Stallion German Licensing Show THE YEAR 2009 MARKED A MAJOR CHANGE in the method of stallion registration in Germany; by no means the first, but the first for very many years. Ever since state licensing was abolished, there have been ongoing discussions about how to select and recommend the best stallions for breeding, and after a couple of false starts, the gold, silver, and white ribbon system established itself and the annual stallion registration show at Aachen became a must-attend event on the Arabian horse calendar. But not everyone was happy with this system. Some wanted to bring back licensing, while others wanted to go even further and dispense with any kind of evaluation system. Many stallion owners just wanted their horse registered so his foals would get papers, and didn’t care about ribbons one way or the other (or knew very well they’d never get one in any case). So finally, by membership vote, it was decided to decentralize the event. The decision was controversial, as it meant that for the first time in many years, breeders would not be able to see all newly registered stallions in one place. The importance of this was shown by the fact that this was always the one event in the year that everyone attended, small breeders as well as large ones; this show actually attracted more German breeders than a major ECAHO show, even the All Nations Cup. The stallion show was a must, from any serious breeder’s point of view, whether you were interested in showing or not, because this was where you see the development in breeding. However, there is no doubt that it also put a strain on many smaller breeders to have to haul their horses all the way to Aachen just to get them registered, even if they weren’t interested in having them graded and possibly getting a ribbon (the equivalent of what used to be licensing). It was also a fact that the huge number of stallions coming to the annual show was often too much to deal with properly in just two days, even if it wasn’t always
October 17-18, 2009 Aachen, Germany Story by Betty Finke Photos by Erwin Escher
Top: Four-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner and Champion Stallion TAYMAR (Kyro KA x Tamara IV), bred and owned by Sax Arabians. Bottom: Two-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner MURANAS JASSEHR (Major x Jana El Bri), bred and owned by Michaela Weidner.
as bad as that one infamous year when the judging on the first day continued until well after 11 p.m.! So in 2009, for the first time there were regional stallion registration shows throughout Germany during the course of the year. At these regional shows, anyone
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Stallion German Licensing Show the yeaR 2009 MaRKed a MaJoR chanGe in the method of stallion registration in Germany; by no means the first, but the first for very many years. Ever since state licensing was abolished, there have been ongoing discussions about how to select and recommend the best stallions for breeding, and after a couple of false starts, the gold, silver, and white ribbon system established itself and the annual stallion registration show at Aachen became a must-attend event on the Arabian horse calendar. But not everyone was happy with this system. Some wanted to bring back licensing, while others wanted to go even further and dispense with any kind of evaluation system. Many stallion owners just wanted their horse registered so his foals would get papers, and didn’t care about ribbons one way or the other (or knew very well they’d never get one in any case). So finally, by membership vote, it was decided to decentralize the event. The decision was controversial, as it meant that for the first time in many years, breeders would not be able to see all newly registered stallions in one place. The importance of this was shown by the fact that this was always the one event in the year that everyone attended, small breeders as well as large ones; this show actually attracted more German breeders than a major ECAHO show, even the All Nations Cup. The stallion show was a must, from any serious breeder’s point of view, whether you were interested in showing or not, because this was where you see the development in breeding. However, there is no doubt that it also put a strain on many smaller breeders to have to haul their horses all the way to Aachen just to get them registered, even if they weren’t interested in having them graded and possibly getting a ribbon (the equivalent of what used to be licensing). It was also a fact that the huge number of stallions coming to the annual show was often too much to deal with properly in just two days, even if it wasn’t always
October 17-18, 2009 Aachen, Germany Story by Betty Finke Photos by Erwin Escher
Top: Four-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner and champion Stallion tayMaR (Kyro KA x Tamara IV), bred and owned by Sax Arabians. Bottom: Two-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner MuRanaS JaSSehR (Major x Jana El Bri), bred and owned by Michaela Weidner.
as bad as that one infamous year when the judging on the first day continued until well after 11 p.m.! So in 2009, for the first time there were regional stallion registration shows throughout Germany during the course of the year. At these regional shows, anyone
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Top: Two-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner JaiPuR (WH Justice x Exotic Pure), bred by Osterhof Stud, owned by Cafra Arabians.
Top: Two-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner JuManci oS (Ajman Moniscione x Praetoria), bred and owned by Osterhof Stud.
