AHT-TuttoArabi 2012

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National Champion Eccentric Valentino

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THE WORLD’S

DA Valentino x Satin Chall LL

TRF

2009 U.S. National Champion Yearling Filly 2009 Scottsdale Jr. Champion Filly

U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPION FUTURITY FILLY WITH ANDY SELLMAN

Proudly owned by Claire & Margaret Larson Tea, South Dakota

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Arabian Horse Times would like to welcome its Tutto Arabi readers to this first joint edition of our magazines. Together, we span

much of the Arabian community, and we hope that by adding more in-depth exposure to each other’s readerships, we will expand everyone’s marketplace.

We believe that there are breeders of Arabian horses all over the

world with something to offer, so increased communication and knowledge of each other’s experiences are important to the growth of the Arabian horse in the future. But it can be challenging for owners to sort out the horses and people in their home countries who best fit their programs—so figuring out potentially positive business relationships, or even just friendships, abroad can be doubly difficult. We’d like to make it easier for everyone, both

the larger farms who already enjoy international reputations and the smaller operations who nevertheless produce top-class horses capable of winning in global competition.

Right now, world news is chaotic; however, one undeniable fact is that when Arabian horse people get to know each other, they

can shut out all the divisiveness and relax in their mutual love for their horses. Everyone wants to see the Arabian horse succeed, and our view is that the best place to begin is with the basics: getting to know each other and each other’s horses better. The world is a small place, but the business can be big. The only thing Arabian horse people need are introductions.

Lara Ames, Publisher Arabian Horse Times

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DA Valentino x Amelia B, by Magnum Psyche AHA Breeders Sweepstakes Nominated Frozen Semen Available Worldwide!

2011 U.S. NatioNal ChampioN StallioN 4 & 5 Year old 2011 U.S. NatioNal reServe ChampioN SeNior StallioN 2010 CaNadiaN NatioNal ChampioN FUtUritY Colt Owned by Fazenda Floresta, LLC Standing at Guzzo / Rivero Arabians Worldwide, LLC For information contact Rodolfo Guzzo • guzzoat@gmail.com Brazil: +55 (19) 8139 9739, USA: +1 (619) 200 6464 • www.GuzzoAT.com 6 | Ar AbiAn Horse Times

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Eden C x Sempre, by Versace AHA Breeders Sweepstakes Nominated Minnesota Medallion Stallion SCID Clear

Frozen Semen Available Worldwide!

2011 U.S. NatioNal ChampioN Colt 2-Year-o old 2010 U.S. NatioNal ChampioN BreederS SweepStakeS YearliNg Colt 2010 laS VegaS world CUp SUpreme ChampioN

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Laheeb x The Vision, by Thee Desperado

Frozen Semen Available Worldwide!

I mported S traIght e gyptIan S tallIon Owned by Fazenda Floresta, LLC Standing at Guzzo / Rivero Arabians Worldwide, LLC For information contact Rodolfo Guzzo • guzzoat@gmail.com Brazil: +55 (19) 8139 9739, USA: +1 (619) 200 6464 • www.GuzzoAT.com 8 | Ar AbiAn Horse Times

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(Aria Impresario x RD Fabreanna)

NAA W orld C hAmpioN J uNior C olt

Frozen Semen Available Worldwide!

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the international influence of

Rohara

roxann and Karl hart with Qr Marc aPaha Breeder of the Year aht readers' choice Breeder of the Year uSef Breeder of the Year of all Breeds

for 44 years, rohara has been a source of foundation arabians for breeding farms around the world. in addition to its renowned breeding program, it is also known for its nationals-level training operation and its marketing expertise. the farm has presented national champion arabians and half-arabians in halter and performance at the u.S., canadian and Sport horse nationals. rohara also has exported some of the finest breeding stock to 20 foreign countries: Brazil, canada, colombia, costa rica, Dubai, ecuador, england, france, Guatemala, italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Mexico, nicaragua, Panama, Saudi arabia, South africa, Sweden, trinidad, and Venezuela. its horses win often in foreign shows rings and have been named national or national reserve champion in their new countries. they also have achieved significant success in breeding programs throughout the world. rohara takes pride in offering national- and regional-quality halter horses, excellent and versatile performance horses, and world-class breeding stock.

Thank you to the national and international buyers that purchased 32 horses during 2011.

We invite you to visit Rohara Arabians ... You will

discover that it is rare to find such a large group of incredible horses residing at just one farm.

RohaRa aRabians Karl & Roxann Hart . P.O. Box 110 . Orange Lake, Florida 32681 . USA . (352) 591-4661 . Rohara@windstream.net

www.Rohara.com

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Majik

OF MARWAN

Marwan Al Shaqab x Lily Marlaina, by Thee Infidel

2006 Stallion • Frozen semen • EU frozen semen available owned by R. Kirk Landon & Rohara Arabians 12 | Ar AbiAn Horse Times

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RohaRa

Majician

Majik Of Marwan x WH Esdee, by Diammond Jim 2010 Stallion • Available at private treaty owned by R. Kirk Landon

P.O. Box 110 . Orange Lake, Florida 32681 . USA (352) 591-4661 . Rohara@windstream.net

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Rohara

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S partan

RohaRa

aRia

El Nabila B x MSU Secret Vows, by Concensus

2008 Stallion • Frozen semen • EU frozen semen available owned by R. Kirk Landon & Rohara Arabians 14 | Ar AbiAn Horse Times

U.S. National Top Ten Stallion Scottsdale Reserve Champion

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Magnu m

Mister Canadian National Champion Stallion AAOTH U.S. National Top Ten Stallion

Scottsdale Champion Stallion AAOTH

Region 15 Champion Stallion Open & AOTH

Magnum Chall HVP x Pretty Tricky, by Padrons Psyche

2004 Stallion • owned by Robert Janecki

Showing at ScottSdale in 8 and over StallionS with Joe alberti P.O. Box 110 . Orange Lake, Florida 32681 . USA (352) 591-4661 . Rohara@windstream.net

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Rohara A r A b i A n s

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MIDWEST

marketing world-wide

The Arabian horse has been a lifelong passion for internationally acclaimed horseman, David Boggs, and his greatest joy is sharing that passion with his family and friends.

“The Arabian horse has enriched my life in countless ways, most significantly, through my family. My father and mother shared their love of the horses with my siblings and me, and now I am able to share that same love with my own family. Terry Anne and I are fortunate and blessed that our four children all enjoy the horses. The special friends and employees that make up Team Midwest, like us, are all committed to the exciting adventures we share together, all because of the Arabian horse.”

David Boggs’ heartfelt desire has become his life’s work.

Over the past 30 years, he has traveled the world from Paris, France to Pewaukee, Wisconsin; from Dubai City, Dubai to Des Moines, Iowa; from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Santa Ynez, California. David has visited every continent where Arabian horses live. Along the way, he has met members of royal families, rulers of nations, aristocrats, titans of industry, movie stars and rock stars. However, his favorite people are the small breeders who love the Arabian horse—breeders, trainers, grooms, those who own horses and those who dream of the possibilities, especially the children.

David Boggs’ passion for the Arabian horse is the key to the success of their Mega Center—Midwest Training and Breeding Stations, in Elk River, Minnesota, and the Marketing Centre in Scottsdale, Arizona.

It is this passion that created his vision that sustains his commitment decade after decade to search out and find, acquire, and showcase the crème de la crème of the breed. Thirty years of experience and more than $90,000,000 in equine market purchases and sales has trained David’s eye to see what others miss— potential. His ability to see beyond the immediate, and visualize the possibility, is not a skill, it is a gift.

