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Almanzor
(Athos x Mlecha III), bay stallion foaled 1909. Sire of Rozmaryn.
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Amurath Sahib
1932 (35 Amurath II x Sahiba by Nana Sahib I), foaled in 1932 at the
respected private stud of Breniow in Poland, was probably the best broodmare
sire that Poland ever had; he also sired sons who were excellent sires
of broodmares (see Darda). Amurath Sahib 1932 raced two seasons with a record of 24 (7-5-8)1. Despite
the ravages of World War II in Poland and the resulting evacuations
for Amurath Sahib 1932 to various locations, a total of 48 foals were registered to
him in his 16 years at stud. He died in 1952 at age
20. Amurath Sahib 1932 was
intensely inbred to
Bairactar (a family renown for winning
the Polish classic races).
The sire of Amurath Sahib 1932, the bay Amurath II, was imported from
Austria to Breniow in 1918. His dam Sahiba won
both the Derby
and the Oaks.
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Bairactar,
progenitor of the oldest continuous sire line in Poland, was imported from the desert in
1812 by Baron Fechtig and purchased from him by King William I of Württemberg
for his Royal Stud at Weil. Bairacter was so prepotent that he created
the "Bairacter type" of horse, and through his many sons
and daughters was probably Europe's most influential stallion ever. We
find his sire line in pedigrees today mainly through Amurath
Sahib 1932 and his many sons and daughters.
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Bakszysz
(Ilderim d.b. x Parada), grey stallion foaled 1901. Leading sire of race
winners in Poland in the 1920's. Sire of Dziewanna.
Also sire of the purebred Arabian stallion Fetysz who was much favored
as a sire and heavily used in the Trakehmen Stud.
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Shortly
after the end of World War II, the chestnut mare Brda
(Mersuch II x 21 Siglavy-Bagdady III) was rescued from a German
pharmaceutical company which was using the blood of horses to
manufacture vaccine (see Prologue). Brda's
rescuers took her back to Poland and used her there for purebred
breeding; of her three purebred Arabian foals, one of them was the influential Darda. In
1951, she was returned to her breeder and original home, the Babolna Stud in
Hungary where she had been foaled in 1934 and originally known as 215
Mersuch-II-1. Brda also had another daughter who
became highly influential in Russia's racing and breeding program, that being
Angara, the dam of the Russian great racing sire Arax.
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Darda (Amurath
Sahib 1932 x Brda
by Mersuch II), grey mare foaled in 1950 at Klemensow, founded an excellent family
in Poland as did many of the daughters of Amurath
Sahib 1932. Darda produced a foal every year for 12 years; her
daughter *Druchna by Rozmaryn
was her 3rd foal.
Darda's other well
known progeny included her daughter U.S. National Champion Mare *Dornaba (by *Naborr)
and her son
Swedish National Champion Dardir (by *Naborr).
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*Druchna
(Rozmaryn x Darda by Amurath
Sahib 1932) was Darda's
first-born daughter. Imported from Poland to the United States by Leon Rubin in
1972, *Druchna lived out the rest of her life at Sir William Farm. Previous to her importation, *Druchna was raced
in Poland 20 times over 3 seasons. She won 3, placed twice and showed 4 times.
Her record in the breeding barn was even better. Some of her more famous
foals are the stallion *Druzba (by *Naborr),
the mare SW Saruchna (by *Sambor) who is the dam of U.S. National
Champion MS Santana, and the stallion *Druch++ (by Celebes) who was a U.S.
Regional halter and performance champion and
winner of 5 races in Poland.
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Dziewanna
( Bakszysz x Kalina by Ibrahim), dam
of Rozmaryn, was also the dam of the excellent race mare,
*Kostrzewa (by Koheilan I (1922) who was
undefeated in her five starts and winner of the
1933 Oaks. *Kostrzewa was imported to the
United States by Henry
Babson in 1938, just one year prior to the start of World War II. Dziewanna was also the dam
of the stallions Piolun and Skrzyp, both of whom were taken to Russia
in 1939. We have been
unable to locate any records of what happened to Dziewanna
herself during the confusion of 1939 (see Prologue).
