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Ed & Laura Friesen , home 306-220-8157 • barn 306-382-6310 • fax 306-382-8457 email: e.l.friesen@sasktel.net
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Darryl Larson
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Stuart Vesty
Cool Hand Luke (x Mariachi WA)
Jr Champion HA Gelding Scottsdale 2008
2008 Colt
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Darryl Larson
Jump Shake n Boogy WA HA Yearling Gelding (x Mariachi WA)
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Saturday August 30th ~ Sunday the 31st
Our Our gates gates will will
... and you’re invited! This will be no ordinary Open House. Pomeroy International is thrilled to be completing their new luxury equestrian estate in Grande Prairie, Canada, and we can’t wait to show it to you. Please be our special guests!
Arabians International
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Saturday August 30th Main Open House Estate Equestrian Facility Grande Prairie 10:30 AM Open barn vesty
11:00AM ~ 12 Liz Bentley Performance Clinic 12:30 Lunch 1:30 to 3:00PM Presentation of Pomeroy Arabians Show, breeding & select sale horses. 6:00PM Cocktails Dinner and Live Music Live Band ~ Deere John Sunday August 31st 11:00AM Sunday Brunch and Open Barn Private Treaty Sale Charity Auction for PARDS Ride for the Disabled For additional information contact: Philip Del Pozzo at 480.889.4750 or Jodie Surerus 780.933.0908 info@pomeroyarabians.com
Plan your travel early!
... It is a “Grande” affair you won’t want to miss! Bob Pomeroy & Carrie Langstroth Grande Prairie Facility Box 280 • Grande Prairie, AB T8V 3A4 Canada
PomeroyArabians.com
Farres SOLD
Kyro KA SOLD
Bint Maysa KA
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Famira KA SOLD
Nyara JC
Safir KA SOLD
Michael & Valerie Resch Tel: 204.373.2987 | Fax: 204.373.2203 P.O. Box 525, Emerson, Manitoba, Canada R0A 0L0 www.karijaarabians.ca
Volume 46, No 3
CAHR 50th Anniversary Commemorative Issue • Canadian Nationals Issue • August 2008
Stallion Profile: Magic Dream by Nicole Toren
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31
Michael Byatt Arabians’ Open House by Tex M. Kam
Mounted Shooting
A new sport based on an old skill by Bert Carron
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For the Love of the Horse
A Brief History of the News: One Man’s Opinion by Tex M. Kam
Wunderbar Arabians
by Christy Egan
Serenity Farms
by Christina Weese
Forever *Raffles by Jean E. Berg
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Years of Canadian Breeding Canadian Arabian Horse Registry -
Contributors & Editor’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 News and Info from CAHR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-16 Barn News & Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Message from the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Message from the Communications Director . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Index of Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89-90
Bey Ambition, owned by Murray & Shirley Popplewell of RaeDawn Arabians. Photo April Visel
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Christy Egan
Jean E. Berg
Nicole Toren
Tex M. Kam
Editor’s Notes
Howdy Folks! Dare I say it, it feels like the summer is almost over – before we know it, Nationals will be here. Pictured above are just a few of our CONTRIBUTORS for this issue. As you can imagine, taking a look at 50-plus years of history is a huge undertaking and we had quite a bit of help putting this issue together! Starting at the top left, thanks to Christy Egan for all the hard work and research she put into the Wunderbar Arabians article, as well as her advice on various photo issues. A huge thanks to Jean Berg for the incredibly meticulous research in her “Forever *Raffles” article, and also for the many, many contributions she has made to the News over the years. Whenever we needed some obscure fact checked, Jean was there to help. Thanks to Nicole Toren for the Magic Dream profile and for suggestions and research for the “50 Years” article, as well as help with various daily crises! Tex Kam contributed two articles to this issue as well as much donated photography and his encyclopedic knowledge of western Canadian breeding – all while moving his entire house- and horse-hold to a new home; the city of Edmonton decided to extend a freeway over the former Little Acre Arabians property. If you see any of these folks at Nationals, please tell them what a great job they did. We also had a lot of “unofficial” contributions from people I would like to thank: Director Ron Johnson, for compiling the list of fifty years of CAHR Presidents, Directors, and News editors, and the years they served, as well as tidbits on early CAHR history. Thanks to Frank Crooks for passing on several years of back issues of the News and a very valuable photo archive which had belonged to his father, Ted Crooks, former editor of the News. Thanks to Heather Pearson for her contributions to the “50 Years” article; there were many items she sent that we could not fit into the print edition but which will be posted on the website. Thanks to Canadian breeders Janet Oddy, Roxanne Rogers, Sylvia Lenzner, Dianne Stackhouse, and others, for taking time to send us information and photos on their horses. And finally, thanks to Hansi Heck-Melnyk for her very gracious help with the Serenity Farms article. Hansi has promised a future article for the News that goes into more detail about each of the amazing Egyptian horses that came through her quarantine, which we are very excited about! Though we hope the “50 Years” piece is comprehensive, it is by no means complete. Please feel free to write, call, or find us at Nationals with your suggestions for people and horses we may have overlooked. Updates in an Historical section will continue in the magazine and on the website as an ongoing tribute to Canadian breeding. - Christina Weese, Managing Editor
Photo: Results
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Pictured at left is myself with Sheila Varian at Scottsdale. She may remember me as the crazy girl in the big hat that careened up in a golf cart with Christy Egan; then again, if I’m lucky, things like that happen to her every day and she doesn’t remember me at all. There is a bit of a story behind the hat – 2008 was my second year at Scottsdale helping out with Results magazine and let me tell you, in February this Canadian girl sunburns like nobody’s business. So I bought a hat with a 5-inch brim. Christy kept calling it my ‘Sheila hat’ and finally determined that we were going to get a picture. So there you go. - CW
Canadian Arabian Horse News c/o the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry #113-37 Athabascan Ave, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada T8A 4H3 phone: 780-416-4990 fax: 780-416-4860 email: editor@cahr.ca website: www.cahr.ca The Official Publication of the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry Executive Editor Nicole Toren, Sherwood Park AB Managing Editor Christina Weese, Saskatoon SK phone: 306-931-7187 Sales Assistant Tamara Bajema, Wilkie SK phone: 306-843-3512 CAHR Communications Director Tex Kam, Edmonton AB phone: 780-447-1747 Publisher Canadian Arabian Horse Registry Printer Houghton Boston, Saskatoon SK Visit us online at: www.canadianarabian.com Publication Mail Agreement # 40011861 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: CAHR, #113-37 Athabascan Ave, Sherwood Park, AB T8A 4H3
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Marcia Friesen, President, CPAR Chair Box 302, Oakville MB (204) 267-2411 marcia1@mts.net Ron Johnson, Vice President RR2, Lakefield ON (705) 652-8037 Robert Sproule, Secretary/Treasurer 41 Newport Drive, Sherwood Park AB (780) 467-2062 bobsproule@salisburygreenhouse.com
Wayne McLaughlin 84 Clibrig Ext Rd, Chamcook NB (506) 529-4348 Hilda Markis 352 Morrison Rd, Kingbury QC (819) 826-2755 melboro@sympatico.ca Jill Barton 733 Maple Rd, Odessa ON (613) 386-3195 Megan Francis Box 732, Southey SK (306) 726-4645 Mike Steenhart Box 208, Crossfield AB (403) 946-5292 morningsunarabs@aol.com Tex Kam, Communications Director Edmonton AB (780) 447-1747 tex@texkam.com Bill Lee, Breeders Chair 1545 Reservoir Rd, Penticton BC (250) 492-6908 Shiela Godfrey RR2 S23 C26, Chase BC (250) 679-3940
Contact Us Canadian Arabian Horse Registry #113, 37 Athabascan Avenue Sherwood Park, Alberta Ph: (780) 416-4990, Fax: (780) 416-4860 : www.cahr.ca
AGM Notice The CAHR Annual General Meeting will be held at 10:00 , Saturday August 23rd at the Regina Exhibition Park during Canadian Nationals. All members are welcome!
Blood-Typing to be discontinued as parentage verification Beginning with the 2002 foal crop, DNA testing replaced blood-type testing as the method of parentage verification for purebred Arabian foals as a requirement for registration. A blood-type test cannot be used to verify parentage for a foal that is DNA tested.
Office Update Since our last issue, there has been a lot happening at the office. As many of you are aware, we have been dealing with the issue of the Rescue 100 horses. The work this group has done is incredible and the support they were given at the beginning of the crisis was commendable. I would like to thank CAHR Director of Communications Tex Kam for being our liaison with this group and with the media. Thank you as well to the CAHR staff, Christine Tribe and Nicole Toren, for the extra work put into this effort. During the continuous barrage of phone calls, e-mails and walk-in visits regarding the seized horses they managed to keep the office running efficiently. A special thanks to Nicole who assisted with identification efforts. I also want to express my gratitude to our understanding members who were waiting for work to be completed and realized that the office had a lot on their plate at that time.
-Marcia Friesen, President
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The Canadian Arabian Horse Registry celebrates its 50th year – formed in 1958, we are celebrating half a century serving Arabian horse owners and breeders in Canada. Stop by our new booth at this year’s Royal Red tradeshow in Regina for a look at some of our history. Many thanks to Director Tex Kam for organizing the creation and production of this new booth. If you are coming to Nationals please be sure to drop by for a coffee and a visit! We would love to hear your stories and give you an opportunity to learn and share more about the people who have ensured the Arabian breed flourished in Canada. -Marcia Friesen, President
Barn News & Letters Cassiosum Acres Arabians is pleased to announce the birth of CA Primetime Love Affair (pending). Born April 23rd 2008, “Rascal” as he is affectionately known is by our stallion Prime Time SCA’s (Allience+// x Gai Fiera Prima, by Gai Fiera Bey), his first purebred foal, and out of dam OA Orchard Mist (OA Ruffian x OA Uptown Girl, by Bruask). We are so pleased with him – he has a wonderful body, good looks and is so full of personality. We would also like to announce the arrival of MS Elise (Barisznikov x MS Elita, by MS Santana). The 1990 bay pure Polish mare was added to the broodmare band from New York and will be bred to Prime Time SCA for a 2009 foal! - Sue Stefaniuk, Cassiosum Acres
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Issues of the day regarding the Registry
“If we hope to grow, we must all work together for the common goal of promoting the Canadian bred Arabian horse...” - Marcia Friesen, posted May 14, 2007
Here is the photo of my daughter (Kallie Golemba) and our Arab gelding AD Styler at our 4-H club costume class in 2007, and one other photo. The versatile Arabian!
- Laurel Golemba Azulique has just celebrated her 30th birthday on 16th June. She was bred by Bonnie Ball of Aldergrove BC. Her sire was the most handsome bay stallion, Brusally El Azrak owned by Janet and Bud Oddy of Oddy’s Skyline Arabians BC. Her dam is Jinnyi’s Ferda by the brilliant Raseyn Gezan. As a two year old she was sold to Joe Rendek of Edmonton AB, trained and shown to various wins by Gail Lundquist. She had three foals for Joe. I purchased her at age 12 years and still have her son Shahtique who grew to over 16hh. Azulique enjoys her daily carrots. She still has lots of get up and go, often see her having a good buck and gallop in the pasture. She is now at home with me on Vancouver Island, where we have lived since moving from Alberta in 2004.