David’s vision of the ideal Arabian horse has evolved over the years of hands-on breeding and marketing of Arabian horses. Throughout his career, he has seen and evaluated thousands of Arabian horses. His goal has always been to find horses that come the closest to his ideal—horses whose beauty, carriage, and attitude take his breath away. And bring these horses into the Midwest Program.

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Padrons Psyche x A Fancy Miracle

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Champion

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HARAS MAYED

Fernando & Joaquin de SantibaneS buenoS aireS, argentina

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times

National Champion United

S tat e S

•

Canada

•

Brazil

Destiny Called ...

Vitoria LM - 2011 Filly Vitorio TO x LM Olivia

Victoria Principle M - 2011 Filly Vitorio TO x Diamond Of Versace

Vitoriana ORA - 2011 Filly Vitorio TO x Lathifa HEM

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DA Valentino x Sol Natique, by Solstice

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Proudly owned by the Sloan, Vara and roizner FamilieS

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Aria

Scot t sdale 2012

Marwan Al Shaqab x GC Echlectica, by Echo Magnifficoo

with DaviD Boggs Standing at MidweSt . elk RiveR, Mn MidweSt@SbwiReleSS.net

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6 Ld

Pistal

times

National Champion

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Magnum Psyche x Halana, by Hal Gibby

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A n I n t e r n At I o n A l H e r o

Haras Los PaLmares

Punta del este, uruguay www .H aras l os P almares . com . uy

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Polish NatioNal ChamPioN

QR Marc

Swete Dreams POGROM 2009 stallion Visbaden Petla Petra

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Anaza El Farid Kajora Fame VF Katahza Ali Jamaal Magic Dream CAHR The Dreamspinner Kouros Kouream De Ment Rawhides Amenda

Gazal Al Shaqab Marwan Al Shaqab Little Liza Fame

Naftalin Presnia Pepton Pestka

Topal Nepriadwa Nabeg Parana Bandos Pemba Probat Pentoda

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Midwest and the sloan faMily thank the breeders who have endorsed our confidence by purchasing breedings. *Stadnina Koni Jan贸w Podlaski *Rohara Arabians *Cedar Ridge Arabians *North Arabians *Marino Arabians *Joy Horses *Midcrest Farms *Cindy Fleming *Judy Faust *Pam Halbrook *Pam Bauerlein *Leslie Harpur *Don Peeler *Rebecca Tinsley *Don Olvey *Royal Arabians *Christine Jamar *Janice Wight *Arabians International *Misheks Arabians *Gary & Holly McDonald *Russ McDonald *Milt & LeeAnn Davis *Darrell Coker *Peter & Sheila Stewart *Tony Bergren *Ken & Donna Topp *Ed & Lara Friesen *Robert Traveller *Stephanie Poole *Marlene Rieder *Kris Bartle *denotes multiple breedings w w w.ahtimes.com

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ALENTINO

Mirror Mirror on the Wall ...

“UNBELIEVABLE! Onitnelav-valentinO—He is the mirror image of his sire.

It is with great hope that this journey leads us all to a new level of understanding as Onitnelav brings forth the genetic potential of lost treasure DA Valentino. He is living proof of his sire’s greatness. Valentino left us to soon, but Onitnelav will bear the torch for his father.

The likeness is truly something to behold.

It is fitting that this young prodigy, who was conceived in the presence of his sire, have the opportunity to reunite with someone who can continue the legacy justifiably. Again, thank you David Boggs, for receiving Onitnelav with such respect. With your guiding hands, he will make his father proud as he too, rises to his rightful throne of greatness, and one day the question will be asked, ‘Mirror Mirror on the wall, whose the fairest of them all?’

It’s not fairy tales. It is reality.

Onit has returned home.”

— P. S .

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From the shores of Uruguay ... to the Scottsdale desert ...

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I nternatIonal C hampIon S tallIon

usta Magnum See him at Midwest

Magnum Psyche x S Justatinkerbell, by Justafire dgl

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2009 UrUgUayan Champion 2008 Brazilian national Champion

Experience the excitement of the get of Justa Magnum.

HLP Faraon Justa Magnum x Mars Simbayeva

2011 Colt Justa Magnum x Alexia Four

Haras Los PaLmares

Punta

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este, uruguay

2011 Filly Justa Magnum x Aquir Janera

Haras DoN PIero FabIaNa aND FraNco Vara

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Bred by oak ridge arabians

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ORA

Haras Los PaLmares

Punta del este, uruguay www .H aras l os P almares . com . uy

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2011 ArAbiAn breeder FinAls Gold ChAmpion WeAnlinG Colt

Vegas dpa x Raherra, by Rahere

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t h g i l n o o M * HDT

Shining with the beSt international bloodlineS. Gazal al Shaqab

PaDrOnS PSyche

Marwan al Shaqab Marwan al Shaqab

little liza FaMe hDt Prince OF Marwan luDjin el jaMaal

iMann

PrinceSS criStine FiOna VF

PaDrOn PaDrOnS PSyche KiliKa iMann FaMe VF POetryinMOtiOn VF eMOtiOn VF FaMe VF

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Midwest welcoMes ...

Uruguayan National Champion Junior Filly

*Moonlight

Haras Los PaLmares

Punta del este, uruguay www .H aras l os P almares . com . uy

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OFFERED TO THE WORLD!

ENZO

By Padrons Psyche Out of RD Bey Shahmpane Owned by Enzo Ltd. vesty photo

STIVAL By *Gazal Al Shaqab Out of Paloma De Jamaal Owned by Peri Tilghman gigi photo

EDEN C

By Enzo Out of Silken Sable Owned by Bellinger Arabians visel photo

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MPA GIOVANNI

By Da Vinci FM Out of Glitzy Owned by Jerland Farms vesty photo

*PERSHAHN EL JAMAAL

By Ali Jamaal Out of Perfectshahn SRA Owned by Evergreen Arabians vesty photo

ESCAPE IBN NAVARRONE-D

By AS Sinans Pacha Out of Navarrone "P" Owned by Ajman Stud vesty photo

GREG & NANCY GALLĂšN 1977 Edison Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93460 805.693.0083 WWW.GALLUNFARMS.COM w w w.ahtimes.com

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The highest scoring horse EVER at the U.S. National Championships.

Stival x NW Siena Psyche

Las Vegas World Cup Unanimous Supreme Champion Yearling Colt Scottsdale Junior Champion Colt

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Abdulrahman al Mansour, Director • Alexandra Newman, Manager P.O. Box 22133, Doha, Qatar • mail@alshahaniastud.com Tel: +974-4490-3074 • +974-4490-3075 • Fax: +974-4471-9169 • Mobile: +974-5584-2213 For future breedings contact Gallún Farms • Phone 805.693.0083 • www.gallunfarms.com w w w.AHTimes.com

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Taking Scottsdale 2012

By Storm with Keith Krichke

Mars

DD

Psyche (Magnum Psyche x Crown Victoria)

Full brother to Multi-National Champion and Dam of Champions.

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Š Suzanne 2011

Scottsdale Classic 8 Years and Older Stallions For information, contact:

Bred and Owned by:

Keith Krichke

Dune Drift Arabians Kelley Ramsey Valparaiso, Indiana

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Training cenTer

farm 269-649-1282 • cell 269-217-5530

info@krichke.com

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Achieving Greatness One Foal At A Time

RH

Triana

(ROL Intencyty x Sylviah WLF)

Abrakadabra RH (ROL Intencyty x Miss Starbuxx)

2011 ScottSdale ReSeRve champion 2-YeaR-old colt

2011 U.S. national champion YeaRling FillY 2011 UnanimoUS U.S. national champion JUnioR maRe Sold to Freeland Farms by Krichke.

