Slater was at the forefront of equine

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KYREMI ILLUSTRAA (RALVON PILGRIM X ARJAI TAMMIE) WITH RAY SMITH & DANIELLE KNOX

PAT SLATER & DAMIRAH (HADBAN ENZAHI X HAMDI)

photography for her time. I have spent hours combing through her archives, and I have only just begun. I did not know Pat Slater, however one thing that has become apparent to me while searching through this treasure trove is that she appears to have loved photographing people (almost) as much as horses. To that end, this edition of Hoofprints in History celebrates the combination of iconic horses and the people who loved them, so perfectly captured by one of the greatest, Pat Slater.

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CAMEO WINDSPRITE (CHIP CHASE DESERT WIND X KALILA) RIDDEN BY KATHY SHARMAN

MARK WHARTON & FAIRVIEW KLASSIQUE (AMIR EL SHAKLAN X KREOLUKA)

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BAY HALLANY (BAY-ABI X PHYLLANA) RIDDEN BY TREVOR BONNEY

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POLACA (HACHO X BATISTA) WITH WARWICK TOFT & JUDGE DICK BEST

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Magnum El Chall imp USA Sire of multiple show winning stock and an exceptional broodmare sire Also produces coloured oﬀspring from coloured mares Available via AI or natural Young mares and broodmares available for sale, predominantly Russian lines – enquiries invited

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Shaikh Al Badi AN ARABIAN PATRIARCH

n every corner of the globe, wherever the Arabian horse is beloved and bred, the sire line of the desertbred Saklawi I or.Ar remains unchallenged as the most influential in the modern era of history’s oldest equine breed. Nurtured at the onset in the venerated stables of Abbas Pasha and Prince Mohamed Ali, five direct tailmale generations of this illustrious sire line would culminate in the birth of a monumentally influential colt born at the Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) in 1934: the

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legendary Nazeer (Mansour x Bint Samiha by Kazmeen). Recalled from a stallion depot outpost at fifteen years of age in 1949 by the newly installed RAS Director, Tibor von Pettkó-Szandtner, a Slovakian-born Hungarian general who was responsible for Bablona Stud’s significant interwar success, Nazeer would become Egypt’s most important and influential sire over the next decade. Siring just over 100 foals in eleven seasons, from 1950 to 1960, Nazeer would redefine the standard of excellence not

only in his homeland, but forever alter the trajectory of the Arabian breed for the better with the exportation of dozens of his direct get and descendants to every inhabited continent in the subsequent decades. Considered a classic Arabian stallion of impeccable quality, type and desert dryness, Nazeer’s phenotype was considered decades ahead of its time, with an exquisitely refined head, large dark expressive eyes, an impressively long, fine neck and clean

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mitbah, a long well laid back shoulder, distinctively prominent withers, short and well defined cannon bones, long sinewy forearms and black, highly vascular skin with a fine, ultra-high quality hair coat that perfectly complemented his elegant, aristocratic and imposing bearing. Most importantly, Nazeer was exceedingly prepotent at passing on his most appealing attributes to his progeny, renowned for siring as many treasured daughters as significant sons. Nazeer’s unique ability to sire so many sons of merit, and the subsequent ability of his male descendants to do the same, is the magnifying factor that expanded his incomparable influence to its present day level of unrivalled dominance and success. Today, all across the world, from the most respected Straight Egyptian breeding programmes and industry leading show barns on every continent to the broad cross-spectrum of Arabian sport and competition from Aachen, Paris and Dubai to Scottsdale, Sao Paolo and Cape Town, the direct male descendants of Nazeer dominate the stallion rosters and leading sire charts, year after year, decade after decade. Beyond the common thread of Nazeer, there is another tail male ancestor that an astonishing number of household name Arabian stallions – icons such as Ali Jamaal, Thee Desperado, Marwan Al Shaqab, Alidaar, QR Marc, Royal Colours, FA El Rasheem, Ruminaha Bahjat, ZT Faa’iq, Gazal Al Shaqab and The Minstril – share in common. Often overlooked in the succession of legendary Arabian sires extending from Nazeer and his son Morafic to the infinitely numerous and prodigious male heirs of the pivotal pillars Ruminaja Ali and Marwan Al Shaqab is an essential patriarch, a horse to whom so much of this successful sire line owes its global acclaim: the prophetically named Shaikh Al Badi – ‘the creator, the innovator, the originator’.

powerhouse, whose record of US National Top Ten honours as a halter mare as well as an English Pleasure and Park Horse performer remain unchallenged to present day. For the Jamesons, Shaikh Al Badi not only represented the ideal blend of both his universally admired parents but was also an invaluable source of concentrated Nazeer blood, the perfect genotypic concentration and phenotypic blend of mating paternal brother and sister. Shaikh Al Badi’s pleasing phenotype made him an incredibly popular stallion in the show ring, at a time when Straight Egyptian ‘show horses’ were still viewed more of as novelties rather than mainstream competitors. With veteran horseman Tom McNair at the lead, Shaikh Al Badi earned a handful of prestigious titles at several very competitive events, including the Junior Stallion Championship at the Ohio Buckeye Sweepstakes. The pinnacle of Shaikh Al Badi’s success as a show horse was at the United States National Championships in 1972, when he was named Reserve National Champion Futurity Stallion, a victorious foreshadowing of what would become a series of decisive wins for his male descendants in the same class for decades to come. Also broken in to ride during his halter training, Shaikh Al Badi displayed all of the athletic prowess of his highly decorated dam, with the same powerful impulsion, extravagant animation and ground covering trot that made her an icon.

Shaikh Al Badi’s exceptional conformation, including his remarkable balance, trademark silhouette and his substantial, perfectly conformed limbs earned him raves from the ‘first lady of the Arabian horse’, artist, author, expert and breed historian Gladys Brown Edwards, who considered Shaikh’s legs to be amongst the ten best she had ever witnessed on any Arabian horse, past or present. Providence, however, had greater plans for Shaikh Al Badi beyond the acclaim of the show ring, with breeding barn beckoning. At Ranch Ruminaja, Shaikh Al Badi would forever alter the destiny of this small but ambitious breeding programme, proving himself as equally prodigious a sire with mares of Straight Egyptian and non-Straight origin. As a direct result of Shaikh Al Badi’s remarkable prepotency as a sire, the Ruminaja stud prefix would become a worldrenowned symbol of brand excellence, now present in an astonishing abundance of pedigrees the world over. The Jamesons were first introduced to the Arabian horse in the mid-1960s, and in particular to the Straight Egyptian Arabian as a result of the acquired mare delivering their first foal by the EAO-import Ghalii (Nazeer x Galila by Sid Abouhom), by Dr. Byron Good, director of the Arabian horse breeding programme at Michigan State University and the judge responsible for making the immortal Bask United States

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Born in 1969 in the storied stables of Gleannloch Farms in Texas, the aspiring Shaikh Al Badi was acquired at just nine months of age by Russell and Mildred Jameson of Ranch Ruminaja in Michigan. Regally bred, he was the direct progeny of the Marshall’s most famous Straight Egyptian residents, both direct imports from the Egyptian Agricultural Organization (EAO) at El Zahraa. Shaikh Al Badi’s sire was the standard defining Morafic (x Mabrouka by Sid Abouhom), long considered the most broadly consequential of all the celebrated sons of Nazeer, and a more extreme version of his illustrious sire in terms of type, quality, refinement and presence. Shaikh Al Badi’s dam was the show stopping Bint Maisa El Saghira (Nazeer x Maisa by Shahloul), an impressively tall, substantial, dark bay

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National Champion Stallion. Eager to repay the kindness for their newfound passion, the Jamesons offered free stallion services to Shaikh Al Badi to the MSU mares in his very first seasons at stud. Taking advantage of this extraordinary opportunity, Dr. Good bred several of his very best mares, including the programme’s precious foundation mare Silfretta (Oran x Silfina by Indian Gold), a Crabbet-bred import, and two of her best daughters, Ghalii Sharima (by Ghalii) and Easter Basket (by Bask). The resulting fillies from these crosses, all blessed with ‘Desert’ names in honour of their sire – Desert Fire, Desert Glow and Desert Cross – shored up the foundation for the university’s successful reputation for the ensuing decades as a breeding programme of importance, while firmly establishing the predictability and prepotency of Shaikh Al Badi as a sire with mares of Crabbet, Polish and American-blend heritage. As an animal science student and MSU Horse Teaching and Research Center employee in the late 1980s, I was first introduced to these glorious daughters of Shaikh Al Badi, and generations of their estimable descendants, as an overzealous and impressionable teenager. Amongst the predominantly Polish and Crabbet influenced horses that comprised the MSU herd at the time, the Shaikh Al Badi daughters and their descendants stood out like bright beacons, more exotic and refined, superbly balanced and conformed, with that instantly identifiable silhouette,

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charismatic elegance and commanding athleticism that so defined the Shaikh legacy. I fell instantly in love with his bay daughter, Desert Cross, an enchantingly feminine mare with an abundance of broody goodness. She had the most beautiful eyes – round, large, dark and lustrous, the softest turn to her neck and throat, and an aristocratic presence that defied you to look away. Desert Cross remains one of my all-time favourite mares, not only because she was the most perfect specimen of an Arabian mare I had seen at that point, but because she raised my expectations of what a classic Arabian mare can and should be. More than three and a half decades later, I still find myself preferring those mares, no matter where they are discovered around the world, that have that distinct ‘Desert Cross’ appeal. So began my enchantment with Shaikh Al Badi, a horse whose enduring legacy would include almost 700 foals of his own, and even more awe-inspiringly, nearly 5,500 descendants born to his sons and daughters in the second generation. If a horse has Nazeer in its pedigree, especially amongst the non-Straight Egyptian population, it is more likely to be traced to Shaikh Al Badi’s double dose through Morafic and Bint Maisa El Saghira than through any other individual in the Arabian breed. That alone is an astounding testament to the influence of this inimitable patriarch, and the destiny-altering impact of one small breeding programme in rural Michigan.

To my good fortune, after several seasons at stud in Texas at Warren Arabians and Bentwood Farms during the height of his popularity, Shaikh Al Badi was relocated to Kentucky in the ownership of Bittersweet Arabians in 1989. While transporting mares from MSU to LaGrange to be bred, long before the days of transported and frozen semen, I booked an appointment to meet the living legend in the flesh, who was still a magnificent specimen at 21 years of age despite the toll of time. I can still recall, with great clarity, my first glimpse of him emerging from his stable, so noble, with such a commanding presence, every step confident and deliberate, in total control of his world. He was turned loose in the sand presentation paddock, breaking effortlessly into that trademark trot – all power, propulsion and animation – ears forward, eyes alert and tail fully flagged. When he would stop to snort and survey, his nostrils would flare, veins popping, muscles tense, ready to spring back into motion. His substance and masculinity were so overpowering, as if the space surrounding him was responding to his energy and influence. His limbs, harmonious proportion and magnificent silhouette exceeded the high expectations I had so anxiously anticipated. It was a life changing encounter with a stallion who had inspired my dreams as a child, who would henceforth be counted amongst the most idolised Arabian legends, and whose unforgettable image would be rediscovered in a never-ending multitude of his descendants in every corner of the globe, profoundly impacting my involvement with the breed to present day. To recount in full the infinite impact this peerless patriarch has had on the Arabian breed would require a series of in-depth articles, tomes in constant need of update and revision. To gain just a small insight into his enduring influence in our corner of the world, we will explore the Shaikh Al Badi legacy that has expanded exponentially in Australasia over the last four and a half decades. Rather surprisingly, given the impressive number of nearly 700 lifetime foals, only six first-generation get of Shaikh Al Badi were ever imported directly to Australia, all of these to New South Wales, and all but one Straight Egyptian in pedigree. The earliest to arrive was in-utero, imported while gestating inside her dam, the Plum Grove-bred Ramses Mataria (Ramses Fayek x Ramses Judi by Fol Yasmeen), in 1977 by Joan and Dr. Robin Arnheim of Linden Arabian Stud in Yass. Imposingly named Linden Maisa El Saghira, in honour of her venerated paternal granddam, this trailblazing mare would go on to leave

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DESERT SHAIKH (SHAIKH AL BADI X AK TARIFA)

three quality Straight Egyptian foals at her maternal stud, with two daughters breeding on for several generations. The only other Shaikh Al Badi daughter to be imported was Shahelia (x Lohelia by Morafic), who arrived a decade later after being purchased as a foal by Les Bradley and Thom Tancred. At their celebrated Eastwinds Arabians in rural Sydney, Shahelia produced five Straight Egyptian foals of merit, including four reputable daughters and the popular stallion Eastwinds Egypt by Night (by BA Minstril Bay). Shahelia’s most prolific daughter would prove to be the younger full sister, Eastwinds Elluscion, who became an important foundation mare for Wayne and Miranda Beasley’s Charaway Arabians in

Queensland, and the dam of chief sire True Vision (by True Colours). The first of the Shaikh Al Badi sons to arrive in Australasia was from his sire’s second foal crop in 1973: the predominantly Straight Egyptian Saracen Karim. Imported from Canada as a weanling by Lester Marshall to Holly Farm in New Zealand, Saracen Karim was a product of the Jameson-bred Ruminaja Ghalima (Ansata Ibn Halima x Ghalii Rifala by Ghalii), reflecting the ‘magic cross’ of Shaikh Al Badi with the female descendants of Ghalii that had initiated the earliest success of their now world-renowned breeding programme. Affectionately known as the ‘White Ghost’,

the incredibly kind Saracen Karim was a successful show horse in his new home as New Zealand National Champion Stallion and in Harness. Saracen Karim would also leave a legacy in Australia for Fairview Arabians, who successfully leased the stallion for three seasons from 1986 to 1989. The popular champion show horse Voyager W (Sir Charmed FF x Amira Mulahn by Mulahn), chief sire at Westacres Arabians in Victoria, traces directly to Saracen Karim and the Fairview programme on the distaff side of his pedigree. The next of the Shaikh Al Badi sons to arrive was a direct import to Australia, arriving just down the road from the newly relocated

Breeding Purebred Arabians for nearly 30 years Straight Egyptian Stallion

Zuhra Zhajaan (Jadaan Al Shaqab* x Al-Daniifahh) introduces his ﬁlly

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(out of Zeehan Bint Nabila, of Hawley bloodlines)

Liz Christensen, Brisbane, Australia P: +61 408 726 227 (Intl. / WhatsApp) 0408 726 227 (Domestic) E: liz@zuhra-arabians.com ZUHRA-ARABIANS.COM

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Fairview Arabians in Cobbitty, New South Wales, to Joda Arabians. Bred by the industry-leading Bentwood Arabians, the imposing Desert Shaikh (x AK Tarifa by Ibn Moniet El Nefous) would become a popular and highly desirable stallion with the Worsleys, siring almost three dozen foals in eight seasons at stud. The Desert Shaikh influence is still positively apparent in dozens of programmes all across Australia into the sixth generation, especially amongst the Straight Egyptian population. The last of the direct get of Shaikh Al Badi to arrive in Australia would prove to be the most widely influential, both in his new home as well as abroad through his Australian-bred progeny. This was the royally bred Anaza Bay Shahh, bred by Lester and Lois St. Clair in Wisconsin out of their incomparable Aristocrat Dam Bint Deenaa (Ansata Ibn Halima x Deenaa by Sameh). Anaza Bay Shahh would serve as chief sire at Simeon Stud for 13 seasons, from 1994 to 2006, siring 65 sensational foals for breeder Marion Richmond. Very reminiscent of his sire in conformation, substance and athletic prowess, Bay Shahh was also blessed with his dam’s unforgettable eyes – lustrous black orbs that peered directly into your soul – as well as her impeccable quality and presence. These exceptional attributes were faithfully inherited by the Bay Shahh progeny, many of whom came in varying shades of dark bay, including several true blacks.

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Most remarkably, nearly a full third of Anaza Bay Shahh progeny, 21 in total, were exported overseas, including several successful breeding horses such as: the superlative matron Simeon Se’ate (x Simeon Sippora by Imperial Madaar) at Al Naif Stud, Qatar; the athletic Simeon Sidrah (x Simeon Sivan by Simeon Sadik) at Al Aryam Stud, United Arab Emirates; influential endurance sire Simeon Sapar (x Simeon Saada by Asfour) to Holly Farm, New Zealand; and the ever popular Simeon Saraaf (x Simeon Setavi by Simeon Sadik) to Rhodium Arabians, New Zealand, now back in Australia and living with Catherine Garth in Victoria. In addition to Simeon Saraaf, several Anaza Bay Shahh sons have positively enhanced the gene pool in Australia, including Simeon Shoah (x Simeon Sheba by Raadin Royal Star) at Undurrah Arabians in Victoria, Durra Shahh (x Simeon Seona by Simeon Sadik) at Sabtah Arabians in Queensland, and Simeon Samech (x Simeon Saada by Asfour), who was used very successfully by Marion later in life, and whose legacy continues through three cherished daughters: full sisters Simeon Susula and Simeon Sayit (x Simeon Sanaa by Imperial Madaar); and the captivating Simeon Suzette (x Simeon Seis by Imperial Madaar). While the snow-white daughters of Asfour and the chocolate liver chestnut descendants of 27 IBN Galal-V invoke the

classic images of Simeon Stud throughout its many decades of standard-setting success, most recently, the increasing number of broody, beautiful bay mares with massive eyes adorning the paddocks in Middle Dural have become equally as iconic, thanks to the undeniable influence of Anaza Bay Shahh. Amongst his most prominent and prolific daughters in the annals of Simeon are: full sisters Simeon Sayver and Simeon Safran (x Simeon Sukari by Asfour), both producers of eight foals each, including champions at home and overseas; the beguiling black Simeon Shatkin (x Simeon Simona by Asfour), the dam of ten noteworthy foals, including the stunning Simeon Sharlotte (by Simeon Shifran), now residing at Al Waly Stud, Egypt; and the meritorious matron Simeon Shavit (x Simeon Safanad by Sankt Georg), the dam of 14 phenomenal foals, including the ultra-exotic Simeon Salit (by Asfour), exported to the United States, and Simeon’s chief sire Simeon Shifran, heir apparent to the Asfour legacy worldwide. Prior to the arrival of Anaza Bay Shahh at Simeon Stud, Dorothy Hodge of Salah Stud in Victoria was the first to bring the influence of the St. Clair breeding programme to Australian shores with his son, the athletic and masculine Monteego Bay (x Monietta Mareekha by El Mareekh). Arriving in 1992 as a two year old, Monteego Bay would enjoy great popularity as a sire

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Three additional Shaikh Al Badi daughters had a direct influence on Australian bloodstock through the importation of their American-bred descendants. Two of these trace directly back to Shaikh’s earliest days in Michigan. Legendary Nahdeen (x Debonette), full sister to United States Reserve National Champion Futurity Colt Legendary Nahdaan, was a maternal granddaughter of the MSUbred sire Ghaliis Comet (Ghalii x Silfretta by Oran). Her influence was introduced to antipodal shores through her direct tail-female great-great-grandson Status LL (Marwan Al Shaqab x GLF Promises Kept by Padron), who stood at Alphalea Arabians in Western Australia before his untimely death. The Jameson-bred Ruminaja Afifa (x Negmaa by Ansata Ibn Halima) was the paternal granddam of Farasun (Shah El Sun x Fardousa by Inkhnatoon) imported by Mary and James Triggs to New South Wales in 1992. The Farasun legacy still thrives through several generations of Alohainfluenced descendants, most tracing back to the coal black athlete Aloha The Hostage (by The Fugitive). The third Shaikh Al Badi daughter of influence was Niema Nile (x Bint Niema by El Hilal), paternal granddam to the Hughes Arabians-bred HU Alimaana (HU Shaikh Ali x HU Dalimaana by Imaann). This bewitching black mare is best known for producing the esteemed double-Shaikh black stallion RNZ Scorza (by Simeon Saraaf), chief sire at Salam Arabians, near Tamworth, New South Wales. In the last decade of the 20th century, the importation of significant Shaikh Al Badi descendants began to gain serious momentum. Arriving in 1992 was another Straight Egyptian rising star, the musically inspired Born in the USA (x Morsada by Asaad), son of Ranch Bulakenyo’s Shaikh Al Badi son Prince IBN Shaikh. He was in turn out of the Cruz Family’s treasured foundation mare RDM Maar Hala (El Hilal x Marr Jumana by Disaan), a glorious mare who was just beginning to establish her dynasty as the leading Straight Egyptian dam of champions in the breed. The elegant and commanding Born in the USA would stand as chief sire at the Walker Family’s immensely successful Bluegrass Arabians, a name synonymous with quality, in Victoria. After siring 35 foals in just six short seasons at stud, his career was cut short by an unfortunate paddock accident that left him infertile. Despite this tragedy, Born in the USA can still be found in the pedigrees of

dozens of the top show and breeding horses throughout Australasia. Incontrovertibly, the most expansive influence of Shaikh Al Badi upon the breeding programmes of Australasia over the last quarter century can be traced directly to the Ranch Ruminaja ‘golden cross’ of their patriarch with Bint Magidaa (Khofo x Magidaa by Alaa El Din), yet another breed icon blessed with a double dose of the inimitable Nazeer. Acquired from Gleannloch Arabians as a yearling in 1971 specifically to be bred to Shaikh Al Badi, Bint Magidaa would go on to create an unrivalled dynasty of colossally influential breeding horses. Ten of her 17 lifetime foals were sired by Shaikh Al Badi, with another three sired by his paternal grandson The Minstril and a further two sired by his greatgrandson Thee Desperado. The presence of the Ruminaja stud prefix amongst the ancestors of any pedigree within the modern breed is more likely to be attributed to the produce of Bint Magidaa than any other source, and in particular, a quartet of her most celebrated sons: Ruminaja Ali, Ruminaja Bahjat, Ruminaja Fayez and Ruminaja Majed. Alongside the ‘big four’, Bint Magidaa also produced two other massively influential sons that trace directly to Shaikh Al Badi in sire succession: Alidaar and Thee Infidel, both of whom continue to thrive in pedigrees Down Under. Alidaar, the youngest of seven sons from the destiny altering Shaikh Al Badi-Bint Magidaa nick, was widely considered the most classically beautiful, very reminiscent of the legendary Morafic in overall elegance and refinement. A global traveller, Alidaar left an indelible legacy on three continents as a sire, in North America, Europe and the Arabian Gulf, while becoming an international champion in the process in all three locations, earning the prestigious titles of All Mediterranean Champion in Menton, France, Supreme Gold Champion in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, and Platinum Cup Champion in Oostende, Belgium. On his last show ring outing in Europe, Alidaar was seen for the first time by Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Khalid Al Thani, who pursued the horse for the Royal Stables at Al Rayyan. Alidaar would serve as chief sire at both Al Rayyan and Al Shaqab in Qatar until his death, enriching both programmes most profoundly. The Worsley Family imported two Alidaar daughters to Australia in the early 1990s, greatly enhancing the Straight Egyptian genetic pool at Joda Arabians. The first to arrive was AR Bint Ghazala (x AK Ghazala by Ibn Moniet El Nefous), an abundantly fertile mare who produced 13 foals for Steve and Lynne, with all but one sired

by their Shaikh Al Badi-related sires. She was joined by HMT Alidiah (x Princess Fariha by The Egyptian Prince) just two years later, a universally admired mare that became an excellent source of sires, including the popular Australian National Champion Stallion Joda Aly Dahr (by The Fugitive). Both mares continue to have a persuasive impact on breeding programmes in Australia, especially amongst the Straight Egyptian population. The other Alidaar descendant of influence in Australia is the French-bred Classic Shadwan (x Shagiah by Shadwan), through two direct importations of his Rothenberg-bred progeny, a daughter and a maternal grandson. The filly, Nasha Bint Shadwan (x Nejdschah by Malik El Nil), first came to New Zealand, influencing the respected programme of Fanus and Rhea Crous at Rhodium Arabians, before arriving in Australia on lease. The black colt, purchased as a yearling by Lorraine Bond for her Chaswyck Stud in Queensland, was GR Nafees (Madallan-Madheen x Nanessah Bint Neezah), an active sire of three dozen foals for both Chaswyck Stud and Rothlynne Arabians, of which more than half are registered as black. The focus on black Arabians, especially those of Straight Egyptian origin, led Rothlynne Arabians’ Lynne Matthews

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over the span of 22 years, siring exactly twice as many foals as his sire. Especially admired amongst the Straight Egyptian community, the affirmative influence of Monteego Bay endures in the pedigrees of dozens of modern-day breeding programmes all across the continent.