- Pauline Law 16 Canadian Arabian Horse News
“Get back to your basics. Get back to your roots. Build it and they will come or return. This is the only goal for the CAHR other than that of registry.” - Leo Maxwell, posted May 13, 2007 “Leo and Marcia, “I want to thank the two of you and the others who posted in this thread for an informative discussion and debate on a topic you both are passionate about. “I enjoy reading the well thought out and innovative ideas growing from this dialogue. “It is a breath of fresh air to witness adults brainstorming for new ideas to best promote our wonderful breed...” - Stacy, posted May 15 2007
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50 Years Celebration at Nationals
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’ Shy Gayfeen’s first four showring offspring have won 16 Regional titles. Shy Gayfeen is the Most Winning Straight Egyptian Show horse in history and one of only three living Arabian Stallions to have achieved both the Legion of Masters and Legion of Excellence awards. ........ Twice Canadian National Top 10 Hunter Pleasure Open Canadian National Top 10 Hunter Pleasure AATR 37 Regional Titles in Halter and Performance Egyptian Event Unanimous Champion in Halter ........
1998 Bay Stallion Sweepstakes Nominated Sire Pyramid Society Futurity Sire Sport Horse Nationals Payback Stallion AI Only / Stud Fee PT ’s clear
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Message from the President
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t is with great pleasure that I
write this letter in the year we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry. At a time when our breed is experiencing a decline in registrations, it is now more important than ever to be united in our efforts to promote the Canadian-bred Arabian horse. Many of our contributors have been very busy trying to contact past members and gather historical information about the horses and people who have helped develop the Arabian breed in Canada. There are so many stories and so little space. I would like to thank Christy, our managing editor, for developing our online magazine so that more of the stories can be shared. Also, a big thank you to the advertisers in this issue who have made it possible to carry the number of stories that we have. It has been very interesting hearing about some of our breeders from the past and the horses they utilized in their programs, and exciting to see how some of those programs and horses are still making an impact – not only Canadian programs, but in other countries as well. The strength of a program or a particular horse is often not realized until generations later and we are fortunate to have committed breeders who have bred some great horses over the years, with their families continuing the tradition today. I hope you will enjoy reading the vignettes and feature articles in this issue and please take time to go to our on-line magazine (www.canadianarabian.com) to read more. I want to thank the Manitoba Trail Riding Club (an all-breed club) for commemorating the CAHR 50th Anniversary as part of their annual June CTR at Birds Hill Provincial Park. The Arabian and its derivatives have long been accepted as the breed of choice for distance and competitive riding and we appreciate their effort to celebrate our breed’s milestone in this country. If you have been to our CAHR website lately, you will notice we have a new look, thanks to the work of Braden Davidson. The new site will keep our members up to date and will allow easy access to forms and information. Speaking of staying current, CAHR has been given the opportunity to have our own web forum where people can come and post on-line with other Canadians. The Arabian Breeders Network has created a space on their
forum for CAHR at no cost to us or to users. It has been a great way for me to be able to meet many CAHR members from across the country and discuss the issues important to Canadian Arabian owners. When I was researching some history of our breed here in Canada, I came across a few articles about showing and ethics, as well as sales and attitudes. It’s funny how so much remains the same decades later as far as the concerns and politics go, yet it is not so with the horse itself. When you look at the photos it is amazing to see the degree to which the breed has evolved, even when taking into account advances in photography and conditioning programs. In many cases our Arabians are no longer physically representative of the breed that captured the Canadian breeder’s heart, leading to the creation of the Registry fifty years ago. As we celebrate our 50th Anniversary, we are taking a look at where we have come from, but it is also important to look at where we hope to be in the next few years and decades after. The realities of our market condition have been discussed since the collapse of the 80’s. We were hopeful this year after realizing a small growth in our 2007 registrations after a continuous free-fall the past few years. Now as our country falls into a possible recession we have to take an even more serious look at our future. In times like these I ponder the possible benefits of having a state-run Arabian breeding program like the Polish and the Russians, which would perhaps ensure the longevity and quality of the breed within our borders no matter what the economic climate. Then I look at some of the dedicated breeders we have and see, although they may have had to downsize, they are still maintaining the bloodlines that have shaped the Arabian. We may have to rethink how we do things, but I am certain that quality Arabians will continue to be bred here in Canada, safe in the hands of truly wonderful and dedicated breeders. Happy Anniversary CAHR! Thank you to all the past executive, directors, staff and members who have made this milestone possible.
Marcia Friesen, CAHR President Arabian North, Oakville, MB CAHR 50 years August 2008 19
Message from the Communications Director “Happy 50th Birthday, CAHR. What a ride it has been these past five decades.”
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the world, those that have come before us have built a foundation which we can all be proud of. Many changes have happened to the breed in Canada these past 50 years, and it behooves me to publicly thank the many people who have served the Registry and magazine so unselfishly. Time and space will not allow us to fully recognize all those who have helped the cause of the Arabian Horse in Canada but names like Paul Guthrie, Dalton Finkbeiner, Warren Whitley, Charles Hubschmid, Phyllis Kinsella, Warren Fertig and Gerry Levasseur are just a few that bring back many memories for all of us. So many individuals have given so much to our registry that has allowed us to remain a viable entity all these years. While longevity is a thing of pride, evolution is also a necessity. Let’s face the facts, the Arabian breed and horse markets in general are shrinking due to many factors. Our population base is quickly becoming urban versus rural. The Arabian community must pull together and think outside the box to do things differently. If we continue to do the same things we have done for years, we may become a passenger rather than a driver of the changes. A great example was the Saskatchewan Arabian clubs pooling their resources to put on a successful Western Canadian Breeders Show in Moose Jaw this year. Would either of these clubs been able to get this off the ground on their own? Possibly, but the strength in numbers made the endeavor much more palatable for all. We live in an impatient world in which everyone expects their communication to be instantaneous. The plethora of news networks, cell phones, email, and iPods is the reality of our new age. As I mentioned to one of our directors, we need to follow suit or be left behind not only as an organization but also as individuals. Here at the CAHR we are revamping our communications as we forge ahead with new 20 Canadian Arabian Horse News
Tex Kam at Janow Podlaski with *Ganges (*Monogramm x Garonna), US Nat Res Ch Senior Stallion and Polish Nat Ch Stallion
initiatives. This issue marks our third of the year and based on your feedback we seem to be on the right track. Our staff and I have diligently worked to not only revitalize the magazine and the Registry website, but also to develop a new website dedicated to the magazine itself. The final piece of the puzzle will be our increased use of email blasts to inform our members of impending deadlines. As much as I want to thank the people from the past such as Russ and Dean Mayberry and Mrs. Merle Stier for founding the magazine in 1960, I also want to thank those of the present. These communication revitalizations would not have seen the light of day without myself enlisting the help of Christina Weese of Foxtail Studios and Nicole Toren of our Registry here in Edmonton. Additional support has recently come from Guto Penteado who is in charge of communications and graphics at Rae Dawn Arabians. Guto has designed a new tradeshow booth and some new logos for the CAHR that will debut this year. Obviously the biggest thank you goes out to you, our loyal readers and advertisers – without you, none of this would be possible. To the breeders, trainers, readers and advertisers and Arabian Horse dreamers of the past, present and future... I salute you for your dedicated efforts. Until next time, I remain surrounded by everything Arabian!
Tex Kam, CAHR Communications Director Little Acre Arabians, Edmonton AB
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Magic Dream has to be one of the most influential sires our country has ever produced. A U.S. and Canadian National Top Ten, Scottsdale Champion and sire & grandsire of numerous National and Scottsdale Champions, Magic Dream has left his mark in the history books. In ďœ˛ďœ°ďœ°ďœ¸, he topped the CAHR’s list of Canadian stallions with the most registered progeny, eclipsing the immortal Dalul. His foals have gone on to fantastic success in the show ring and their importance is well recognized in breeding programs around the world. Bred by Jo-Anne Campone, a small breeder from British Columbia, Magic Dream was the product of an extremely exacting selection process. It was Jo-Anne’s unwillingness to settle for anything other than her ideal that led to his creation. That, and the good fortune of having a great mare. Jo-Anne’s love of the Arabian developed as a young girl, in the pages of King of the Wind & The Black Stallion. It was a love she never outgrew. In ďœąďœšďœ¸ďœł, she would take the first step towards her lifelong dream with the purchase of the purebred mare, Myrilinan Acledo. A beautiful Gai-Adventure daughter, she had the classic Gainey type with enormous black eyes and the sweetest disposition. More importantly, she had just been bred to Aristo Kossak. “After seeing several of Kossak’s foals, I was very impressed with the consistency he put on all of them,â€? states Jo-Anne. This, paired with the fact that Aristo Kossak had been a Canadian Reserve National Champion Futurity Stallion and US National Top Ten Informal Combination, appealed to Jo-Anne and convinced her he was a worthy choice as a stallion. On July ďœąďœ´, ďœąďœšďœ¸ďœ´, The Dreamspinner was born. “I can’t begin to explain what she has meant to me both as a broodmare and a friend,â€? says Jo-Anne. ‘Sarah’ was shown as a two- and three-year-old by Brenda Driediger, winning numerous championships and a Regional Top Five. The following year, Jo-Anne saw and fell in love with a young stallion named Ali Jamaal. He was the epitome of type and had just been named ďœąďœšďœ¸ďœľ US National Champion Futurity Stallion. She decided he would be the perfect match for her mare, but before Sarah was old enough to breed, Ali Jamaal was sold to Brazil. “I continued to search for an alternative stallion, but none seemed to excite me as much as Jamaal,â€? admits Jo-Anne. In ďœąďœšďœ¸ďœš, news hit that Ali Jamaal was returning to the US to be shown. Not willing to let this golden opportunity pass her by, Jo-Anne made sure she booked a breeding and was rewarded the following spring with a
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For the Love of the Horse A Brief History of the News: One Man’s Opinion by Tex M. Kam Charles Hubschmid, former president of our Canadian Registry, was quoted at a WAHO meeting in Morocco as saying “Canadian Breeders take a back seat to no one.” After reviewing what we have accomplished in this vast country over the years, I can say, “Charlie you were right on the money!” Names like *Arwistawa – the first double National Champion Mare in North America, AD Bey Elegance – U.S. Reserve National Champion Mare , *Plastun and *Paluba – early imports from Russia, *Serenity Sonbolah – U.S. National Champion Mare, Zodiac Matador – three time National Champion Park Horse and *Pietuszok – world renowned sire from Poland have all been owned and imported by Canadian breeders. For you newcomers, did you know that Bert and Ruth Husband, breeders of Khemosabi, were originally Saskatchewan transplants to California? Canadians went to Russia, Poland, Egypt, England, the U.S. and all points in between to scour the world for great horses. These horses were brought back to Canada and the products from all of their hard work are now what we use in our breeding programs every day. There was one common thread that linked all these horses/breeders together... each and every one of these breeders was a solid supporter of the Canadian Arabian News. I have heard the phrase “Labour of Love” from close friends many times over the years as it relates to their Arabian horse ventures. I guess it can be also said in retrospect that the Canadian Arabian News has truly been a labour of love for each of its editors, writers, contributors, and managing CAHR directors over the years.
I personally have had the opportunity to work with every editor from Ted Crooks’ time on up, now counting nearly 30 years. As I sat down over the last few months to work on this issue with our staff, I poured over almost every issue since our inception in February 1960. The one resounding theme that has not changed in nearly 50 years is that the magazine has struggled to remain viable for nearly its whole life. Each editor has begged for ads, begged for photos and begged for articles. 48 years later... not much has changed. One has to ask, how does a struggling enterprise stick around for basically 48 years?? If you read the editorials in these old magazines, the answer is very simple. This magazine was never established to create wealth and revenue. It was done for the love of the breed! Simply put, Merle Stier and Dean Mayberry founded the magazine and set out to bind the country together by sharing the good news stories of the Arabian Horse. They realized that even in the breed’s infancy in Canada, the Arabian Horse enthusiast had no venue to share their stories, advertise their breeding stock, and brag about their accomplishments. The “typewriter” original newsletter copies of the News from 1960 were just quick bullet points about who showed a particular horse, who imported a particular horse and who sold a particular horse. It was truly a “Newsletter Sheet” with no advertisements. The newsletter was quickly adopted in the early 1960’s as the “official” newsletter of the Western Arabian Breeders Association of Canada. In January 1964, the torch was passed from Merle Stier to her partner Dean Mayberry and husband Russ. Under the Mayberrys’ guidance the issues took more of a magazine
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format, with covers being sold more often and the issues being larger. In the fall of 1971, The Mayberrys’ entered into an agreement to sell the Canadian Arabian News to the Registry. This ushered in a whole new era for the magazine. The registry immediately brought Ted Crooks on to manage the magazine. The covers, under Ted’s direction, went to a heavy gloss stock and were in color every chance he got. A new look for the publication had begun effective January 1972.