Sold and Exported to Chile by Krichke.

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Triad RH

(ROL Intencyty x Sylviah WLF)

Scottsdale 3-Year-Old Colts with Keith Krichke Bred and Owned by:

For information, contact:

Robin Hood Farms

Robin & Drago Kragulj office 708-235-8912 • cell 847-514-6753 robin@tandemmetals.com www.robinhoodfarms.com w w w.ahtimes.com

Keith Krichke

Training cenTer

farm 269-649-1282 • cell 269-217-5530 info@krichke.com www.krichke.com

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M

ichael Byatt Arab ians

Michael Byatt Arabians is one of the most successful show and breeding farms for Arabian horses in the world. From the stallions that reside with us, to the show horses that depart in our vans, the influence of Michael Byatt Arabians has left no part of the globe untouched. From South Africa to Australia, Europe and the Middle East, and all of North and South America, one will hear the name of a Michael Byatt horse and immediately realize the significance.

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Presenting one of the most exotic sons of *Marwan Al Shaqab in the world. ZT Marwteyn is a horse of extreme type, excellent topline, long legs, beautiful eyes and long shapely neck.

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M

ar wteyn

2007 Bay Stallion He will be available by both fresh and frozen semen in 2012.

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Marwan al Shaqab x ZT ludjTeyna

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Congratulations to Halsdon arabians on the purchase of the exotic filly

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kiab ara

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ZT MarwTeyn x ZT LudbecTra

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Glo r i a A pa l

(Psytadel x SA Misha Apal)

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vesty photo

little photo

visel photo

Home to

Sienna Apal

(Justify x SA Misha Apal)

S J usta dream

(Justafire DGL x Acquaintance)

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little photo

Astounddi ng Beaut y (Justify x JJ Astounding Echo)

DST AR ABIANS

David & Tammy Corning and Sienna Snell P.O. Box 12689, Olympia, WA 98508-2689 • 360-866-8138 dstarabians@msn.com • www.DSTArabians.com w w w.ahtimes.com

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“We are a small breeding farm, but it doesn’t mean that small breeding farms can’t produce some of the highest quality in the world,” says Ron Armstrong of Armstrong Arabians in Newaygo, Mich. “It can happen and it does happen.”

laur a & ron armStrong

Marketing Mafia photo

by Mary Kirkman

The facts support his statement. Ron and Laura Armstrong had been breeding Arabians for just a few years when they hit the ball out of the park with True Desire LL, a Scottsdale Champion Junior Filly and U.S. National Reserve Champion Yearling who was sold to Mystica Arabians in Australia and went on to become an international titlist.

From the same foal crop came Sweet Caroline LL, who when exported to Ajman Stud won at the Abu Dhabi International Championships for two consecutive years. She now is known as the dam of AJ Siyadah, a 2010 filly who spent last year collecting trophies across the Middle East.

And there have been others, a steady stream of high-quality foals attuned to showing primarily in halter, but qualified to have other jobs as well.

What has been unusual about the Armstrongs is their approach to breeding Arabians. Even in the face of glamorous stallions with global reputations, their priority lies with their mares. “We love not only the tail female line, but we love mares who reliably breed their tail female characteristics through,” says Ron Armstrong. “Then we like to see what a stallion has produced well with. You really want to find a stallion who is going to improve one or two characteristics in your mare—and that’s all you should expect, really—without devaluing the qualities she already has. That is more difficult than people might think.”

true DeSire ll

“We try to see what the stallion has produced,” Laura nods, “although we have taken our chances on some of the younger stallions, because now we know the strengths of our mares.”

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One wellspring of the Armstrongs’ success has been the mare Serenata Eljamaal, a daughter of Parys El Jamaal from a JK Amadeus mare whose tail female includes the acclaimed broodmare sires GG Samir and Bluesprucetanzeer. Purchased right after she placed 11th in the U.S. National Championship for Yearling Fillies, Serenata went on to impress her new owners by winning the Canadian National Championship in 2-Year-Old Fillies and then adding U.S. and Canadian National Top Tens in Futurity Fillies. But beyond her obvious quality and potential, it was her disposition that attracted them. “For me, a horse has to have a really good personality,” Laura explains. That is an integral part of their breeding program. “We dream for the whole package and hope we get it.”

It was Serenata Eljamaal who was responsible for True Desire LL, as well as a succession of others, including Cobra LRA, a Marwan Al Shaqab son who is on the market simply because it is not the Armstrongs’ intention to stand and promote breeding stallions.

Attracting attention now are Ultimate Desire LRA (a full sister to True Desire LL), who just turned 3 and is with Keith Krichke to prepare for the international class at Scottsdale; the 2-year-old Spades LRA, a riveting

black son of DA Valentino who, like Cobra, is available for purchase (in the meantime, he is slated to compete at Scottsdale with Terry Holmes); and the incandescent Orchid El Jamaal LRA, a yearling filly by Ajman Moniscione. She is with Terry Holmes, and scheduled to come out at the Las Vegas World Cup. In little more than 10 years, Ron and Laura Armstrong have bred horses that have made names for themselves not only in the United States, but also in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Their band of broodmares now numbers eight in production, daughters of Parys El Jamaal, Besson Carol, DS Major Afire, GG Samir, Afire Bey V, and Ames Charisma.

“I just like a pretty horse,” says Laura Armstrong when considering the bottom line of their breeding program.

“I love a horse with big eyes, and good legs and feet.”

The good legs and feet are likely part of the reason when Armstrong horses, usually already halter winners, are sold into the performance ranks, they are able to win in their new careers too.

Ron Armstrong voices the key to their outlook. “The one principle I have is that winning has absolutely nothing to do with breeding,” he says. “But breeding has everything to do with winning.”

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When Quality Counts

DA Valentino x Serenata ElJamaal 2010 Black Colt Scottsdale Signature Stallion Minnesota Medallion Stallion Iowa Gold Star Stallion

Standing at: Terry Holmes ArAbiAn Corp.

Scottsdale, Arizona • info@terryholmesarabians.com Terry Holmes - 602.321.0405

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Watch this exquisite filly at Las Vegas WorLd Cup.

In the WorLd of the

Extreme

,

sshe he stands aLone!

Ajman Moniscione x Serenata Eljamaal

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Morning View ArAbiAns

is excited to welcoMe its first beAutiful foAls by

LA

Karat

(WH Justice x L A Kalahari,

by Shaklan Ibn Bengali)

KArMAAl MVA

KArziM MVA

Morning View Arabians LLC Jack & Wendy Bauska 61 Morning View Way Kalispell, MT 59901 406.257.5200 E-mail: info@morningviewarabians.com

Partners for L A Karat LLC Managing Member: Travis Hansen Travis Training Center 801.376.3820 E-mail: travis@travistrainingcenter.com

(L A Karat x PS Dream Weaver, by Dream Quest) 2011 Bay Filly

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(L A Karat x Zimfinity, by Shah Azim) 2011 Grey Colt

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by Mary Kirkman

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Arabian horses are a universal common denominator for people who love and breed them, and as horsemen travel from one country to another, some divisions of the show ring are reassuringly familiar. Although personal preferences may vary from one area to another, no one has any trouble understanding the basics of a halter class. Endurance is easily recognizable, as is racing. Even western, which originated with the American cowboy, is well-known worldwide now, although the finer points of various classes may take a bit of study for newcomers to the discipline. One division of the American show ring, however, remains a specialty of the United States and Canada: only recently has English pleasure begun to spark interest on the global scene.