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to import a black Shaikh Al Badi-related stallion to Australia. A decorated show ring winner as Reserve Champion Colt at the Egyptian Event, WH Kadeen (x Kaaramal by Zaghloul) was sired by none other than ‘big four’ pillar Ruminaja Fayez, a bold masculine stallion most similar to his sire in overall appeal. With 124 registered foals to date, the vast majority of which are black and bear a Rothlynne prefix, WH Kadeen has left a lasting mark on Lynne’s breeding programme. Amongst the most admired and influential of the Bint Magidaa sons by Shaikh Al Badi was Ruminaja Bahjat, for many years the chief sire at Somerset Arabians in California prior to his purchase by Count Federico Zichy-Thyssen in Argentina. Considered slightly feminine, and most reminiscent of his illustrious dam, Ruminaja Bahjat sired well over 300 foals in his lifetime, with his admirable attributes still present in modern-day Arabians all over the globe. Several of his Straight Egyptian descendants continue to impact breeding programmes in Australia and New Zealand, including Bint Bint Faaris (x Bint Faarisah by Ibn Moniet El Nefous), El Arab Madir (ZT Bahmara x MB Madirah by Imperial Madheen), Maya Marquisa DMF (Marquis I x Bint Bint Jamil by Mohafez), RNZ Naptha (Majestic Noble

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SMF x Brumarba Shaidove by Simeon Shai), and the Kehlian Arabians-bred sons of Marquis I (Makhsous x Antigua Dance by Ruminaja Bahjat): Raquis (x Raqessa KA by Raquin KA) and Sundance KA (x KA Namirah by Nabiel). The only direct Ruminaja Bahjat son to be imported was Sahjat (x SA Fads Arabella by SA-Fadjur), who served for many years as chief sire at Tallow Wood Stud in Queensland. Imported as a two-year-old in 1987, Sahjat covered mares for owner Nanine Bradfield through 2007, the vast majority bearing the Sahateyn prefix. His Glenmar-bred daughter Sahtarah (x Dantarah by BPL Dante) has endured as his most celebrated progeny, an Aristocrat Dam and State Champion in halter, whose legacy includes Scottsdale Champion Working Cow Horse Maxium (by Magnum Forty Four), and his elder sister Mustang’s Magnum, a trend setting show mare and the leading Aristocrat Dam in Australia, with celebrated descendants adorning leading programmes all over the world. The most famous and beloved of all the Shaikh Al Badi and Bint Magidaa sons was irrefutably Ruminaja Ali. Crowned United States National Champion Futurity Colt in 1979, Ali earned the Reserve National Championship in open stallion competition at the US Nationals four years later in one

of the most impressive line-ups of stallions in the show’s celebrated history, beating the legendary El Shaklan. Ruminaja Ali remains the single most important source of Shaikh Al Badi blood in the breed, having sired over 450 lifetime foals, with another nearly 4000 attributed to his progeny in the second generation. Idolised in the Straight Egyptian community throughout his lifetime, Ali was the unique Straight Egyptian stallion that commanded similar respect within the breed at large. Purchased as a young stallion from the Jamesons by the Bergren brothers in Western Michigan, Ruminaja Ali’s inestimable global influence can be tied directly to their visionary stewardship of this legendary sire. Not only are James and Thomas Bergren responsible for guiding Ruminaja Ali’s consummate success as both a trend setting show horse and sire, they are also ascribed the honour of co-breeders of arguably his most distinguished direct descendant: Ali Jamaal (x Heritage Memory by El Magato). Following in the footsteps of his sire as United States National Champion Futurity Colt in 1985, Ali Jamaal still remains one of the most sterling examples of Arabian perfection in the halter ring as Canadian National Champion Stallion in 1989 and United States National Champion Stallion

in 1990. Then owned by visionary Lenita Perroy, Ali Jamaal would stand several seasons at stud in the USA with Gallun Farms before retiring to his haven of Haras Meia Lua in Brazil. The equine muse for all of Lenita’s creative ambitions for over three decades, Ali Jamaal would go on to create an unrivalled dynasty of global influence that would impact resoundingly and triumphantly throughout the Arabian horse world. Only three direct Ali Jamaal get were imported to Australia from California. Intara-bred full siblings Essencia and Esscort (x Espressa by El Shaklan) were both linchpins in the considerable success of Eastwinds Arabians, responsible for dozens of memorable show stars and esteemed breeding horses. Nanine Bradfield of Tallow Wood Stud concentrated her percentage of Shaikh Al Badi blood in her programme with the importation of Rio El Jamaal (x Roxanna El Shaklan) directly from Lenita Perroy, a stallion who would leave over five dozen progeny as his legacy. Australian breeders, wisely ascertaining the modern and cosmopolitan appeal of Ali Jamaal, were quick to acquire his descendants whenever and wherever they became available, importing his influence

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via frozen semen and select individuals in constant succession, a prodigious practice which continues still to present day. The names of nearly all the worldfamous sons of Ali Jamaal – Ludjin El Jamaal (x Lydira El Shaklan), Dakar El Jamaal (x Sonoma Lady), Jullyen El Jamaal (x Jullye El Ludjin), Ryad El Jamaal (x Roxana El Shaklan), Perseus Al Jamaal (x Perfectshahn SRA), Parys El Jamaal (x FF Pavielle), Encore Ali (x My Mavica), Tamaal FA (x NV Tiara Bey) and Magic Dream (x The Dreamspinner) – can be found in the pedigrees of the modern Australian-bred Arabian. An equal number of his most treasured daughters have been masterfully woven into the expanding gene pool of Australasia, laudable matrons such as Majalis (x Starilla), Jamaara FA (x NV Tiara Bey), Silk El Jamaal (x Satyna), Alishamaal (x NV Alieshah), Borgatta El Jamaal (x TW Bey Fantasy), NV Ali Bey (x Mystical Bey), Jiullya El Jamaal (x Jullye El Ludjin), Thessalya El Jamaal (x Talya El Hardun) and Fadshara El Jamaal (x Fadshah). Descending from these esteemed icons is literally the ‘who’s who’ of the most popular and prestigious sires in 21st century Australia, including Gai El Jullyen, Saudi El Perseus, Maraj El Dakar, RD Dynamo, RHR Heir Of Marwan, Ulysium, Spades LRA, Aria Elation, Echos Of Marwan, Vitorious KA, Burren-Dah Valentino Bey,

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DP Aryan El Jamaal and Vangelis MI, as well as the reigning Australian National Gold Champion Senior Mare and Stallion, Joi El Jiuliusz and Volcom FF, respectively. With each passing year the influence of Ali Jamaal compounds exponentially, further magnifying the enduring value of this unsurpassed sire supreme. For Straight Egyptian breeders, two other sons of Ruminaja Ali proved to be most consequential. The eldest of these was The Minstril (x Bahila by Ibn Galal I), born the same year as his sire’s triumph amongst the senior stallions at the United States National Championships. Bred by David Gardner, who had both shown Ruminaja Ali to his most important show ring wins as well as managed his phenomenally successful career as a sire with Straight Egyptian breeders, The Minstril became the most important breeding horse for the Gardner Bloodstock – Arabians International partnership in Texas. Outsiring Ruminaja Ali by almost 120 foals for a staggering lifetime total of 586 foals, The Minstril would become the ‘go-to’ sire for the majority of Straight Egyptian breeders in North America, the result of which made him the leading sire at the Egyptian Event for a record number of years in succession. This record was broken only by his even more esteemed son and heir, the

prophetically named Thee Desperado (x AK Amiri Asmarr by The Egyptian Prince), who would ascend to the top of the all-time leading sire list of Straight Egyptian stallions with just over 1000 lifetime foals. Also crowned United States National Reserve Champion Stallion like his iconic grandsire, Thee Desperado and his get would come to dominate not only the most elite competition for Straight Egyptians on the global stage, but within the Arabian breed at large, further broadening the immeasurable inspiration of his paternal heritage. Amongst the most high profile The Minstril and Thee Desperado descendants to impact Arabian breeding in Australasia are: influential sire Thee Fugitive (Thee Desperado x AK Aleka by Moniet El Sharaf); BA Minstril Bay (The Minstril x AK Komeira by Ibn Galal), an important sire for Eastwinds Arabians, Gleniph Arabians and Formosa Park; Opus Comet JP (Laddin BA x Key Maali JP by Kaali JP), Australian National Champion Stallion and Bremervale Arabians’ celebrated chief sire; Al Kha-Zar (Thee Asil x Infidels Princess by Thee Infidel), first imported to Fairview Arabians; popular sire VVF Kai (Thee Desperado x Ramses Fedora The Minstril); Valinor Park’s imported sire El Sidaqa (Tehama Na Sidaqa x El Badoura by Pandoer HT); Melcott Arabians’ herd

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The other of the Straight Egyptian sons sired by Ruminaja Ali to impact Australia was the St. Clair-bred Anaza El Farid, threequarter brother to the aforementioned Simeon Stud pillar Anaza Bay Shahh. To limit Egyptian Event Supreme Champion Anaza El Farid’s impact to only Australia would be the understatement of the new millennium, for as a result of his World Champion son and grandson, Gazal Al Shaqab (x Kajora by Kaborr) and Marwan Al Shaqab (x Little Liza Fame by Fame VF), Anaza El Farid can now be found in the pedigrees of today’s top show horses and breeding icons at nearly the same mind-boggling level as his paternal brother Ali Jamaal. Given the scope of Gazal and Marwan-related horses exponentially expanding around the globe, it is only a matter of time until Anaza El Farid becomes the single most influential branch of the Shaikh Al Badi siring dynasty. In Australasia, the household names of Arabian horses with connections to Gazal and/or Marwan include, amongst dozens, Ghazala El Jamaal, RHR Heir of Marwan, Mystica Abbas, Echos of Marwan, Mystica Santosa, EKS Bey El Gazal, Ulysium, Kavalier MI, Hun, Maharaja HDM, Aria Elation, Kavalle MI, Mystica Sagali, Justifyed KS, Breathless Vision PCF, Arianna CS, Romance MI, Jalilah FF and I Adore MI. In addition to the astounding impact the sons of Ruminaja Ali – Ali Jamaal, The Minstril and Anza El Farid – have had on Australasian breeding in the last three decades, we would be remiss to overlook the six direct get of Ali that were imported directly to ambitious breeding programmes Down Under. The most celebrated of these was Anaza El Nizr, elder full brother of Anaza El Farid, an Australian National Champion Stallion who was imported by Axel Renz in 1991. A very popular and successful sire, Anaza El Nizr was later exported to Germany, but not before leaving behind several valuable progeny. Amongst his most celebrated daughters were the full sisters Alika Bint Nizr and

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sire OM El Shadeek (Al Lahab x Om El Shadeeka by Sanadik El Shaklan); the black stallion Murano SPI (Bellagio RCA x Lola Baraki by El Baraki); Garth Arabians’ Sayyad Al Jannat (Scapa x Infidels Imaara by Thee Infidel); Khazmeen (The Minstril x Nibrias by El Moongi), chief sire at Joanne Osborne’s Ladnik Park; and the mares Minstril’s Monica (The Minstril x Nibrias by El Moongi), GR Maraya (Madallan-Madheen x Maria Halima by Haziz Halim) and Tatima (The Minstril x Kameela by Wassem), as well as full sisters Attar of Roses and The Nile Rose (The Minstril x Belbowrie Fayek by Ramses Fayek).

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Australian National Champion Aliha Bint Nizr, who produced two famous full brothers, the unparalleled show horse supreme Aamahni and the important sire Parkview Audacious (by TS Al Malik) for the Bonney Family. Axel Renz was also responsible for importing another useful full sibling, Alii, the younger full brother to Ali Jamaal. A broadly utilised sire of over 110 foals, Alii is still prevalent in a plethora of pedigrees continent-wide. PVA Sonbali (x Imperial Sonboleen by Moniet El Nafis) was the only other Ruminaja Ali son to be purposefully imported to Australia. A successful show horse and a popular sire, Sonbali left behind more than five dozen foals to enhance the local gene pool. Princess Ali (x AK Bint Hoyeda by IBN Hafiza) was amongst the first of the Ali daughters to arrive, producing Straight Egyptian foals by PVA Sonbali, IBN Antar and Ansata El Shawan. The elegant Dafinahh (x Ansata Wanisa by Ansata Ibn Sudan) was also closely related to the breeding programmes of paternal siblings PVA Sonbali and Princess Ali, leaving behind several successive generations of valuable produce. Legacy breeders Peter and Jenny Pond brought in the lovely Rusima (x Nasima by Amaal), who produced ten worthy foals for Forest Hill Stud, the vast majority of whom were blessed with the Halimas prefix synonymous with excellence.

The final connection to Shaikh Al Badi in Australian pedigrees can be traced to his earliest days at stud in Michigan. Bred by Jan and Jim Senneker and foaled in 1973, Avatar El Sufi (x Bint Buena Suerte by Buena Suerte) was an incredibly popular sire and show horse in the Midwest, exemplifying his Egyptian-Crabbet-Polish blend pedigree with great charisma and athleticism. Found three generations back on the maternal side of another Michigan-bred stallion’s pedigree, that of the late great GLF Apollo (Diamond Padron x Per Brio by Percussion), Avatar El Sufi is still a positive presence in many of today’s most beloved and essential show and breeding horses. Never did I suspect, more than three and a half decades ago, that my first encounter with the get of Shaikh Al Badi would lead to a lifetime of discovery and adventure, one overflowing with connection to many of his most admired and accomplished descendants around the world. A Straight Egyptian icon and an Arabian breed legend, Shaikh Al Badi continues to weave a legacy of incomparable worth and consequence, elevating the Arabian breed to unparalleled new heights with each successive generation. Author Scott Benjamin Images courtesy of Johnny Johnston, Pat Slater & Stuart Vesty

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One of the most prominent registries, in terms of both numbers and general popularity, is surely the Arabian Pony. Introduced in 1971, the Arabian Pony is one of our oldest and most distinguished Derivative sections and, almost half a century after the creation of its registry, remains a popular and admired ambassador for the Arabian breed.

Partbred, however, they must be descended exclusively from registered stock and their pedigrees can be traced accordingly. The smallest Arabian Ponies are extremely petite, well within the restrictions for Leading Rein classes. Whether it’s as a small Show Hunter or Open pony, or as a means of introducing Arabian refinement and type to a miniature breeding program, they are sought-after additions to many families. At the other end of the scale, and depending on the parents used, an Arabian Pony could easily exceed 15 hands. Taller Arabian Ponies can often be found competing with success in the Partbred and Half Arabian rings, a testament to the desirability and correctness of their pony heritage.

The countless attractions of the Arabian Pony are immediately and easily discernible. Like the Partbred, they represent a comprehensive spread of sizes and colours. Unlike the

Representing various colours, as well as sizes, the Arabian Pony occurs in almost every colour of the equine rainbow. In addition to the usual suite of solid colours, and the

ustralia is home to a beautiful and diverse collection of Arabian Derivatives. Each of our Derivative sections has its own strengths and its own history, from the earliest registries (Partbred and Anglo Arabian in 1949) to the most recent (Half Arabian in 2015).

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perennially lovable grey (a little grey pony with big black eyes is difficult to resist), dilute Arabian Ponies have been enduringly popular for many years. Dilution occurs with a high frequency in certain pony breeds, making the Arabian Pony an ideal choice for anyone seeking to produce a coloured Arabian Derivative. For those who favour patches, eye-catching pintos can also be seen in Arabian Pony classes all around Australia. Arabian Ponies possess an enduring appeal that has made them a popular promotional avenue for the Arabian horse more generally. If you visit the Arabian Derivative page of the Arabian Horse Society of Australia (AHSA) website, you will find them represented by a photo of an Arabian Pony. When the society introduced the Half Arabian registry, their print advertising featured an Arabian Pony with a Purebred parent. International judges at our leading

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In terms of their potential, Arabian Ponies are almost unlimited. Most are eligible for additional registrations such as Part Welsh, Part APSB, or coloured, and many prove competitive and successful across multiple breeds and arenas. They are halter horses, saddle horses, dressage ponies, youth horses, all-rounders and trusted family members. They will turn their efforts to anything: pony club, harness, combined training, mustering, jumping, HRCAV or just a gentle trail ride. No matter their level or discipline, they are a potent reminder of the power of Arabian blood in improving even the most accessible and beloved of breeds.

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One reason for this promotional power is that the Arabian Pony is the ideal ‘stepping stone’ (some might say ‘gateway drug’) for newcomers to the breed. Whether it’s a matter of space, youth, budget or inexperience, Arabian Ponies are an ideal introduction to the wider world of Arabian horses. Generally easy keepers, they are often an ideal prospect for that first-pony home with minimal land. Smaller and less intimidating than their Purebred forebears, but combining brains and trainability from both sides of their pedigrees, they are ideal child’s pony candidates. As far as purely practical considerations are concerned, a good Arabian Pony youngster, capable of competing successfully at National level, can often be found at a much lower price point than a Purebred of comparable quality. For those wishing to compete at Arabian shows, but who might be daunted by the idea of showing in the Purebred ring, or feel they might be outrun by a larger horse in full flight, Arabian Ponies are a friendly and manageable alternative. Similarly, for those downsizing after a lifetime of involvement with the breed, and who might no longer possess the mobility or confidence to manage their larger horses, the Arabian Pony is a logical next step to facilitate a continued engagement with the Arabian horse.

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shows are consistently impressed with the quality of our Arabian Derivatives, but our Arabian Ponies are often singled out for special attention.

For many, the Arabian Pony is the ultimate representation of the Arabian dream. Some are tall and typey, some small and stocky, others somewhere in between, but whether it’s in their dished faces and extravagantly-carried tails or their hardiness and willingness to please, all bear the hallmarks of their Arabian ancestry. The fact remains that, whatever you want to breed, whatever you want to own, whatever you want to do, you can almost certainly achieve it with an Arabian Pony. Author Nicola Kelly Images courtesy of Dee Kelly, Samantha Taylor, Sue Crockett & Tracey Bavinton

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n a world in which many of the bestknown and most successful Arabian horse farms have existed for, perhaps, 15 years, Walt and Jeannette King Lane are unique in many ways, not the least of which is their longevity in the industry. Even before their lives converged, the Lanes were each on a path that would not only bring them together as husband and wife, but one that would help establish and promote some of the most successful Arabian horse families in our industry.

Lanes found themselves searching for an outcross for Esperanza’s heavily Padronbred mares.

Walt Lane established Esperanza Arabians as a successful show and breeding farm almost 50 years ago and quickly became a member of the original Padron Syndicate. It didn’t take long for the farm to begin its legacy of breeding champions in both halter and performance.