I hope that in 2058, on the 100th anniversary of the Registry and 98th anniversary of the magazine, someone writes “how the magazine was resurrected in 2008 by people who cared about the breed.” It was during my research for this article that I discovered that Ted Crooks (who was retired from a previous career) never took a salary during his whole time as editor and consultant to the News. That selfless devotion to our cause and the breed again explains how we can still be around 48 years later. Ted retired one final time in his capacity as consultant to the News in 1985. The 1970 and 1980’s could be described as boom years for the breed in North America. Our advertisers such as Serenity Farms, Willomar, Triple A Ranches, Stonebridge and Quilchena Farms regularly ran full color advertisements touting their new imports. Our faithful American advertisers such as Bazy Tankersly of Al Marah in Arizona, Shelia Varian of California, Dr. Howard Kale of Washington, Jim Ward of Washington, Ron Palelek of Washington, Dr. Bert and Ruth Husband of California and Dr. James Rooker of Michigan also were staunch supporters. The mid 1980’s saw a couple of different editors: Rob Evans in 1983-84 and Donna McConaghy in 1984-85. A familiar face to the Arabian horse came to the News in 1986 and 1987 in the name of Sandra L. Fischer. ‘Sandy’ as she liked to be called was a long-time respected Arabian breeder.
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Sandy traveled the world for the magazine, sometimes even at her own expense. Sandy found creative ways to accomplish this travel, many times by selling and arranging tours on which she received a free seat from the tour company for her efforts. Sadly, with even more fiscal restraint placed upon the magazine, curtailing Sandy’s efforts to travel, and the decision to move the Registry and magazine to Edmonton, Sandy tendered her resignation. From 1988 until 1999 the magazine saw several changes in editors: 1988-89 Ann Beaque, 1990 Kerry Powell, 1990-91 Linda Roth, 1992 Ann Beaque, 1992-93 Shari Christie, 1993-99 Peggy Arthurs, and 2000 to 2005 Nicole Toren. Our membership owes each and every one of these individuals a debt of gratitude for their contributions to the 48 year history of this magazine. Trust me; they weren’t in it for the money we could afford to pay them! Our new collaborative effort between Nicole Toren, Christy Weese and myself ensures not any one person is burdened with the total responsibility of all aspects of this magazine. For me, this magazine is a “labour of love” and has been close to my heart for as long as I have been in the Arabian Horse business. Although we do not have the Willomar’s and the Triple A’s any longer, we forge ahead celebrating new breeders such as Pomeroy Arabians International, Wunderbar under the guidance of Ed and Laura Friesen, Etaya Egyptian Stud with Jennifer Parsons, Rae Dawn Arabians, Source Arabians and many mainstays such as Rideufield Farms of Ontario. Although my salary matches Ted Crook’s, I just hope our new group can live up to the standards and work ethic that have been set by these predecessors. I hope that in 2058, on the 100th anniversary of the Registry and 98th anniversary of the magazine, someone writes “how the magazine was resurrected in 2008 by people who cared about the breed.” I will close by asking you to read the attached editorial I found from the fourth issue of the News in May 1960. To me, it sums up the meaning of Arabian camaraderie and why this magazine has been around through all its struggles.
Russ and Dean Mayberry
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Sandy Fisher with CAHR Director Ron Johnson (left) and President Charles Hubschmid (right) in Morocco
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Carmencia, our pure Spanish mare, has thrown us a beautiful bay colt by the pure Egyptian stallion The Sequel RCA. The colt will be a show horse and a good stallion prospect. He is available for purchase at a fair price; terms available. Carmencia will be bred to Psky FA this year.
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Karlo Arabians ~ David & Gayle Karpluk Carvel, Alberta; Phone: ďœą-ďœˇďœ¸ďœ°-ďœ¸ďœšďœ˛-ďœ´ďœľďœ¸ďœš; Cell: ďœą-ďœˇďœ¸ďœ°-ďœšďœąďœ´-ďœ˛ďœ¸ďœľďœł Email: karloarabians@yahoo.ca
Congratulations to the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry on their 50 Year Anniversary!
While we are all emerging from our
winter cocoons here in the North, it seems as though a new annual rite of spring passage is emerging for Arabian breeders south of our border. The excitement comes in the form of Michael Byatt’s annual Spring Open House held each May in New Ulm, Texas. This Open House was established about four years ago and has become more successful with each passing year. The ranch is located about an hour’s drive northwest of Houston down a very serene dead-end road. Some would call it rough, dusty and bumpy... Michael likes to think of it as serene and picturesque. Near the end of the road you will find, each spring, a collection of Arabian horses that are world acclaimed. These horses live life as close to nature as you will find it. It is not uncommon to find many National Champions grazing side by side in the pasture, instead of locked in stalls. The overall lineup is like no other you will find at any one farm. The Al Shaqab Stallions *Gazal Al Shaqab and *Marwan Al Shaqab are the icing on the cake of a line up of horses that includes *Besson Carol, U.S. National Champion colt Aria Impressario, US National Champion mare Shahteyna and Brazilian National Champion *El Nabila B just to touch the surface. This year one of the chief forces behind the new halter judging scorecard, Lori Conway from Chatfield, Minn., gave a demonstration using volunteer judges from the crowd. She explained the way the horses are to be scored and how to interpret the scores. It was a very enlightening presentation. Some of the volunteer judges such as Andy Sellman and Phillip Del Pozzo shared their scores with the crowd while Lori spoke about why she scored the horses the way she did on her card. Michael and Lori had great lighthearted bantering that had the crowd laughing along with them. Michael was positive all of his horses should have scored a 20 in all categories! As part of Michael’s open house, he also has a presentation of sale horses. This year one of our Canadian breeders had the opportunity to purchase a very lovely *Marwan filly from Michael. This filly will surely add value to the Pomeroy Arabians International show string. The Pomeroys keep several horses at Michael’s year round and are proud to be part of such a prominent program. The Eastern side of Canada was also represented by Suzanne Winch from Ontario. Suzanne has also done business with Michael for many years. Suzanne is the breeder of last year’s US National Top Ten Mare Allison MO shown by Andy Sellman and of the fantastic *Marwan son Marquis , who Michael sold to the Middle East and has now become a European show sensation. You will have to look hard to find a more pleasing atmosphere with as gracious hosts as the staff at MBA. Please consider going to Texas next spring, for the horses, the heat and the delicious Texas BBQ!
-ICHAEL "YATT!RABIANS Text and pictures by Tex M Kam
Photos Top left Lori Conway, Bob Pomeroy and Carrie Langstroth; top right Michael Byatt; Middle Marwan Al Shaqab; bottom left Carrie Langstroth gives her new filly a carrot; bottom right Gazal Al Shaqab.
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From the wheatfields of Saskatchewan, Canada... over forty years breeding fine, purebred Arabian horses.
By Christy Egan
Ed Friesen and Wildwood Kochar++
For some people, Arabian horses are a source
of great beauty and inspiration, for others they are a passionate and thrilling past time, and for still others a complete lifestyle. Ed and Laura Friesen of Wunderbar Arabians in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan are that most unique of Arabian horse aficionados ~ second generation owners and breeders. Rare on two counts, because second generation means that Ed has been involved with the Arabian horse literally his entire life and, as breeders, they are certainly unique in this day and age. Many people breed horses, but today very few are actually Arabian horse breeders per se. The Friesens are the “real deal” – true Arabian horse breeders with a lifetime of experience and a sincere devotion to and investment in the Arabian horse, an investment of time, thought, money and dedication. They will tell you that their program has been developed to breed and raise exceptional, high quality, athletic Arabians with great type and temperament. What makes their program special is their success rate. After nearly half a century of slow and steady progress Wunderbar Arabians is currently enjoying real notoriety as one of North America’s most dynamic Arabian horse breeding programs. Certainly they owe an important portion of their current success to Ed’s parents, Helen and Jake Friesen.