For this initial collaboration with Tutto Arabi, Arabian Horse Times decided to explore what English pleasure has to offer Arabian aficionados abroad. Does it have a role to play outside of North America? To answer that question, we asked more: do English pleasure-bred horses have value for breeding programs primarily oriented to halter? Might English pleasure classes, which already are appearing in South Africa, find a place in European and Middle Eastern shows? And what advice would help interested foreign breeders benefit from the influence of English division horses?

For answers, we went to a selection of top English pleasure breeders and trainers.

We began with a basic question: why do people like English pleasure horses? Trainer and breeder Joel Kiesner of Kiesner Training, in Louisville, Tenn., who has won five out of the past six U.S. National championships in English pleasure, sees the appeal in a broad context. “Every culture has some sort of dance or sophisticated movement such as ballet,” he says. “Those of us who appreciate horses generally appreciate the wonderful athletic, elegant movements that [English] performance horses are capable of.”

“The Arabian English horse is the aristocrat of all riding horses,” offers Peter Conway of Conway Arabians in Chatfield, Minn. “That’s the history of it; that’s why people are drawn to them. They want to ride high-headed, high-necked horses with great tail carriage and animation because of that whole sense of the regal and aristocratic carriage of the horses.”

“What attracts most people to the Arabian breed is the combination of their beauty, their athleticism and their attitude,” says national champion trainer and breeder Tom Moore, who is with Cedar Ridge Arabians in Jordan, Minn. “While halter is the epitome of the beautiful aspect of the Arabian, I think English is the epitome of its athleticism. But I also believe that anytime we concentrate on one discipline, without really trying to combine them, we lose something—if we focus on just the performance, we lose some of the beauty, and if we focus only on the beauty, we lose some of the athleticism and maybe some of the disposition too.”

Melanie Murch of Barbara Chur’s Strawberry Banks Farm in East Aurora, N.Y., cautions that a combination of all the elements of type is key. “You just can’t breed over and over again for one particular thing, because you run the risk of losing other desirable attributes,” she says. “Our stallions, because they exude refined beauty along with that athletic ability, might greatly enrich the European market.”

“When I think of the global market, the ideal that comes to my mind is the horse that you would see in a Schreyer painting,” says Mike Miller, trainer at Smoky Mountain Park Arabians in Lenoir City, Tenn. “That classic Arabian horse is beautiful and typey—but maybe not as extreme as you

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are seeing in the global market, particularly the European market, today. [The Schreyer horse] is an up-necked horse, it has high carriage, it bends its legs, pulls its hocks up under its body, it’s bred to be an athlete and it looks like it could go somewhere. I think some of the horses that are being bred for the international market are beautiful, but to me, we’ve lost some hind-limb structure and some carriage.

I think some of that extreme type could be improved with some upright carriage, a shorter back, and a different hind leg structure.” At the same time, he adds, he feels that the international-type horses have attributes to offer English pleasure breeders.

National champion trainer Mary Trowbridge, located less than two hours from New York City in Bridgewater, Conn., has experienced significant traffic from foreign visitors.

She sees a blend of characteristics as essential. “We don’t do main ring halter very much here, but these horses could; they’re put together correctly and they have beautiful faces and good necks,” she says. “Two years ago, a gentleman from Argentina came, a longtime Arabian horse breeder.

We showed him Triften, a nine-time national champion English pleasure horse, and maybe five of his offspring.

[The visitor] later told me that he had been afraid of what he was going to see when he came to a trainer’s farm, but he was so appreciative of the type and power and strength of those horses. Triften doesn’t always produce an English pleasure horse by any standard, but he always improves the quality of his foals—they are distinctly Arabian horses, and they are powerful front and back.”

Do Americans need to do more to explain to the world how rewarding English pleasure can be?

Yes, say most of the respondents—especially if they want horsemen from abroad to understand how English pleasure horses can contribute to other breeding programs. “There would be an educational process involved, because what we do is a different form of competition from what is done in other countries,” says trainer and breeder Carmelle Rooker of Rooker Training Stable in Fenton, Mich. She and Trowbridge are the only two women ever to win the U.S. National Championship in park, the most extreme class in the English division. “We would like to help other breeders understand what our horses are about, and do it in such a way that they could appreciate the part of the business that we’re in and incorporate it into their breeding program. I think high-trotting horses can blend well with what other countries are doing.”

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Across the board, our specialists observed with the prevalence of halter in the Arabian world, the greatest contribution English pleasure-oriented Arabians could make on the global breeding scene is their athleticism. Rooker offers the Middle East as an example of where athleticism already is highly valued, as seen in the appreciation for endurance riding. “They already have beautiful horses that are athletic,” she says, “and I think English horses could be an excellent addition into what’s already there.”

It is important to point out, Mike Miller says, that English talent is not just a matter of training; it is bred-in. “We train them and maybe shoe them to do a specific job,” he says, “but before they do that, as 2-year-olds bouncing around in the pasture, they’re up-headed, athletic horses who pull their hocks up under their body and bend their knees a little—not as much as when they’re shod for it, but it’s there.”

“Whether or not someone in Europe would decide to train English pleasure horses as we train them is not the point,” he says. “The point is: as a breeder, does that bloodline— or does that horse—have something that breeders can use in their programs that would bring them closer to their ideal Arabian?”

The bloodlines provide only an influence, not a guarantee that all foals will automatically be geared to English classes, says Trowbridge—and that is key for horsemen who are interested in improving their bloodstock, not totally reorienting their programs. “English bloodlines don’t always produce English pleasure horses,” she notes. “No bloodline always produces what the breeder is aiming for; the law of averages is against that. But if you have extreme athletes, you have extreme attributes to cross to produce a better individual.”

Melanie Murch agrees. “If you have something you want to add into your program, it has to be a large concentration of what you want to achieve in the end,” she says. “Our horses, for instance, are generations upon generations of quality, athletic animals. You can’t have a stallion with just one little aspect of that if you are really going to enrich a program where it is needed.”

So, is more athleticism a benefit to everybody? “Absolutely,” says Joel Kiesner. “Is an athletic horse beautiful to look at?

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think people just need to be exposed to it. You can turn an Arabian horse loose and if it flags its tail and runs across the ground stiff-legged, it is still beautiful. There’s nothing wrong with that. But if you take one that flags its tail, lifts its head high in the air and moves all four legs and its entire body with a gymnastic flair, it will take your breath away.”

And he adds that there is a curious fact about the modern English pleasure horses—indeed, many performance horses—in America. “You can’t forget that our best English horses came out of Poland’s racehorse program,” he says.

“Can [the migration] go backwards? I’ll bet it can.”

What, specifically, can English-bred horses offer on the world stage?

Roxann Hart of Rohara Arabians in Orange Lake, Fla., cites the role of the neck in conformation. “I don’t care if it’s for western, dressage or English, you have to have the proper neck set—the neck sitting on top of the shoulders and coming out properly—to go in any discipline,” she says.

“It would be even better if you have a beautiful head at the end of that gorgeous neck, and there is no reason it can’t be done. You can have the beautiful head and the motion. It’s just taking the Arabian horse to another level.”

Conway Arabians’ Lori Conway, well-known as a trainer, breeder and judge, ticks off a list of desirable characteristics on tap in English horses. “They will add athleticism, motion, movement and high tail carriage and long, highset necks,” she says. “They are regal; they’re hot; they’re animated. A lot of those characteristics are what [Europeans and Middle Eastern horsemen] look for in their halter horses. An English horse might help them go in that direction. There is a good chance that they could elevate the neck and get a little better shoulder—take that horizontal frame and turn it into a vertical frame. There is no guarantee that it would do that, but it’s certainly possible.”

Look at her shoulders and neck, and see how she carries them naturally. If those are areas that could be improved with an English-type horse, then I would go in that direction.”