The Esperanza mares were historically very successful in producing champions in a variety of disciplines, so the goal was to find an outcross stallion that didn’t dilute the good qualities already present at Esperanza Arabians. During their search, it was Jeannette who wisely decided it might be a good idea to incorporate the considerable influence of Lenita Perroy’s Haras Meia Lua into their program.

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Jeannette, like Walt, always appreciated a beautiful athlete. She literally grew up showing her own horses under saddle, and in fact, continues showing her own horses, both in halter and under saddle, even today. It is not enough that an Esperanza horse be beautiful. Athleticism and trainable dispositions are absolute requirements.

Walt and Jeannette eventually became foundation members of a cartel involving an exciting Haras Meia Lua import, the grey stallion Dakar El Jamaal, sired by Lenita’s legendary U.S. National Champion, Ali Jamaal, and out of her Canadian National Champion Mare, Sonoma Lady. The Dakar Kartel was founded in February of 2001. That same year, Dakar El Jamaal became U.S. National Reserve Champion Stallion and the following year, he was crowned U.S. National Champion Stallion. In 2007, the beautiful Dakar El Jamaal son, Dakharo, elevated his sire to the world stage when he was named World Champion Stallion at the prestigious Salon du Cheval in Paris, France. The Lanes eventually gained sole ownership of Dakar El Jamaal, and throughout the years they have made good use of the Ali Jamaal blood in their

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program, producing some outstanding Dakar daughters and granddaughters who continue to create champions for Esperanza. They also stand the double Ali Jamaal grandson, Mazkarade, by Dakar and out of Doug Dahmen’s national and international champion producing Ali Jamaal daughter, Majalis. Mazkarade is himself a three-time U.S. National Top Ten and the sire and grandsire of many champions, but the rising star in the Esperanza breeding program is the exotic young multi-champion stallion Alkeynos EA. Sired by World Champion Stallion ABHA Qatar (Marwan Al Shaqab x ZT Ludjkalba by Ludjin El Jamaal), Alkeynos EA is out of Mazkarade’s full sister, Maisa El Dakar. It seems only fitting that the next step in the Esperanza program would combine Esperanza’s concentration of Ali Jamaal blood with the genetic power of Marwan Al Shaqab – and Alkeynos EA has quickly validated the wisdom of that breeding decision. Tall, elegant and athletic, Alkeynos EA is a striking stallion with an extreme type only rarely seen, especially in a horse with so many other good qualities apparent. With a regional championship, a Scottsdale victory and a Scottsdale Bronze Supreme Championship to his credit, Alkeynos EA has demonstrated the worthiness of his

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triple Ali Jamaal pedigree. Not only is he a successful halter stallion in very limited showing, he has also been trained and shown in western pleasure and hunter pleasure. And although a nice show record is a wonderful thing to have, good breeders understand that the real proof of a stallion’s value is in his foals – and Alkeynos certainly has huge shoes to fill in that regard.

Apart from the multitude of national and international champions in the first five generations of his pedigree, Alkeynos EA’s sire, grandsire and great-grandsire are all World Champion Stallions.

It would be easy for a stallion born to such a lineage to fall short, to disappoint, but Alkeynos seems to be that rare stallion who is not only beautiful, athletic and extremely well bred himself – he is siring what his pedigree says he should. His very first tiny foal crop produced a U.S. National Top Ten.

The second Alkeynos EA foal to enter the show ring, the bay filly, Chrystal EA, was born the very next year, and she was everything a breeder hopes to achieve – typey, elegant, bright, feminine and a lovely mover! Bred and owned by Esperanza Arabians, Chrystal EA is a virtual tribute to the value of Lenita Perroy’s insight into breeding superior Arabian horses – tracing in lineage five times to Lenita’s beloved Ali Jamaal. This tall, exotic bay Alkeynos EA filly earned the prestigious title of 2018 Arabian Breeders World Cup Gold Supreme Champion Mare/ Filly AHT – as a yearling! Jeannette smiles, ‘We have been very successful with the Ali Jamaal blood and it is quite satisfying to see such good results from combining Ali Jamaal with a bit of Marwan blood through Alkeynos EA. The foals he is siring have size, athletic ability and they are extremely beautiful. As more of them enter show rings around the world, we can hardly wait for others to see what we have seen! We are very excited about Alkeynos EA’s future as a sire and we congratulate those with the insight to breed their mares to him!’ Author Nancy Guthrie Pierce Images courtesy of Javan, Judith Wagner & Kelly Campbell

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eaching is my profession. Photography is my passion!

My earliest memories include being surrounded by foals, broodmares and stallions roaming the paddocks of Abbeywood Stud.

Learning to ride at an early age, attending pony club, watching a foal being born. My love and admiration of horses was inevitable. My love of endurance riding came from helping Mum breed, break in and train the Abbeywood youngsters. Riding our own bred horses that I helped train brought its own sense of accomplishment. As a Junior, I remember riding in some iconic rides such as Roma, Rosedale and Blackbutt. I left the farm to attend USQ in Toowoomba to pursue teaching straight after high school. Unfortunately, a riding accident resulted in two years recovering from multiple spinal surgeries which effectively put an end to my short endurance career. The recovery was slow, painful and brought its own challenges. After that time, I spent many years strapping for Abbeywood and helping in the Secretariat for the original South Burnett Endurance Club.

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My love of horse photography stemmed from many hours spent sitting in paddocks waiting and watching for the perfect opportunity to capture the foals and horses in action. What started as a hobby turned very quickly into a new career but mostly my passion for perfecting my photography skills through study and lots of trial and error. My family’s love of endurance has given me a true understanding of the dedication and training required to produce these magnificent equine athletes. This is what I love to capture most through my camera lens. My aim is to capture the memorable moments as the rider and horse traverse the unique terrain of the Australian countryside.

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ere in Australia we have seen hundreds of importations, thousands of young horses bred, and many, many contributions to the development of our breed. Countless hands have stirred the pot over more than 200 years, yet in hindsight the core strength of the breed can be attributed to just a few. We inherit the benefits of their wisdom, skills and foresight, and we small breeders literally ‘stand on their shoulders’.

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Bostocks Stud, the life work of Elwyn Bligh and her daughter Elizabeth (Staunton) is one such place. Both of them are gone now but they bequeathed a huge legacy. Bostocks is the name of a large grain farming property on Queensland’s Darling Downs. It was the home of Elwyn Bligh and her husband Ron, who raised a family of three girls and one boy there. Elwyn had many interests such as creating a beautiful gracious home and garden for the

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Both she and her daughters were keen riders who enjoyed doing the stockwork with cattle on the farm, and Elwyn also had her eye on the showring. Nearby Toowoomba had its own Royal Show where Elwyn had competed as a young girl, unfortunately injuring her knee when her pony fell. For the rest of her life she walked with a limp but it in no way deterred her from her goals.

BEGINNINGS

In 1947 the trail led first to the famous Fenwick Stud, which had been started in 1925 by Mrs ADD (Dora) Maclean. The wonderful horses there were all Crabbet Arabians, bred in the United Kingdom, most of them hailing from Crabbet itself. There Elwyn Bligh selected a dark chestnut stallion named Nekhl. He was royally bred by the stallion Rashid II from the imported Skowronek mare Nasirieh. He was not for sale at the time so he came on a lease, and when Mrs Maclean later bought Riffal (Naufal/Razina) from Lady Yule she decided she could part with him. As with all the stallions who followed him, Nekhl was shown, establishing an impressive record at Sydney and Brisbane Royal Shows. He was Champion Stallion at Brisbane Royal in 1952 and 1955. Along with Nekhl, three foundation mares were chosen. There was Matoufa by Indian Light (imp) from Deryabar, her filly Medina by Rakib (imp) and Sheba by Sirdar from Rissani. The history of these mares reaches far back into Colonial times, as Matoufa’s dam Deryabar was a granddaughter of Judge Boucaut’s imported stallion Faraoun (Mesaoud/Fulana), Medina’s sire Rakib had come by way of the historic Springmead Stud in Sydney, and Sheba’s sire was a son of the great Shahzada, whose blood is still sought after in endurance circles particularly. It was a solid start. Nekhl bred Purebred and Partbred mares, most of whom were purchased by farmers and graziers. His son Khazib spent his whole life in the Jangharm Stud of Mrs Marion Sharman. Nekhl himself was sold in 1956 to Mr Logan, a Richmond grazier, and lived on his huge western property until he was 22 years of age. In 1951 Bostocks acquired a second stallion, once again from Fenwick, and this

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enjoyment of her family. Everything she did was done to perfection, so it was no surprise that when she decided to begin a small stud of Arabian horses, a breed she had long admired, she set in train a long-term plan to breed beautiful, athletic animals that could be ridden and enjoyed in any setting.

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was the grey Ibn Fayrial by Fayrial (imp) from Senabra. He was not used extensively, but his daughter Tou-Fail from Matoufa started an important family. Ibn Fayrial was followed in 1953 by another Fenwick horse, a bay colt named Melriff by Riffal (imp) from Meliha. He got several Purebred foals, most notably the daughters Na-Ja-La from Najan, and Tiptoes from Scherzade (imp UK). The stallion Shahzada was a dominant sire of the 1920s and 30s. Not only had he arrived with his superb endurance record in the UK, but he became a well-known show horse with a record of eight Arabian Stallion Championships at Sydney Royal Show between 1926 and 1933. He was a sire of great sons, and grandsons, one of them being the snow white, muscular Zadaran who belonged to Mr Teddy Lock of Bowral, who had a close and remarkable relationship with his beautiful stallion. The statuesque grey was already a horse with a legendary reputation as a show horse and sire when he arrived at Bostocks in 1955 at the age of 19 years. A proud and spirited old horse, he never really made a happy transition to his new home, as beautifully as he would have been kept, and was laid to rest in 1960. Not however, before leaving two superb daughters, Tuema and Our Queen. Now the stud was more than 10 years along in its journey and a strong framework had been established by the foundation stock. Some superb mares were awaiting the next step in the programme.

ENTER COUNT MANILLA (imp UK)

Count Manilla (imp) deserves a flourish and an entrance all his own because he became the ‘face’ of Bostocks Stud for the next 20 years, and far beyond that, because he proved to be a superb sire who threw youngsters in his own image for many generations ahead of him. He was a bright golden chestnut bred at Miss Gladys Yule’s Hanstead Stud, and spent 18 of his 23 years at Bostocks – much admired, much loved and highly decorated in the showring. His sire Count Dorsaz was by Rissalix from Shamnar, who was exported to Mrs Bazy Tankersley’s Al Marah Stud in the United States. His dam Namilla was by Algol from Nurschida. He was strong and square in his conformation, smooth bodied with a strong hindquarter and shoulder, and a perfect neckset with an expressive head and large eyes. He also moved particularly well and was regularly ridden out, including at the

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early Queensland Arabian Shows. Elizabeth Bligh was his rider and showed all the Bostocks horses at halter as well. In the showring Count Manilla was five times Champion Stallion at Brisbane Royal Show. He was famous for his absolutely square stood-up show stance, where he gazed far over the heads of the mere mortals around him, but never, it must be said, at the sky. He was like a golden statue and I know he was responsible for many young people vowing that they too would own Arabians like him. I know because I was one of them. He sired so many top-drawer progeny that it is hard to choose who must be mentioned but we can start with the sons. There was a beautiful horse of vivid flaxen-maned colouring Attila from a mare named Atalanta, sired by Zadaran and bred by Dr Frank Staunton of Scimitar Stud, who later married Elizabeth Bligh. Attila was shown extensively under saddle, trying everything from classical dressage to costumed romps for a national magazine in the Gold Coast sandhills, with his owner Geoff Maudsley. At the same time Des and Shirley Wohlsen were showing another chestnut stallion named Shariman whose dam was by Grand Royal (imp UK). And yet another flaxen-maned beauty Desert Pride from the Zadaran mare Zadita, became a sire of significance for Mrs Lesley Dowey’s Arabesque Stud, throwing look-alike Purebred foals as well as golden palominos of national note. These three stallions were all bred by Dr Staunton, and their dams became very significant producers as well.

of the most successful sires of the 60s and 70s. He was sold to Mrs Marion Sharman of Jangharm Arabians at Bell. His sons such as Mildom, Ibn Domino, Royaljan and Arim are quite legendary. Between them they have won Stallion Championships in all the mainland State Shows, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. One of the handsome bay sons, Arim, on his own was Champion Stallion at all of those Shows, as well as Supreme Exhibit at the 1975 National Stud Horse and Pony Show. His daughter Jamaica Shuni took this same award in 1976. Scherzade herself made her only show appearance at Brisbane Royal in August 1952 with Royal Domino as a foal at foot. Within the same decade her sons and his sons were to be incredibly dominant in all the major Shows. But to return to Scherzade’s Count Manilla daughter, Fantasy. Foaled in 1961, Fantasy was extremely successful in the showring, three times Champion at Brisbane Royal, twice Supreme at the Queensland Arabian Show (later the Challenge Show) and Champion Mare at Sydney Royal. In 1970 she also won Ridden Arab Mare at Queensland’s Arabian Show. I don’t believe she was ever beaten, and she retired on a high in 1972, 1st and Supreme at the Queensland Division’s Arabian Show in 1972. Count Manilla also sired Sir Clarence Leggett’s brilliant show mare Contessa, a Supreme Exhibit at Sydney Royal Show,

and Mrs Gloria Toombs’ Gay Cascade who started a small, successful stud. Pirouette became the dam of the exquisite Moonsprite, who in turn bred well-known Morocco mare, Moroccan Moon. His daughters were incredible producers. Ken Coombe of Roxborough Stud at Rockhampton returned many times to Bostocks Stud to breed his mares to the stallions. His premier stallion Roxborough Bandoleer (exported to Yentl Stud in South Africa) had multiple lines to the great Bostocks stallions.

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Fantasy’s 11 foals also form an imposing group. Six of them were sired by the effervescent, big-striding stallion imported in 1961, Crystal Fire. He was foaled in 1952 at the Tufton-Warren Stud of Mrs S Bomford. His sire was Lady Wentworth’s Supreme Champion Dargee, and his dam the lovely, stylish mare Rosinella, who later also came to Mrs Maclean in Australia. Crystal Fire had an extensive show record in the UK, but he was shown only sparingly in Australia, always having to share the attention with his stablemate Count Manilla. He was a splendid saddle horse. The bestknown of his offspring are the imported mare Scherzade’s son Sirocco, along with Fantasy’s son and daughter, Farhan and Miraya. They sometimes combined to win him many Progeny Groups at the Royal Shows. His daughter Chrysolyte (from Shaqra) was Supreme at Perth Royal Show.

Western Australia inherited two quality Count Manilla stallions: Sahib (from Scherzade) and Count Cordova (from Rashidiya). American entertainer Wayne Newton imported another son Ralvon Sundowner (from Trix Silver), maternal brother of Ralvon Pilgrim. Askari (from Flamenco) went to Bob Hawkes’ Currawong Stud in South Australia. Mrs Phyllis Hopf of Farleigh Stud in Queensland closely followed the male importations of Bostocks Stud and bought the stallion Statesman (from Shaqra) in 1960, later herself breeding a magnificent chestnut stallion named Count Chatain (from Lady Tania) who became one of the most-decorated of the Count Manilla sons. When discussing his daughters it is impossible to look past the regal, imposing Fantasy, but I then have to introduce a little bay Irex mare named Scherzade who was imported in 1952 from Miss Margaret Greely of The Well House Stud in Sussex. She was in foal to the Rissalix son Blue Domino, this foal being a bay son Royal Domino, one

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Abiram was sold to Mrs Meg Dawson of Iraki Stud, Bowral who also bought the imported filly Summer Haze by Zehros out of Autumn Sunshine (imp UK). It should be pointed out that the English importations were not inspected by their new owners, but a great deal of help was sought by respected horsemen such as Mr Reginald Summerhayes!

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Crystal Fire used to run out in a paddock adjacent to the driveway at Bostocks, where he loved to try and beat the car to the end of the drive. Often he trotted with the huge, floating stride people would gasp at today. Bright chestnut with plenty of bling, he was an unforgettable force of nature.

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A stallion of a different colour and a different style was Abiram (Noran/Rythoura) bred by Dr Houtappel in Holland, and imported in 1965. He also was possessed of exceptional movement. He won several Championships at Brisbane Royal Show, and sired a whole new crop of young Champions and broodmares from the daughters of Count Manilla and Crystal Fire – Dabsh, Dalma, Nafsu, Nofret, Nafura, Kabiram, Sadaf, Misik

and Brinsissa are perhaps the best-known. The colour of the young horses changed from chestnut to bay in one generation! Dr Staunton also used Abiram to advantage, among the colts being a bay named Scimitar Desert Prince from a Crystal Fire mare, Flamenco. I single him out as a very dominant Abiram son, whose progeny and grand-progeny are coming through the endurance ranks. A granddaughter of his, by the SDP son Iraki Iskander, won the World Championship of Endurance in Pisa, Italy, just ten days ago at the time of writing. She is Bullio Blue Sue (UAE name is Haleh), who has several Bostocks lines in her pedigree. Endurance breeders are appreciating the Abiram influence, unsurprisingly as he was extremely athletic.

Two further English importations were made in the early 1970s. In 1972 the livewire liver chestnut colt Zenith II (General Grant/ Zirree el Wada) was acquired from Major and Mrs Hedley of Briery Close Stud at Windermere. Zenith II needed to be out working to use up all that energy and was sold to Alan and Phyllis Hopf of Farleigh Stud, where he was broken to saddle and enjoyed cattle work and wide open spaces. The Hopfs bred many handsome Purebred and Anglo progeny by him, some of whom ended up in the sport of campdrafting where Alan regularly competed. The Farleigh mares were full of the Bostocks blood of Count Manilla, Crystal Fire and Abiram. It was a happy match.

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In 1971 the bay mare Phyllana (Daufin/ Hallana) was sourced in the United States. She was bred first to Bay Abi, by whom she foaled a bay colt Bay Hallany during her quarantine in the UK. Whilst in England she was bred to the stallion Mikeno, for another colt, Kaaba. She went on to produce another five foals for Bostocks before she was sold to Jennifer Pond of Forest Hill Stud while Bay Hallany, in the ownership of Judy Vink of Tarong Arabians, became a much-decorated and much-loved show horse, in a variety of disciplines that included harness. He and his trainer Trevor Bonney brought fun and flair to the showring wherever they appeared.

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In 1973 a further well-known chestnut stallion named Ringing Gold (Mikeno/ Gleaming Gold) was bought by a syndicate of breeders comprised of Lesley and Alan Dowey of Arabesque Stud, Peter Pond of Forest Hill Stud, and Elwyn and Elizabeth Bligh of Bostocks. He was 13 years of age and was bred by Mrs E Murray of The Foxbury Stud. In Australia he is distinguished by being the sire of our first Australian National Champion Stallion Birubi Aura. The partner studs all used Ringing Gold. Lesley in particular produced magnificent mares such as Arabesque Blue N Gold and

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Arabesque Autumn Gold. The stallion was then sold to Sandra Hale of Birubi Stud in South Australia. Bostocks rarely used an outside stallion, but Forest Hill’s senior sire Tafadin was leased for the 1973 season and left Fantasy’s daughter Marana. Grand Royal left Shukulata from Scherzade, and Argent bred the beautiful Jadara from Miraya as well as Fanya from Capricious.

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The homebred stallion Sirocco was very successful in the showring. He was Champion Stallion at Brisbane Royal in 1971 and 1972. He also sired one of Bostocks’ most feminine and beautiful mares, Fayda from Nefertiti, as well as Nasula from Nofret.

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Before long the search was on for a stallion of Egyptian bloodlines to refresh the bloodlines already in the stud and incorporate with the magnificent mares the earlier inhabitants had provided. After a couple of false starts a handsome, tall chestnut straight Egyptian stallion named Al Karim Jabal Ibn Moniet (Ibn Moniet el Nefous/Roufah) was imported from Bentwood Farms. In 1984 he sired a filly, Jessefa (from Serrefa) who became the dam of a very successful show stallion Dassefa (by WN Dasjmir) who was exported to Saudi Arabia. He also produced some magnificent colts such as Torryburn Jaseem, and Elizabeth Staunton’s beloved bay show gelding Janab.

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a beautiful example of the Count Manilla/ Crystal Fire cross which worked so well for Bostocks. She was only shown twice but was Reserve Champion Mare at Brisbane Royal in 1972. Her daughters Sadaf and Nafila by Abiram were retained for the stud. Nor should I forget here the bays Misik and Nofret by Abiram. All went on to be significant broodmares. Nefertiti’s daughter Kastana bred a whole new generation of versatile and comely young bay mares by Abiram, specifically Mekafa, Brinsissa, Nafsu, Twiggana and Nafura. They were shown prolifically, finding their new homes in a widening web of Bostocks-sourced studs. Nafsu was the most successful. Tall, bay and very elegant, she excelled under saddle as a Galloway hack, also in harness events where she placed at several Royal Shows. She was Champion Mare at Melbourne Royal Show in 1978. Kastana had her colts too, including Kabiram who won his Yearling Class in Brisbane before heading off to Western Australia to Jean Muir of Fawley Stud, also the home of Sahib. Misik became the dam of the Royal Domino stallions Royal Gindi and Domignon, versatile and successful show horses of the 70s.

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.... AND SO TO THE MARES The Mare Families are crucial in building a successful long-term breeding operation. Bostocks struck gold right from its foundation.