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“I was born on a farm in Hague, Saskatchewan, about 30 miles northeast of Saskatoon,” Ed says. “It was a lot like many prairie farms. We had a mix of cattle, wheat and dairy. I started driving a tractor when I was about six years old. As a kid my dad Jake encouraged me to get involved in the 4-H and the Light Horse Club. By the time I was eleven I had horses as 4-H projects. I started showing horses in 1967 and had a real passion for the Arabian horse and the competition from the beginning. I even showed horses professionally myself for awhile. My father loved horses. His friends have told me that when my dad had a horse, it was always something special. They were inevitably pretty animals, matched teams, and high-steppers. He had a real eye for them, so I guess it was only natural that he would eventually discover Arabian horses.” In the mid-1960s Jake bought two fillies in Calgary during the Canadian National Championships, and in the spring of 1967 he bought a handsome, yearling grey colt named Wildwood Kochar++. Wildwood Kochar++ was a son of Sur-Galahad out of Kontessa, a daughter of The Count of Al-Marah. Sur-Galahad is a full brother to the 1966 U.S. National Champion Western Pleasure Horse, 34 Canadian Arabian Horse News
Sur Galant, and their sire Sureyn is a famous producer of national winners, including U.S. National Champions Mi Fanci, Mujahid, Sur Neet, and Surita. The bloodline is noted for its national winning halter and performance horses, a harbinger of things to come for Wunderbar. Wildwood Kochar++ was first shown at two and soon won his first classes at the Parkland and Saskatchewan Arabian horse shows as a three-year-old. In 1970 he was Reserve Champion Stallion at both of these shows, and in 1971 won a Top Six Canadian Breeders’ Stallion award and began his performance career as a winning Park horse. For the next several years Ed Friesen and Wildwood Kochar++ were a familiar sight in the winner’s circle on the Canadian Arabian show circuit. From Alberta to Manitoba, the big grey and the slender young man took many Championships, Reserves and red ribbons in Halter, Park, English Pleasure and Most Classic. In 1973 Wildwood Kochar++ was awarded his first Legion of Merit title. A year later his success as a sire began to make a serious impact on the industry. At that point he had sired several Class A
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Halter Champions and Reserves, a few Canadian Breeders’ Top Six winners and a Canadian Breeders’ Reserve Champion. In addition, his get were showing off their consistency and quality by bringing home numerous Get of Sire awards for Wildwood Kochar++. “We traveled all over looking at Arabian horses in those days,” Ed recalls. “We went to all three of the Gainey ranches, Lasma, Kale’s, John Rogers, Gleannloch. You could really tell what each of those breeders wanted in their horses. They were producing the kind of Arabian they envisioned, and you could pick them out in a crowded ring. I always believed that someday there would be a Wunderbar Arabian like there was a Gainey Arabian. My dad really loved the beauty of the Arabian horse and the temperament. Our first choice for bloodstock turned out to be the Gainey horses and we really liked the Gainey ‘Golden Cross’ of Ferzon and Azraff. We bought Gai Ferzon Dream (Ferzon x Bint Gadina) from Mr. Gainey to show and to breed. She was an ideal choice for a Wunderbar foundation mare.” In 1971 Wildwood Kochar++ was joined on the show circuit by Gai Ferzon Dream and soon she was adding her own red and
tri-color ribbons to the Wunderbar Arabian’s tack room wall. The Wunderbar show string grew and prospered. In the early days the string was predominantly halter horses, many of them sired by Wildwood Kochar++ and Gai Sparkler (Phazon x Gai Moonbeam). Eventually the Friesens bred Wildwood Kochar++ to their Ferzon daughter Gai Ferzon Dream and produced Precious Me. She was Gai Ferzon Dream’s third foal and her first by Wildwood Kochar++. It was to be her finest hour. Precious Me hit her stride in the show ring quickly, winning three Junior Championships as a yearling in 1979. In 1981 she was Champion Mare at the June Northern Trails Show in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and a Top Ten at Region 17 in early July. She went to Lloydminster, Alberta at the end of the month and was named 1981 Canadian Breeders’ Champion Mare. In August, at the Canadian National Championships in Edmonton, she became the 1981 Reserve Canadian National Champion Futurity Filly. “The first horse I owned with Laura was Precious Me. She was our personal foundation mare and we were very proud of her,” Ed recalls. “We sold her to Germany in 1992 and she was Reserve August 2008 35
Right SPAGO WA Far Right PHAEDRA Burgundy Parke x Precious Me Bottom Right GAI FERZON DREAM Ferzon x Bint Gadina Top photos Darryl Larson
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National Champion in that country. Bred to the great sire Kubinec, she produced Koronec, who sold for $125,000.00 through the Sax Sale, then went to Saudi Arabia and was National Champion there.” Taking their cue from Precious Me, Friesens bred her daughter Phaedra (Burgundy Parke) to Kubinec and added the resulting son, Spago WA, to their select group of breeding stallions. Spago WA was the Region 17 Reserve Champion Stallion and a Canadian Top Ten Futurity Colt in 2005. Precious Me is also the tail-female granddam in the pedigree of Wunderbar’s beautiful Versace son Couturier, currently the leading young sire in their breeding barn. Couturier is a multi-Regional Champion, Scottsdale Top Ten in Halter, Open and Amateur, and a sire of Regional, National and Scottsdale winners. In addition to having her two grandsons as a breeding influence at Wunderbar, Precious Me was also an important factor in the Wunderbar broodmare band. Her Alada Baskin daughter Evening Intrigue (in addition to being the dam of Couturier) produced Especially Me (Burgundy Parke), the dam of Evening’s Charm WA (Couturier), Top Ten Region 17 Sweepstakes Filly; Brigitta WA (Soho Carol), and Evening N Parys (Parys El Jamaal), the dam of Famess N Parys WA (Sir Fames HBV), 2007 U.S. National Top Ten Junior Halter Mare, Canadian Top Ten Futurity Mare and Canadian Top Ten Open Halter Mare. Famess N Parys WA is also a Regional Champion and won her open halter class at Scottsdale both as a yearling and as a two-year-old. “Laura and I have been making our own breeding decisions since the 1970s,” says Ed. “When I was a young man I worked for 36 Canadian Arabian Horse News
my dad and he saw that I had a vision and let me run with it. My dad was very ‘Old School’ and never gave anything away. He had seven children and he ran a tight ship. Dad let me make a lot of breeding decisions from an early age. However, he was set about breeding to his own stallions, whereas Laura and I were always interested in breeding to outside stallions. A more athletic Arabian was our goal and we sought out Polish bloodlines for that reason. We have never believed in breeding pure Polish or straight Egyptian horses and we’ve never bred for color. Our vision has always been a pretty, trainable, athletic Arabian. You can only show horses at halter for so long. Besides, 50% of all breeding programs are going to be males. The vast majority of those will be geldings and they are really only marketable if they are well-rounded and can work under saddle.” In 1991 Ed and Laura bought the mare that was to become a cornerstone of their current breeding program. A tall, chestnut beauty, Classique Design (JA Magnificat++ x Anchor Hill Ezrah) is *Bask, Crabbet and Egyptian/Babson-bred. Her sire, the *Bask son JA Magnificat++, is both a national Top Ten and the sire of 13 national winners in halter and performance. He also sired another important Wunderbar influence, Burgundy Parke. JA Magnificat’s++ dam, Queen Margaretta+ is a national Top Ten and the dam of a national champion performance horse and numerous Top Tens in English Pleasure, Driving, and Side Saddle. Like her sire and grand dam Classique Design took her turn in the show ring and was a Class A Champion and Reserve, and a Regional Top Five. The dam of five champions for Wunderbar,
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CLASSIQUE DESIGN JA Magnificat++ x Anchor Hill Ezrah
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Classique Design’s offspring include Waterford (Executive Class), Open Hunter Pleasure Champion and a Regional Top Five Hunter Pleasure ATR; Matinee Bey (NV Beau Bey), multiple halter champion, Western Canadian Breeders Top Five and Region 17 Reserve Champion; Alanna (Versace), Region 17 Top Ten, Region 6 Top Five and Class A Champion Mare; Tatiana WA (Couturier), Region 17 Reserve Champion Filly, Region 17 Champion Mare, Scottsdale Top Ten and 2006 Canadian National Top Ten Futurity Filly. Classique Design’s current ‘claim to fame’ is her 2006 chestnut filly by Magnum Chall HVP, Shakira WA. The 2007 Scottsdale Junior Champion Filly and Region 2 Champion, Shakira WA closed 2007 with a solid Top Ten at the U.S. Nationals in the Yearling Sweepstakes Filly class. Her biggest contribution as a broodmare at Wunderbar however may come from her role as the grand dam of Brooklyn Bey (NV Beau Bey x Cindra [Executive Class x Classique Design]) producer of the young Wunderbar stallion Mariachi WA. If Wunderbar ever had a ‘wunderkind,’ it’s Mariachi WA. Here is a splendid example of the Friesen’s desire to create an Arabian horse with equal parts greatness in halter and under saddle. A son of Baske Afire (Afire Bey V x MacBaske), Mariachi WA is the 2005 Region 6 Champion Yearling Sweepstakes Colt and the winner of the very prestigious 2007 Scottsdale Open Three-Year-Old Colt class. Mariachi WA is currently exhibiting great talent under saddle for the English division with Joel Kiesner; the second part of the Wunderbar combination is about to click into place. What of the third and final part of the puzzle? Will he be a great sire as well, recreating his phenomenal combination of ability and beauty? His first foal crop is very promising.
“We are very excited about the first Mariachi WA babies,” Laura says proudly. “They are beautiful, with great Arabian type and are already exhibiting trainability and athletic flare.” Wunderbar has always been a family affair. When Jake and Helen were alive they worked on the farm and were contributing workers well into SHAKIRA WA Magnum Chall HVP x Classique Design their 80’s. Of Ed and Laura’s three children, Maegan, Stephanie and Jeff, it is Maegan who is the “horse crazy” child. It was she who became part of the family horse breeding discussions as soon as she could make complete sentences. “At six she was already arguing with us about breeding decisions,” laughs Ed. “She knows pedigrees backwards and forwards and is a great judge of horses. She’s only 21 but we’re already very comfortable with her decisions regarding buying horses on her own.” Maegan’s personal focus is on performance horses and she starts many of Wunderbar’s youngsters under saddle. Like her dad she is a talented halter handler and will someday no doubt be a national exhibitor. Like her grandfather, she loves athletic, beautiful, “special” horses and wants to make them her life. Blood will tell. It wouldn’t have surprised Jake Friesen one bit. August 2008 37
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AS`S\WÂĽ 4O`[a It began in 1967 when lifelong horsewoman Mrs. Hanna
Loise Heck, affectionately known to all as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hansiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, purchased a 165-year-old estate farm in Queensville, Ontario. After Hansi built new stabling and three new indoor arenas, the property was christened â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Serenity Farms Limitedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and was intended to be a top-class breeding and training facility, putting Queensville, Ontario, Canada on the map. Hansiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandfather, Dr. E. Lentz, had established Landesgestuet Rastenburg (an historic Trakhener stud farm) in Germany in 1877 and Hansi had inherited his passion and love for horses. An article published in the Khamsat magazine (Vol. 20, No. 2) describes Hansiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equestrian career as â&#x20AC;&#x153;extensive... her first-hand knowledge has been gained through her lifetime as a horsewoman, Grand Prix dressage and jump-
ing equestrian, trainer, and teacher, holder of a racetrack license, and decades of riding with the Eglington Hunt Club in Canada.â&#x20AC;? Serenity Farms was originally purchased to be a warmblood breeding and training facility, but fate intervened later that same year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1967 while driving through the Texas countryside,â&#x20AC;? writes Hansi in one of her articles, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw the most beautiful horse I had ever seen in my life playing happily in the green pastures of Gleannloch Farms.â&#x20AC;? It was one of those moments when fate intervenes to unite a special horse with their destined owner, the moment when Hansi first saw *Khofo++. Driving to the ranch house, she was introduced to Doug Marshall and inquired if the two-year-old was for sale, only to be told that he was not. Gleannloch was planning to keep ď?Łď?Ąď?¨ď?˛ ď&#x2122;&#x2C6;ď&#x2122;&#x192; ď?šď?Ľď?Ąď?˛ď?ł August 2008 41
Sire *Morafic (Nazeer x Mabrouka)
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the young *Morafic son as a replacement should anything happen to his sire. Promising that *Khofo would be sent back to Gleannloch should anything happen to *Morafic, Hansi was eventually allowed to purchase the colt. From that moment, the Serenity Farms breeding program was dedicated to the pureblood, asiil straight Egyptian Arabian. In 1968 the first historic straight Egyptian imports began arriving at Serenity Farms, which had been certified as the only private quarantine facilities in Canada and the US. That year saw the importation of twenty-three horses to Hansiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quarantine facilities, including five Serenity foundation mares: *Serenity Sonbolah 1967 (Sameh x Bint Om El Saad), *Serenity Sabra 1965 (Sameh x Sheherezade), *Serenity Shahra 1966 (Antar x Sheherezade), *Serenity Sagda 1966 (Antar x Samia), and *Serenity Montaha 1966 (Galal x Mona [x Inshass]). All of the imports shown became multiple champions, and when crossed with *Khofo, these mares would form the foundation of Hansiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breeding program, producing the next generation of Serenity champions. Also brought over in the 1968 importation was Gleannloch Farmsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; *Magidaa (Alaa El Din x Maysa), who became *Khofoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first wife while she was in quarantine. This cross would produce Bint Magidaa, dam of Ruminaja Ali (1979 US National Futurity Champion Stallion and 1983 US National Reserve Champion Stallion), Ruminaja Bahjat, Ruminaja Majed, and Alidaar, among others. 42 Canadian Arabian Horse News
Dam *Nabilah (Anter x Farasha)
Hansi has always acknowledged the important role the Canadian government played in facilitating the importations. The 1968 press release states, â&#x20AC;&#x153;...without the assistance of Dr. R.J. McGlenaghan, Director of the Contagious Disease Division, Agricultural Dept., Ottawa, and his staff in Ottawa and Weston, Toronto (Dr. Callacut and Dr. Kelton), this importation could never have come about. Our government at once recognized this tremendous importation and the 100% pure Egyptian Arabian blood that Canada will gain. They helped in every way possible. We must salute these gentlemen.â&#x20AC;? When the straight Egyptians hit the North American show scene, there was an immediate reaction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The non-straight Egyptians in America and Canada were by and large excellent horses but of a different type,â&#x20AC;? relates Hansi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So the judges could only do one thing, either pin the Straight Egyptians first or give them the gate... They hardly ever got the gate.â&#x20AC;? The most successful of Serenityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mares was the jewel in their crown, *Serenity Sonbolah, US National Top Ten Mare (third by 2 points) in 1970 and US National Champion Mare in 1971. She was, in fact, undefeated in her halter classes during 1970 and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;71, according to an article in the January 1973 Canadian Arabian News. She was also quite fond of peppermints. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When *Serenity Sonbolah showed at the US Nationals in 1971,â&#x20AC;? says Hansi, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I took *Serenity Sabra and *Serenity Luftia along to place one in front and the other behind Sonbolah, so that she had the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;proper roomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to show off. Sabra was 9 months in foal and so was Luftia â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all three made the cut!
