German
National Championships
September 24, 2010 Aachen, Germany by Betty Finke Photos by Erwin and Annette Escher
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Above: Gold Champion Senior Male al milan (Al Lahab x Milina), owned by Sax Arabians, Germany Left: Silver Champion Senior Male TaYmaR (Kyro KA x Tamara IV), owned by Sax Arabians, Germany
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f this year’s German Nationals had a motto, it would have been “Justice for all.” I don’t remember another year in which the results were so thoroughly dominated by one particular sire as these were by WH Justice. He was the sire or grandsire of all but one of the class winners and all but one of the title winners in the junior categories. And no, it wasn’t because all entries were by him in the first place; there usually were one or two per class, and one of them won it. Classes were as usual small, with an average of five horses per class, which is the way it usually is. Only a few German breeders took part, in this case a total of 18 exhibitors showing 39 horses, which is not exactly representative of a country with one of the largest breeding populations in the world. Moreover, of those 39 horses, 17 alone were exhibited by Sax Arabians. Sax Arabians once again swept up the foal titles, which has become something of a tradition. Throughout the year, Sax foals have been shown at various shows in Germany, and winning, and it was usually a different lot of foals at each show. And it does seem to have been a particularly good foal crop this year. For the Nationals, the Frankfurt foal champion and reserve were back: the colt Esstaan, by homebred sire Meshan Ibn Kubinec out of Esstasha by Essteem, and the filly Justina Bint Psayada, a WH Justice daughter out of Psayada Bint Psyche. They won their titles in the same order, too, except that in this case it was Silver for Esstaan and Bronze for Justina. 234 b ARABIAN HORSE WORLD b DECEMBER 2010
The Champion title went to the one newcomer in the group, Ajmana (Ajman Moniscione x Espanna Estopa). Her sire Ajman Moniscione is to date WH Justice’s premier son and appears to be his sire’s equal in every respect. His foals look so much like Justice’s foals, it is impossible to tell which are which. Two Justice daughters stood at the top in the yearling filly class, both very similar despite having different dams. The winner was Scarlett OS (out of Shak Lavanda by ZT Shakfantasy), bred by Osterhof Stud and owned by Verena Heiss, scoring just one-third of a point more than Muranas Nasheetah (out of AM Nioba by Alishaar El Bri), bred and owned by Michaela Weidner. Nasheetah tied with another exquisite filly, Sax Arabians’ Esskhija