“It’s the same thing as if they wanted a halter horse—they’d want to know their bloodlines,” Lori Conway offers. “There are bloodlines that produce English horses. At Conway Arabians, we have those bloodlines.” From there, she says, it would be helpful for breeders new to the discipline to know what to look for in a good English horse. “The way we raise our Arabians often makes them stronger and better than at some of the other farms. They are raised outdoors, in the hills, so their bones are strong, their tendons are good, and they have better balance (when we start them, they already have their balance; they know how to gallop up and down hills). And we don’t keep anything with a bad attitude.”

To this point, the discussion has revolved around the use of English horses in breeding programs and the contributions they could make. What about the classes? Could they play a role in shows abroad as well?

Roxann Hart considers the issue. “I think perhaps people want to see a different venue, as well as the halter, in the same show,” she says. “True, aficionados of halter love it, but there is nothing more exciting than an English pleasure class. Many people do not choose to compete at the upper level in halter, but they take great pride in riding and training their own horses. People always want to win; if you have a new class, people will want to win, and once those classes are put in initially, they will start to fill.”

Any instructions on how a horseman with a halteroriented mare might proceed in selecting an English pleasure-bred stallion?

“I think that all of the disciplines are athletic in their own right,” Tom Moore prefaces his remarks, “but the carriage is different, and when you are adding in the English horse, then you are looking for a more upright, lofty carriage to the horse. [To begin], I’d look at the mare’s type. Look first at her rear end and how she moves. How much impulsion does she carry off her hocks? What is her weight distribution?

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That, she says, would benefit many shows. “Some of the shows in Europe that offer only halter classes are not large and could use more participation. This would give another avenue for the horses, from a breeding standpoint, and add more interest for the spectators. Half-Arabians might play a role in this as well.” She cites the way the Belgian Nationals boosted numbers and offered more variety for the audience when it added Half-Arabians. “That would be a good marketing tool and would broaden our base for sales. And it would make the breeders more aware that the horses they’re breeding have to be not only beautiful, but also have ‘form to function.’”

Second Sight (Afires Vision x Silver Fantasy PV) 2011 U.S. National Champion Half-Arabian English Pleasure Horse.

Whether in shows or at home, Mary Trowbridge observes that the sheer delight of riding an English horse has a role to play in any Arabian community. “One of the things English pleasure horses provide and one of things people are drawn to is an adrenaline rush,” she says. “Whether they actually ride or not (you may not want to ride, but these days a lot more people do because a lot more people are wanting to experience their horses one-on-one), I think that for horses to survive everywhere, that’s going to be the deal. We must realize that we need to bring people into this breed through the horses’ usability and riding ability. Without athletic ability, they can’t be ridden. Good athletic ability makes a horse easier to ride, not the other way around. Extreme work ethic and that athletic ability make the English pleasure horse.”

In the end, this can all be reduced to good horsemanship— and marketability. “If [people in other countries] want to develop horses they can market to us, they are going to have to breed more athletic ability into the beauty they have so that it is marketable in our country,” she says. “And it’s the same in reverse. Ultimately we’ve all got to find a place for the horses that we’re breeding.”

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and that puts horses at risk. There is no longer a built-in demand for them or a population with a natural knowledge and appreciation of them. “We have to develop ongoing aficionados for our product,” she says, “and usually that happens through riding and lesson programs and introducing people to the Arabian horse. That’s the base of our pyramid. A certain percentage of them, as they always have, will become horse owners and showmen and breeders; that’s never been any different. The difference now is that there is no other marketplace for the horses.

“You have to look 20 years ahead, especially when you are breeding horses,” she adds. “Irresponsible breeding happens when you’re breeding for the moment, instead of for three decades ahead, which is how long these horses can live.”

Mike Miller also sees a better recognition of the various disciplines, including English pleasure, as integral to strengthening the Arabian breed worldwide. “I realize that there are lots of ways to use a horse and lots of ways to be athletic, and high trotting is not the only means of athleticism,” he says. “But at some point, we—not as ‘American breeders,’ but as ‘Arabian breeders’ as a whole— have to get back to where we embrace both athletic horses and beautiful horses, and try to put them together into one animal.” n w w w.AHTimes.com

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individual Arabian to compete successfully in several disciplines at the highest level, and breeders rarely try to accomplish their own “look� in their horses. They just try to produce horses who will win in their fields of endeavor.

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With 40 years of history, Cedar Ridge Arabians is cast in the old mode of breeding Arabians as a lifelong pursuit, but at the same time, it recognizes what is necessary to stay on top today. Owned by Dick and Lollie Ames, the farm has an impressive record. From the 455 Arabians and 193 HalfArabians bred at the picturesque facility in Jordan, Minn., more than 200 are champions, with 116 of the championships earned at the national level. Through November 2011, Ames purebreds have won 26 national championships, 32 reserve national championships and 230 top tens, while their Half-Arabians have accounted for 41 national championships, 28 reserves and 257 top tens. They have won titles in all major divisions, but particularly in the English disciplines (English pleasure, country English pleasure, park, show hack, driving, saddle seat equitation, and hunter pleasure), reining, trail, and halter.

Even a cursory list of Cedar Ridge champions summons show ring memories for nearly any enthusiast: Ames Symbolic and SG Brass Prince, early national champions by the Cedar Ridge stallion Brass; Ames Cassanova, who won national championships and reserves as an open and amateur horse in pleasure, driving and halter; Brass Star, who won his first national championship in the English Pleasure Futurity and his most recent as U.S. and Canadian National Reserve Champion in English Pleasure; Toi Jabaska, a Matoi daughter who retired in 2006 with 10 national championships earned under the Ames banner. As a broodmare, she has already produced national champions Nyte Of Temptation, Toi Money and RJ Ames, national reserve champion Prince Of Ames, and a host of national top tens. From the reign of Brass through the stewardship of Matoi, the program moves seamlessly from generation to generation. And those have been just the headline stallions; plenty of others, and countless mares whose pedigrees have fit the picture, have made their contributions.

Ask professional horsemen how one farm has developed a record like that and the replies vary. There is the choice of purebreds or Half-Arabians, the suitability for open, amateur and junior, and the range of disciplines supported. But two answers in particular emerge: the Ames family’s experience in the industry and the size of their program.

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“They know horses, first of all,” says reining trainer Crystal McNutt.

“They know it’s competitive out there, so they’re breeding great broodmares to great sires and then they’re putting them in the right hands.

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The bloodlines in their breeding program are proven. And they’re able to breed a lot of horses, which is nice, so you get a lot of chances to see what’s going to work.”

That ability to shortcut the long process of finding the best nicks by working with a sizeable number of mares a year is often cited. Cedar Ridge’s Breeding Manager Mike Brennan nods in agreement. In addition to the farm’s roster of stallions, he says, which includes Matoi and the younger A Noble Cause, the farm is able to patronize an array of others and use the best crosses.

The process supports the various divisions the Ameses breed for. “One of the things I think is important is that when they breed for English, they are breeding top English mares to top English stallions, and it’s the same with the reining and halter,” observes Andy Sellman, who specializes in halter, but appreciates performance horses as well. “They have more English breeding horses than they do halter breeding horses, but nonetheless, they have some very significant halter breeding mares. They strive always to w w w.ahtimes.com

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cross them the best that they can, and they hope to get the best foal they can for that discipline. They’re intelligent to do it that way, rather than to breed a big-time English horse to a big-time halter horse and get something in between that isn’t quite good enough for either division.”