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Sonbolah stood first, Sabra 12th, and Luftia 13th place â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that out of 120 entries divided into three sections. Mr. Gainey was sitting in his booth looking down on her and offered me a free breeding to his top stallion, but I declined, stating that my *Khofo would be jealous as Sonbolah was his wife.â&#x20AC;? Another large importation was made in 1970 by Doug and Margaret Marshall and Gleannloch Farmsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trainer, Tom McNair, whom Hansi once described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the nicest 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;2â&#x20AC;? Texan anyone could wish to meet.â&#x20AC;? This time, Mr. Marshall went with a list of ALL straight Egyptians in Egypt and where they might be located, a list compiled by Hansi. The list was incredibly important to the success of the trip. Only the Marshalls were permitted to buy stock directly from the Egyptian Agricultural Organization (EAO), including stock they purchased for the Serenity and Ansata imports (this due to his multimillion-dollar contributions to Egypt). Other horses that passed through the farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quarantine came from private breeders who acquired them from EAO auction sales and other original, recognized breeding farms. Their efforts were made ten-fold more dangerous by the fact that Egypt was at war with Israel over land they had lost during the Six Daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; War, namely the east bank of the Suez Canal. At one point, Hansi relates, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the war was some five miles away from the EAO. I was told he [Doug], Margaret, Jim Kline, Judi and Don Forbis, and Tom and Rhita McNair risked their lives to load some 34 horses for export into my quarantine in Canada. The pilot had a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Silence Orderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; until he got over the Suez Canal
Dam Bint Om El Saad (Nazeer x Om El Saad)
and one mare, Cleopatra, was ready to foal. She foaled one day after arrival in my quarantine â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the foal was named Pegasus.â&#x20AC;? The trip was difficult right from the beginning â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the plane that Hansi had chartered was sabotaged in Amsterdam and destroyed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to beg a merchant to loan us his plane, destined for Khartoum, and a $20,000 award made him agree. But there was no loading equipment at Cairo Airport, so they borrowed it from the Russians in Alexandria. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Catering equipmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; balanced those fragile horse boxes with three horses in each, on it and loaded. It was like a cloak and dagger situation. Of course it was Tom McNair who did the absolute expert loading. When the plane arrived in Canada, the floors were frozen solid and Noha fell, turned upside down, and had to be pulled out that way.â&#x20AC;? The horses had come from hot and sunny Cairo to the midst of a Canadian winter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had never been stabled, did not understand English, and wanted to go back to Egypt,â&#x20AC;? says Hansi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a leather couch placed in the middle of the indoor arena where temporary stalls, loaned from the Royal Canadian Winter Fair were erected, and we cuddled up in a heating blanket. My students and I held the watch.â&#x20AC;? With the horses brought over in 1970, Serenity gained five more foundation mares: *SF Bint Mamlouka 1959 (Mashhour x Mamlouka), *SF Bint Hemmat 1957 (Nazeer x Hemmat), *Serenity Luftia 1967 (Nasralla x Nazeera), *SerenityBintNadia 1960 (Sameh x Nadia), *Serenity BintNoha 1969 (Nader x Noha), and the stallion *SerenityAbuSimbel 1969 (Ibn Maisa x Bint Shaams). ď?Łď?Ąď?¨ď?˛ ď&#x2122;&#x2C6;ď&#x2122;&#x192; ď?šď?Ľď?Ąď?˛ď?ł August 2008 43
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George Iverson on Kashira and daughter Jean on Khivane Hialeaha’s paternal granddam Raffnaya was sired by Rasraff (*Raffles) and her dam Tinda Nijm is out of Bavane (Sibari x Khivane). Raffnaya was brought to Alberta by Col. Fred Scott of the Baha Tinda Stock Farm, Calgary AB, in 1957.
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Hansi eventually went looking for an outcross stallion for the daughters of *Khofo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to Egypt in 1973 to buy El Safi 1961 (*Morafic x Mona [Inshass]), a gorgeous 15.3 hand chestnut powerhouse, but he was barren. So Gulson Sherif arranged for me to see another stallion. He was ridden 50 kilometers through the desert and the middle of Cairo and was 20 years old. When I saw him, my blood went from the head to toes and back again. I had to have him!â&#x20AC;? The stallion who made such an impression was *SF Ibn Nazeer [EAO registered as Lateef] 1953 (Nazeer RAS x Lateefa RAS). â&#x20AC;&#x153;He had the best rear end of any of the Nazeer children I had seen, and looked very much like his sire. Perfect legs, I mean perfect legs,â&#x20AC;? Hansi relates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At that time, everybody and his uncle were in Cairo to buy horses. I was so afraid of losing him that I hid him at the Brooksville Veterinary Hospital and gave rewards so that nobody knew where the stallion was.â&#x20AC;? Then, after fighting to get the export papers put through, the stallionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flight was delayed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was to leave that Tuesday and I instructed that he NOT be tranquilized,â&#x20AC;? says Hansi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The plane came but never stopped, so he had to wait another week and I had to go back to Canada. When I arrived in Montreal, I was told that he broke down in Frankfurt, was overly tranquilized and all marked up. I gave instructions to find the best horseman/ woman in Europe to bring him over for me regardless of cost. Circus Bush obliged and the horse arrived; I trailered him 300 miles home to Queensville to my quarantine.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a two-foot blanket of snow, and when he got out of the trailer, he tried not to put any one foot down. This was so funny! He was the only horse I knew which would exercise himself in a collected canter in his stall, which was 12x18 feet, without breaking stride. He was an absolutely superb match for the *Khofo daughters,â&#x20AC;? says Hansi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His rear end is seen to date in his offspring, five generations further.â&#x20AC;? In 1975, the year of his death, *SF Ibn Nazeer was the Leading Sire in Canada and had sired forty-four purebred foals in the past two years. *SF Ibn Nazeer had not left a breeding son in Egypt, but after producing several fillies for Hansi he had a crop of seven Straight Egyptian sons, four of which would go on to influence the Serenity program: SF Benibn Nazeer 1974 (Serenity Shahra), Serenity Monzeer 1975 (Serenity Montaha), SF Ibn Lateef 1976 (Serenity BtSagda), and SF Untouchable 1976 (Serenity Kamila), who all became halter and performance champions and producers of such, save for SF Untouchable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he was successfully shown as a youngster, but a yearling injury ended his show career. He was, however, used at stud, ridden and kept by Hansi for his entire life, until he passed away in 2002. In the end, the results of their efforts certainly did them proud. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 1968 and 1970 importations became the most famous of all,â&#x20AC;? says Hansi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I see what these horses did and produced, my heart is overwhelmed.â&#x20AC;? In addition to too many Class A Halter champions to list, the Serenity program produced Serenity Habib 1983 (Khofo++ x Serenity Bt Mamlouka), a halter and dressage champion exported to Europe in 1992, where he was leased for three years by the Famous Marbach Stud, Germany, producing some excellent offspring. He was licensed by the Hungarian Government 46 Canadian Arabian Horse News
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Stud in Babolna for breeding over Shagya mares, the only stallion licensed that year out of many. Serenity Habib also became a gold medalist at the famous Aachen show. He is a full brother to Serenity IbnKhofo (1977, still alive), who became an undefeated race horse, halter champion and Grand Prix Dressage horse, and a maternal brother to Serenity Mamlouk 1979 (x SF Benibn Nazeer) still alive, and also a mile race winner and producer of champions. Other champions, to mention a few who had particular influence on Brazilian breeding, were Serenity Mashour 1977 (*Khofo++ x *Serenity BintNoha), Brazilian National Performance Champion; Imperial Sagdor 1977 (Serenity Osiris x Serenity Sagda) and bred by Hansi, Brazilian National Halter Champion in 1980 and 1981; and Serenity Mashalla 1971 (*Khofo++ x *Serenity Shahra), producer of over a dozen National and Reserve Champions in Brazil. Serenity Mashalla was named Leading Sire of the Century in Brazil at that time, as published in their newspapers. Serenity Farmsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; export record is also exceptional. Hansi has exported over 300 horses to Germany, Switzerland, Italy, England, Hungary, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguya, Panama,Venezuela, and Argentina; many of them became champions at halter and performance. The ones that remain in Canada and the USA have become valuable foundation breeding stock. It is truly the mark of an exceptional breeding program when itsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; horses excel at such diverse and demanding disciplines â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but, as Hansi will point out often and with great emphasis, ALL breeding stock at Serenity was tested under saddle for athleticism, movement, and trainability. If the horse did not pass the test, it was not bred. Hansi established a second Serenity Arabian Stud Ltd. in Hawthorne, Florida in 1976 and moved her herd down there to escape the harsh Canadian winters. That same year, she met her husband, William B. Melnyk. In 2008, after more than forty years of dedication to her beloved straight Egyptians, Hansi has made the difficult decision to disperse many of the remaining herd, though they have retained some of the older horses as well as some younger mares for a few new foals each year. A founder of the Pyramid Society, Hansi is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foremost authorities on Egyptian Arabians and has invested countless hours into pedigree and historical research. She has published twenty-four books including the Straight Egyptian Index, Volumes I-VI and the Index of Partbred Arabians Registered Internationally as Purebreds and Their Partbred Ancestors (the Pindex), Volume I, with several more books (including an autobiography) currently in the works. They are available through her website, www.serenityarabianfarms.com. Thank you to Hansi Heck-Melnyk for her kind contributions to this article. Many stories used here were collected by Samantha Winburn of Blue Pyramid Egyptians, who published an article on Serenity Arabians in Khamsat magazine, Vol. 20, No. 2. A very big thank-you to Samantha for allowing us to use this source material. The article, as well as Hansiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments on some horses that passed through her quarantine, can be found on the Blue Pyramid website, www.bpeah.com.
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Having given over 40 years of my life and millions of dollars for the preservation of the Straight Egyptian Arabian horse, having helped and assisted many people internationally with education to learn and understand these incredible Desert Breds, I pray that my colleagues worldwide will continue to treasure these horses and continue breeding only from the very best, to breed only from tested stallions and forego artificial insemination and embryo transfers, which have in my opinion in many cases degenerated the Straight Egyptians. And, that at all time full disclosure of any of these horses must be maintained. Hansi Heck-Melnyk June 10/2008
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Forever Raffles *
*RAFFLES, from the Crabbet Arabian Stud of Sussex, England, was quite possibly named after a gentlemanly burglar, the hero of The Amateur Above A parade of imported pure Arab stallions at Selby Stud, Portsmouth, Ohio. From right to left, Champion Nureddin, International Champion MIrage, Menzil, Raffles, Rahal, Mirzam and Selmian. From the original oil painting by George Ford Morris, owned by Roger A. Selby, and reproduced with permission of Lois Selby Perry.