MATOUFA AND SHEBA

Matoufa and Sheba were both in foal to Rakib (imp UK), obliging with fillies Mutrif and Shaqra. If Mutrif sounds vaguely familiar it’s because she was the dam of the famous Royal Domino sons, Mildom, Ibn Domino, Royaljan and Arim, for Jangharm Stud. Sheba remained in the stud for only two years though Shaqra, her daughter, spent her whole life there. Her filly Our Queen by Zadaran inspired many new studs of the 70s after she was sold from Bostocks in 1968 to Peter Bell’s Kehilan Stud. She had already foaled five daughters, three by Count Manilla (Quetina, Ruthenium and Himar) and two by Crystal Fire (Sarina and Malika). Quetina eventually set an auction record when sold at a Santarabia Stud Sale of 1972. Our Queen distinguished herself by producing 19 foals, mostly by Bostocksowned or bred stallions. Broodmares are no longer expected to produce as prolifically as this, and her progeny were of superb quality as well. Matoufa’s family, too, was prolific. Through her daughter Tou-Fail by Ibn Fayrial the line has produced some of the loveliest of Australian-bred mares just as through her daughter Mutrif it produced a line of superb sons.

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Tou-Fail was foaled in 1955, a grey like her sire and dam. She had several foals but her influence at Bostocks Stud was through her superb grey daughter Nefertiti by Count Manilla. The daughters and granddaughters of this mare, plus those of the imported mare Scherzade, were the qualitative strength of the broodmare band of the 60s and early 70s. Nefertiti was a great favourite of the Bligh family and all who knew her. She was somewhat in the shadow of the great Fantasy when it came to the showring, but she placed both at halter and under saddle, even in costume, and was a Brisbane Royal Reserve Champion. Her daughters included the glorious chestnut Kastana, and the grey Laodicea who went on to the Carmichael family’s El Shalao Stud, becoming much sought after in endurance pedigrees. Both mares were by Crystal Fire. Laodicea’s bay son Afandi went on to success in several studs, being a renowned saddle horse himself starting with David and Virginia McCord of Deepbank Station at Mundubbera. Later he was sold to saddlehorse trainer and breeder Sheryl Ackerley in Sydney where his story continued. The Carmichaels owned Abiram in his old age. Nefertiti foaled one of Bostocks’ most beautiful mares, the grey Fayda by Sirocco born in 1967. Grey, soft and feminine, she is

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I have already noted the serendipitous arrival of this Irex mare in 1952. Her fullsister Mirvanah was imported to Barnoolut Stud in Victoria. Scherzade, soon after arrival, foaled her bay colt Royal Domino by Blue Domino. His is a separate story altogether, and a very significant one. His most successful mating was with Matoufa’s daughter Mutrif, but before her sale from Bostocks, Mutrif had already bred a Nekhl filly Happy Wanderer and a Royal Domino mare Princess Royal. Both these mares were sold to Mr Lionel de Landelles’ Cherokee Stud near Rockhampton. Princess Royal’s Akbar filly Cherokee Royal Sarong became the dam of a liver/almost black chestnut colt named Cherokee Mecca by Silwan (imp UK). Worldrenowned endurance sire Chip Chase Sadaqa is a Mecca son, as is 1983 Australian National Champion Stallion Chip Chase Meccali. Scherzade lived at Bostocks for 14 years until her death in 1966, producing 13 foals for the stud. Her best-known foals, apart from the legendary Royal Domino, were the mare Lady Blunt by Zadaran, Fantasy and Sahib by Count Manilla, and Sirocco by Crystal Fire. Lady Blunt went to Farleigh Stud to leave the beautiful mares Lady Tania and Lady Diana, doyennes of whole families of lovely females. Lady Tania produced Supreme Champion Stallion Count Chatain by Count

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Manilla. He returned to Farleigh in his old age to sire several years of magnificent foals. There is little doubt that Scherzade’s daughter Fantasy by Count Manilla was an act apart. She had incredible presence and charisma, proven by her glowing show record at the major Shows. She was even Supreme Exhibit at the Queensland All Arabian Shows of 1970 and 1972 at 9 and 11 years. Most of her foals were by Crystal Fire, a match made in heaven. Her daughters were Capricious, Fantaziya (by Abiram) and Marana (by Tafadin). Fantasy’s sons were also the brilliant Farhan, Lord Bahram and Crystal Count. I have saved the best to last as Fantasy outdid her previous efforts when she

foaled a chestnut daughter Miraya, a natural Champion in the same mould as her dam, with a tighter frame, a softer and more feminine face, large-eyed and typey. She became the pin-up girl of Bostocks for the next 20 years. She and her fullsister Capricious were retained by the stud. Miraya was only four when she first became Champion Mare at Brisbane Royal Show. She won this honour twice. She also added some wonderful foals, including a real fairytale Argent mare, Jadara who belonged for her whole life to Alison Soster. Jadara’s colt foal by Chip Chase Desert Wind, Robali Dargeeling is the sire of Rythmic, a Crabbet stallion from Australia who has recently been exported to the United States by Nicole Emanuel.

IN CONCLUSION

Bostocks Stud continued until 1977, when Elizabeth married Dr Frank Staunton. Their two studs, Bostocks and Scimitar, were incorporated into their new joint venture, Torryburn Stud in the Hunter Valley, named for the historic property they bought there. The best of both their studs was very fine indeed and they went on to breed some more very significant Arabians, especially when their interest in endurance and racing added versatility to the programme. Author Coralie Gordon Images courtesy of Pat Slater & Jerry Sparagowski FARHAN

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Generational excellence at Future Farms extends beyond the horses…Kate and Doyle’s son, Kody, was the one to show Volcom to his well-deserved laurels. Combined with daughter Jessica’s expert ringcraft in multiple saddle classes, the show was a momentous one for Doyle and Kate as parents, as well as breeders. In addition to this exciting result, Crave also sired the Gold Champion Yearling Gelding Valhalla FF, a full brother to Volcom. Volcom himself was the sire of the Gold Champion Yearling Colt, Jasper FF, keeping many of the Purebred male Championships very much ‘in the family’. As far as Derivatives were concerned, Crave was most notably represented by his Partbred Arabian daughter Gleniph Tiramisu. This beautiful buckskin mare needs no introduction, and her superlative efforts at the Australian Championships were recognised with the Gold Champion Versatile Derivative Award. All three of these exceptional horses – Valhalla, Jasper and Tiramisu – are owned by Sabble Farm, who enjoyed a tremendous show with their impressive team.

ith the 2021 Australian Arabian National Championships program spanning Purebreds and Derivatives, halter and performance, from Youth and Non Pro all the way through to open led and ridden, you’d be forgiven for thinking that no single breeding program could be successfully represented across so many different divisions at one show. Future Farms, whose ‘extended family’ accrued an astonishing seventy different Championships over the four days of competition, might think otherwise. The flagship horse for the Future Farms program has, for a number of years, been the homebred stallion Crave FF (Mash x Bremervale Charmed). A multiple Australian, East Coast, National, Royal and State Championship winner as both a halter and saddle horse, Crave has been repeatedly recognised as a leading sire of both Purebreds and Derivatives since 2015, and continues to make his genetic presence felt in 2021. His outstanding achievements as a sire and show horse were recognised in 2017, when he was awarded the WAHO trophy. The ultimate realisation of Crave’s influence, however, does not lie solely in his individual beauty or his many accolades, but also in the ongoing success of his progeny and, in more recent years, their progeny. At the 2021 Australian Championships, Crave’s descendants accumulated an extraordinary eight gold, eight silver and three bronze Championships in the open halter divisions alone. His crowning achievement at the show was arguably when his son, the dynamic Volcom FF, was awarded Gold Champion in the strongly contested Purebred Stallion class.

Crave’s dominion also extended to the Arabian Riding Pony section, where he sired all three Gold Champions. Senior stallion Karate Kid, senior gelding Kizashi and junior filly Kokomo FF are not only unified by their sire, but also by their dam Sia-Nara (Imperial Journal x Harmony Hill Imagine). Owned by Kate’s parents, Sia-Nara found her ‘perfect nick’ with Crave, and the mating has so far produced eight exceptional foals, not just the three listed, but also the elite show pony Tokyo Joe (dec.) and the exported Schintaro. Prior to meeting her match with Crave, Sia-Nara was bred to Burren-dah the Wizard (exp. NZ) to produce the elegant Arabian Riding Pony mare Geasha Girl FF, who is a dam of distinction in her own right. While her representation at the 2021 Championships was limited, her multiple Australian Champion offspring include Game Maker FF and the irresistible Girlfriend FF. Talking about Crave and Sia-Nara’s prolificity, Kate notes that ‘the importance of mare families’ has always been a major consideration for the Future Farms program. It is true that Crave progeny have a very distinctive look – easily apparent in their expressive eyes and wide, kite-shaped faces – and it’s a look that Doyle and Kate particularly attribute to their matriarch mare Bremervale Charmed. As the dam of Crave, Charmed’s wide-ranging influence has often been noted, but her exceptional producing power is further evidenced by her other successful offspring. These include the grey gelding Prince Charming FF, himself the WAHO trophy recipient in 2018, and the charismatic

BREMERVALE CHARMED (DESPERADO X BREMERVALE SPELLBOUND) WITH FOAL CRAVE FF (X MASH)

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relevance as elite breeding horses and leading Arabian ambassadors.

BEGUINE OH (VERSACE X CLIO BELIZE)

Sir Charmed FF, whose accolades since his exportation to the United States have included Reserve Champion at Scottsdale and Bronze Champion at the Arabian Breeders’ World Cup in Las Vegas. This year, Charmed has been graced with the great honour of the WAHO trophy, acknowledging her distinguished production record throughout her life.

Furthermore, she is not just the dam of two formerly mentioned WAHO trophy recipients (Crave in 2017, Prince Charming in 2018) but also a daughter of the 2016 winner Desperado. They are the only family to have been awarded this prestigious accolade across three generations and between them have won four of the last six annual awards, testifying to their continued success and

While Charmed occupies a place of special significance within the wider Future Farms framework, several of Future Farms’ other leading mares were also superbly represented at the 2021 Championships. With their number of progeny very much limited in comparison to their entire counterparts, it’s relatively rare for a mare to have multiple offspring competing at a single show, let alone to have multiple winning offspring competing at a single show. This was a feat accomplished not only by Sia-Nara, but also by her paddock mates Beguine OH (imp. US) and Mystica Abia. Abia, a daughter of the international icon WH Justice, produced Gold Champions across two separate registries. Her son Justified FF (by Concherto FF) was judged Gold Champion Anglo from all ages and sexes, a result that was replicated by her Half Arabian son Jetstar FF (by Keira Park Cascade) in his breed class. Beguine, also a daughter of an internationally recognised super sire in Versace, produced not only the Gold Champion Purebreds Volcom and Valhalla by Crave, but also the eye-catching Silver Champion Junior Filly Bohemian Al Sahrae by El Chall WR (imp. US). These impeccably bred mares are bringing their own strengths and diversity to Future Farms’ well-established foundations, along with Mystica Jamarlee (sired by Marwan Al Shaqab, and the dam of Gold Champion Jasper FF) and Mystica Sunshine (sired by Eden C, and the dam of successful show horses Satisfy FF and Santiago FF).

VALHALLA FF (CRAVE FF X BEGUINE OH) AT THE AUSSIES

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VOLCOM FF (CRAVE FF X BEGUINE OH)

Though the Dertells are understandably proud of the homebred horses flying their flag, they are also grateful to the many outside breeders who have perpetuated their bloodlines beyond their own program. These include fellow Purebred breeders like Al Sahrae, Krishlah Arabians and Westacres. The Hardwick family of Al Sahrae enjoyed Silver Championship success with Bohemian Al Sahrae, but also bred Silver Champion Junior Gelding Valiant Al Sahrae (Volcom FF x Burren-dah Valentina Iimage). Krishlah-bred Champions Volt KA (Gold), Pshiva KA and Catalyst KA (Silver), and Pshania KA (Bronze) all trace back to Crave, and Westacres exhibited their Voyager W (Sir Charmed FF x Amira Mulahn) to Bronze Champion in the senior stallion class. The Future Farms ‘ripple effect’ is felt just as keenly in the Derivative registries. The full siblings Wilgo’s Exotic Bliss and Wilgo’s Pure Bliss (Royalwood Rossini x Bliss FF), bred by Janelle Salway, were awarded Silver and Bronze Championships in the class for Junior Arabian Riding Pony Breeding Stock, just behind their distant relative Kokomo FF. Another pair of full siblings, Gleniph Tiramisu and Gleniph Kahlua (Crave FF x Gleniph Bombe Alaska), took out Gold and Silver Championships in Partbred halter. Both these exceptional coloured mares were bred by Richard and Kerry Chapman, who have produced many outstanding horses, including those by Future Farms’

stallions. Silver Champion Half Arabian to Jetstar’s Gold Champion was the typey Lendene Electra (Ablue Moon’s James Blond x Princess of Passion FF), bred by Sharyn Williams and Robert Towner, who have also bred numerous successful ponies from Crave daughters and granddaughters. Doyle, Kate, Kody and Jessica feel privileged to see their top breeding horses reflected in so many champions, particularly in addition to the Championship results of other Future Farms-bred horses: Elegant FF, Fahrenheit FF, Butterfly FF, Elegance FF and Rivoli Magic FF. How do you define the exceptionality of a specific horse? Individual quality? Outstanding show and performance record? Consistent production of impressive stock? The capacity to shape multiple future generations? No matter which of these constitutes your personal idea of success, Bremervale Charmed and her son Crave FF have proven themselves exceptional. Their

many descendants may vary in colour, registry, breeder and owner, but they are often united in the winner’s circle, and there is little question that this extraordinary family has been instrumental in shaping one of the most decorated contemporary Arabian and Derivative breeding programs in Australia. Author Nicola Kelly Images courtesy of Jennifer Ogden, Sally & Samantha Taylor

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n a relatively short time, Khalid Arabians has become a force to be reckoned with in the show ring. With success in both purebreds and derivatives, across multiple disciplines, Catherine Cunningham and her family have cemented their place in Australia’s show ring family.

I first spoke to Catherine for Arabian Studs & Stallions five years ago, and had watched with interest how this family’s success had grown and changed over that time.

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‘What have we learned during that time?’ asks Catherine. ‘We are still learning each and every day that the Australian Arabian World is very small. Every horse is unique and has its own way and timeframe. I have learned that there is no set approach that fits every horse, just a set of skills required to gain trust and bring out the best in these amazing horses. They are so incredibly clever.’ Since we last spoke, Khalid Arabians have produced some exceptional youngsters and

I am keen to hear how that transition from purchasing to breeding had transpired. ‘We have learned so much about young stock, breeding and foaling down. We have had our share of joy and heartbreak and been through some difficult foalings. Luckily, with my midwifery background, the physics of foaling and managing a malpresentation are not so daunting… and it is helpful to have a ‘phone-a-friend’ whilst waiting on expert help when required,’ she laughs.

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‘Most of all we have learned Arabians are both addictive and majestic.’ Khalid Arabians have come a long way with their breeding program, particularly with the stock sired by Part Arabian Stallion Roseglen Crown Royale, fondly known as ‘Fame’. ‘It is so special being able to select a mare to breed to our Fame. He is a very special part of our stud and has achieved so much in halter and saddle. He brings to the table his glorious palomino colour, with correct conformation and an exuberance that commands all to stop and adore him. A friend has affectionately named him Mr Horsekins (after Jennifer Hawkins) as he struts his stuff around the paddock. As a breeding horse, we were obviously chasing colour from him and we had an interesting first year. Two of his three foals were chestnut and each had a hint of palomino, a golden coloured patch on the hip of the colt and a splash of gold on the filly’s leg…we were hoping those splashes of colour would spread. They did not, and sadly the only palomino colt passed away at four days old.’ That said, the five youngsters on the ground by Roseglen Crown Royale are doing an exceptional job for their sire in the show ring, excelling at the highest levels. At the 2021 East Coast Arabian Championships alone, the progeny of Roseglen Crown Royale were awarded: Royale Gezan KA • Champion Junior Part Arabian Entire

Catherine’s son Aiden has developed an all-encompassing passion for Arabians, which has sent him on a new, international journey. ‘It all began at home with his purebred gelding Sharjah WPI. The love he developed for Sharjah soon became an addiction to all Arabians, and he followed his dreams down south to Victoria for a year, which then led to opportunities to come home and show the Khalid Arabian horses. He is now chasing his dreams in a land too far away during COVID times, but he is having the time of his life at Ted Carson Arabians, in Alabama, USA. He is experiencing such foreign elements for a Queenslander, from snow to tornados! His training and show skills have developed rapidly with such busy show programs under the mentorship of Ted Carson. ‘I believe his biggest thrills come from taking teams of horses across the country to compete at Scottsdale. The excitement in his voice was obvious, and although he said he knew he didn’t have the winner, his horse made a stellar entry and to be side by side with world famous trainers was the thrill of a lifetime.’ Although Aiden has been living overseas, the stud has continued to grow and the Cunninghams have put their own spin on what they want to achieve. ‘Today we do more research into breeding and stallion selection and hope to achieve our own dreams. We feel we made a leap ahead with Roseglen Crown Royale and so our Part Arabian program is on its way – we are truly blessed to have him.’

A usual day at the stud begins at 5AM with a feed up, groom and turn out for the 11 horses that are currently stabled at the farm. Show and saddle horses are worked, weanlings are handled and then it is off to work for the Cunningham family. Upon returning home later that day, everything is done in reverse…lights are on, horses are tucked away for the night and then the family enjoys a little downtime before bed. ‘It can be exhausting at times, but when you feel it is all too much, a sleep and spending more time with these amazing animals makes it all worthwhile. ‘We prepare our horses physically with lunging for the halter horses, which includes the basics in schooling. We employ a saddle trainer and have opted for dressage for education rather than pure show riding. We believe education is very important. ‘We use a professional halter trainer to do the finishing on schooling and showing as that far outweighs our ability. However we do the preparation for ring entry which gives us a sense of achievement. We prepare our horses the same for the Australian National Championships as we do for a small local show…they are equally important to us. ‘We have yet to purchase our own purebred stallion. Whoever he is, he has to be just right…I dream in believing we might be able to produce our own.’ Until then, the Cunninghams are expanding their Derivative program and have their first

Royale Innana KA • Reserve Champion Junior Part Arabian Filly • Reserve Supreme Junior Part Arabian

‘To say we were thrilled with East Coast is an understatement, it was so rewarding to see our homebred foals taking out those awards. Royale Gezan KA had won his first Australian Championship the year before, which was a huge thrill, but to see all of our babies out there that weekend, it was unbeatable.’ Khalid have two homebred weanlings from 2020 who show exceptional promise for next season; a cremello colt and a palomino filly. ‘Right now we are educating them but we are very excited to showcase these beauties later in 2021.’

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Royale Elegance KA • Champion Junior Half Arabian Filly • Supreme Junior Half Arabian • Grand Champion Junior Derivative of the Show

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Arabian Warmblood due in September. ‘We bred a beautiful purebred mare to a black Trekkehner Stallion. The resulting foal will be an Arabian Warmblood but will also be entitled to a pure Trekkehner Warmblood registration in its own right. ‘We are also showing and breeding a select pony program with our first homebred pony due in August by East Coast Arabian Pony stallion Westacres Lost My Sock (Kierra Park Cascade x Fairlight Acres Ascend).

‘It is very important that what we produce is not only beautiful under halter but a functional saddle horse of the future. Isn’t that everyone’s dream?’ To that end, there are approximately 20 horses in the stud at this time, including three young homebred mares by the imported Ulysium (JA Urbino x Marc of Ali CBA). ‘Allysum KA, Aphrodites KA and Fallon KA are each a little different, but they are all beautiful. These will be our next step in our Purebred program.’

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Rather than focusing on ‘straight this’ or ‘pure that’, the Cunningham’s program successfully relies on the phenotype of the horses being used, rather than the genotype. ‘We are not hung up on the label per se, we like what we like and we have tried crosses that professionals told us will never work and here we are. Call it beginner’s luck, we will take that! We don’t want to be a small replica of another stud, we want to use what we think will work with what we have, and take it from there.’ That said, the Cunninghams are not afraid to ask for advice. ‘The traits I admire are honesty and integrity with a sense of fair play. The ability to bring passion and compassion and a general ability to support others whether they are the little fish in the sea or otherwise. So many people have helped us along the way. I admire Michelle Thomas for her breeding program and her skill; Heath Rowbottom for his compassion and willingness to impart trade secrets to improve my own horsemanship; and I admire Jason Hodgins for his absolutely flawless show skill set and Cameron Bonney for the professionalism he exuberates. I admire Colleen Rutherford for her astuteness and ability to teach; Scott Benjamin for his depth and breadth of knowledge on horses

around the globe; and the wonderful Wayne Backhouse has been a tremendous support over the years. Although I don’t personally know the Farrells, the professionalism and success of Mulawa is only a dream away. Lastly I admire Ted Carson for giving a young Australian man a chance in the big world, an opportunity of a lifetime. I refer to them as the Master and the Apprentice...and I do admire my son Aiden for having the passion to chase his dreams in the big wide world (even though I still think he should be finishing his law degree). ‘I love to ride, and ill health has not allowed that until recently. Lately I was able to get back in the saddle, and simply sitting on a mare looking through her golden ears has brought an amazing sense of peace and tranquillity, a feeling I have not felt in a long time. My goals are not ambitious, for now I simply long for a gentle trail ride on a horse that I love, and to breed Arabians that will not only be a wonderful halter ambassador, but a future saddle horse and/ or a complementary addition to someone’s breeding program.’ Interview with Catherine Cunningham Images courtesy of Catherine Cunningham, Julian McPeak & Samantha Taylor

ROSEGLEN 14.21/2 hh HIGH PERCENTAGE PART ARABIAN STALLION Multi Australian champion in halter and saddle A born show off in halter and back to earth under saddle Now under dressage pony instruction with amazing movement Breeding on excellence at a national level Breeding to this sire is by negotiation and to approved mares

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13.2 hh ARP, RPSB, APSB, PART WELSH Standing at Stud in 2021 Proven halter pony about to embark on his Newcomer saddle year and dressage pony. With a sire like his the future is promising.

