A Mirror For The Ages Then came the great park mare, *Prowizja and her four stallion sons, all sired by *Bask: Ibn Prowizja, Cometego, Pro-Fire and Promotion. Marian and Leo Knight of Lafayette, La., bred Ibn Prowizja, Cometego, and *Prowizja’s gelded son, Provardo, and Mrs. Knight bought Pro-Fire from Lasma, which bred him. Tom and Roxann and Karl Hart Lanella Gray, their son Sky, made a difference, as did Janice Garrard and the *Bask son Gdansk (x *Gdynia, by Comet), Caravan Arabians’ Barbara Spring and the *Bask son Fire Wind (x Lakshmi, by Rapture); and Frank and Silvia Rust with their world-class producers, the Halali mares. Arlene, Hal and Gary Clay bred the *Bask son Ariston (x tt Faydelle Scho *Amfibia, by Sedziwoj), and Borg-Warner heiress Denise Borg bought Ariston from the Clays’ Del Camino Ranch as a yearling. Borg raised many champions with an “Aristo” or “Four Winds” prefi x before their names, out of her choice broodmare band.
Edie Lehman
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Rohara Arabians, the home of U.S. National Champion
Mare Rohara Tsultress and her famous sire, Ivanhoe Tsultan, is a name familiar to Arabian Horse Times readers, as are Karl and Roxann Hart—and Rohara’s dozens of national titleholders who came after Rohara Tsultress. Rick Moser, later of Colonial Wood, trained and showed Rohara’s earlier stars; next came John Rannenberg, who continues to train and show the farm’s and clients’ horses to national victories. Roxann Hart keeps winning national championships in the AOTH divisions, and Karl Hart, an attorney, has served diligently and for decades as a regional director and member or chair of various boards. We will mention their friend and ours, longtime Arabian and Half-Arabian supporter Faydelle Schott, who bought lovely Rohara Tsatusque, and has owned dozens (literally) of other big-time champions in her more than half a century with Arabian horses; Edie Lehman, whose good-thinking wonder horse, Demaciado, was but one of her many champion trainees; Serenity Farm and Hanna-Luise “Hansi” Heck, who imported the great *Serenity Sonbolah from Cairo’s Egyptian Agricultural Organization; and photogenic Rinconada Arabians in Algodones, N.M., where Nabiel and dear old *Ibn Hafiza spent some time. Dr. Burt and Sheri Melton, their two sons, two pygmy goats, and the ranch were the subjects of a February 1984 article, and Nabiel was that month’s Arabian Horse Times cover star. Nabiel’s liver chestnut son, RA Jahim, went on to Texas, where he sired many a champion at the Rogers family’s Kehilan Arabians in Fort Worth. Farther north dwelled Kent, Ohio’s Joyce, T.P. and Lexie Long, who owned and showed the winning Tornado son, Supreme, and other nationalwinning *Bask kids and grandkids, all trained by Debbie Bailey, daughter of noted trainer and judge Bonnie Bailey, who was the subject of a “Times Remembered” article.