Bottom: Two-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner GazWan aL naSSeR (Gazal Al Shaqab x Ftoon Al Shaqab), bred by Sheikh Nawaf bin Nasser Al Thani, owned by Ismer Stud.
Bottom: Three-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner aLtiS (WH Justice x Albia), bred by Krzysztof Gozdzialski, owned by Ismer Stud and Turban Stud.
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could bring their stallion just for registration, but also for evaluation with a view to getting a ribbon at Aachen. Because the new system didn’t mean that the central stallion show was canceled; merely that it was slimmed down, ideally to include just the better horses that had received a recommendation at the regional registrations. There was quite a bit of apprehension as to how many stallions would actually come to Aachen, and if it would be worth running a central grading show at all. They needn’t have worried. The regional preselection actually did exactly what it was supposed to do. The number of stallions that came to Aachen was down to a manageable forty-something, and with the decrease in numbers came a dramatic increase in overall quality, reflected in a record number of eight gold ribbons, plus another three premium stallions in the licensing group — that’s 25 percent premium stallions. And yes, there
Champion: Taymar (Kyro KA x Tamara IV), 2005 grey; bred and owned by Sax Arabians Muranas Jassehr (Major x Jana El Bri), 2007 grey; bred and owned by Michaela Weidner Jaipur (WH Justice x Exotic Pure), 2007 bay; breeder: Osterhof Stud; owner: Cafra Arabians Gazwan Al Nasser (Gazal Al Shaqab x Ftoon Al Shaqab), 2007 bay; breeder: Sheikh Nawaf bin Nasser Al Thani; owner: Ismer Stud Jumanci OS (Ajman Moniscione x Praetoria), 2007 chestnut; bred and owned by Osterhof Stud Altis (WH Justice x Albia), 2006 grey; breeder: Krzysztof Gozdzialski; owners: Ismer Stud and Turban Stud Mahmudi (Maysoun x Mahdeenah), 2000 grey; bred and owned by Manuela Schmidtchen Authentic Dahman (Maysoun x Classic Dahra), 2000 grey; breeder: Rosemarie Kolster (lessee); owner: Sheikh Abdullah bin Khaled bin Hamad Al Thani
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Nine-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner Mahmudi (Maysoun x Mahdeenah), bred and owned by Manuela Schmidtchen.
Nine-Year-Old Gold Ribbon winner Authentic Dahman (Maysoun x Classic Dahra), bred by Rosemarie Kolster (lessee), owned by Sheikh Abdullah bin Khaled bin Hamad Al Thani.
is a licensing again, even if it isn’t the obligatory state licensing of previous years. If you want to use your purebred stallion for breeding Anglo-Arabians, Shagya-Arabians, or Half-Arabians, he needs to be licensed and performance-tested in any case, but anyone who wants to can enter his stallion for licensing. Again, the recommendations were given at the regional events. The amazing thing this year was that of the 10 stallions up for licensing, which included seven purebreds, all were licensed, with three purebreds and the only partbred stallion, a Trakehner, being awarded premium status. That’s an unheard-of 100 percent licensing result. For the registration show, 31 purebred stallions had come to Aachen, including four horses that came just for registration, because for some reason or other they had not been able to make it to the regional events. Of the remaining 27, only seven actually had a recommendation, but the remainder included a number of successful show horses. Another four stallions went home without a ribbon, including two of the recommended ones, showing that a recommendation doesn’t go along with a success guarantee. Of the final 23 contestants, 8 went home with gold, 7 with silver, and 8 with white ribbons. Incidentally, it is sometimes possible to “upgrade” from white to silver at a later date; in fact, one of the silver ribbons this time already had a white ribbon from a previous occasion. The winner of the registration show was both one of the recommended horses and a show champion: Reinhard Sax’s homebred Taymar, a four-year-old son of the U.S.-bred straight Egyptian Kyro KA out of the straight Russian Tamara IV. Tamara was a daughter of one of Reinhard Sax’s finest foundation mares, Takema, herself a show champion and recently deceased at the age of 30. Taymar is actually quite small but looks much bigger, as he
Six-Year-Old Silver Ribbon winner Lareedoh (Laman HVP x Nika II), 2003 chestnut, bred by Petra Hammer, owned by Melanie Salmen.