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maki’s Coloured Arabians and Diane Gale have been amongst the most prominent players in the Part Arabian show scene since the early 1980s. Horses bred by the stud, and their progeny for many generations, have continued to win at the highest levels for the past forty years…no mean feat for a breeding program that has produced very few foals relative to its years. One could say that Amaki Arabians has been punching above its weight in that regard, however when one considers the effort to focus on only the best that drives Diane’s breeding decisions, it makes perfect sense. I first met Diane when I was a teenager. I had lied about being 18 years of age and

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taken my horse on a fund-raising ride from Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley to Tamworth, and I had met a man on this ride who had Arabians. He introduced me to Diane, because ‘she had something very special and unique that I would be interested in learning about’. And indeed I was. Although my memory is foggy now, I remember visiting her property in Ebenezer and meeting a collection of exquisite, golden Part Arabian horses. I could not afford one at the time, however Diane was very supportive and we kept in touch, and I vowed that one of these horses would be a part of my future. It happened of course, however that is a tale for another day.

Diane grew up in Randwick, close to Centennial Park in Sydney where even today, the track around the edge of the park is filled with horses and riders. As a child, Diane spent all of her time watching these riding school horses, and when she was 13 years old the family moved to one acre of land in Westmead where she was able to buy her first horse, a chestnut mare named Penny. ‘Although Penny was a great little pony to learn to ride on, Arabians were always the horses that I dreamed of. In those days, purebred fillies were impossible to get hold of, however I managed to buy an unregistered mare named “Mist” who had some of the qualities I admired in Arabians. She was a fun horse to ride, but my dream

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was to breed her to my “pin up boy” Aethon (Spindrift (GB) x Hestia). He was my ideal Arabian, and I would go to shows just in the hope that he was there.’ Diane’s dream of breeding Mist to Aethon did happen eventually, but no foal resulted. In 1969 Mist was bred to one of the most popular breeding stallions of the time Flash Design (Flash Boy x Mayrial) and in August 1970, the very first Part Arabian carrying the ‘Amaki’ prefix was born. ‘My stud name “Amaki” (pronounced amak-eye) was derived from the town my father was born in, Kiama. I named that filly Amaki Shahwan and I bred a couple of foals from her by purebred stallions. My breeding program continued that way throughout the 1970s, starting with unregistered mares and breeding up with purebred stallions, both outside horses and a chestnut stallion I owned named Talquah Ramaki by Royaljan (Royal Domino x Mutrif) from Ralvon Kunfuda (Rikham (GB) x Neyzar). It was not unusual at the time as purebred mares were both rare and as valuable as houses!’ As the next decade dawned, Diane’s breeding program took a major leap forward with the purchase of her first purebred mare Schimmelhoff Soraya (Shiekie x Sayonara), and an imported palomino mare Cheswick Golden Mist. Sired by the purebred stallion Sahara (Surur x Shirin) from Cheswick Golden Dawn, Golden Mist would prove a game changer for Diane.

‘With the success of Golden Imp, I became more and more interested in coloured Arabian derivatives,’ begins Diane. ‘At that time, it was as difficult to find good coloured mares as it was to afford purebred mares, however I was able to acquire a lovely cremello/grey mare who was double Najaf (Moon Kabala x Neyri).’ Diane had retained a bay purebred stallion from Schimmelhoff Soraya, sired by the Ralvon Pilgrim son Orana Vagabond. ‘I bred these two together to produce one of my favourite horses, Amaki Buck’s Fizz. He was named after the cocktail known as a Bucks Fizz, which is a mixture of champagne and orange juice. I used to liken it to how showing can be…sometimes you celebrate with champagne, and other times you have to settle for orange juice!’ The buckskin Amaki Buck’s Fizz attended his first show, the National Capital in Canberra at 13 months old, where he won Grand Champion Derivative Exhibit. A tall and imposing colt, he went on to become a PC SHARON MEYERS

Golden Mist and her mother Dawn were imported from New Zealand, and their owner took a shine to one of Diane’s horses so a swap was agreed to. Golden Mist was bred to a two-year-old chestnut Arabian colt, Glo-Brook Strephon (Royal Gindi x Iraki Georgie), and this mating produced her first palomino filly named Amaki’s Golden Imp. This filly would go on to create a dynasty that is arguably unequalled by a Part Arabian mare, even today.

Reserve Champion wins throughout the Hawkesbury, in both Arabian and Palomino classes during those first three seasons. After several years off as a broodmare, at the 1991 East Coast Championships Golden Imp returned to the ring for Reserve Champion Part Arabian Mare, then Supreme Champion at Il Cadore when just ten days off foaling. Golden Imp won her Part Arabian Broodmare class three years in a row at the National Arabian Show, from 1990 with a five-day-old filly, 1991 with a two-day-old filly and in 1992 ready to foal her first colt at any time, achieving her Roll Of Merit, and was retired from the show ring.

National Arabian Champion twice and East Coast Champion after achieving his finest show ring moment, Australian National Champion Stallion. ‘It was around that time that I began to think that perhaps Buck’s Fizz was turning grey. You see, his dam was by a palomino but out of a palomino grey dam. She had already produced two palomino grey fillies. Still, he was a magnificent horse regardless of colour, and between showing Golden Imp and Bucky during that period…well I was having the time of my life.’ Diane’s winning pair had their first foal in the spring of 1990, another first for Diane, a perlino filly. ‘Amaki’s Impeccable was a dream come true. Her first Arabian show was the All Arabian Show, where to the absolute horror of some onlookers because of her colour, she won the Part Arabian foal class of 14 foals. She won her first Champion award at just three months old from all ages and the winning never stopped. As a yearling she won both Reserve Australian National Champion and East Coast Reserve Champion and in her futurity class at the National Arabian Show she won from a large class with a score of 81.3%, which was higher than the winning purebred had scored. In 1993 she won the Progeny Group with her full brother at the National Arabian Show from 12 groups. It was astounding as they were both perlinos at a time when few considered the colour appropriate. After six years living in paddock retirement with no rugging or stabling she was taken to Canberra and Palomino Nationals where she was awarded Supreme ribbons at both shows.’

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‘Imp and I had a unique bond from the time I delivered her into the world in 1981. To say she was special is an understatement, she was everything I could have wished for. She was my first palomino foal, and I named her for the impish way she would dance around her mother as a foal. I could not believe that she was real, she was divine.’ Amaki’s Golden Imp became Diane’s regular weekend show ring partner, winning her class at the Nationals as a yearling, as a two-year-old and then again as a threeyear-old, where she was also awarded Champion. The dedication Diane showed towards Golden Imp was rewarded with a total of eight Championships and eleven

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Amaki’s Impeccable became a broodmare of note. Her first foal Amaki’s Impressionable was sold as a yearling, after winning her futurity and Champion at the National Arabian Show, to Kate Dertell who showed her to many championships at halter and in Western pleasure including East Coast Champion and winning the prestigious Camelot Challenge. It would be seven years before Impeccable was bred again, producing a trifecta of incredible foals by the great SK Shakla Khan (Sanadik El Shaklan x Sunking Raindrop). ‘I had long admired him, and although he was not at stud to derivative mares, his owner Peter Hall after seeing her, allowed me to use him.’ The first was a buckskin daughter Amaki’s Impasshan, Reserve Champion at both the Arabian National and the Canberra National, and Top Five at East Coast then retired due to a skin allergy and retained by the stud. The second was a palomino filly named Amaki’s Impresshan of perfect proportions who was sold at one day old to Nicole Tremain and won seven Championships from her first seven shows including The Little Egypt Trophy and National Arabian Show, Canberra National Show, East Coast And Australian Championships. The third was born after Diane had to sell Impeccable, a buckskin colt Heste Arabique Impressed in Bronze, also purchased by Nicole Tremain who became an Australian Champion and won the Triple Crown amongst many other wins. Today, he is owned by Andrew Thorek and is still very competitive.

Of course as the old saying goes, a good horse is never a bad colour, however there were indeed people who thought that a good horse was actually a bad colour. It may be hard to believe today, however during the early nineties, double dilute horses, commonly known as cremello and perlino, were not valued by the general horse community at all, regardless of conformation. At that time even the Palomino Society in Australia would not allow stock to be registered if they were sired by a cremello or perlino stallion…despite the fact that using these genetics could reliably predict the colour of the foal which was so desired by admirers of the colour palomino. The first colt born to Amaki Buck’s Fizz and Amaki’s Golden Imp would unravel these primitive customs. Another perlino, Amaki’s Impressionist attended his first show at three months old to be awarded Champion Stallion or Colt. He won his yearling and two-year-old Futurities. He would go on to win Championships at the National Arabian Show (twice), East Coast Champion, Canberra National Supreme Derivative, Australian National Reserve Champion Stallion and All Arabian Show Reserve Champion (to his sire). Diane persevered with her ‘white’ horses, exhibiting them whenever she could, and turning a few heads as she did. As Amaki’s Impressionist matured, his wins were being noticed by many who had previously tried to dismiss him as something lesser than what he was. ‘As an adult stallion in 1998 I

took Amaki’s Impressionist to Melbourne for the Victorian Classic with nothing but a few dollars and a dream to my name. I will never forget the feeling of hearing his number being called out for Champion Part Arabian Stallion at the Classic, only eclipsed by being called out for Supreme Part Arabian Exhibit a few minutes later. I cried…I still cry today when I think about it. Not bad for a horse of a different colour. ‘Prior to 1998 I had always prepared him at home mostly by myself,’ says Diane. ‘I didn’t have stables, I prepped him in his paddock and I loved him and trained him. He was always wonderful to me.’ The love lavished on the lofty white stallion was returned 10 fold. ‘In spite of everything, he had done it, he had done everything I could have ever asked of him, and all with such grace,’ remembers Diane. Due to his quality and success, the Australian Palomino Horse Society at the time would have no option but to change their ruling on progeny by double dilute stallions. ‘The registration number for Amaki’s Impressionist with that society was W001…the first of his kind and I believe it was another two years until W002 was given to a pony.’

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Amaki’s Impressionist became a sire of note, most notably of the buckskin stallion Heste Arabique First Impression from Heste Arabique Josephine (Erin Park Nelson x Tutuilla Deidamia) who, produced by his owner Viv Motbey, would become a multi Australian National Champion, and won the Triple Crown three times before his untimely death. Impressionist also sired the National Champion Mare Bluegum Snowflake, East Coast Champion Kepeka Khyle while Diane bred a magnificent buckskin by him, Amaki’s Impersonator (Amaki Ikamar Raakhaan) who was Champion at the QLD Challenge and competes very successfully in dressage. When bred back to his dam, Amaki’s Impressionist sired one of the leading sires of Arabian derivatives today, Ray of Light. An East Coast Champion and twice Australian National Reserve Champion (both times first on points), Ray of Light is the sire of many of today’s champions including Wishlist, Light It Up, QHF Kit Kat, Top Model, Kinful Simply Delightful, AP Time Stands Still, Fire Fly, Kinful Ziggy Stardust, Gleniph Light My Fire and Diamond Road Heart of Fire.

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‘I was having so much fun showing my horses that for much of the nineties, I didn’t breed many at all. I bred Amaki’s Golden Imp to my bay Arabian stallion Amaki Va’Reign for the buckskin filly Amaki’s Impre’vu, who was an East Coast

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Celebrating 40 Years of Amaki's Golden Imp

Since her birth in 1981, Amaki’s Golden Imp and her family have given us so much to celebrate. We honour her incredible contribution and look forward to the future with her descendants. In 2021, we are expecting a foal with three crosses to this superb mare.

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Reserve Champion and Canberra National Supreme as a yearling before becoming a wonderful broodmare for both myself and her subsequent owners.’ Her best known foals are Amaki’s Da Ja’Vu by Shakla Zulu who won Supreme at the Victorian Classic and Reserve at Sydney Royal, and Diamond Road Abrax by Shakla’s Eclipse, both Australian National Champions.

AMAKI’S IMPASSHAN (SK SHAKLA KHAN X AMAKI’S IMPECCABLE) WITH COLT AMAKI’S IMPRESARIO BY VESUVIO (AZTEQ LBA X VALOURIA)

AMAKI’S IMPRESSHAN (SK SHAKLA KHAN X AMAKI’S IMPECCABLE) WINNING AT THE 2018 CHALLENGE

After a divorce, Diane continued her stud for a few years before ill health and losing the property forced her to sell nearly all of her horses. Wanting to keep the bloodlines that had been so successful for her, Diane only retained the buckskin mares Amaki’s Impasshan (SK Shakla Khan x Amaki’s Impeccable) and Amaki’s Va’Nita, full sister to Amaki Buck’s Fizz and her cremello daughter Amaki’s Va’Nilla Crème. All of the horses that had built the stud…Golden Imp, Buck’s Fizz, Impressionist, Impeccable, Impre’vu and more, were sold to what would become, in the most part anyway, their forever homes. A couple of foals were bred, including the well performed Amaki’s Scorch’n (RNZ Scorza x Amaki’s Va’Nilla Crème) who won East Coast Reserve Champion and Supreme at the Canberra National before he was sold, but essentially, the last 10 years or so has been rather quiet for Amaki’s Coloured Arabians. ‘Things don’t always go according to plan, the retained mares and their daughters were leased out with varying success, and so today I have just one mare, Amaki’s Impasshan who is hopefully in foal to Ray of Light for a show horse which may be my last, and her gelding son Amaki’s Impresario by Australian Champion Vesuvio (Azteq LBA x Valouria) who has just found a new home in Queensland.

I am all about quality over quantity though, always have been.

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‘I am so excited to see an Amaki prefix horse out in the ring again. Impresario is a rather hot little gelding and I think he will show his socks off! I am so proud to continue with my “Imp” family, with each of them given the family name for several generations now. I am equally proud of how horses that I have bred and owned have gone on to make the younger generation’s dreams come true, and I follow their progress as eagerly as I do the ones I have bred myself. That said, another Australian Championship win of my own is definitely on my wishlist…watch this space! Here’s hoping it is white!”

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THE ART OF

Cary van Dansik

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ince ancient times, the horse has pride of place amongst sculptors and painters of animals. From the drawings of cave dwellers to the modern day artist, they have always been a highly popular subject. The grace, elegance and muscular complexity of the horse challenges even the most competent artisans. One of the most important contemporary horse sculptors is certainly the Dutch Cary van Dansik. Born and raised in the city of Haarlem, the Netherlands, he lives today in the picturesque village of Sleen in the Dutch countryside. He enjoys a quiet life

with his family there. An old hay barn has been refurbished into a beautiful sculptor’s studio called ‘Le Cheval Noir’ (The Black Horse). It boasts all the necessary amenities to produce life-size equine art. Cary van Dansik is one of very few contemporary sporting artists. His works impress with great charisma and beauty while the horses are often shown in full movement, playful and having lots of energy. Cary van Dansik loves to immortalise typey individuals with an excellent head and high tail carriage.

childhood. ‘As a child of four I was already drawing horses in a special way,’ he relates with a smile. ‘The educator noticed that it wasn’t usual for a child of this young age to be caught drawing horses at his desk. Then and also later in school the teachers suggested I should get a special education in art. Unfortunately my father, coming from an old butchers’ tradition, decided that without any question I had to follow in his footsteps. When he did not send me to the academy of art, I was very sad and angry.’

Horses and art are two components which have accompanied Cary since his early

In the end however, art prevailed. Cary van Dansik is an autodidact who always studies

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his subjects to the best possible degree. Besides table-size bronzes and trophies, his signature pieces are life-size sculptures. As the famous English artist George Stubbs, Cary van Dansik meticulously studied the anatomy and function of all bones and muscles in order to understand the mechanisms of the body.

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Since starting his career in the early 1980s, van Dansik has produced over 30 works, from table-size sculptures to life-size monuments. Many of them are limited bronze editions of 6 to 15 copies. Creating them requires, besides patience, passion and an excellent eye, and also a

good knowledge of mathematics. ‘It all starts on the drawing board where I do the first sketches,’ Cary van Dansik explains. ‘I love looking at beautiful horses in all their dreamy movements and poses. Then inspiration just comes rolling in. Afterwards I figure out the necessary calculations. It is important to make an anatomically

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correct solid iron armature – this is like a skeleton. Then I begin to model with clay or modelling wax. If it is a portrait commission, the client can still ask for changes or amendments at this stage. Once everything is completed, people from the local foundry come to my atelier and take the statue to be casted into bronze. All is finished under my close supervision.’ Cary van Dansik’s favourite to model are Arabian horses and especially straight Egyptians. But he also enjoys sculpting Baroque breeds as for example Spanish, Andalusian or Friesian horses, and Lipizzaners, as well as horses with special movements such as English Hackney and the Dutch Harness horses. ‘I very much admire the old masters like Pierre Jules Mene and Auguste Rodin as well as from more recent times Edwin Bogucki!,’ Cary van Dansik points out. His sculptures create enthusiasm worldwide and have been sold to Kuwait, Dubai, Qatar, USA, France, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain,

Ireland, Ukraine and The Netherlands etc. Many of them were life-sized projects and now adorn most prestigious stud farms. Asked after his most favourite horse, Cary

comments: ‘I have several, but if I have to name just one, it’s Kubinec. I have created him also in life-size for Karl-Heinz Stoeckle, Germany.’

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Due to lack of time Cary van Dansik stopped owning horses. ‘But the Arabian horse and horses in general are my life, my passion. Creating my art is my reason for living,’ he explains. ‘For my work I have visited many Arabian horse stud farms such as The Kossack Stud at the time of the Tersk Auctions. It was then owned by the late Mr

Robin den Hartog and it’s now supervised by his son Robbie Den Hartog Jr. I also always enjoyed visiting Flaxman Arabians. Mrs Helen Hennekens-van Nes and her late father Jan van Nes were very great stimulants and a push for my career. My favourite show is of course the All Nations Cup in Aachen. I was blessed to create the

trophies for this event for many years, for example the German Cup.’ Asked for his plans for the future, Cary van Dansik narrates enthusiastically: ‘I would love to have my own museum and I am already building on it at the moment.’ Then he adds with a smile, ‘And I want to live long, at least 300 years more, to create the perfect Arabian horse!’ Author Judith Wich-Wenning Images courtesy of Kubat

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The Arabian Head

rom the very beginning I could pick an Arabian at a thousand paces. Whether it were in a haphazard mob in a roadside paddock, watching a horse working a few cows in a dusty arena, tied to a truck at a horse show, sweaty and irritable after a long hot day of pony club, or competing in District Hack at the local agricultural show. Without realising it, I would see them …my eyes were drawn to them like a magnet.

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There is little doubt that the head of the Arabian horse is one of its most distinctive features. What are those perfect numbers; the magic ratios which spell breeding and history; and where did I learn them? How did noticing the head become instinctive? I am incredibly lucky to have amassed an amazing library of Arabian horse books. I have scoured and collected over the years, and been blessed to have libraries passed

down to me. I am not sure if many of today’s fans are so lucky as to have such a wealth of information at their fingertips and to have grown up building a picture of this ancient breed based on centuries of texts. And so I decided to draw together some of the finest descriptions, some of the pillars of perpetuating the breed type. Some of the most beautiful and clear explanations of what an Arabian horse was, and why it was so.