He adds that he knows firsthand that the practice works, because he shows a prime example: Sir Marwan CRF, out of one of the farm’s top halter broodmares, Ames Mirage, who is by Brass and out of an Afire Bey V daughter. “For Ames Mirage, they chose Marwan Al Shaqab and they ended up with a really outstanding colt that has done very well,” he says. “He has some great features from Brass, who was an awesome breeding horse—he had amazing eyes and an incredible quality of neck, shoulder and poll, and Marwan also is strong in that category, so this colt is a wonderful combination of the two horses. He was U.S. National Reserve Champion 2-Year-Old Colt in a really wonderful class of colts. That was his biggest title to date, and he was only two points behind the national champion, who is a really phenomenal horse.”

English specialist Jim Stachowski recalls the Half-Arabian Brass Glamor Shot, a favorite of his from the Cedar Ridge program. “We bought him for 6D Ranch after his national championship,” he says of the gelding who was 2004 U.S. National Champion in Country English Pleasure Junior Horse and would go on to a Youth National Championship, and a U.S. National Reserve Championship and Top Ten. “He was a great show horse and a good example of their breeding program. He had the overall picture and package that I like for the show ring—he had neck, he had motion, and he had quality. And he was black, so you couldn’t miss him. We bought him because we liked him and he had a good pedigree in both the sire and dam lines.”

Most recently, Stachowski saw Prince Of Ames, a Toi Jabaska son by Baske Afire that one of his clients purchased from Cedar Ridge, collect the 2011 U.S. National Championship in Country English Pleasure AAOTR 18-35. Currently, what most intrigues him from the Cedar Ridge breeding program are the Matoi horses. “Matoi was one of the greatest park horses out there,” he says. “I will always go anywhere that there is a Matoi daughter or a Matoi Half-Arabian for sale. I’ll always look at them because not only are they good show horses, they are good breeding horses.

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Cedar Ridge raises very, very good show horses, and they’ve always had a good breeding program—they’ve always had horses that are of interest to us, especially in English pleasure and country English pleasure.”

Beyond ability in the show ring, the professionals say, the Cedar Ridge horses also are valued as good partners for amateurs and juniors. “The horses that I have picked up from them have been very trainable,” Crystal McNutt says. “I have a huge amateur and youth program, and I’ve been lucky to get some of those horses from Cedar Ridge; they’ve been a good fit for my program.”

Bob Battaglia, whose four-decade career has qualified him for the title of “dean of the Arabian English performance trainers,” sees the same ability in the English disciplines. “They have bred horses that have been great in all divisions, really,” he says. “You can’t put any limit on any of it; whatever the horses are is what they’re going to be—open, amateur, English, halter and so on.

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“When you’re breeding horses, you have to look for all of the factors,” he says. “Over the years, Cedar Ridge has consistently bred horses that are pretty, have motion, are trainable and are easy to deal with.

I think they actually have some of the best—and I’ve had enough of them to know.”

Reining trainer Tyson Randle is favorably impressed with his Cedar Ridge connection, Just N Style. “This has been the first Cedar Ridge horse that I’ve had and been able to take through a whole show season,” he says, “and I really like him.” In October, Just N Style picked up two U.S. National Championships, winning in both the Reining Futurity and Reining Junior Horses.

“Just N Style—and I have to think all the others that are bred the way I know they’re breeding—has what I look for in an Arabian reining horse, and that’s a good mind. They have to be quiet. Arabians sometimes don’t have the physical characteristics to do the reining naturally, but if they’re good-minded and quiet, they will allow me to show them how to do some of the stuff they physically maybe can’t do.”

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people to know they are Arabians. We want the phenotype—the big, dark eye, the chiseled head, the nice, laidback shoulder and short back, etc. That’s the first evaluation we do. I’ve had times I’ve called Lollie in the middle of the night and said, ‘You’ve got to come see this baby; you’ve hit a home run here!’

That knowledge, combined with his evaluation of the youngsters’ personalities, is his contribution when the time comes to select which horses move on to the training barn at age 3. “That’s where I can say, ‘Don’t let that one fool you. When you get that one in to work with him, he’ll be a whole different horse.’”

Randle, who knows his way around the Arabian reining scene, says that the majority of his expertise is with Half-Arabians, where his background in Quarter Horses is valuable. There, he’s impressed with the quality of the Quarter Horse stallions chosen for the Arabian mares in the Cedar Ridge breeding program.

“They’ve been breeding to a handful of horses I really like,” he says. “I would like those bloodlines in any pedigree.”

Bottom line, “It’s a program that does a good job,” Randle says. “If I have a client in the reining program that says ‘let’s go find one,’ Cedar Ridge will be one of my first phone calls.”

So, how does Cedar Ridge turn out horses that attract support in so many areas of the show ring? Dick and Lollie Ames are handson, but there is a strong team in place.

Breeding decisions are usually made by members of the Ames family in consultation with the farm’s trainers and input from breeding manager of 10 years, Mike Brennan. Brennan is the one most acquainted with the stallions, mares and foals on a day-today basis and can furnish background on temperament and early glimpses of physical ability. A good reflection of the Cedar Ridge outlook, he is personally involved with the horses and clearly fond of them personally, but he keeps in mind that the farm’s overall mission is business, and his foremost pursuit every day is equine health care.

When the foals arrive, he provides not only care, but the start of ongoing assessment. “We are continually evaluating the offspring up until they’re coming to be 3 year olds,” he says, “and we cull the herd along the way. In performance, our primary division is English, but there is nothing wrong with that good western horse or hunt horse, so we’ll market them.”

He is particularly useful in monitoring the youngsters. “Some of them just sell you on their personality from the day they are born,” he says, and he ticks through some of their priorities. “We want

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One of the dangers of a breeding program with Cedar Ridge’s standing is that often it is subject to stereotypes. Primarily performance, and no place to go for halter? Hardly. The list of halter champions at all levels of the show ring has been consistently high in the program for years—perhaps surprisingly so, given the farm’s reputation for English power. All English and no western? The reining trainers especially would beg to differ. And how about price tags—given the number of national champions, too high for the rank-and-file?

“They have a lot of high-powered horses, but don’t be afraid to go there and look for your amateur,” says Crystal McNutt. “Not everyone is going to buy a $100,000 yearling. They will have those, but you can also shop there and feel comfortable not being overwhelmed with prices and things that you can’t even touch.

They’re making really nice horses, good-minded and athletic.”

“The Ameses are thought of or stereotyped as performance people,” says Andy Sellman. “They have great passion for performance horses. (I actually do, too.) They love English horses and have some phenomenal ones, but they also love halter and love reining and love western—they love all things Arabian. If halter people don’t go by and see what they’re doing, I think they would be missing an opportunity.”

Halter showman David Boggs, who has observed the Cedar Ridge breeding program since its early days, sees the broad context when considering Cedar Ridge’s role in the industry. “Living the dream— and making it possible for so many others,” he says. “The Ames family and Cedar Ridge are an amazingly tireless and dedicated family that not only have reached the pinnacle of success in our breed, but have brought many others along that journey with them. From my childhood days as a boy in love with Arabian horses, I watched and listened as Dick Ames, my father and fellow Minnesota breeders formed and established the Minnesota Breeders Association and at the same time laid the foundation for the future and direction of our breed.”

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Afire Inmy Eyes Afire Bey V x Angyl Eyes

Ames Fire Devil Brass x Afire Inmy Eyes

G Kallora El Ghazi x Kajora

2011 Colt Brass x Afire Inmy Eyes

Like many others who have known the Ameses over the past 40 years, Boggs has a hard time differentiating between the family’s commitment to the breed and the enterprise that is Cedar Ridge.

“The Ameses’ contributions to the horse, and to young people in every aspect of life whether it be horses, sports, business or simply much needed advice in achieving life’s goals have been an inspiration for all of us to emulate,” he says. “Quite simply, they are the best!”