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Enwer
Bey (Abu Mlech x Koalicja by Koheilan
IV), grey stallion foaled 1923 at Janow
Podlaski. Race record in Poland: 1/3 (2-1-0). Taken to Russia in 1939 (see Prologue).
Sire of
Taraszcza (dam of Negatiw).
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Ganges
I (Hindostan II x Lezginka), grey stallion foaled 1901. Sire of Hardy.
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Gazella
d.b. Imported in 1845 by Count Julius Dzieduszycki for his Jarczowce
Stud in Poland. Line foundress of great
influence through her daughter Gazella I 1859. Strain: Kehilet Ajuz.
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Gazella
II 1914 (Kohejlan d.b. x Abra), bay dam of Hardy
and Taraszcza
(dam of Negatiw), was bred
at the Jezupol Stud by Count Ladislaus
Dzieduszycki and foaled there in 1914. Gazella II 1914, along with Zulemja
1914 and her dam
Pomponia 1902, were sold by their breeder to Mr. Przewlocki and then again to the purebred
Arabian division of the Polish National Stud at Janow where Gazella II
1914 founded a
remarkable dynasty of her own; her daughters especially were noted as
outstanding producers, especially of superior sire. Gazella II 1914
was taken to Russia in 1939 at the age of 25 (see
Prologue). Tail female line to Gazella
d.b. Strain: Kuhailan Ajus.
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Hardy
(Ganges I x Gazella II 1914), bay stallion foaled 1926
at Janow Podlaski. Race Record: 2/5 (5-0-0) including Derby and 3 other
Stakes. Hardy's time of 2:50 for the Derby (then 1 1/2 miles) was
a record for several years. Used in Janow Podlaski Stud from
1931-1936; sire of Obra. Taken to Russia in 1939 (see
Prologue).
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Ikwa
(Koheilan 1
(1922) x Elstera by Ibrahim).
Grey mare. Unbeaten on the race track. Her
victories included the 1930 Criterium Stakes and the 1931 Polish Derby
and Oaks. Dam of Obra. Lost to Russia in the
confusion of 1939 (see
Prologue).
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Koalicja
(Koheilan IV 1905 x Amurath "Radowce"), grey mare foaled 1918.
Famed for her beauty. Dam of Enwer Bey. Although the Koalicja
dam line was lost to Russia in 1939, this line in
tail female to 6 Koheilan IV (through her daughter 21 Siglavy Bagdady III)
was returned to Poland in 1968
when Parma was obtained from Russia.
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Lagodna
(Odilgaard) (Posejdon x Obra
by Hardy), grey mare foaled
1939 at Jablonka. Taken from Germany to Kirow Stud (USSR) in 1945 and
moved to Tersk in 1948. Dam of *Naborr.
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Mersuch II (Mersuch
I-10 x Gazal-4), grey stallion. Sire of Brda. Sire
Line to Mersuch d.b., imported to Babolna 1898.
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Negatiw
(Naseem x Taraszcza by
Enwer Bey), the sire of *Naborr, *Salon, and *Bandos,
was
born in 1945 at the Tersk Stud in Russia. Winner of two races in Russia
and also named Champion stallion at the
State All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow, 1954, Negatiw
stood at stud at Tersk for 11
years and sired 105 foals. Because his offspring did not do well at the racetrack, Negatiw
was sold to Poland in 1962 at age 17. In Poland, where they were most
anxious to have back a source for their
lost Skowronek sire line, Negatiw
was bred to a group of superior mares and fared much better there as a
racing sire with his descendants often proving to be among the winners:
his daughter Forsa (x Fortunata out
of Forta) won the Oaks in 1974 and her full brother Figaro won the
Criterium in 1977 with next generation winners in major races i.e. the
Oaks, the Derby, and the Criterium. He was used at two different studs
in Poland: Janow Podlaski 1962-1968 and Michalow Stud 1969-1973. He was
still breeding mares when he died at age 28. (For those with interest in these
things, Negatiw is 50% CMK by definition through his sire Naseem, but does not qualify as a CMK sire line).