Born in 1926, *Raffles was bred by Lady Wentworth (Judith Anne Lytton) who, unlike her mother Lady Anne Blunt, admired the colour grey and, upon spotting the Polish stallion Skowronek (Ibrahim x Jaskolka) at a 1920 horse show, made the momentous decision to purchase him. Thanks to the Crabbet Stud, this near perfect specimen of an Arabian horse left his imprint universally. Both *Raffles and his dam *Rifala (Rissla) were sired by Skowronek, thereby intensifying these potent bloodlines. The exalted Egyptian stallion Mesaoud (Aziz x Yamama III) appears twice through Rissla, the maternal granddam of *Raffles, she being by *Berk (Seyal [by Mesaoud] x Bukra) and out of Risala (Mesaoud x Ridaa). Ridaa was out of *Rose of Sharon whose dam was Rodania (desert bred). The fact that *Raffles’ name starts with ‘R’ was in no way circumstance as all Arabians bred at Crabbet with the taproot mare Rodania start with ‘R’. Rodania, a blaze-faced chestnut, was purchased in 1881 from the Gomussa tribe near Damascus, Syria and imported to England by Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt. A jewel of a broodmare, her legacy at Crabbet remains unparalleled. At maturity, *Raffles’ height was under 14 hands – though pony size, he had wonderful substance, stood four square, had a brisk animated trot and that much-desired ingredi-
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ent, ‘Arabian type.’ He came to North America when, in 1932, Roger A. Selby of the Selby Shoe Company of Portsmouth, Ohio purchased four horses from Crabbet; *Raffles was an addition given to him by Lady Wentworth as a riding horse for the Selby children. They joined previously imported Crabbet-breds including the famous stallion *Mirage and *Raffles’ dam, *Rifala. In 1933 *Raffles won the three-gaited championship at the Nashville National Show in Tennessee. He’d most likely been ridden in England prior to gaited training in the U.S.; the Selby Stud was an American Saddlebred establishment where horses were trained for five-gaited performance. Somehow *Raffles learned to mistrust humans, perhaps he didn’t take to the methods of certain trainers but whatever the reason he became resentful and hard to handle. Luckily, in 1934 Selby hired Jimmy Dean, a Saddlebred trainer from Kentucky. Jimmy and his wife Thelma became smitten with the plucky Arabian, doing everything in their power to gain his trust. *Raffles would not tolerate a whip so when obedience was needed a flat-handed slap on the belly and the stern voice of Jimmy settled things down. Ridden many miles cross-country by Thelma, the stallion eagerly awaited these outings; it was she he trusted most. In 1949, while suspended in a sling with his broken
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Cracksman by E.W. Horning. If that is the case, then how suitable – *Raffles was indeed guilty of stealing the hearts of horse lovers. Top *Raffles, age 7. Above left Mesaoud GSB, maternal grandsire of Rissla. Above right Skowronek GSB, *Raffles’ sire.
by jean e. berg leg in a cast, Thelma gave him encouragement. Kept under twentyfour hour vigil for months by the Deans and their loyal staff and friends, *Raffles recovered fully. It was determined that, in a fit of anger when other horses were fed first, he’d kicked the cement wall of his stall, breaking his right hind leg above the hock. For years *Raffles was written off as sterile in both England and the U.S.; finally in 1937 at age eleven, he was bred to *Rishafieh (Jeruan x Rishafa) and *Indaia (Raseem x Nisreen), mares with plentiful lines to Mesaoud and Rodania. Wow! Their 1938 foals, Raffieh and Indraff, packed a resounding wallop for the Arabian horse industry. Raffieh, a filly, went to the Van Vleet Arabian Stud of Denver, Colorado, whose shows attracted hundreds of visitors to their ranch in the mountains, and Indraff became head stallion at Bazy Tankersley’s Al-Marah Arabian Stud, still in existence today at Tucson, Arizona. Since the sanctioning of the U.S. (1958) and Canadian (1959) National shows, Indraff is found more often than any other *Raffles son in the family trees of National winners. His name dominated those early shows and more recently, thanks to Huckleberry Bey (Bay El Bey x Taffona) and Fame VF (Bey Shah x Raffoleta-Rose), whose dams are sired by Raffon, a double Indraff stallion, he will continue to lead his siblings in
show pedigrees. Note: Raffon (Gazon x Vadraff) was U.S. National Champion in Stallion Halter (1965) and English Pleasure (1973). Having conquered what could have been an incalcuable loss to Arabian breeding, *Raffles went on to sire 123 foals (62 females & 61 males). Foals were born every year from 1938 through 1953, with the exception of 1950 due to recuperating from his broken leg in 1949. He was bred back to his daughters 14 times with remarkable success; the best known of these crosses were the stallions Rapture (Rafla), Raffey (Rafeyma), Bamby (Bambina), and Rifraff (Rafissa). When the Selby Stud began its dispersal in 1949, a large sum of money was offered for the indomitable *Raffles but it was Alice L. Payne, known for her kindness, who got the nod. In late 1949 the stallion, Jimmy & Thelma Dean along with John Payne traveled from Ohio by train to the western state of California to Paynes’ Asil Arabians. The Deans stayed long enough to get *Raffles well settled and to give the Paynes valuable pointers at handling him. It was here that he sired the memorable Victor Hugo, Mraff, and Sotep. On May 11, 1953, *Raffles passed away. His last three foals were born not long after his death. How did *Raffles, a pint-sized Arabian, and his progeny become so prolific? Here’s a hint – most were indelibly stamped with his dynamic good looks, a pretty head with large dark eyes, long arched
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VICTOR HUGO (*Raffles x Gazyya) Photo: Don Davy
*Raffles’ Influence on Canadian Breeding *Raffles get whose progeny are registered in the CAHR, along with the number of progeny, listed in order of their offsprings’ arrival in Canada.
Rasraff (2), Ruffles (6), Hanraff (9), Shayk (1), Aaraf (3), Indraff (10), Tut Ankh Amen (12), Riffles (1), Rafarah (1), Rapture (7), Imaraff (6), Mraff (2), Rifraff (5), Daraff (2), Raffda (1), Hamdan (1), Raffira (1), Azraff (17), Raffranzah (1), Rafeyma (1), Handeyraff (6), Geym (5), Sotep (11), Bamby (4), Rafden (3), Kubriya (7),Indy (3), Aarief (3), Rafla (1), Raffi (1), Wasl Raffles (5), Gida (1), Farraff (1), Garaff (5), Rafaia (1), Rose Marie (1), Charaff (1), Rafferty (6), Rafleyma (1), Raffey (1), Mysteraffles (1), & Rafgida (1). Author’s Note: Not all of the above horses or their offspring are mentioned in the article as it would take a book, but I’ve touched on a few that I hope will pique the interest of readers. Stallions in bold are listed below in alphabetical order. - Jean E.
neck, and the same balanced stance and lofty action. Once seen, word spread rapidly; nearly everyone wanted his get; those that owned his get have allowed the rest of us to be touched by his magic.
*Raffles Legacy in Canada
It didn’t take Canadians long to pick up on the *Raffles vibes emanating from below the border. They quickly learned that these horses were multi-talented, strong and oh so pretty! The *Raffles sweep across Canada was accomplished through one prominent son, Victor Hugo , and through the get of other *Raffles sons and daughters. In his grand-get began trickling in, and in Victor Hugo was delivered by crate via rail from California. They covered all provinces from BC to the Maritimes, and many of their owners played an enormous part in the Canadian Arabian Horse Association, established in (now the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry [CAHR]). George Iverson of Prince, Saskatchewan played an important role in the early importation of bloodstock to Canada. Starting in he imported Kashira (*Nuri Pasha x Korein) and Khivane (*Sunshine x Tebuk) from Albert W. Harris of Chicago, Illinois, a pioneer breeder who got his first Arabian in . Starting in these mares produced fillies year after year, sired by Sibari (Babyat x Ur). When bred to *Raffles-related stallions, their progeny laid the foundation for the spread of *Raffles genes in Canada. In Iverson imported Bitraff (Rasraff x Bitwa), a weanling colt bred by John & Alice Payne of Chino, California. Bitraff had the honour of being the first *Raffles grandson to be registered with CAHR. He grew into a strong, well-built ranch horse and, when bred to some of the above mares, he gave people in the west a great start in Arabians. Well-known sons of Bitraff include Red Blaze (Khivane), a
AARAF (Aarah) was bred by Blanche Tormohlen, Portland, IN, as was AANDRAFA #90 (Aandra) 1951 M owned by Max H. Campbell of Toronto, ON. Her first foal was champion RAFARIN (Naharin), purchased by W. P. Harrison, St. Clair Arabian Horse Farm, Locust Hill, ON. The progeny of Aandrafa carry the farm prefixes Aramere, Neden and Arabi. Aaraf’s son AAFDUR #102 (Aadura [by Indraff]) 1951 St, also Tormohlen bred, was raised as an orphan by owner Mrs. Adela Kasper of Assiniboa, SK. He was special, being double *Raffles, but due to being geographically isolated left only 3 purebred mares. Two of these went to George & Philip Kaiser of Pyramid Arabians, Hussar, AB, owners of the stallion Tsatyn (Tsali x Nehessa) 31.25 % *Raffles. Aafdur’s last owner was Irvine W. Bishop of Verwood, SK. AARIEF (Aarah) bred by Blanche Tormohlen. Sire of LASMA STAR 1965 U.S. Nat. Ch. Eng. Pl. His son THE REAL McCOY (Fersara), was just that; with over 400 get his name decorates national show pedigrees time after time. Son AUTHENTICITY and owner-rider the late Jack Teague were frequent Nat. champions in Stock Horse & Working Cow Horse classes. In Canada RIEF #5604 (Aarief x Bint Holoo) 1956 St bred by Lasma Arabian Stud, AZ was already 18 when attained in 1974 by R. W. & Myrtle Thuler of Aldergrove, BC. AAYA #573 (Nejd Beneya), Lasma-bred 1957 mare, sold in 1959 to Ann Simmons, Scarborough, ON. Her progeny carry the prefixes Aramere, Neden & Willoral. She had 13 foals.
BITRAFF (Rasraff x Bitwa) Photo: Don Davy AZRAFF (*Raffles x *Azja IV) AZRAFF (*Azja IV) was bred by Mr. & Mrs. A.J. Boyt of Altoona, IA. Garth Buchanan of Story City, IA acquired Azraff in 1949; Azraff made her Comar Arabians one of the most sought after breeding establishments in the US, siring over 500 get. He was honoured as a “Living Legend” at the 1970 US Nationals. This amazing stallion, but for Indraff, would be the leading *Raffles son in National pedigrees. Here are his champions: COMAR BAY BEAU 1968 Can. Nat. Ch. Stallion, GALIZON 1969 Continued on page 54...
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U.S. Nat. Ch. Stallion, and grandson GAI-CHAMPION (Gay-Rouge [Azraff] x Ga-Gajala) 1975 Can. Nat. Ch. Stallion. Azraff’s 1965 son GALORE #1709 out of 1970 Can. Nat. Ch. Mare Ga-Rageyma, bred by Dan C. Gainey of Owatonna, MN, was sold in 1966 to Mr. & Mrs. John Duffin, Midnapore, AB who acquired COMAR REGAL #1713 (Ferzon x Rafleymaz [Azraff]) in 1967 as their lead stallion. Warren Whitley of Belleville, ON, obtained nine Azraff offspring including two from Comar: RAFLEYMAZ #5980 (Rafleyma) 1955 M, COMAR RAFLEYMIRAZ #6918 (Rafleymira) 1963 M; he also acquired ADIOS #3991 (Rose of Cherry) 1970 St bred by Earl & Susan Tekippe, Wentworth, WI. The 1965 Gainey-bred mare GAELLA #8492 (Azraff x Gavrelle) went to Geert H. Keer, Richmond, BC, a man with an eye for exotic beauty. BAMBY (Bambina [*Raffles]) bred by Wm. States Jacobs, Houston, TX. Sire of EMKAY BARIUS (Aariefla) 1981 U.S. Nat. Ch. Form. Comb. In 1971 Albert Denne of Klueys Bay, ON bought the Bamby son EMKAY BAKARO #3460 (Bur-Kara) 1968 St from breeder M.K. Miller of Ohio. He sired 23 get, among them JESIKA, out of Seahorse Jura. 1967 mare GAY FAYRAD #11154 (Bamby x Fayrad) bred by Carl & Carol Estabrook of Mount Vernon, SD went to K.R. Allen of Markdale, ON, in 1972 and on to Evelyn Bowler in 1978 of Traverston Arabians, Markdale, ON. Gigi Fix and Zubar were just two of her highly thought of mates; she produced 11 offspring. GARAFF (Woengran) Selby bred. His son GARENE (Balena) sired PETIT JEAN (Marza [Azraff]) 1966 U.S. Nat. Ch. Stallion GARENE #9754, a 1957 St was bred by C.C. Matheny of San Jose, CA and sold in 1975 to Dave & Suzanne Mishell, DeWinton, AB. Of his 23 get, 7 were CAHR registered. SHALIMAR GIDAMAN (Rafgida [*Raffles]) 1959 St bred by Dr. & Mrs. W. L. Munson of Illinois was purchased in 1979 by Earl & Sharen Brown of Kheir Arabians, Carberry, MB where he sired 11 Arabians.