“They always were my friends,” says Andy Sellman simply. He began showing for them at the Minnesota Fall Festival when he was 12, spent summers working there while in college, trained for them, and handled their horses even after he’d moved on to develop his career. Their devotion to Arabians, he reflects, is indicative of their character. “One of the things that stands out to me is that they have remained very committed to me and our friendship. They’ve been committed to their breeding program too and remained loyal to that. They’ve had the means to go out and buy whatever is hot, but rather than do that, they have stuck with their roots. They would much prefer to breed a champion than to go out and buy one, and that’s something I have great respect for.”

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Ames Jasmine DS Major Afire x G Kallora

Ames Lora Afire Bey V x G Kallora

Michael Byatt reaches much of the same conclusion, but arrives from the other end of the time spectrum. “I didn’t know them that well until this week,” he says, having just spent several days with the family at the Salon du Cheval. Before that, he says, he had known them “only in the peripheral way you know people at horse shows.” “Listening to them talk about their experience in Arabian horses really was such an enlightening thing about the Ameses. It’s not only their patience in breeding horses, but they have great taste, they have a vision of what they want to do, they are aesthetics people, and they have the desire to create an athletic horse. The whole family rides and the fact that they are in tune with beauty, I think, has made them really interesting breeders.

“It’s wonderful that they could afford it, that they had the patience, that they had the desire and the taste, because through that, they were able to create their vision and bring it to where it is today. That’s been my take-away moment from the Ameses. I really appreciate their passion, their humanity and that they have dedicated resources, and more importantly, time. They’ve stuck with it and they’ve had an idea of what they wanted to do. As a result, the Ames name is significant.” ■

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Dick & Lollie Ames and Mike Brennan

The Ames Family | P.O. Box 8 | Jordan, Minnesota 55352 | Tel: 952-492-6590 info@cedarridgearabians.com | www.cedar-ridge.com

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Mystic Sands Arabians “In Pursuit Of Perfection” 2012 Sales List

Year Name

Color

Sex

Sire x Dam (Dam’s Sire x Dam)

Price

2006

MS Truly Fair Sells with a breeding to Vitorio TO

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Mare

Magnum Psyche x Tomorrows Dream (*Aladdinn x Basks Delight)

$20,000

2006

MS Chama In foal to Vitorio TO

Bl/Bay

Mare

MS Khampulsion x MS Casita (Barisznikov x MS Ciara)

$9,500

2007

MS Kharumba In foal to Vitorio TO

Bay

Mare

Magnum Chall HVP x MS Khandi (Barisznikov x MS Kalie)

$10,500

2005

MS Tamara Sells with a breeding to Vitorio TO

Bay

Mare

Barisznikov x MS Tess (Monopolii x Tomorrows Dream)

$5,500

2005

MS Delite Sells with a breeding to Vitorio TO

Bay

Mare

MS Firedevil x MS Dachia (Barisznikov x Dream Dancer)

$5,500

2005

MS Serenitie Sells with a breeding to Vitorio TO

Bay

Mare

MS Firedevil x MS Siesta (MS Santana x MS Safari)

$5,500

2005

MS Bianka Sells with a breeding to Vitorio TO

Bay

Mare

Barisznikov x MS Balinta (*Bask x Bandy)

$5,500

2005

MS Bahemia Sells with a breeding to Vitorio TO

Ch

Mare

MS Santana x MS Bahia (*Bask x Bandy)

$5,500

2004

MS Demie In foal to Ali El Din - Full brother to Ali Jamaal

Bay

Mare

MS Firedevil x MS Dachia (Barisznikov x Dream Dancer)

$3,500 $5,500

Mare

MS Brocado x E W Salsa (*Essaul x EW Sabaska) MS Khampulsion x MS Exclusive (Barisznikov x Excelsjia)

$6,500

MS Khampulsion x MS Casita (Barisznikov x MS Ciara)

$6,500

2001

MS Sahara Sells with a breeding to Vitorio TO

Bay

2010

MS Exceptional

Bay

Mare

2010

MS Celeyne

Bay

Mare

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MS Kharumba

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A m A g A z i n e F o r T H e A g e s From 1970 until present day, Arabian Horse Times has steadily emerged into the world’s most highly respected, widely circulated Arabian horse magazine. The glossy magazine attracts advertisers from six of the world’s seven continents, and what came to be the finest editorial team in the business supports readers’ interests with articles and special features that educate, inform, and entertain Arabian Horse Times fans everywhere. Today, the magazine is circulated in more than 60 countries.

Cedar Ridge Arabians in Jordan, Minn., near Minneapolis, is a faithful advertiser and supporter of longstanding. Dick and Lollie Ames with daughter Lara, who own Cedar Ridge, have been relying on the Arabian Horse Times since its beginning. Over the years, the Cedar Ridge breeding program and resulting show string grew the farm into the industry leadership role it has long occupied. An able, experienced businesswoman, she manages Cedar Ridge’s increasingly complex Arabian horse operation, but longed to expand her horizons. Owning and managing an Arabian horse magazine appealed to her Arabian horse-loving businesswoman’s every instinct.

Research into every aspect of the magazine’s history gave Lara, a wellinformed, realistic insight into its growth, success and strong economic potential. With her family’s full support, she purchased Arabian Horse Times from then owner Walter Mishek. Over three years later, the magazine continues to fulfill her expectations. Arabian Horse Times has evolved into the unimpeachable resource its sales, editorial and production staff, and its new management, always knew it could be.

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If you knew the Arabian industry in 1970, you have to stretch your imagination to transform it into 2012. Owning, breeding and showing Arabian horses in the United States shifted into high gear after World War II, but it can safely be said that the breed’s highs, lows and headlines occurred mostly after 1970, when Arabian Horse Times was founded.

Arabian Horse Times didn’t cause all that action, but it did happen to be on the scene right when the Arabian horse in the United States went from boutique hobby to multi-milliondollar equine business.

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Part of the story is in the numbers. By 1970, there were approximately 61,000 Arabians registered in the U.S. Two years later, that figure had hit 100,000, and by 1980 it had doubled. Eight years later, it had doubled again, with 400,000 Arabians registered in the U.S. since the Registry was founded (as the Arabian Horse Club of America) in 1908.

And the human side of the equation? In 1970, the International Arabian Horse Association, forerunner to AHA, was made up of 15,000 members, most of them belonging to one of 102 member organizations.

IAHA reported income of $600,000, and employed a staff of 15. By the late 1990s, its constituency had risen to 24,000, in more than 175 organizations. At the end of 2011, AHA’s membership numbers are more than 27,000 and lists a staff of more than 40.

Gene LaCroix riding *Bask.

An Arabian horse owner in 1970 surveyed an industry that was very different from today. The U.S. Nationals was just 12 years old, and included stallion, mare, and gelding halter, along with English pleasure, western pleasure, park, pleasure driving, formal driving, combination, stock horse, native costume and amateur competition in park and western pleasure. If you wanted to show a Half-Arabian, though, you had to wait another year; the first five classes for Half-Arabians were added in 1971.

Some of today’s most popular divisions were just good ideas in the early 1970s. Hunter pleasure, for instance, made the cut in 1976 and dressage in 1979. And there were no “junior champion” stallion and mare halter classes; in the 1970s and 1980s, it was more relevant to consider the outsized entry lists and how many cuts one had to work through to reach the halter finals. If amateurs wanted to show in halter, they had to face the professionals, because the amateur halter division was still just a gleam in someone’s eye and would be for years. In performance, amateur classes proliferated through the divisions as the 1970s went on, and if you were a juvenile rider, that is where you showed too, because there were no junior exhibitor classes in the beginning. Western pleasure, for example, didn’t feature them until 1980. The Youth Nationals did not make the calendar until 1993.