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Obra
(Hardy x Ikwa by Koheilan
I 1922, grey mare foaled 1933
at Janow Podlaski and pictured here as a foal with her dam Ikwa, was eight generations
Polish, tracing in pedigree back to
Sweykowska who was foaled in Poland of desert-bred parents around 1800. Obra
was lost to Russia in the confusion of 1939 (see
Prologue). Obra was the dam of Lagodna.
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Posejdon
(Ibrahim x Najada), grey stallion foaled
1916 at Antoniny. Sire of Lagodna (dam of *Naborr).
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Rozmaryn
(Almanzor x Dziewanna by Bakszysz).
A 1935 chestnut stallion who became the progenator of the Abu Argub II sire line
~ a sire line
which has now been lost in Poland, though Rozmaryn blood is
still available there through the female lines. Rozmaryn ran for
two years in nine races, winning,
placing, and showing in three each. He stood at stud from 1941-43, and
1952-57, was leading sire for three years, and is considered one
of Poland's greatest speed sires ever. In addition to his daughter *Druchna,
other superior foals were his sons Falset, winner of the Criterium, and Otrok,
winner of the Derby, and a daughter
Fregata who won the Oaks in 1961. Fregata in her turn was the dam of racing winners Fama
(by *Naborr),
*Fladra (by Celebes), and *Florencja (by Negatiw, the sire of *Naborr).
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Sahiba
(Nana Sahib I x Donka), grey dam of Amurath Sahib
1932, was foaled in 1924 at Breniow Stud in the Lwow province of
Poland. Sahiba was the first winner of
the Oaks and the Polish Derby. Sahiba is shown
here with Teresa Raciborska, her owner and also owner of the Breniow Stud. The
Breniow Stud was completely destroyed during the war,
and Teresa Raciborska and her children were deported to Kazakhstan but
survived the war. The fate of Sahiba is unknown.
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Taraszcza
(Enwer Bey x Gazella II 1914), grey mare foaled in
1937 at Janow Podlaski and the last daughter of Gazella
II 1914. Taraszcsa, the dam of Negatiw,
was one of the Polish mares taken to
Tersk by
the Russian army at the
beginning of World War II. She died at Tersk; age 26. (See Prologue).
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Notes
and photos for this page were derived from the following sources:
Dickinson, J.M., A Catalogue of Travelers Rest Arabian Horses
1947. Reprinted by the Arabian Horse Trust, Denver, Colorado.
1988. p. 50.
Edwards, Gladys Brown, A Photographic History of the Polish Arabian.
Arab Ink, Rockville, Maryland. 1978. pp. vii, 14, 21, 64, 70, 77, 79, 87, 117, 118.
Parkinson, Marsha. "Bask++". Arabians June 1984. Campbell Co. Inc., Lake Orion, Michigan. pp.
97-98, 103-106.
Parkinson, Marsha. "The Elegant Darda". Arabians January
1985. Campbell Co. Inc., Lake Orion, Michigan. pp. 136-143.
Parkinson,
Marsha.
"Balalajka" and "The Platinum
Cross". Arabians March 1985. Campbell Co. Inc., Lake Orion, Michigan.
pp. 66, 93.
Parkinson,
Marsha. "A Reputation for Speed". Arabians August 1985. Campbell Co. Inc., Lake Orion, Michigan.
pp. 65-66.
Paul, Melissa. "There's Northing Like Nabeg". Arabians October 1985. Campbell Co. Inc., Lake Orion, Michigan. p. 98.
Perkins, Sandra K. "A Study of the Bloodlines of Arabian
Horses in Poland". The Arabian Horse News February 1972.
Boulder, Colorado. pp.35-37.
Szeptycki, Paul. Personal Correspondence. December 1, 2009.
Terry, Dick. "The Forgotten
Stallion: Ibrahim". Arabian Horse World, January 1983. Article
courtesy of Delores Lyndon.
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