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‘If perfect type were before us, certain striking peculiarities of anatomical structure would immediately arrest our attention – notably, the head … forms in our subconscious minds the pattern of all that represents intelligence and nobility in the horse.’ ... W Brown ‘The first thing an Oriental looks at when buying a horse is the head. They look for a head full of elegance, beauty and expression … The importance of judging the head first is this: Your first impression of the horse as it approaches you is merely your appreciation of his head.’ ... His Royal Highness The Late Prince Mohamed Aly Roger D Upton states that ‘the head of the horse is an index to his character, moral and physical’ and goes on to describe the Arabian horse as having ‘not altogether a small head, it is, on the contrary, large in all parts containing the working and essential organs, it is small in those parts only which connect these essential organs’. Youatt is quoted by W Brown: ‘There is no surer criterion of a well bred horse than a broad angular forehead, prominent features and a short face.’ Carl Raswan and Judith Forbis describe a head with a ‘pyramidical’ shape, and Carl Raswan notes of his ideal Arabian that ‘his head … was fairly short’. Homer Davenport talks of a head ‘short from the eye to the muzzle, broad and well-developed above’ and this is reflected in the writings of Lady Anne Blunt who agrees that ‘the head should be large, not small ... but the size should be all in the upper regions of the skull. There should be a great distance from the ears to the eyes, and a great distance from one eye to the other … The forehead, moreover, and the whole region between and just below the eyes, should be convex’. It is from this evolutionary design that the concept of the dished profile of the Arabian horse has developed. Indeed, what many interpret as a concave profile is actually dependent on the opposite – a convex profile. It is the shape of the forehead which is specified and agreed upon by many of our historical sources, and there is more material on this than the presence of a dish. According to Homer Davenport one of the ‘great features, possibly, that a novice would notice quickest in the Arab horse, is the forehead, or jibbah, which cannot be too prominent’. FB Klynstra continues: ‘The forehead, or jibbah, must be somewhat rounded between the eyes.’ W Brown identifies the forehead as being the ‘first point of excellence’, and stipulates that it should ‘exhibit a bulge between the eyes up to a point between the ears, and down

across the first third of the nasal bone – a formation of the frontal and parietal bones in the form of a shield’ and ‘seen in profile, the forehead curves to about a third of the way down the face’. Lady Anne Blunt talks of a prominent forehead, and a large forehead is, according to His Royal Highness The Late Prince Mohamed Aly, one of the ‘few idiosyncrasies on which (the Arabs) will insist’, and a characteristic which ‘a Racer must have’. Randolph Huntington describes the most beautiful horse he has ever seen as being ‘full and broad’ between the eyes. Carl Raswan identifies a ‘high and shieldlike … bold, expressive forehead’ which is ‘bulging’. There is an assumed connection between this broad forehead and cognitive strength. FB Klynstra suggests that ‘thanks to the forehead’s curve and breadth between the eyes, the Arabian ... has a larger cranial capacity than do other breeds’. W Brown agrees that: ‘The bulge of the forehead, its height, width, and depth, actually gives a larger cubic inch brain capacity than that possessed by other breeds, and may have something to do with the extreme intelligence of Arabians.’ The dished face or concave profile is certainly extrapolated on by some of

history’s most recognised voices on the Arabian horse. Carl Raswan specifies ‘an extreme concave indenture … of the whole nasal bone, whereby distinguished ancestry is recognised’. Judith Forbis describes a profile which is ‘straight or (preferred) slightly concave below the eyes’. According to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt the ‘forehead (is) high and slightly convex, but with a sudden upturn of the profile, such as is seen in the gazelle. This can hardly be too exaggerated’. Much has been written about the eyes of the Arabian horse. According to Lady Anne Blunt the Arabian’s eye is ‘full and soft’ and ‘large and mild’, and Judith Forbis describes them as ‘luminous’, ‘liquid’ and ‘flashing with life and fire’. The lashes are ‘usually the colour of the horse’ … and are critical in ‘shading the eyeballs, and protecting them against sun, sand, and rain’, according to W Brown. Owners and lovers of Arabian horses will certainly be familiar with the expressiveness of this wonderous breed, and it is a characteristic that has been outlined over the centuries. It is the eyes that communicate so effectively with their ‘prominence and brilliancy’ (Youatt quoted by Major Tweedie). His Royal Highness The Late Prince Mohamed Aly describes this expression as ‘gentleness in mares and courage and vivacity in stallions’. W Brown

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agrees that ‘the glance of the mare is quiet and expressively gentle: that of the stallion, fiery and arrogant without being either cruel or malign’. Prince Puckler describes the stallion Haleby as having ‘expressiveness of the head and face, almost amounting to coquetry’. According to Randolph Huntington, the eyes are ‘large, brilliant, and of the speaking kind’ and Wilfred Scawen Blunt highlights that ‘it is no sign of temper in the Arab horse that the eyes should show white round the cornea like human eyes, and it is a peculiarity of the breed appreciated by the Bedouins’ and Peter Upton agrees: ‘It is not a fault to have some white around the eye like a human eye.’ Obviously, some may disagree. Another characteristic frequently seen in animals evolved to live in a desert climate is black skin or markings around the eyes. This reduces the reflection of light into the eye, protecting it from sun damage, and is seen in the Arabian horse as described by Lady Anne Blunt: ‘The space round the eyes should be free of all hair, so as to show the black skin underneath, and this just round the eyes should be especially black and lustrous.’

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Black skin is also less susceptible to sun burn and skin cancer, and the skin of the Arabian horse is ‘blacker than charcoal’ according to an Arab poet quoted by Major Tweedie. In accordance with this, Wilfred Scawen Blunt writes that ‘the skin of the muzzle and round the eyes should be dark and bare of hair’. This fine skin ‘appears almost translucent’ agrees His Royal Highness the late Prince Mohamed Aly. Our personable and expressive Arabian horses also communicate with us with their ears, another feature highlighted in standards, descriptions and praise over the centuries, and described as the ‘second point of excellence’ by W Brown. It is one characteristic that is passionately described yet strangely variable. It is possible that the sexual dimorphism apparent in the ear of the Arabian horse, ie.: ‘The ears of mares are a little longer and not so pricked as those of stallions’ (W Brown), the fact that ‘mares often have somewhat larger ears than stallions’ (Peter Upton), or that ears ‘smaller in stallions than in mares’ (Judith Forbis) has led to conflicting information being collected from various sources over the years. His Royal Highness The late Prince Mohamed Aly describes ears that ‘should be well set, carried well,

and pointed at the end’, and ‘long’ in the Racer. Lady Anne Blunt also describes ears that are ‘long like a hind’s (antelope)’ and ‘not very small’. Interestingly, Palgrave describes the ear as ‘short’ and Roger D Upton also describes them as ‘small’. Homer Davenport explains that ‘the ears are not small, but are so perfectly shaped that they appear small’, and Major Tweedie agrees that the ‘ears are not short and not long – though long ears may be seen in Arabians of the highest class’. What the historical sources do agree on is that the ear should be ‘fine and beautifully shaped’ (Lady Anne Blunt), ‘sufficiently open, pricked, and altogether well-formed’ (Roger D Upton), and ‘thorn-like’ (Palgrave), characteristics that combine to give an alert, interested and intelligent appearance. Judith Forbis specifies that the ears should be ‘flexible, beautifully chiselled, sharply outlined … and well hollowed’. W Brown confirms that like other desert animals, the ears are ‘covered inside with fine thick hair, as protection against the light desert sand’. As aforementioned, the breadth of the forehead is a sign of breeding and so is the size of the muzzle. Palgrave identifies a head which is ‘broad above, and tapering down

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to a nose fine enough to verify the phrase of “drinking from a pint-pot”’. W Brown identifies ‘the distance around the jaws being often two and a half times that around the muzzle just above the nostrils’, saying that the ‘nose is very small’ and highlighting that ‘the point of the face does not terminate in the nostril, as in European breeds, but in the tip of the lip’. Wilfred Scawen Blunt goes on to clarify that the muzzle ‘cannot well be too finely tapered. The saying that an Arab horse should be able to drink out of a coffee cup is hardly an exaggeration’. Like the camels with whom the Arabian horse shares its desert development, the nostrils can be closed to protect against the dry air and fine sand, and ‘in repose, it should lie flat with the face, and be little more than a slit, running upward and outward’ (W Brown). On excitement or physical exertion, the ‘long and well chiselled nostril’ is, according to Roger D Upton, ‘capable of great distension’. W Brown paints a picture by writing about ‘long, delicate nostrils dilating when in action … upward and outward beyond the profile of the face, like a red rose’ whilst

Carl Raswan likens them to ‘petal tips of a rose or like delicate shells’. FB Klynstra describes a head that ‘almost gives the impression of being made up only of eyes and nostrils’ and Roger D Upton agrees, saying the ‘whole head seemingly expressed by eyes and nostrils’. The Arabian horse has distinctive cheek bones which ‘are large and sharply defined, deep and lean’, according to W Brown, and the ‘jaws stand very far asunder’. Indeed, the head is ‘wide between the jaws’ (Carl Raswan) as the ‘two branches of the jawbone widen near the windpipe’ (FB Klynstra), and this is ‘sufficient to insert a clenched fist’ (W Brown). In summarising this Lady Anne Blunt says that ‘The head of the Arabian is larger in proportion than that of the English thoroughbred, the chief difference lying in the depth of jowl. This is very marked, as is also the width between the cheekbones.’ In conclusion, as admirers of Arabian horses, we can all agree with Roger D Upton who says, ‘The beauty of the head, ears, eyes, jaw, mouth, and nostrils, should be seen to be appreciated.’

Author Rachael Portus Images courtesy of Pat Slater & Anne Gilbert

BIBLIOGRAPHY: His Royal Highness The Late Prince Mohamed Aly (Breeding of Pure Bred Arab Horses); Lady Anne Blunt (Pilgrimage to Nejd via The Abbas Pasha Manuscript, Judith Forbis and Gulsun Sherif); Palgrave (via The Abbas Pasha Manuscript, Judith Forbis and Gulsun Sherif); Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates (Vol II), Lady Anne Blunt; Roger D Upton (Newmarket to Arabia); Nobility of the Desert, FB Klynstra; W Brown (The Horse Of The Desert); Carl Raswan (Drinkers Of The Wind); Randolph Huntington – (A Harris in The Blood Of the Arab); Judith Forbis (Hoofbeats Along The Tigris); Judith Forbis (Classic Arabian Horse); Major Tweedie (The Arabian Horse); Homer Davenport (My Quest of the Arabian Horse); Wilfred Scawen Blunt (The Arabian from The Encyclopaedia of Sport); Wilfred Scawen Blunt (The Arabian from Standard Cyclopaedia of Modern Agriculture); Peter Upton (The Classic Arab Horse).

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A SILENT KILLER NEONATAL ISOERYTHROLYSIS IN FOALS

Horses have been foaling without a lot of interference from us for thousands of years. Which is as it should be.

My mother was the neighbourhood horse midwife when I was growing up. We had a small Arabian breeding program and raised a handful of foals each year. I would help with our own foals and as soon as the foal stood and nursed, that was the signal that we could relax and hopefully soon be in our own beds. The sooner the foal nursed and

took in the colostrum that would provide the protective antibodies needed to survive until its own immune system kicked in, the better. Growing up I never knew that colostrum could sometimes be deadly to the foal. It wasn’t until I was foaling out over 100 mares/year for a large breeding farm that a few cases came up that changed the protocol on every foal from that point forward. Especially after the advent of embryo transfer and the use of recipient mares. Most people are familiar with the term ‘Rh factor’ when it comes to discussing human babies. Babies inherit a protein that attaches to the red blood cells. If the baby has the protein, they are Rh positive; if they don’t have the protein, they are Rh negative. So if

the baby was, say, blood type ‘O positive’, it would have the blood type O and the protein on their red blood cells. An incompatibility can occur if the baby is Rh positive and the mother is Rh negative. Even though there is usually not exchange of blood between the baby and the mother during pregnancy, sometimes there may be some leakage or there could be blood contact between baby and mother with an incompatibility at birth. When that happens, the mother’s immune system builds antibodies to the baby’s blood type. It will not be a problem for the current birth, but the mother’s immune system is now sensitised and if she has another Rh positive pregnancy, the antibodies will cross the placental barrier and attack the baby’s red blood cells, causing severe anemia in the baby.

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t is a very straightforward process and once the foal is safely delivered, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. I like to teach people the 1-2-3 rule which is: The foal should stand within an hour, nurse within two hours and the mare should pass the placenta within three hours. However, there is one very important instance where you should NOT let the foal nurse its mother for at least 36 hours.

AN NI FOAL SHOWING THE MUZZLE REQUIRED TO STOP FEEDING FROM ITS MOTHER

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In horses there is something similar called ‘Neonatal Isoerythrolysis’ (NI) which simply means a condition whereby a newborn’s (neonatal) red blood cells (erythrocytes) are destroyed (lysis) by antibodies present in its own mother’s colostrum. In humans, it is a simple Rh factor. In horses, there are several ways the mare can develop antibodies against her foal. It can happen when a foal inherits a blood type from the stallion that is foreign to the mare (there are actually seven different blood groups in horses). Mares that have had multiple foals might have had some leakage from the placenta that allowed some blood from the foal to enter the mare’s circulatory system and sensitise against the foal. Mares that received blood products early in life may have a sensitised immune system as well. Also, recipient mares are a risk factor as they are not the same blood type as the foal they are carrying. It is important to note that in cases whereby the mare’s blood group is not compatible

with the foals due to the sire being of a different blood group, the first foal from this type of mating will usually not be affected as the antibodies are activated during the birth process. Thus, a healthy foal does not mean subsequent foals from the same mating will be healthy as well…quite the opposite in fact. The initial healthy foal may have activated the antibodies in the mare, and they will be present in the colostrum for her next foal. What happens in an NI foal is that the antibodies that the mare has formed against the foal’s blood type concentrate in her colostrum. That is the function of colostrum – to convey antibodies to the foal to protect it from disease until it develops its own immune system at 5–6 months of age. However, not all antibodies are helpful, and in the case of NI foals, the antibodies will seek out and destroy the foal’s red blood cells. Affected foals will become weak and jaundiced (yellow mucous membranes, yellow eye sclera) at around 12–24 hours and can die. Because what is happening is that the antibodies in the colostrum are

MAKE SURE YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE SIGNS – AN NI AFFECTED FOAL BORN IN AUSTRALIA

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attacking the foal’s red blood cells, making it severely anemic. Unfortunately, by the time foals are showing signs of being an NI affected foal, it is often too late to intervene however if your foal is presenting as affected, it is essential that the foal be muzzled and not allowed to nurse from the mare until 36–48 hours after birth. The mare should be milked regularly and the colostrum discarded, and the foal will require supplemental colostrum if colostrum has been banked from other mares. Otherwise, a foal milk replacement should be given for the first 36–48 hours. The foal will also require a plasma transfusion if it does not receive colostrum, in order to assure it has antibody protection from disease. From a management perspective, it is a good idea to feed the foal from a bottle with the foal next to the mare’s flank and the bottle held near the udder. If you take the foal to a different part of the stall to bottle feed it, it may not make the association between nursing and the mare’s udder.

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After 36–48 hours, the muzzle can be removed from the foal and it can nurse from the mare safely. It is wise to have the foal’s immunoglobulin status checked with an IgG test after 48 hours to check that it acquired adequate protection from either banked colostrum or a plasma transfusion.

HOW DO I KNOW IF A MARE IS AT RISK FOR PRODUCING AN NI FOAL?

It is possible to test mares before foaling for the presence of NI. It has to be done within 2–3 weeks of foaling to be accurate. Only specialty labs can do the testing, so if you think you might have a mare that is suspect, it is important to do your homework in advance and have a lab identified. If you have not had a test on the mare, there is a quick stall-side test that might give you more information. We do this on all foals born at our farm. If you are present for the foaling, collect some blood from the foal’s umbilical cord as soon as it breaks. Mix a drop of the foal’s blood on a clean slide with a drop of the mare’s colostrum. If the mixture clumps or clots, the foal is a possible NI case and your veterinarian should be consulted. This is a rough, stall-side test and is not considered definitive, but could give you an indication that you need to investigate further with your veterinarian before allowing the foal to nurse.

WHAT MARES ARE AT RISK?

Embryo transfer recipients are at risk, as they will be a different blood type generally than the foal, as she is not related to the foal, genetically. Any mare that has produced an NI foal in the past should be tested prior to foaling. Maiden mares are always an unknown and could benefit from testing.

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A HEALTHY RESULT – AN NI AFFECTED FOAL’S BLOOD WILL CLOT WHEN MIXED WITH ITS MOTHER’S COLOSTRUM

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WHAT SHOULD I DO IF I SUSPECT NI?

While the chances of having an NI Arabian foal are small, it is a devastating thing to occur for any horse owner. I was asked to write this article after an Arabian mare in Australia of well known bloodlines, when bred to a Straight Egyptian of well known bloodlines, produced her eighth foal, a filly who was diagnosed with NI at two days old, and subsequently died, even with all the veterinary care available to her. It is important to note that this mating was the first pairing of the two horses, however it is

likely that a previous foal produced by the mare had been of an incompatible blood type and instigated the antibodies that killed her filly. What was more important was the breeder, and others they were close to, including the breeders of both parents, were unaware of NI being prevalent in the Arabian horse.

Close monitoring of the foal after birth, and having your veterinarian do a neonatal exam on all foals at birth are both good management practices. Any sign of weakness or jaundice (yellow membranes) should be cause for immediate veterinary intervention. The good news is that if caught early, after 36–48 hours, the foal can be allowed to nurse from the mare and grow into a normal, healthy individual. Author Cindy Reich Images courtesy of Cindy Reich & Sharon Meyers

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s a new decade begins, I thought it was time to look back not only at the most successful sires of show champions, as we do every year, but also to take a look at the stallions who have sired the most progeny over the last two decades. Between 31 July 2000 and 1 August 2020, of all the purebred Arabian foals registered in the Australian studbook, 2942 foals were sired by the 53 stallions who make up our Top 50 Chart, each siring 35 or more registered purebred foals during the time period. A further 55 stallions sired a total of 1598 foals, each siring between 25 and 34 registered purebred foals during the time period.

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During my study, I found it extremely interesting to discover the bloodlines featured in this list are a lot more diverse to what we are used to seeing on our Leading Sires of Show Champions chart. Of course, many of the names are the same, however this diversity of stallions and bloodlines showcases the wonderful and varied purposes for which Arabians are bred in this country. I have also included the sire and dam line for each stallion, based on the original horse imported to Australia. In the case of imported stallions, their sire and dam will be listed.

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The All Time Leading Sires list does not look likely to change in any great detail for the foreseeable future, with only two stallions (Desperado and Crave FF) in the Top 50 still alive and breeding. With the steady decline in numbers being bred today, it appears that these stallions will remain our All Time Leading Sires for indeed, all time.

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LEADING CONTEMPORARY SIRES 2000 – 2020 Name

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Desperado (AU)

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24/9/92

WN Dasjmir (US)

Bremervale Aquarius (AU)

WN Dasjmir

Polaca (ES)

S K Shakla Khan (US)

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11/5/86

Sanadik El Shaklan (DE)

Sun King Raindrop (US)

Sanadik El Shaklan (DE)

Sun King Raindrop (US)

Crave FF (AU)

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25/9/05

Mash (AU)

Bremervale Charmed (AU)

Simeon Sa’ar (GB)

Piconera (ES)

Asfour (DE)

8/8/84

Malik (DE)

Hanan (EG)

Malik (DE)

Hanan (EG)

Magnum Forty Four (US)

9/6/98

Magnum Psyche (US)

WH Nashahna (US)

Magnum Psyche (US)

WH Nashahna (US)

Gai El Jullyen (US)

6/5/00

Jullyen El Jamaal (BR)

Gai Fantasha (US)

Jullyen El Jamaal (BR)

Gai Fantasha (US)

Jadaan Al Shaqab (EXP BE) (QA)

30/12/06

Ashhal Al Rayyan (QA)

Torfa Al Shaqab (QA)

Ashhal Al Rayyan (QA)

Torfa Al Shaqab (QA)

Sanadik IBN Estopa (US)

27/5/97

Sanadik El Shaklan (DE)

Bint Estopa (US)

Sanadik El Shaklan (DE)

Bint Estopa (US)

Princeton (AU)

6/10/83

Arabian Park Egyptian Magnetic (AU)

Arabian Princess (AU)

Ansata El Hakim (US)

Rafina (UK)

Cedardell Zanzibar (AU)

20/10/85

Somerled (AU)

Zaria (GB)

Baz (GB)

Zaria (GB)

Klass (AU)

14/1/03

TS Al Malik (BR)

Karmaa (US)

TS Al Malik (BR)

Karmaa (US)

Allegiance MI (AU)

16/1/09

Magnum Forty Four (US)

Audacia (US)

Magnum Forty Four (US)

Karmaa (US)

Chip Chase Sadaqa (AU)

14/1/77

Cherokee Mecca (AU)

Silala (AU)

Silwan (GB)

Rizala (GB)

Al Kha-Zar (US)

14/3/04

Thee Asil (US)

Infidels Princess (US)

Thee Asil (US)

Infidels Princess (US)

Fame Maker R (US)

2/6/89

Fame VF (US)

Inschallah El Shaklan (US)

Fame VF (US)

Inschallah El Shaklan (US)

Boomori Kahlua (AU)

15/10/91

Chip Chase Kaiwanna (AU)

Dandaloo Baylanie (AU)

Riffal (GB)

Rafina (UK)

Tsunami (IID USA)

2/4/98

Sanadik El Shaklan (GB)

Bint Bint Faaris (US)

Sanadik El Shaklan (GB)

Bint Bint Faaris (US)

Simeon Sochain (EXP US) (AU)

11/10/93

Simeon Sadik (Exp Gb)

Simeon Simona (AU)

Asfour (DE)

27 Ibn Galal V (HU)

Aloha Telesmon (AU)

11/9/93

Talquah Talik (AU)

Ramaka (AU)

Royal Domino (IID GB)

Salome (GB)

Opus Comet JP (BR)

10/11/95

Laddin Ba (US)

Key Maali JP (BR)

Laddin Ba (US)

Key Maali JP (BR)

Fayrid (US)

3/3/04

Faahim (US)

MB Shareena (US)

Faahim (US)

MB Shareena (US)

Imperial Madaar (US)

31/5/87

Imperial Madheen (DE)

Ansata Nile MIst (US)

Imperial Madheen (DE)

Ansata Nile MIst (US)

Abu Shaklan (AU)

10/10/93

S K Shakla Khan (US)

Joda Excitation (AU)

S K Shakla Khan (US)

Bint Mohena (DE)

Shado’s Shetahn (AU)

30/8/05

Simeon Shados (AU)

Durra Sasse (AU)

Asfour (DE)

27 Ibn Galal V (HU)

Amir El Shaklan (GB)

24/6/79

El Shaklan (DE)

Sascha (DE)

El Shaklan (DE)

Sascha (DE)

Fen (PL)

13/3/91

Gadir (PL)

Frejlina (PL)

Gadir (PL)

Frejlina (PL)

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LEADING CONTEMPORARY SIRES 2000 – 2020 Name

Foals

DOB

Sire

Dam

Sire Line

Dam Line

Chelleason Crown Jewel (AU)

21/8/08

Gai El Jullyen (US)

Sophia WV (US)

Gai El Jullyen (US)

Sophia WV (US)

Afrikah ERA (AU)

11/1/00

Sanadik El Shaklan (GB)

Arabian Park Egyptian Echo (AU)

Sanadik El Shaklan (GB)

Rafter G Charisma (US)

WH Zmanor E (US)

18/3/00

Emanor (PL)

Zabrina VF (US)

Emanor (PL)