Not surprisingly, the successful show horses were different back then as well. Crabbet-based “domestic” Arabians were by far the most numerous in competition, but the imports of the 1950s and 1960s were coming on strong. *Bask had accomplished his national championships in stallion halter and park in the mid-1960s, and at the opening of the 1970s, his get were beginning their phenomenal sweep of the w w w.ahtimes.com

Howard Kale Jr. and *Muscat.

Khemosabi and Dr. Burt Husband.

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Dr. Eugene LaCroix with actress Elizabeth Taylor.

Entertainer and Arabian horse breeder Wayne Newton with actress Brooke Shields.

show ring. Accompanying the success of the *Bask sons and daughters was the rise of Lasma Arabians; while other breeding programs may have ultimately had more impact on the breed, no other has enjoyed the show ring dominance of Lasma. So prolific were its titles that in 1970 at the U.S. National Championships, the tricolors decorating Lasma’s stalls included those for the national champion mare and her reserve, the reserve national champion stallion, the English pleasure national champion and reserve, the park champion, and the reserve champion in pleasure driving horse. Five years later, the farm accounted for four out of the five major U.S. National Championship titles—stallions, mares, English pleasure, and park. Only western pleasure, which went to Khemosabi that year, eluded it. Such occurrences were not uncommon throughout the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s.

The trainers of that era also were required to be adept at a variety of skills. They were expected to school in all disciplines, and appeared in both halter and performance.

The LaCroix brothers, Bob Battaglia, Bob Hart Sr., Stanley White Sr., Don DeLongpré, Bruce Howard, Tom McNair, Gene Reichardt and all the other big names of the day led halter horses and were front-and-center in English, western and driving.

It was not until the late 1970s/ early 1980s, and the advent of

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Arabian horse lover and actor, the late Patrick Swayze.

two blonde halter handlers from Minnesota—David and Bob Boggs—that the trend toward specialization for trainers began. Over the years, with the escalating level of equine talent, the horses began focusing on specific competitions as well. Before that, it was not unusual to see one horse win national championships both in halter and performance.

Another development in recent decades has been the explosive growth of Arabian racing in the U.S. It had been expanding steadily since 1959, largely due to the efforts of owner/breeder Dr. Sam Harrison, but the decade of the 1980s saw it take off, and it has continued to develop ever since. In 1987, the Arabian Jockey Club was chartered, and that same year, the first Darley Awards for Arabian racing excellence were presented. For years, Wall Street personality Louis Rukeyser lent his caché to the sport as emcee of its gala awards dinner.

Across the board starting in 1970 to now, there has been multiple changes in pricing, sales, training methods, rules, judging, pedigrees, and conformation. And the Arabian breed has continued to evolve.

Now, in the 21st century, there is more change to come.

The only certainty is that the breed will continue to attract a significant number of its owners through sheer devotion to the Arabian horse.

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T h e e v o l u T i o n o f A M A g A z i n e When Arabian Horse Times began, it was—in a word— primitive. The sophisticated art design that characterizes it today was still in its future, and there was limited editorial.

It began life as erratic type on flimsy newsprint paper, and was focused on advertising (its name, for the first month, was Arabian Horse Advertiser).

“Every ad was drawn by hand with pen and pencil,” recalled AHT’s first employee, former Gainey trainer Wayne Thompson, in a 2000 interview. “Owner Walter Mishek and I sized every picture and made the headlines out … and I’m a one-finger typist.”

“For the headlines, we started out with a little strip printer,” Mishek added. “That was a little box that you would put a piece of film in with your type, get it centered for the letter— say, ‘A’—and then pull it back to where the ‘L’ was and center that, then expose it. You did that for each one of the letters until you got the headline set, and then you would have to put it in the developer, time it, put it in the fixer, then in water— and then pray it didn’t turn out black so you didn’t have to start all over.” To say that it was time-consuming doesn’t begin to cover the story.

As the magazine grew through the 1970s and 1980s, it steadily improved its graphics capabilities and invested in the acquisition of state-of-the-art technology. But the mechanics of its assembly, while far advanced from those early days, remained complicated and labor intensive. Then, as the 20th century was drawing to a close, the whole process changed seemingly overnight. Suddenly, instead of rooms of equipment, a designer needed only the computer on his or her desk. Separations were a thing of the past, as digital images, delivered from photographers via email rather than FedEx®, dropped neatly into the artists’ designs. At the stroke of a key, pictures and copy could be moved from here to there, sized up or down, and faded, or intensified to achieve optimum effect. And when everything was finalized, forms were shot off to printers over the internet; it was no longer necessary to patronize a printer within driving distance. The net result?

It made everything easier, but it also increased the work load exponentially. More time? More can get done.

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July 1970 - first issue of the Arabian Horse Advertiser.

February 1972 - Arabian Horse Times color cover featuring Hi Fashion Imperial.

1974 - Arabian Horse Times publishes the first “theme” issue — Ferzon.

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Magazines—all magazines—reflect the cultural, social and economic climates that surround them.

They come and go as tastes and interests change, making timing an important key to success and longevity. In 1970, when Arabian Horse Times debuted, it reflected a strong re-focusing on spending the discretionary dollar. The American public’s interest in Arabian horses was growing, often to the degree that people were making changes in their lives around their passion, the Arabian horse.

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As founder Walter Mishek saw things, the new magazine would fill a definite need. It would offer readers an accessible, down-to-earth approach to the breed he loved. Arabian horse enthusiasts of all ages and economic circumstances embraced the magazine immediately.

Arabian Horse Times readership ranged from highly placed professional trainers and their staffs, and breeders

I n d e x A Al Shahania Stud ..............................38, 39 Arabian Horse Times Subscriptions ....96, 97 Argent Farms ....................................... 2, 3 Armstrong Arabians ..........................52-55 Avalon Crest Arabians ......................... 100 B Bisch Training LLC ............................... 80 C Cedar Ridge Arabians .......................81-88 Conway Arabians ..............................72, 73 D Dakar Kartel LLC.............................78, 79 Dazzo Arabians LLC ............................. 80 Deor Farms .......................................64, 65 DST Arabians ...................................50, 51 Dune Drift Arabians .........................40, 41 F Fazenda Floresta, LLC ...................FC, 6-9 G Gallún Farms Inc...............................36-39 Gemini Acres Equine.................. 112, IBC Guzzo/RiveroArabians Worldwide, LLC ...............................6-9

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and exhibitors of every magnitude, to backyard amateur and youth riders avid to learn more about the horse that so beguiled them.

As breakthroughs in every facet of life snowball past us, faster and faster, we recognize that the impossible has been accomplished so often, in virtually every area of life, that we have lost count. One resource has remained constant, however, attuned to readers’ every need. Arabian Horse Times magazine continues to inform, educate, entertain, and, sometimes, inspire its readership with a degree of excellence that resonates faithfully. n

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R Rae-Dawn Arabians ............................... 10 Reilich, Bill & Shirley .......................76, 77 Robin Hood Farms ...........................42, 43 Rohara Arabians ................................11-15 Rooker Training Stable .....................74, 75 Royal Arabians ..................................57-61 Royal Bloodstock Arabians ...............28, 29 S Scheier Farms ....................................98, 99 Schneiders ............................................ 111 Strawberry Banks Farm .......................... 71 T Ted Carson @ Butler Farms Training Center, Inc. ...................98-100 Terry Holmes Arabian Corp. ................. 54 V Varian Arabians .................................62, 63 W Wunderbar Arabians .....................101-103 www.AHTimes.com............................... 89 Z Zerlotti Equine Reproduction Ltd....92, 93

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