RIFALA’S NASEEM (Antezeyn Skowronek x Rifala’s Lami) GEYM (Rageyma) Selby bred. Grandsire of 1965 Can. Nat. Ch. Mare GEYRADA (Radamason x Geyima) and the sire of GENTLEMAN (Marzia [Azraff]) 1974 Can. Nat. Ch. West. Pl. Geym was meant to take the place of his sire *Raffles but Selby began to disperse his stud in 1949 and Geym sold to Wm. & Tish Hewitt of Friendship Farms, East Moline, IL. Selby-bred 1951 son NABEYM #1143 (Nabima) sold, at age 12, to Donald W. Geddes, Kincardine, ON where he sired 45 purebreds. RIFALA’S LAMI #1719 (Maatiga) Selby-bred 1953 M went to Carlton Cummings of Pullman, WA; she produced RIFALA’S NASEEM #347 (Antezeyn Skowronek) 1958 St and ASHMIAH #1322 (Raseyn Gezan)1965 M – both went to Janet M. Oddy of Mt. Lehman, BC. The last owner for the first was H. A. Roberts, Courtenay, BC and the latter went to Bonnie Ball of Aldergrove, BC. Rifala’s Lami Can. Nat. winners: AMADEUS (Sharade x Ashmiah) 1975 Ch. West. Pl.; KAHRABAYE (Rifala’s Naseem x Taffy) 1976 Ch. Ladies Side Saddle; and SH BARICHADE (*Barich de Washoe x Rifala’s Geym [dam Rifala’s Lami]) 1990 Ch. Working Hunter.
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Left George Iverson with FAIRY DANCER (Cairo x Lady Hugo) and LONE RANGER (VH x Tinda Vain). Photo: Joan Schuler. Above Iverson on KASHIRA and daughter Jean Ice riding KHIVANE, near Prince SK.
champion stock horse owned by Merle & Harriet Olafson of Turtleford, SK, who sired foals from Bashira (Sibari x Kashira); and Spitfire (Kasha), whose five purebreds were all mares. One of them, Fizora, produced Can. Nat. Top Ten Gelding El Dueno (x Tussun), owned by The Tapadera Trading Corp. Ltd., Agassiz, BC. Four years later in , the yearling colt Victor Hugo (*Raffles x Gazyya), also bred by Paynes, found himself following Bitraff’s path, traveling by train in a noisy boxcar to a drop-off point near the home of the Iversons. Victor Hugo (VH) was used on cattle, trail rides, as a show horse, and as a breeding stallion. He was impressive with a wonderful disposition and became the most talked about Arabian horse in the west. Dawn Mimi Potter of Spruce Lake started her breeding program with mares from Iverson, including Khivane. She had the advantage of breeding the very first foals from VH. Potter, a school teacher, was sent to the Northwest Territories to teach Inuit children and while there she happened to meet Joseph Meyers of Iowa, also an Arabian horse breeder. When the two married in , they took April Dawn (VH x Gypsy Melody [Bitraff]) south of the border with them, the first VH Arabian in the U.S. James & Mary Cartwright of the Cartwright D Ranch of High River stood Victor Hugo at stud in Alberta and used him for ranch work, finding him quick as a cat. They obtained from Iverson three VH daughters all out of Majorette (Bitraff x Bashira) and a son, Victor Pasha (Sivane), from George’s son Clarence. Other early Alberta breeders who used Victor Hugo were Russ & Dean Mayberry of Hanna and Mrs. Merle Stier of Khala Arabians in Midnapore. Mrs. Stier bred Khala Nar (Zinnieh), who, after being purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Laurie McCulloch of Oshawa, ON, was much admired in the east and sired purebreds in Ontario. In Mr. & Mrs. Albert Ternier of Shillelagh Farms, Salmon Arm, BC purchased Kasha (Sibari x Kashira) and bred to VH getting My Bugle Boy . Smitten with the colt, they bought three VH daughters, all out of Sivane (Sibari x Khivane), as broodmares for the young stallion. They were only one of many to use the powerful Skowronek bloodlines for inbreeding. Far away in Ohio, Paul & Alverda Graff McDannald were looking for a *Raffles son. They’d been told of a real beauty in Canada, and inquired but found Victor Hugo not for sale. Undaunted, they decided to haul two young mares all the way to the Iverson ranch, now located near Glaslyn, Sk. They were quite taken by the ranch setting, and, like others infatuated with *Raffles’ lines, fell in love with the exquisite VH. Upon their return in for their mares, both with fillies at side, Iverson decided to let them take VH home (now Missouri) with them to use at stud as long as they had him back by June the following year. As it turned out, when they came for VH a second time in , much to their elation they were allowed to buy him. Victor Hugo sired foals; in Canada and in the U.S. The use of VH at stud in the eastern USA brought Maritime provinces into the picture when the mare Enchantee De Hugo (VH x Never Die Dito [Rafmirz]), bred by John & Paul Longueil of New Hampshire, was sold to Janet Treat King of Willowdale, ON. King sold two of the mare’s daughters Gueililey Grin and Janly Guimauve to Robyn Siteman, Halifax, NS and Richard S. Smith of Fredericton NB, respectively; a son Janly Aliraff went to Lynn M. Acorn of Souris, PEI.
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Canadian National winners related to VH include: Huguenot (VH x Rasha [by Bitraff]) T Stallion; Hugos Co-pilot (VH x Kaidah [Kaimr]) T Trail Horse; WN Winter Park (*Naborr x Bed of Roses [VH x Owna [Azraff]) & ‘ T Pl. Dr.; Ahf Afnas Nabil (VH x AHL Afnas-Nijmi) Eng. Pl. Sr. AOTR T. To this day versatility remains legend among *Raffles-bred horses and no matter how far back in a pedigree, his blood is mighty potent. One fine example is the late champion Surphin Boy (Arco’s Royal Khan x Surphin) bred by Susan Fyfe of Sherwood Park, AB and owned by Lorraine Prowse (see “A Tribute to Surphin Boy,” Canadian Arabian News, Jan. ). His family tree features *Raffles times through: Kubriya, My Bonnie Nylon, Sotep, Rallaf, Aarief, Indraff (twice), Rapture (twice), Tut Ankh Amen, Rafla (twice), Hanraff (twice), and Rasraff, making up of his bloodlines. Who would’ve thought that Roger A. Selby, on a business trip to London in , would spot an ad regarding Crabbet Park Stud in England’s Field magazine while sipping his morning coffee? His admiration for Arabian horses upon that first visit to the Stud and his follow up imports have left an enormous impact on North American Arabian horses to this day, in particular through *Raffles. If perchance you happen to study your horse’s pedigree you, too, may share the magic. He will always be, without end, “Forever *Raffles.”
Author Jean E. Berg would like to extend a special “Thank You” to Don Davy, Lois Selby Perry, and Howard Shank (Al-Marah) for their help with this article.
KAIMR (Mraff x Kairona) with Paul Guthrie of Triple A Ranches, Edmonton AB
Above ABU-ALLA (Abu Baha x Ra-Shalla) Left RA-SHALLA (Hanraff x Bint Holoo)
HANRAFF (Chrallah), Selby bred, sired ASATIL #54 (Kishta) 1950 St, bred by R.B. Field of Leavenworth, WA, and obtained in 1950 by Alan Thompson of Victoria to become British Columbia’s first *Raffles grandson. Champion RA-SHALLA #127 (Bint Holoo) 1950 M bred by Field was bought by Chic and Lillian Miller of Olds, AB who bred her to Abu Baha getting ABU-ALLA #379 in 1954. Abu-Alla was a gorgeous chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail, the type of horse that could pay for the ranch, and did – the majority of his 176 purebreds were from outside mares. He was 1961 Western Canadian Breeders Ch. Stallion and his Get-of-Sire wins at one time numbered 38. Abu-Alla was 1962 Can. Nat. T10 Stallion and his daughter LA NEBLINA (Tinda Vain) was 1964 & ‘65 T10 Mare. (Note: The August 1975 issue of Canadian Arabian News is dedicated to Abu-Alla.) Hanraff daughters: CATHY J (Gisela) m. 1949, dam of RAFSI 1969 U.S. Nat. Ch. Stock Horse; WIRDIH JAMEEL (Wardat Badiya) dam of FAME (*Bask) 1969 U.S. Nat. Ch. Mare and THE JUDGE (*Bask) 1973 U.S. and 1974 Can. Nat. Ch. Park Horse. Cathy J #890 at age 14 became the property of Brien & Jean Horne of Priddis, AB in 1963 for their *Raffles-related program. Another popular son was SIMIN SAHIB (Monaeih) 1956 St bred by the State College of Washington and owned in 1966 by Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Allin, Corbyville, ON.
IMARAFF (Imagida), bred by Wm. States Jacobs, Houston, TX sired two U.S. Nat. Ch. Mares LALLEGRA (1959) and IMARFA (1960). His son IBN IMARAFF #300 (Bint Abou) 1958 St, bred by Cedardell Farms Arabian Stud, Plano, IL was owned in 1959 by Mr. & Mrs. Jack Weber of Exeter, ON and in 1962 by Dalton & Norma Finkbeiner, also of Exeter. Another son SPRUCEHILL AARAF #5282 (Aaroness) 1963 St bred by Dr. J. A. Stroube of Lanse, MH went to D. C. Goyo of the Villerboit Arabian Farm, Weston, ON, owner of the Indraff daughter SARAFFLES #5114 plus two Rapture mares, RAFFELA #5225 and SUMAYA #5224. The latter pair were bought by Serenity Arabian Farms Inc., of Queensville, ON (now in Florida). INDRAFF (*Indaia) Selby bred, became famous as Bazy Tankersley’s main stallion at Al-Marah. His daughter TASLIYA won 1958 U.S. Nat. Res. Ch. M and his grandsons, RADAMASON (x Al-Marah Radames) and HAJABABA (x Hassan-Pasha) were U.S. Nat. Champion Stallions in 1960 & 1963, respectively. Quebec’s first *Raffles grandson AL-MARAH KEEF #145 (Indraff x Kohli) a 1954 St bred by Bazy Tankersley was bought in 1954 by Peter Miller of Westmount. IKHTYARIN #956 (Indraff x Imagida) Tankersley bred, won 1958 U.S. Nat. T10 Stallion, the very first year that the National show was sanctioned. He was sold to Hillhead Farm in 1964, owned by Atlee H. Clark, LaChute, QC. History was made in 1960 when P.B. Williamson of Double U Ranch, Ltd., of Kelowna, BC bought four 1955 Indraff Arabians; BINT KONTESSA #435 (Kontessa Lee), RAS SIBIL #454 (Zulieka) & HIDIYA #455 (Baba), and BINDAFFA #456 (*Bint Rajwa) from their breeder Howard Marks of Tracy, CA. When Williamson decided to go Polish in 1964 the above horses became the treasures of others.