Zabrina VF (US)

Om El Shareikh (US)

17/5/92

Sanadik El Shaklan (DE)

Samanna (DE)

Sanadik El Shaklan (DE)

Samanna (DE)

MB Mayal (EXP SA)

8/6/97

El Halimaar (US)

Imperial Maysama (US)

El Halimaar (US)

Imperial Maysama (US)

Sarezin (AU)

9/9/93

Simeon Sa’ar (GB)

Malmsbury Samira (AU)

Simeon Sa’ar (GB)

Sariah (GB)

Guiliano (US)

26/4/07

Legacy Of Fame (US)

SC Psavannah (US)

Legacy Of Fame (US)

SC Psavannah (US)

Mahazin IBN Cairo (AU)

22/10/93

Cairo (NZ)

Keishir Capellia (AU)

Cairo (NZ)

Namusa (GB)

Fenwick Phantom (AU)

11/10/85

Greylight (IID GB)

Fascination

Greylight (IID GB)

Namusa (GB)

Chronicle DV (US)

18/4/94

Wiersz (US)

Cosmopollytan (US)

Wiersz (US)

Cosmopollytan (US)

Arinya Park Klass (AU)

4/12/97

Monteego Bay (US)

Breakaway Khameo (AU)

Anaza Bay Shahh (US)

Naadirah (GB)

Simeon Shifran (AU)

11/8/07

Asfour (DE)

Simeon Shavit (AU)

Asfour (DE)

27 Ibn Galal V (HU)

Orlando (DE)

18/2/95

Orashaan (DE)

249 Ibn Galal I (HU)

Orashaan (DE)

249 Ibn Galal I (HU)

RHR Heir Of Marwan (US)

29/4/07

Marwan Al Shaqab (QA)

LC Psychesheiress (US)

Marwan Al Shaqab (QA)

LC Psychesheiress (US)

VVF Kai (US)

14/4/95

Thee Desperado (US)

Ramses Fedora (US)

Thee Desperado (US)

Ramses Fedora (US)

Barabas (NL)

16/6/88

Nadejni (RU)

Barhatnaja (RU)

Nadejni (RU)

Barhatnaja (RU)

Arfaja Silver Aura (AU)

4/11/96

Silver Somerio (AU)

Arfaja Rashma (AU)

Baz (GB)

Gadara (GB)

Arfaja Harlan (AU)

28/11/98

Rasham (AU)

Wellworth Leilani (AU)

Greylight (IID GB)

Gadara (GB)

WH Kadeen (US)

11/3/88

Ruminaja Fayez (US)

Kaaramal (US)

Ruminaja Fayez (US)

Kaaramal (US)

Baranski (AU)

11/10/98

Barabas (NL)

Dancing Silver (AU)

Barabas (NL)

Deryabar (GB)

Moondarra Limelight (AU)

29/8/89

Cherokee Casino Royal (AU)

Bright Light (GB)

Silwan (GB)

Bright Light (GB)

Anaza Bay Shahh (US)

17/5/87

Shaikh Al Badi (US)

Bint Deenaa (US)

Shaikh Al Badi (US)

Bint Deenaa (US)

River Oak Imprint (AU)

15/9/92

Arjai Summitt (AU)

Princess Lukizzi (GB)

Rikham (GB)

Princess Lukizzi (GB)

Royal Jamill (US)

28/5/98

Royal Jalliel (US)

Bint Jamilla (EXP NC) (US)

Royal Jalliel (US)

Bint Jamilla (EXP NC) (US)

Fairview Touch Of Magic (AU)

7/1/01

S K Shakla Khan (US)

Windella Silver Shadow (AU)

S K Shakla Khan (US)

Silver Shimmer (GB)

Fenwick Silver Shadow (AU)

24/9/01

Fenwick Rendevous (AU)

Fenwick Silver Charm (AU)

Sindh (GB)

Royal Radiance (GB)

Thaqib Al Nasser (QA)

4/3/95

Ansata Halim Shah (US)

Imperial Madanah (US)

Ansata Halim Shah (US)

Imperial Madanah (US)

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Foals

DOB

Sire

Dam

Sire Line

Dam Line

Amir El Shaklan (GB)

374

24/6/79

El Shaklan (DE)

Sascha (DE)

El Shaklan (DE)

Sascha (DE)

Mustafa (DE)

321

26/3/69

Hadban Enzahi (EG)

Masarrah (DE)

Hadban Enzahi (EG)

Masarrah (DE)

Ralvon Pilgrim (AU)

302

18/10/69

Rikham (GB)

Trix Silver (AU)

Rikham (GB)

Gadara (GB)

Al Karim Sirhalima (EXP US) (US)

253

24/1/74

Ansata IBN Halima (US)

Sirhabba (US)

Ansata IBN Halima (US)

Sirhabba (US)

Sindh (GB)

227

24/3/58

Silver Vanity (GB)

Silfina (GB)

Silver Vanity (GB)

Silfina (GB)

S K Shakla Khan (US)

225

11/5/86

Sanadik El Shaklan (DE)

Sun King Raindrop (US)

Sanadik El Shaklan (DE)

Sun King Raindrop (US)

Desperado (AU)

214

24/9/92

WN Dasjmir (US)

Bremervale Aquarius (AU)

WN Dasjmir

Polaca (ES)

WN Dasjmir (US)

209

3/2/85

G G Samir (US)

Arawiszja (US)

G G Samir (US)

Arawiszja (US)

Gai General (US)

207

4/5/73

Gay Count (US)

Gai Moonbeam (US)

Gay Count (US)

Gai Moonbeam (US)

Cool Hand Luke (US)

188

20/1/72

Ansata El Mamluke (US)

Tia Maria (US)

Ansata El Mamluke (US)

Tia Maria (US)

Royal Gindi (AU)

164

16/10/73

Royal Domino (IID GB)

Misik

Royal Domino (IID GB)

Deryabar (GB)

Greylight (IID GB)

162

2/4/69

Bright Shadow (GB)

Royal Radiance (GB)

Bright Shadow (GB)

Royal Radiance (GB)

Arim (AU)

156

30/10/71

Royal Domino (IID GB)

Mutrif

Royal Domino (IID GB)

Deryabar (GB)

Nile (AU)

155

8/10/75

Mustafa (DE)

Nara (IID GB)

Mustafa (DE)

Naadirah (GB)

Avonsleigh Gaizon (AU)

148

3/12/71

Gai General (US)

Questina (AU)

Gai General (US)

Deryabar (GB)

Ambition (US)

143

19/1/72

Bask (PL)

Bint Ambara (US)

Bask (PL)

Bint Ambara (US)

Ruberto (AU)

143

9/9/68

Sindh (GB)

Ringlet (AU)

Sindh (GB)

Namusa (GB)

Cyrasa (GB) (Exp Nz)

141

16/2/63

Comet (PL)

Barcelona (GB)

Comet (PL)

Barcelona (GB)

Abiram (NL)

141

16/5/61

Noran (GB)

Rythoura (NL)

Noran (GB)

Rythoura (NL)

Arabian Park Egyptian Magnetic (AU)

141

19/9/79

Ansata El Hakim (US)

Saweeha (DE)

Ansata El Hakim (US)

Saweeha (DE)

Count Chatain (AU)

140

12/10/72

Count Manilla (GB)

Lady Tania (AU)

Count Manilla (GB)

Scherzade (GB)

Asfour (DE)

138

8/8/84

Malik (DE)

Hanan (EG)

Malik (DE)

Hanan (EG)

Ansata El Shahwan (US)

137

26/6/73

Ansata Shah Zaman (US)

Ansata Rhodora (US)

Ansata Shah Zaman (US)

Ansata Rhodora (US)

Simeon Sa’ar (GB)

136

3/8/78

El Shaklan (DE)

Damirah (DE)

El Shaklan (DE)

Damirah (DE)

Tarong Shahgig (AU)

136

18/10/82

Ansata El Shahwan (US)

Tarong Bint Shareefa (AU)

Ansata El Shahwan (US)

Shareefa (DE)

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ALL TIME LEADING SIRES Name

Foals

DOB

Sire

Dam

Sire Line

Dam Line

Sunshine Bey (US)

131

22/5/77

Bey El Bey (US)

Halali Filigree (US)

Bey El Bey (US)

Halali Filigree (US)

The Puritan (US)

130

29/3/70

Talal (EG)

Miss Floco (US)

Talal (EG)

Miss Floco (US)

Naasser (AU)

127

21/10/74

Mustafa (DE)

Naadirah (GB)

Mustafa (DE)

Naadirah (GB)

Al Karim Jabal Ibn Moniet (US)

125

9/10/72

Ibn Moniet El Nefous (US)

Roufah (US)

Ibn Moniet El Nefous (US)

Roufah (US)

Chip Chase Sadaqa (AU)

125

14/1/77

Cherokee Mecca (AU)

Silala (AU)

Silwan (GB)

Rizala (GB)

Milex (SE)

124

24/4/68

Exelsjor (PL)

Mimoza (PL)

Exelsjor (PL)

Mimoza (PL)

Sala (GB)

122

8/2/44

Grey Owl (GB)

Hama (GB)

Grey Owl (GB)

Hama (GB)

Ansata El Hakim (US)

122

17/2/72

Ansata Ibn Halima (EG)

Ansata Bint Elwya (EG)

Ansata Ibn Halima (EG)

Ansata Bint Elwya (EG)

Sir Ibn Moniet (US)

120

13/5/77

Ibn Moniet El Nefous (EG)

Bint Cleopatraa (US)

Ibn Moniet El Nefous (EG)

Bint Cleopatraa (US)

Delos (GB)

118

16/9/61

Spindrift (GB)

Iona (GB)

Spindrift (GB)

Iona (GB)

Chip Chase Desert Wind (AU)

117

19/12/75

Cherokee Mecca (AU)

Chip Chase Desert Joul (AU)

Silwan (GB)

Deryabar (GB)

Aethon (AU)

116

1/12/63

Spindrift (GB)

Hestia (AU)

Spindrift (GB)

Judith (GB)

Warranty (PL) (EXP US)

116

15/5/82

Aladdin (SE)

Wizja (PL)

Aladdin (SE)

Wizja (PL)

Simeon Samuel (DE)

113

23/1/81

Jamill (DE)

Novina (RU)

Jamill (DE)

Novina (RU)

Tristram Selam (AU)

112

7/9/71

Desert Pride (AU)

Abelya (AU)

Count Manilla (GB)

Deryabar (GB)

Silwan (GB)

110

1/1/54

Dargee (GB)

Silwa (GB)

Dargee (GB)

Silwa (GB)

Razaz (GB)

110

1/1/49

Champurrado (GB)

Rahab (GB)

Champurrado (GB)

Rahab (GB)

WH Kadeen (US)

110

11/3/88

Riuminaja Fayez (US)

Kaaramal (US)

Riuminaja Fayez (US)

Kaaramal (US)

Princeton (AU)

109

6/10/83

Arabian Park Egyptian Magnetic (AU)

Arabian Princess (AU)

Ansata El Hakim (US)

Rafina (UK)

Crystal Count

109

21/9/72

Crystal Fire (GB)

Fantasy (AU)

Crystal Fire (GB)

Scherzade (GB)

Alii (US)

107

3/3/85

Ruminaja Ali (US)

Heritage Memory (US)

Ruminaja Ali (US)

Heritage Memory (US)

Monteego Bay (US)

106

6/1/90

Anaza Bay Shahh (US)

Monietta Mareekha (US)

Anaza Bay Shahh (US)

Monietta Mareekha (US)

Crave FF (AU)

105

25/9/05

Mash (AU)

Bremervale Charmed (AU)

Simeon Sa’ar (GB)

Piconera (ES)

Hamil (AU)

104

19/8/77

Al Karim Sirhalima (US)

Nasula (AU)

Al Karim Sirhalima (US)

Deryabar (GB)

Gual Diman (ES)

102

2/3/76

Uzacur (ES)

Gurab (ES)

Uzacur (ES)

Gurab (ES)

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Leading Sires OF CHAMPIONS

he following pages represent in numbers, an analysis of the most successful bloodlines currently on the Arabian show scene. Based on results from leading A, AA and AAA class shows in our study, the points on the following charts are awarded as follows: Gold or Championship = 10 points; Silver, Ruby or Reserve Champion = 7 points; Bronze or Emerald Champion = 5 Points; Top Ten or Placing = 2 points. Classes in this study include all age group halter classes, and excludes specialty classes such as Classic Head or Classic Trot, or any jackpot or sweepstakes events. The ridden section is calculated from Ridden Breed classes only, it does not include for example Bridle Path Hack or Western, yet it does include e.g. Ridden Purebred Mare, Gelding and Stallion classes. The results have been deemed correct as supplied, and we do not make any claim that the horses represented here are ranked in any other system than which we describe in these pages. With the impacts associated with the global pandemic, some shows previously used in this study are absent this year due to cancellation for the season, and new shows have been included.

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Based on results from leading A, AA & AAA class shows in our study, the points on the following charts are awarded as follows:

Gold/Championship – 10 points Silver/Ruby/Reserve Champion – 7 points

Bronze/Emerald Champion – 5 points Top Ten/Placing – 2 points

2021 LEADING SIRES OF PUREBRED CHAMPIONS NEW SOUTH WALES 2020 Double Diamond Show, 2021 East Coast Championships Bronze/ Emerald

Top Ten or Place

Total

Kaborr (Nabor x Bint Kholameh)

Gai El Jullyen x Sophia WV

Falcon BHF (Bey Shahh x Bey Serenade)

Magnum Forty Four (US)

Magnum Psyche x WH Nashahna

Bey Shah (Bay El Bey x Star Of Ofir)

EKS Alihandro (ZA)

Marwan Al Shaqab x OFW Psylhouette

Padrons Psyche (Padron x Kilika)

Volcom FF (AU)

Crave FF x Beguine OH

Versace (Fame VF x Precious As Gold)

Ulysium (US)

JA Urbino x Marc of Ali CBA

QR Marc (Marwan Al Shaqab x Swete Dreams)

Echos of Marwan (US)

Marwan Al Magnifficoo x PS Kashmir

Marwan Al Shaqab (Gazal Al Shaqab x Little Liza Fame)

Al Marah Swift (US)

Al Marah Quebec x Reem Al Fala

AM Gypsy Vision (Bremervale Destiny x AM Sea Vixen)

Hun (PL)

Gazal Al Shaqab x Hula

Penthagonn (Pasat x Panela)

LC Prince Magnum (AR)

Magnum Psyche x Ludy El Shahller HMR

Shahhlenger (Bey Shah x Wind Feature)

Marwan Al Shaqab (QT)

Gazal Al Shaqab x Little Liza Fame

Fame VF (Bey Shahh x Raffoleta-Rose)

Name

Sire x Dam

Sire of Dam

Allegiance MI (AU)

Magnum Forty Four x Audacia

Parkview Audacious (TS Al Malik x Aliha Bint Nizr)

Crave FF (AU)

Mash x Bremervale Charmed

Desperado (WN Dasjmir (US) x Bremervale Aquarius)

Klass (AU)

TS Al Malik x Karmaa

Chelleason Crown Jewel (AU)

Champion Reserve

VICTORIA – 2020 Barastoc, 2020 Summer Show Champion

Reserve

Top Ten or Place

Total

Simeon Shai (Raadin Royal Star x Simeon Safanad)

Mash x Bremervale Charmed

Desperado (WN Dasjmir (US) x Bremervale Aquarius)

Volcom FF (AU)

Crave FF x Beguine OH

Versace (Fame VF x Precious As Gold)

Bey Ambition (US)

Regal Actor x Bey Shahs Lady

Bey Shah (Bey El Bey x Star of Ofir)

Na’Vi (AU)

Afrikah ERA x Eagleridge Isabeau

Amadeus (Eastwinds Axplosion x Joda Gemal)

Chelleason Crown Jewel (AU)

Gai El Jullyen x Sophia WV

Falcon BHF (Bey Shahh x Bey Serenade)

EKS Alihandro (ZA)

Marwan Al Shaqab x OFW Psylhouette

Padrons Psyche (Padron x Kilika)

Kommand MI (AU)

Klass x Mustang’s Magnum

Magnum Forty Four (Magnum Psyche x WH Nashahna)

SF Sir Real (US)

Sir Fames HBV x Veronica GA

Versace (Fame VF x Precious As Gold)

Ulysium (US)

JA Urbino x Marc of Ali CBA

QR Marc (Marwan Al Shaqab x Swete Dreams)

Name

Sire x Dam

Sire of Dam

Brumarbas Future (US)

Opalo x Shai’s Honey

Crave FF (AU)

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QUEENSLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA & WESTERN AUSTRALIA 2020 TOTR, 2021 WA Championships, 2021 SA Championships Name

Sire x Dam

Sire of Dam

Champion

Reserve

Top Ten

Total

Mystica Santosa (AU)

Maharaja HDM x AJA Aphrodite

WH Justice (Magnum Psyche x Vona Sher-renea)

Ulysium (US)

JA Urbino x Marc of Ali CBA

QR Marc (Marwan Al Shaqab x Swete Dreams)

DA Valentino (US)

Versace x DA Love

Padrons Psyche (Padron x Kilika)

Azraq Tamojen (AU)

Arabqesque Prizam x Baronet

Silver Spot (Raffal x Royal Radiance)

Chelleason Bey Chall (AU)

Magnum El Chall x Briarwoods Bey Savannah

Rave VF (Bey Shah x Raffoleta-Rose)

Markhan EL (AU)

QR Marc x Shangrala A Gift Of Love

Karda Mordo Khan (Anaza El Nizr x Karda Mordo Maceska)

Taywoona Qariim (AU)

Dynasty Qatama x Samiha

Arabian Prk Faraz (Farazdac x Sabah El Kheir)

Desperado (AU)

WN Dasjmir x Bremervale Aquarius

Bremervale Destiny (Oxford Decimus x Bremervale Zendi)

Maharaja HDM (BE)

Marajj x Miss Yahsminah Elamal

Antar Elmal (RSD Victory x Ghary)

RNZ Scorza (AU)

Simeon Saraaf x HU Alimaana

HU Shaik Ali (Saud El Ameer x Niema Nile)

2021 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Name

Sire x Dam

Sire of Dam

Allegiance MI

Magnum Forty Four x Audacia

Crave FF (AU)

Top

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Parkview Audacious (TS Al Malik x Aliha Bint Nizr)

Mash x Bremervale Charmed

Desperado (WN Dasjmir (US) x Bremervale Aquarius)

Ulysium (US)

JA Urbino x Marc of Ali CBA

QR Marc (Marwan Al Shaqab x Swete Dreams)

Volcom FF

Crave FF x Beguine OH

Versace (Fame VF x Precious As Gold)

Echos of Marwan (US)

Marwan Al Magnifficoo x PS Kashmir

Marwan Al Shaqab (Gazal Al Shaqab x Little Liza Fame)

Pshalomar (US)

Shanghai EA x MC Psynammon

Psymadre (Padrons Psyche x Tomorrows Dream)

Brumarbas Future (US)

Opalo x Shai’s Honey

Simeon Shai (Raadin Royal Star x Simeon Safanad)

Magnum Forty Four (US)

Magnum Psyche x WH Nashahna

Bey Shah (Bay El Bey x Star Of Ofir)

Jiuliusz De Wiec (BR)

Debowiec x Jiullya El Jamaal

Ali Jamaal (Ruminaja Ali x Heritage Memory)

Advise MI (AU)

Alliegance MI x W Alegria

Amado Juan (Barich de Washoe x DR Deere Doll)

Vitorious KA (AU)

Vitorio KA x Breathless

Abu Shaklan (S K Shakla Khan x Joda Excitation)

EKS Alihandro (ZA)

Marwan Al Shaqab x OFW Psylhouette

Padrons Psyche (Padron x Kilika)

Ten

Total

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OVERALL LEADING SIRES OF PUREBRED CHAMPIONS Combining the overall points from each of the charts, we present the current Leading Sires of Purebred Champions in Australia. Position

CHAMPIONSHIPS Silver/ Reserve

Bronze/ Emerald

Top Ten or Places

Total Points

Name

Sire x Dam

Sire of Dam

Crave FF (AU)

Mash x Bremervale Charmed

Desperado (WN Dasjmir x Bremervale Aquarius)

109

Allegiance MI (AU)

Magnum Forty Four x Audacia

Parkview Audacious (TS Al Malik x Ailha Bint Nizr)

104

Ulysium (US)

JA Urbino x Marc of Ali CBA

QR Marc (Marwan Al Shaqab x Swete Dreams)

Volcom FF (AU)

Crave FF x Beguine OH

Versace (Fame VF x Precious As Gold)

Brumarbas Future (US)

Opalo x Shai’s Honey

Simeon Shai (Raadin Royal Star x Simeon Safanad)

Chelleason Crown Jewel (AU)

Gai El Jullyen x Sophia WV

Falcon BHF (Bey Shahh x Bey Serenade)

EKS Alihandro (ZA)

Marwan Al Shaqab x OFW Psylhouette

Padrons Psyche (Padron x Kilika)

Bey Ambition (US)

Regal Actor x Bey Shahs Lady

Bey Shah (Bey El Bey x Star of Ofir)

Magnum Forty Four (US)

Magnum Psyche x WH Nashahna

Bey Shah (Bay El Bey x Star Of Ofir)

Echos of Marwan (US)

Marwan Al Magnifficoo x PS Kashmir

Marwan Al Shaqab (Gazal Al Shaqab x Little Liza Fame)

Klass (AU)

TS Al Malik x Karmaa

Kaborr (Nabor x Bint Kholameh)

Mystica Santosa (AU)

Maharaja HDM x AJA Aphrodite

WH Justice (Magnum Psyche x Vona Sher-renea)

SF Sir Real (US)

Sir Fames HBV x Veronica GA

Versace (Fame VF x Precious As Gold)

Advise MI (AU)

Alliegance MI x W Alegria

Amado Juan (Barich de Washoe x DR Deere Doll)

Gai El Jullyen (US)

Jullyen El Jamaal x Gai Fantasha

Bey Shah (Bay El Bey x Star of Ofir)

Pshalomar (US)

Shanghai EA x MC Psynammon

Psymadre (Padrons Psyche x Tomorrows Dream)

RHR Heir of Marwan (US)

Marwan Al Shaqab x Psychesheiress

Padrons Psyche (Padron x Kilika)

Ajman Moniscione (IT)

WH Justice x Anthea Moniscione

Padrons Ghibli (Padron x Santanas Delight) (Padron x Kilika)

DA Valentino (US)

Versace x DA Love

Padrons Psyche (Padron x Kilika)

RNZ Scorza (NZ)

Simeon Saraaf x HU Alimaana

HU Shaik Ali (Saud El Ameer x Niema Nile)

Azraq Tamojen (AU)

Arabqesque Prizam x Baronet

Silver Spot (Raffal x Royal Radiance)

Chelleason Bey Chall (AU)

Magnum El Chall x Briarwoods Bey Savannah

Rave VF (Bey Shah x Raffoleta-Rose)

Markhan EL (AU)

QR Marc x Shangrala A Gift Of Love

Karda Mordo Khan (Anaza El Nizr x Karda Mordo Maceska)

Taywoona Qariim (AU)

Dynasty Qatama x Samiha

Arabian Prk Faraz (Farazdac x Sabah El Kheir)

Shael Dream Desert (IT)

Ansata Shaamis x Elettra

Hadidi (Norus x Hebet Allah)

Gold

After being top five on the chart for the past two seasons, the Future Farms-bred and owned Crave FF returns to the top as the Leading Sire of Purebreds for this year. A total of 90 stallions gained points in the survey, meaning they sired at least one award winner. This is down from 133 different stallions that contributed to the chart in last year’s edition, which is perhaps not surprising due to the very few shows that went ahead due to the global pandemic. Twelve of the 21 Leading Sires were born in Australia or New Zealand. Like last year, eight of the stallions were imported from overseas, whilst five stallions on the list have never been to Australia and their progeny were either imported, or bred using frozen semen.