Silver Prinik Kossack (Aranik Kossack x Pribaltika), 2007 grey; breeder: Kossack Stud; owner: Maria Sens Jenisseij (WH Justice x Medusa), 2006 grey; breeder: Osterhof Stud; owner: Cafra Arabians Monadeehn Kahir (Messaoud x Mouhannas Merlina Monisa), 2006 grey; bred and owned by Birgit Lohrke GT El Shala Halim (Saban x Kartagena), 2006 bay; breeder: Nadine Ronge; owner: Ursula-Sybille MarkertBäumer DF Samid (Simeon Sadik x Sanaa Bint Shahlia), 2005 black; bred and owned by Birkhof Stud Emotion (Eternity Ibn Navarrone-D x Praetoria), 2005 grey; bred and owned by Osterhof Stud Lareedoh (Laman HVP x Nika II), 2003 chestnut; breeder: Petra Hammer; owner: Melanie Salmen
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Top: Four-Year-Old Silver Ribbon winner eMotion (Eternity Ibn Navarrone-D x Praetoria), bred and owned by Osterhof Stud.
Top: Four-Year-Old Silver Ribbon winner dF SaMid (Simeon Sadik x Sanaa Bint Shahlia), bred and owned by Birkhof Stud.
Bottom: Four-Year-Old Silver Ribbon winner JeniSSeiJ (WH Justice x Medusa), bred by Osterhof Stud, owned by Cafra Arabians.
Bottom: Three-Year-Old Silver Ribbon winner Gt eL ShaLa haLiM (Saban x Kartagena), bred by Nadine Ronge, owned by Ursula-Sybille Markert-Bäumer.
WHiTe El Ninjo (Emiliusz x Claudiaa), 2007 grey; breeder: James Swaenepoel; owner: Britta Ahlers PA Hamid Al Badi (Shah Al Badi x PA Hasna Hafida I. Madheen), 2007 grey; breeder: Manuela Schroer; owner: Britta Ahlers Al Kharim Al Azim (Kudaira Nuri Ibn Salaam x Allat El Gaschya), 2006 black; bred and owned by Doris Melzer Nedschd Amir Ibn Montasar (Montasar x Nejdeya Bint Amouna), 2006 grey; bred and owned by Gabriele Schuster Shaimoniet, (SW Hallany Shai x Alita Moniet), 2005 black; bred by Karen Lynn Franzen; owner: Manuela Schroer El Thay Kalil (El Thay Mashour x Kamla II), 2005 grey; breeder: C. Tauschke; owners: C. Spineti and T. Lind Noir Khazar (Madallan-Madheen x Khazarah), 2004 bay; bred and owned by Hans Zeiss Medos (El Thay Khemal Pasha x El Thay Medea), 1997 grey; breeder: C. Tauschke; owner: Manfred Schellhammer
has a large frame and a long neck, plus good bone. Unlike some successful show horses, he would probably look good under saddle as well. Incidentally, the four- and five-yearold sections are the most notoriously hard ones to get gold ribbons in, or any ribbons at all — I don’t believe a fouryear-old ever won the show before. The two-year-old class, on the other hand, is traditionally the class with the highest percentage of gold ribbons, and 2009 was no exception with 4 out of 6 colts receiving top honors. This began right away with the first entry, Muranas Jassehr, who despite being the youngest horse in the show boasts one of the most impressive show records. Bred and owned by Michaela Weidner of Murana Stud, he is sired by Major, himself a premium stallion and an international show winner but, strangely, not a stallion that has been used much by breeders. Jassehr is one of just three Major sons to date, all of which have done well at the shows. Major’s pedigree is a mix of predominantly Egyptian plus Russian and old Weil bloodlines; nowadays, 5 b ARABIAN HORSE WORLD b JANUARY 2010
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Three-Year-Old Silver Ribbon winner Monadeehn Kahir (Messaoud x Mouhannas Merlina Monisa), bred and owned by Birgit Lohrke.
Five-Year-Old White Ribbon winner Noir Khazar (Madallan-Madheen x Khazarah), bred and owned by Hans Zeiss.
Four-Year-Old White Ribbon winner El Thay Kalil (El Thay Mashour x Kamla II), bred by C. Tauschke, owned by C. Spineti and T. Lind.