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ALLEGIANCE MI

SIR CHARMED FF

2021 LEADING SIRES OF DERIVATIVE CHAMPIONS NEW SOUTH WALES – 2020 Double Diamond Show, 2021 East Coast Championships Top Ten/ Place

Points

62.5%

0.53%

Part Arabian

87.5%

Fame Maker R x On Angels Wings

Purebred

100%

SF Sir Real (US)

Sir Fames HBV x Veronica GA

Purebred

100%

Harmony Hill Anakin

Arundel House Armani x Harmony Hill Imagine

Arabian Riding Pony

52.59%

Keira Park Cascade

Karlana Say Farewell x Keira Park Amber

Arabian Riding Pony

32.7%

Top Ten/ Place

Points

Name

Sire x Dam

Breed

Purity

Champion Reserve

Crave FF

Mash x Bremervale Charmed

Purebred

100%

Ray of Light

Amaki’s Impressionist x Amaki’s Golden Imp

Part Arabian

75.8%

Concherto FF

Burren-dah The Wixard x Aloha Symphony

Anglo Arabian

Wynton (DE)

Jazz x Acacia

Warmblood

JSS Cream Em Kidd

CL Classic Sensation x Platinum Blonde

Quarter Horse

Roseglen Crown Royale

Chelleason Crown Jewel x Roseglen Shaakira

Gold N Wings

VICTORIA/TASMANIA – 2020 Barastoc, 2020 Summer Show Name

Sire x Dam

Breed

Purity

Champion Reserve

Crave FF

Mash x Bremervale Charmed

Purebred

100%

Keira Park Cascade

Karlana Say Farewell x Keira Park Amber

Arabian Riding Pony

32.7%

Ablue Moon Rising

SK Shakla Khan x Kim-Dande Stormgirl

Arabian Pony

64.62%

Sir Charmed FF

SF Sir Real x Bremervale Charmed

Purebred

100%

Fares FF

Status LL x Farrah KA

Purebred

100%

Warrawee Versacee

Warrawee Grandee x Warrawee Malika

Anglo Arabian

75%

Ablue Moons James Blond

Ablue Moon Rising x Glenview Silver Harmony

Arabian Pony

33.54%

Joemoor Splendour

Fairlight Acres Splendor x Wyntree Debutante

Arabian Riding Pony

5.22%

Aratahnes Excalibur

Aratahnes Acclaim x Aratahnes Elated

Part Arabian

62%

Glyndebourne Belafonte

Harrington Park State Affair x Glyndebourne Minelli

Riding Pony

6.21%

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QUEENSLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA & WESTERN AUSTRALIA 2020 TOTR, 2021 WA Championships, 2021 SA Championships Top Ten/ Place

Points

0.52%

100%

Part Arabian

27.84%

Sandro Hit x Alice

Warmblood

1.50%

Bracknell Lookatme

Trincada Strike x Bracknell Baby Doll

Arabian Pony

56.65%

Chatahn Estate Mistaah Midnite

Mishaah x Whitby Park Queen Of Hearts

Purebred

100%

Cranston Park Khaan

Amir El Shaklan x Nahrilla

Purebred

100%

Maximus of Astral

Strinesdale Matador x Furzey Mostly Mink

Riding Pony

22.26%

Mystic Valley Paparazzi

Woranora Ninja x Bremevale Insatiable

Arabian Pony

51.06%

Quayyzar

Hayyid x Noran Mantilla

Purebred

100%

Name

Sire x Dam

Breed

Purity

Champion Reserve

Pembrooke Park Marquiss

Cranston Park Khaan x Jaytee Marquissa

Purebred

100%

Sadik’s Psyche

Padron’s Psyche x Serdika

Purebred

100%

W. Ellington (US)

Wynton x Dream Rubina

Arabian Warmblood

Glacial Gold (US)

Gold Bayou x Shimmering Gold

Thoroughbred

Golden Rock (DE)

Hesselteichs Golden Dream x Beauty Queen

San Rubin II (DE)

2021 AUSTRALIAN ARABIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Name

Sire x Dam

Breed

Purity

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Top Ten

Total

Crave FF

Mash x Bremervale Charmed

Purebred

100%

Sir Charmed FF

SF Sir Real x Bremervale Charmed

Purebred

100%

Keira Park Cascade

Karlana Say Farewell x Keira Park Amber

Arabian Riding Pony

32.7%

Aratahnes Excalibur

Aratahnes Acclaim x Aratahnes Elated

Part Arabian

62%

Three Bars Cajun (US)

Cajuns Cayenne Kid x My Sweet Three Bars

Quarter Horse

Concherto FF

Burren-dah The Wizard x Aloha Symphony

Anglo Arabian

62.5%

Cedarwood Lodge Kumait

Talquah Taraka x Talquah Jalinta

Purebred

100%

Warrawee Deecor

Rangeview Landstrom x Warrawee Malika

Arabian Warmblood

50.27%

Bracknell Muskateer

Bracknell Lookatme x Bracknell Showgirl

Arabian Pony

62%

Whitmere Jack In The Box

Imperial Juggler x Imperial Jilly

Stud Pony

3.89%

Royalwood Boy Soprano

Syon Royal Portrait x Royalwood Merry Music

Riding Pony

19.48%

Jindalee Casanova

Better View Gunfire x Rosebrook Cillawood

Australian Stock Horse

Kublai Khan

SK Shakla Khan x HN Rasmiahh

Purebred

100%

Ablue Moon Rising

SK Shakla Khan x Kim-Dande Stormgirl

Arabian Pony

64.62%

Royalwood Rossini

Turberry Tom Kitten x Royalwood Merry Music

Riding Pony

25.29%

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OVERALL LEADING SIRES OF DERIVATIVE CHAMPIONS Combining the overall points from each of the charts, we present the Leading Sires of Derivative Champions in Australia for 2021.

CHAMPIONSHIPS

Name

Sire x Dam

Breed

Purity

Gold

Silver/ Reserve

Bronze/ Emerald

Top Ten/ Places

Total Points

Crave FF

Mash x Bremervale Charmed

Purebred

100%

203

Keira Park Cascade

Karlana Say Farewell x Keira Park Amber

Arabian Riding Pony

32.7%

Sir Charmed FF

SF Sir Real x Bremervale Charmed

Purebred

100%

Concherto FF

Burren-dah The Wizard x Aloha Symphony

Anglo Arabian

62.5%

Pembrooke Park Marquiss

Cranston Park Khaan x Jaytee Marquissa

Purebred

100%

Ray of Light

Amaki’s Impressionist x Amaki’s Golden Imp

Part Arabian

75.8%

Ablue Moon Rising

SK Shakla Khan x KimDande Stormgirl

Arabian Pony

64.62%

Fares FF

Status LL x Farrah KA

Purebred

100%

Nalla La Scalla

Ibn Amir El Shaklan x Simeon Shifrah

Purebred

100%

W. Ellington (US)

Wynton x Dream Rubina

Arabian Warmblood

0.52%

Aratahnes Excalibur

Aratahnes Acclaim x Aratahnes Elated

Part Arabian

62%

Fever FF

Crave FF x Double TT Fevia

Arabian Warmblood

59.8%

Wynton (DE)

Jazz x Acacia

Warmblood

0.53%

Ablue Moons James Blond

Ablue Moon Rising x Glenview Silver Harmony

Arabian Pony

33.54%

Royal Gregor (DE)

Royal Diamond x Fuedona

Arabian Warmblood

2.79%

Royalwood Rossini

Turberry Tom Kitten x Royalwood Merry Music

Riding Pony

25.29%

JSS Cream Em Kidd

CL Classic Sensation x Platinum Blonde

Quarter Horse

Chelleason Crown Jewel

Gai El Jullyen x Sophia WV

Purebred

100%

Jindalee Casanova

Better View Gunfire x Rosebrook Cillawood

Australian Stock Horse

Warrawee Versacee

Warrawee Grandee x Warrawee Malika

Anglo Arabian

75%

Position

No changes at the top this year, with purebred stallion Crave FF in first place for the fifth year running. In second place for the first time, is the well performed Arabian Riding Pony Keira Park Cascade, while in third is the bay stallion Sir Charmed FF, maternal half sibling to Crave FF. A total of 213 stallions contributed to our chart this season. Of our Leading Stallions, six are Purebred Arabians, down from 12 in 2020. Two stallions do not carry any Arabian blood, and another three carry less than 5% Arabian blood. Six of the Leading Sires of Derivative Champions are registered derivatives with over 50% Arabian blood. Congratulations to the owners and breeders of these stallions, and also to the owners of their progeny who made the results possible.

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Position

Endurance Horses Horse

Sire

Dam

Sire of Dam

2020

Sex

Breed

Arabian % Distance

Gelding

Arabian Warmblood

50%

484

HEAVYWEIGHT 1

Sundale Bellagio

Bellario (DE)

Rivlyn Mahlee

Dunwingeri Maareef (Imperial Maakir (US) x Shareefa (DE))

San Ella Navit

Maxximus

San Ella Tantra

Yager (Ibn Estara Shaklan (DE) x Jasmirah)

Mare

Purebred

100%

440

Unregistered Anglo

Santashka Tanameer

ASB

Unknown

Mare

Anglo

50%

339

Arabesque Abdul

Win D Fortitude

Arabesque Bronze Medallion

Solid Gold (Chico D’Oro x Sweet Sassie)

Gelding

Arabian Stockhorse

25%

325

Mariba Rani

Silmaril Chand

Andalusia LEA

Warranty (US) (Alladin (SE) x Wizja (PL))

Mare

Purebred

100%

324

Amarillo Dancing Solitare

Springdale Solitaire

Fairy Dance (ASB)

Perugino (Danzig x Fairy Bridge)

320

Razorback Targaryen

Razorback Wings On Fire

Razorback Kalimah

Chip Chase Sadaqa (Cherokee Mecca x Silala)

A’Landell Jester

A-Landell Soul

Judstan Eleanora

Summerland Robreyn (Shafreyn x Jillian)

Sahara Park Miss Rubicon

Snow Brave

Sangah Rose of Lilani

Warr of the Roses (Crème Dynasty (US) x Lillaine)

Chop Chop

Unknown

Gelding Mare

Arabian Stockhorse

87.5%

320

Gelding

Purebred

100%

280

Mare

Part Arabian

50%

280

Unknown

270

MIDDLEWEIGHT 1

Sweet Honesty Molleeh

Sweet Honesty Czar

Madeline’s Girl

Khamacruz (Sir Stristram x Lavender Hill)

Mare

Part Arabian

31%

540

Beer Street Dezhda

Beer Street Takone

Carington Park Rahil

Naaman Gala Fashion (Moon Fashion x Windsor Valleny Falanie)

Mare

Purebred

100%

485

Unregistered Part Arabian

Lauralyn Bay Magic

Shayelle Chocolate

Unknown

Gelding

Part Arabian

50%

415

Lockleigh Park Turbulence

Ralvon Splendour

Judillie

Fenwich Fadl (Greylight x Finvola)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

405

Lockleigh Park Destinee

Mill Park Amastar

Judillie

Fenwich Fadl (Greylight x Finvola)

Mare

Purebred

100%

404

Arabika Cue Tee

Westhope Park Shakaan

Arabika Bonus

Salicj Nahida (Classic Prince x Yamegi Nimnah)

Gelding

Anglo

87.5%

400

Poseidon Moon

Silmaril Chand

Belgrade Athena

Yamegi Azarak (Moonglow x Ilinya)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

400

Unregistered Purebred

Tora Sardeeka

Kelinda Jacinta

Fenwick Silver Ghoset (Fenwick Phantom x Fenwick Silver Charm)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

365

Unregistered Part Arabian

Renasar

Beetroot

Unknown

Gelding

Part Arabian

50%

365

Anglesea Finneas

Inshallah Maximus

Leatherwood Gidget

Credit (Arcadian x Semily)

Gelding

Part Arabian

75%

361

LIGHTWEIGHT

174

Ryah Park Kyeema

West Coast Acharon

Angabal Miracle

Aquanitor (Jerahmeel x Kemilga)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

724

Littlebanks Troubadour

Chip Chase Sadaqa

Hillbrook Desert Silver

Palexis (Milex (SE) x Promissa)

Stallion

Purebred

100%

564

Unregistered

Chaswyck Caruso

Bamborough Rosina

Silkwood Puss In Boots (Carolina’s Cat Whiskers x Solway Springtime

Gelding

Arabian Pony

50%

520

Joey The Patch

Unknown

Gelding

Brumby

489

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Position

Horse

Sire

Dam

Sire of Dam

Sex

Breed

Arabian % Distance

Gelding

Purebred

100%

485

LIGHTWEIGHT continued 5

Blake’s Heaven Bombora Shakir Ibn Rashan

Steveie Nix

Mievish (Sherif (GB) x Merryn)

Miss Mika

Khamzeen (US)

Voodelle (ASB)

Voodoo Rhythm (Northern Dancer x Obeah)

Mare

Anglo Arabian

50%

484

Coolinda Park Winston

Walidayt (US)

Coolinda Park Hello Dolly

Chronicle DV (US) (Wiersz x Cosmopollytan)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

480

Kholonial Farrington

Abrock Maestro

Mandala Femme Fatale

Scimitar Zardan (Scimitar Rudan x Zadita)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

480

Stardale Fandraastic

Madraas

Lanaryn Karidah Skye

Komotion (Fairview Klassiqe x Arabesque Desert Song)

Mare

Purebred

100%

480

Blake’s Heaven Adventuress

Blake’s Heaven Carousel

Wickwood Keera

Shawli Prince Bageera (Ralvon Trekker x Sanroblee Chrysilla)

Mare

Part Arabian

62.5%

450

Blake’s Heaven Hiraani

Blake’s Heaven Carousel

Lentara Park Heather

Talquah Telstar (Arim x Kehilan Star Queen)

Mare

Part Arabian

62.5%

450

Henley Farm Nadif

Henley Farm Ballash

Henley Farm Salata

Khemo Royalty (Gai Fortune x Princess Amadiyah)

Stallion

Purebred

100%

404

Follydown Gai Emerald

Gai General (US)

Formosa Park Faberge

Estashan (DE) (Malik x Estasha)

Mare

Purebred

100%

401

Ramalea Magnum

Linden Sirama

Ramalea Heidi

Shah-Zamir (Ansata El Shahwan x Shahrazad)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

400

Flemingo Queen

Unknown

Picnic Park Aberleen

Makers Mark (Fame Maker R x Karmaa)

Mare

Part Arabian

50%

365

Marat MA

Malmsbury Saki

Kassila

Pampas Kalil (PVA Sonbali x Anchor Hill Aviva)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

365

Concerto

Count Crysdafa

Cameo Coquette

Cedardell Zanzibar (Somerled x Zaria)

Mare

Purebred

100%

360

Duray Spartakos

Stravynsky

India

Shah Dara (Shiekie x Sharinda)

Stallion

Purebred

100%

360

Newbury Illustraa’s Impact

River Oak Impact

Woombai Riva

Kyremi Illustraa (Ralvon Pilgrim x Ralvon Tammie)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

360

Oso Dizzy

Kelkette Park Silver Implication

Al-Marah Danae (US)

AM Seagfreed (AM Sea Captain x Al Marah Moneytree)

Mare

Purebred

100%

360

Henley Farm Fursan

Henley Farm Jarad

Henley Farm Eshara

Henley Farm Tamin (Khemo Royalty x Henley Farm Atash)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

340

JUNIOR

100% COMPLETIONS (ALL DIVISIONS) 1

Ryah Park Kyeema

West Coast Acharon

Angabal Miracle

Aquanitor (Jerahmeel x Kemilga)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

724

Marat MA

Malmsbury Saki

Kassila

Pampas Kalil (PVA Sonbali x Anchor Hill Aviva)

Gelding

Purebred

100%

605

Littlebanks Troubadour

Chip Chase Sadaqa

Hillbrook Desert Silver

Palexis (Milex (SE) x Promissa)

Stallion

Purebred

100%

564

Sweet Honesty Molleeh

Sweet Honesty Czar

Madeline’s Girl

Khamacruz (Sir Stristram x Lavender Hill)

Mare

Part Arabian

31%

540

Blake’s Heaven Adventuress

Blake’s Heaven Carousel

Wickwood Keera

Shawli Prince Bageera (Ralvon Trekker x Sanroblee Chrysilla)

Mare

Part Arabian

62.5%

530

Flemingo Queen

Unknown

Picnic Park Aberleen

Makers Mark (Fame Maker R x Karmaa)

Mare

Part Arabian

50%

526

Unregistered Arabian Pony

Chswyck Caruso

Bamborough Rosina

Silkwood Puss In Boots (Carolina’s Cat Whiskers x Solway Springtime

Gelding

Arabian Pony

50%

520

Joey The Patch

Unknown

Gelding

Brumby

489

Beer Street Dezhda

Beer Street Takone

Carington Park Rahil

Naaman Gala Fashion (Moon Fashion x Windsor Valleny Falanie)

Mare

Purebred

100%

485

Archerville Cimarron

Floral Ridge Jeli Bene

Damristal Miss Molly

Tarrangower Khibrah (Haman (GB) x Jauhara)

Gelding

Part Arabian

75%

484

Unregistered Anglo

Khamzeen (US)

Voodelle (ASB)

Unknown

Mare

Anglo Arabian

50%

484

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Adelaide Equine Breeding Centre................................. 99 Al Dawla Arabians........................ 22–23 Alcántara Estate................................ 75 Allumba Stud.................................... 65 Amaki’s Coloured Arabians...............147 Arabeska...................................... 26–27 Arreton Arabians.......................... 14–15 Boxwood Estate................................. 85 Byrnlea Park Arabians......................... 9

Future Farms Arabians................. 33–48 Hawley Arabians................................. 5 Istashra Arabians............................... 89 Kelaray Stud.............................. 116–117

Noran Arabians................................. 71 Ramadan Arabians............................ 67 Re-Ality Arabians............................... 77

Khalid Arabians................................143

Revlis Park Arabians.......................... 93

Khizmeht Arabians....................... 10–11

Rich Meadows................................... 61

Krishlah Arabians.............................. 59 Lavender Park Arabians....................133 Mabrook Stud.................................... 91

Rosebury Arabians............................ 97 Sabble Farm................................. 33–48

Marian Duncan – Artist.....................131

Samphire Park Stud........................... 95

Mattilda Arabians.............................. 73

Simeon Stud......................... Back Cover

Diamond Road Stud...................... 30–31

Mulawa Arabians................Inside Front Cover–3

Toft Endurance........... Inside Back Cover

Esperanza Arabians...................... 18–19

Myth Haven Arabian Farm................6–7

Zuhra Arabians.................................113

Caramea Stud...................................109 Coolinda Park............................... 52–53

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Simeon Shulchan

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Simeon Sepharad

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Arabian Studs & Stallions

Articles inside

Neonatal Isoerythrolysis in Foals

Our Leading Men

The Arabian Head

The Art of Cary van Dansik

Bostocks Arabian Stud

Khalid Arabians

Why Arabian Ponies?

Alkeynos EA

Amaki’s Coloured Arabians

Future Farms

Hoofprints in History

Carole Hore and the Legacy of Coolinda Park

Al Dawla

Boxwood Estate

Naajmi

Mulawa Angelica

Ulyssia

Arabians of South Australia

Sabble Farm