Two-Year-Old Silver Ribbon winner Prinik Kossack (Aranik Kossack x Pribaltika), bred by Kossack Stud owned by Maria Sens.
with the most popular sires being of mixed bloodlines, you wouldn’t expect that to put off anyone, but many German breeders still prefer straight Egyptians. Overall, straight Egyptian lines still make up the majority of all stallions coming up for registration. In 2009 however, there was not one straight Egyptian among the two-year-olds, which is unusual and may well be a sign of the times. The two-year-old gold winners were certainly a highly variable group, having not much in common besides meriting gold ribbons. Cafra Arabians’ Jaipur (WH Justice x Exotic Pure) was actually the tallest horse in the show with an impressive 15.3 hh, but still clearly far from mature. He is also quite untypical of WH Justice’s foals, which seems to go along with his being bay; Justice’s greys and chestnuts appear to run toward a certain recognizable type, but the bays are totally different and also much rarer. Jaipur’s dam Exotic Pure is a double Kubinec granddaughter with a Spanish dam line, so again this is an interesting mix. The remaining two “golden boys” were a lot smaller, in the case of Gazwan Al Nasser just around 14.2 hh, but well-balanced and again with enough frame and substance to not actually look small. Gazwan Al Nasser was bred in Qatar and represents that country’s most successful lines, being by Gazal Al Shaqab out of Ftoon Al Shaqab by Al Adeed Al Shaqab. A small, refined bay horse with an exquisite head, he has also been shown successfully and is now at the Ismer Stud. Last but not least, was another big-looking small horse, Jumanci OS, by WH Justice’s oldest son Ajman Moniscione out of Praetoria, a straight Russian mare by Kubinec. Bred and owned by Osterhof Stud, he reflects his sire’s double Padron breeding and has also done very well at the shows since he was a yearling. Praetoria, one of Osterhof ’s best producing mares, had another son at this show, the four-year-old grey Emotion, by Eternity Ibn
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Four-Year-Old White Ribbon winner ShaiMoniet, (SW Hallany Shai x Alita Moniet), bred by Karen Lynn Franzen; owned by Manuela Schroer.
Three-Year-Old White Ribbon winner aL KhaRiM aL aziM (Kudaira Nuri Ibn Salaam x Allat El Gaschya), bred and owned by Doris Melzer.
Three-Year-Old White Ribbon winner nedSchd aMiR iBn MontaSaR (Montasar x Nejdeya Bint Amouna), bred and owned by Gabriele Schuster.
Two-Year-Old White Ribbon winner MedoS (El Thay Khemal Pasha x El Thay Medea), bred by C. Tauschke, owned by Manfred Schellhammer.
Navarrone-D, who went home with a silver ribbon. Only one three-year-old received a gold ribbon, and he was definitely one of the stars of the show. Altis, bred by Krzysztof Gozdzialski in Poland, is surely one of the most beautiful WH Justice sons anywhere, with a stunning head with really enormous eyes, plus a spectacular trot courtesy of his Polish dam. He has already sired a very exciting first foal crop at the Ismer Stud, which now owns him together with Turban Stud in Denmark, where he spent the 2009 breeding season. The two remaining gold ribbons went to older stallions that have a lot in common: both are grey, straight Egyptian, nine years old, and sired by the Ansata Halim Shah son Maysoun. Mahmudi, bred and owned by Manuela Schmidtchen, is already licensed with the ZSAA as well as successfully performance-tested. He is out of the Ansata Amir Zaman daughter Mahdeenah, a beautiful show-winning mare who has produced several registered stallions. Authentic Dahman, out of the Alidaar daughter Classic Dahra, is owned by Sheikh Abdullah bin Khaled bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar and is currently back on lease with his breeder, Rosemarie Kolster. He was one of the typiest stallions at the show, and he has already sired winning get. If there was a most successful exhibitor at this show, it was definitely Dr. Nils Ismer. Besides getting gold ribbons for both his newly imported stallions, Gazwan Al Nasser and Altis, he also presented his homebred two-year-old
Two-Year-Old White Ribbon winner eL ninJo (Emiliusz x Claudiaa), bred by James Swaenepoel, owned by Britta Ahlers.
Two-Year-Old White Ribbon winner Pa haMid aL Badi (Shah Al Badi x PA Hasna HaďŹ da I. Madheen), bred by Manuela Schroer, owned by Britta Ahlers.
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Two-Year-Old Premium Champion IS Euron (Fernando x Evita II), bred and owned by Ismer Stud.
Three-Year-Old Premium winner El Mariachi (Excalibur x Sharima III), bred and owned by Nadja Brennicke.
The question of stallion selection is certain to become an even bigger issue in the near future, now that a genetic test for CA is available as well for SCID, and several hugely popular sires are turning out to be carriers. This is an important subject that will have to be dealt with carefully, sensitively as well as sensibly, and, most of all, openly. Breeding Arabian horses is a matter that requires great responsibility, now more than ever.
Eight-Year-Old Premium winner Mythos (Marwan I x Isy), bred by Jean-Francois Marsot and owned by Jan Calis.
IS Euron for licensing. Another superb colt, another premium — and he was the overall licensing winner, beating not only the older purebred stallions but the Shagya, Anglo and partbred entries as well. Euron is three- quarters Polish and one-quarter Egyptian, one of the few get of the sadly deceased Monogramm son Fernando. His dam is the homebred Evita II, by Siam, also Ismer-bred, out of the imported Probat daughter Elwanga. He takes strongly after his dam, being a well-balanced bay with superb movements, a fairly straight face, but refined and with beautiful eyes. The Ismer Stud is one of the oldest in the country, having celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, as well as the biggest; what a great way to end the anniversary year. By contrast, another premium stallion came from a new and very small breeder. German TV and film actress Nadeshda Brennicke has a passion for Arabian horses and had brought her first homebred colt for licensing. This was the three-year-old El Mariachi, a very typey dark brown colt by Excalibur, a grandson of Padrons Psyche and NV Beau Bey, out of a mare of American and Old German breeding. The final premium winner was something completely different: Mythos, one of the most successful German Arabian racehorses of all time. Being half French, by the Manganate son Marwan I, he is of course not a model of exotic Arabian show type, but still a handsome horse and with the sort of conformation you don’t see very often, especially with tremendous hindquarters — you can see where that racing power comes from. He is very interestingly bred on his dam’s side. His dam, Isy, was bred in Portugal by a stallion of Spanish bloodlines out of a German dam, who is a daughter of El Shaklan tracing back to the old Weil family of Murana in tail female line. This is a winning combination, as Mythos’s full brother Mefisto was also a very successful racehorse. He was also entered for the show, but unfortunately didn’t come. All in all, the results were more diverse than in previous years, taking into account that there are different types of Arabian horses
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Approved licensed Twelve- Year-Old zid iBn eL zahiM (El Zahim x Orena), bred by Walter Lucksch, owned by Dr. Martin Pauli.
Approved licensed Seven- Year-Old Riad eL hiGhLiGht (Fakt x Riad Hasna), bred by Marigret Klein, owned by Anneliese Schubeus.
Approved licensed Seven- Year-Old eStoPaL eStoPa (Espano Estopa x Kartagena), bred by Nadine Ronge, owned by Ursula-Sybille Markert-B채umer.
Approved licensed Four- Year-Old eh zyRano de BeyGeRac (Bey Shy x Zalotnica), bred and owned by Caroline B채r.
suitable for different purposes, and all have their justification. All too often, the impression has been that only horses of show type are eligible for premium status; in other years, it would have been unthinkable to have a racehorse of French descent and type among the premium stallions. The results, especially in the licensing group, for once took into account that some of these horses, while they may have their faults and/or would never win a prize at a show, have impeccable performance credentials. This is undeniably important, especially in a time when show types dominate the scene. Beauty is all very well, but athletic ability is just as essential an aspect of Arabian horse breeding and must not be neglected. The question of stallion selection is certain to become an even bigger issue in the near future, now that a genetic test for CA is available as well for SCID, and several hugely popular sires are turning out to be carriers. This is an important subject that will have to be dealt with carefully, sensitively as well as sensibly, and, most of all, openly. Breeding Arabian horses is a matter that requires great responsibility, now more than ever.
liCeNSeD Premium Champion: IS Euron (Fernando x Evita II), 2007 chestnut; bred and owned by Ismer Stud Premium: El Mariachi (Excalibur x Sharima III), 2006 black; bred and owned by Nadja Brennicke EH Zyrano De Beygerac (Bey Shy x Zalotnica), 2005 bay; bred and owned by Caroline B채r Estopal Estopa (Espano Estopa x Kartagena), 2002 grey; breeder: Nadine Ronge; owner: UrsulaSybille Markert-B채umer Riad El Highlight (Fakt x Riad Hasna), 2002 black; breeder: Marigret Klein; owner: Anneliese Schubeus Premium: Mythos (Marwan I x Isy), 2001 bay; breeder: Jean-Francois Marsot; owner: Jan Calis Zid Ibn El Zahim (El Zahim x Orena), 1997 grey breeder: Walter Lucksch; owner: Dr. Martin Pauli
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