The first went to George Sinclair of Red Deer, AB., the second two to Ralph Petrick of Raboron Arabians, Dawson Creek, BC, and the latter to Eugene & Karna Bentley, Deodar Farms, Celista, BC. Wins at the Canadian Nationals: Bindaffa - 1963 T10 Mare. Farid (Hallany Mistanny x Bindaffa) - 1968 T10 Gelding. Bint Kontessa -1964 T10 Mare.
KUBRIYA (Selfra) was bred by Bazy Miller (Tankersley). His double *Raffles daughter KUSEYNA #1187 (Raanaseyn) 1956 M, bred by James Wrench of Jamestown, CA, sold to Brien & Jean Horne in 1965. Bred to *Raffles-related stallions, her gorgeous foals include WB SOTEYNA #1614 (Sotep) and 1975 Western Can. Breeders Ch. Stallion WB TSAVO #1715 (Tsatyn). R-AKAB #545 (Kubriya x Raanaseyn) 1959 St was purchased by Mrs. Merle Stier in 1960 – his get include the beautiful black SATIN SILHOUETTE (Zahrina), owned by the Circle J Ranch of Big Stone, AB (later of Willets, CA). JR ISHTAR #2964 (Kubriya x Nashera [Tut Ankh Amen]) 1969 St bred by Beverly Ann Noble, Flushing, MH went, to William & Carol Ward, Langton, ON, in 1969; his get numbered 55.
MRAFF (Masyra), Payne bred, along with his son KAIMR were U.S. Nat. T10 Stallions in 1959 when the show was held at Estes Park, CO. He was the sire of U.S. Nat. winners EL HADI, 1964 Res. Ch. Cutting Horse & 1966 Ch. Gelding, and ABU MRAFF, 1967 Ch. Trail Horse. KAIMR #265 (Kairona) a 1956 St was bred by Donald Jones, Portersville, CA and bought in 1958 by Paul J. Guthrie of Triple A Ranches, Edmonton, AB. He won Western Canadian Breeders Ch. Stallion in 1963 and at the Canadian Nationals was 1960 T10 Stallion, his son KAIFFAN (Raffana) won 1978 T10 Trail Horse, and a daughter KAIMR’S CLEOPATRA produced the remarkable ROANOAK BARLO (*Baharr), 1978 Ch. Stock Horse, 1981 Ch. Working Cow Horse, and 1979 U.S. Nat. Ch. Stock Horse. In 1975 Kaimr sold to W. R. & Marjorie Pomeroy, St. John, BC. Continued next page...
Left IKHTYARIN (Indraff x Imagida)
Right BINDAFFA (Indraff x *Bint Rajwa)
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Barry Coulter Arabians welcomes to Canada the lovely Padrons Psyche daughter
in foal to Multi National Champion stallion
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NEWS FLASH!!
We are excited about this cross! Amiira’s first foal won the yearling colt class at Scottsdale a few years back and is a Scottsdale champion performance horse this year. Her black daughter by Tamaal FA is a Region 6 champion and treasured by Faust Arabians in California.
Raffles’ Influence on Canadian Breeding continued...
RAPTURE (Rafla [*Raffles]), bred by Selby, sired KOPTOS 1962 Can. Nat. Ch. Stallion. Rapture was acquired by R. B. Field of Leavenworth, WA who sold four of his get to British Columbia, among them RIAN #389 (Milanne) 1955 St, and IBN AL #1591 (Albricias) 1956 St. Rian was bought by E.E. Charlton, Cloverdale BC, and was last owned by D.B. Conway, Monte Creek. Ibn Al went to the show home of George McKim, Abbotsford BC, where he won his fair share of ribbons, and later to Carol Nordeen of Aldergrove. RIFRAFF (Rafissa [*Raffles]) bred by Clarence & Gina Manion, South Bend, IN. Sire of 1958 mare SEAHORSE AB RIFA (Abkar) 1961 Can. Nat. Ch. M. & 1965 U.S. Nat. Ch. West. Pl. Two Rifraff daughters, SEAHORSE RIFA #705 (Abkar) 1962 and SEAHORSE JURA #3018 (Fadjura) 1960 were bred by A. M. Work of Portland, OR; one went west and the other east. Seahorse Rifa went to John & Violet Proctor of Stettler, AB and the latter was bought in 1972 by Robert W. Brown of Paris, ON who bred her to such stallions as Gailic, Dalul and Gamond.
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New farm name, same old Rogers family tradition. Allan Rogers has been with the breed for 50 years. As a “father/daughter” team we have 90+ years combined experience. We currently specialise in the finest of French and Polish racing lines. : WOTAN (Eldans Wotan x MCD Sita by *Mellon) Owned by Roxanne Rogers
*FALAT (Gwarny x Forta) 1969-1996 One of our foundation sires and sire of Qatar racing star, Feldspar
KORSARZ (*Krezus x Genua by Grand) Owned in partnership with Kim Tucker and Monsieur Alain Benarrous.
O U R M O T T O : “ Q U A L I T Y, N O T Q U A N T I T Y ”
Tanglewood Farm - Roxanne Rogers
RR#1, New Norway, AB T0B 3L0 Phone: 780-352-6413 Email: rrogers1@telus.net
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OURIDAN (Ruffles x Ourida) RUFFLES (Frankokla) horses brought to Ontario were all bred by Clarence & Gina Manion of South Bend, IN, who also bred Ruffles. The east welcomed OURIDAN #44 (Ourida), a 1949 stallion, as Ontario’s first *Raffles grandson. He was purchased by Vernon Schierholtz of Kitchener and later by Dalton & Norma Finkbeiner of Exeter. He was a favorite when used for roping cattle and at gymkhana competitions, siring over 100 partbreds and 3 purebreds. Son KOURIM #203 (Kolima) left 19 purebreds including champion INDIAN SUNDOWNER. 1948 St RUFFOURID (Ourida), acquired by W. C. & Sunny Snider of Sarnia, had only one purebred registered in CAHA, Marlene Wolstenholme’s champion mare SEYNATA #524, dam of Emar Anastasia (Nabeym), 1981 Can. Nat. Res. Ch. Jumper. SOTEP (Zareyna) Payne bred. Sire of NA-IBN SOTEP 1965 Can. Nat. Res. Ch. Stallion & NA MASUMA 1973 Can. Nat. Ch. Native Costume. Sotep sired JB CHAS #1628 (Bint Schada) 1965 St bred by James & Kathleen Wrench, bought in 1965 by Brien & Jean Horne, Priddis, AB and George & Philip Kaiser of Hussar, AB. Of his 37 get, all but two were bred by the above partnership. The Hornes used the ‘WB’ (Willowbrook) prefix and Kaisers used ‘SO’ for their Sotep-related Arabians. At long last in 1972, Manitoba got its first *Raffles grandson, TREETOPS NATTARAFF #4036 (Sotep x Shar-Fanatta) 1971 St bred by F. McLogan, MH, going to Sharen B. Brown of Carberry, MB, then in 1975 to the joint venture of G. Vandermeulen, Sharen Brown and A. Wassill of Souris and finally in 1982 to W. R. Pearl, Admiral, SK. His progeny numbers 58.
PINEY WOOD ARABIANS breeders of many National Champions in Canada and the United States, welcomes home the exotic daughter of the late great stallion P.W. Freed’m..... “P.W. Design By Freed’m,” (‘Annie’) in foal for 2009 to “HJ Gold N Fame,” the gorgeous son of Multi-National Champion Legacy Of Fame.
Annie congratulates the
50th Anniversary of the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry and is looking towards 50+ more !
RAMOSE (Tut Ankh Amen x Razika) with rider Stan Wilson TUT ANKH AMEN (*Roda) bred by Margaret Shuey of Asheville, NC sold to Jeannette Morrill of the Bear Claw Ranch, Dayton, WY. Doesn’t that ranch name conjure up all kinds of wild-west images? Best-known sons in Canada: RAMOSE #113 (Razika), a 1952 stallion bred by Jeannette Morrill, was Alberta’s first *Raffles grandson, owned since a weanling by Stan & Lenore Wilson of Calgary, AB. Stan, in particular, with capes flowing, enjoyed riding him at the hand gallop in Native Costume classes. Ramose at the Canadian Nationals won 1959, ‘61 & ‘62 T10 Stallion and daughter BINT DIKLAT #246 was T10 Mare those same years. RAF TUT #162 (Rafarah [*Raffles]) 1954 St bred by Hugh & Velma Drennen of Idaho had three Alberta owners: W. N. Jones of Strathmore, Dr. Clifford & Pat Brown of Didsbury and Merle Stier of DeWinton. Raf Tut was the sire of two Can. Breeders Ch. Mares, LA RAFAGA (Tinda Vain) and LA PRECIOSA (La Neblina). He himself was 1962 Foothills Cutting Association cutting horse champion; he and his sons (including RAF-DANE (Tindane), owned by Anne Davison’s Athabasca Ranches, Hinton AB) defeated Quarter Horses in cutting horse contests. KHEM #241 (Razika) 1956 St, also Morrill bred, went to Mary J. Burpee of Hughengden, AB; he sired 67 purebreds. Most people buying Arabians back then were handson, getting enjoyment out of every facet of owning a horse – Mary Burpee was such a person. Mary’s article “Winners Without a Judge’s Nod,” appears in the Jan. 1982 Canadian Arabian News. She too was bit by the VH bug, getting Gango Rafle Image #2390 from Gango Firefly (Khem) in 1969.
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CAHR PRESIDENTS Dr. Anthony Kingscote Honorary President 1961-64 Jack L. Simpson AB 1961 Charles A. Kee ON 1962 Paul J. Guthrie AB 1963-64 Dalton A. Finkbeiner ON 1965-66 John F. Cogger BC 1967-68 H. Lorne Thompson AB 1969-70 Dalton A. Finkbeiner ON 1971 Warren Fertig AB 1972-75 Les K. Ash ON 1976 Dr. George Allen AB 1977 Dean G. Grant AB 1978-82 Warren Whitley ON 1983-85 Charles Hubschmid AB 1986-1988 Don Ferguson AB 1989-92 Michael Blake BC 1993-95 Gerry Levasseur AB 1996-97 Robert Sproule AB 1998-2000 Jill Barton ON 2001-03 Marcia Friesen MB 2004 to present
named Paul Guthrie – a perfect stranger – asking me if I would attend a meeting in Calgary with some people who were interested in forming an association with a view to publishing a Canadian Stud Book. ...I don’t know where to place credit for all the work that was done in the beginning – a new constitution, and publishing of the first Stud Book. Somebody did a lot of work and I suspect that it was Dr. Kingscote, Joan Durrant and Charles Kee with Paul Guthrie as a great driver.” - Lorne Thompson,
May/June 1991 Canadian Arabian News
BRITISH COLUMBIA DIRECTORS George Blooe 1961 P.B. Williamson 1961 Dr. William Newby 1962-67 Timothy B. Rolph 1962, 1968-69 John F. Gogger 1964-69 William Eddlestown 1969-70 Janet M. Oddy 1970-72 Frank Coghlan 1971-74 Mr. Sheila Kirk 1973-75 Gary Fraser 1975-76 Rolfe Pretty 1976 Richard Larrison 1977-81 David G. Reed 1978-84 J. McKeown 1982 Mercia J. McKitrick 1983-89 Eleanor Anderson 1985-88 Gail Dowding 1989-90 Micheal Blake 1990-97 Bill Lee 1991 to present Sheila Godfrey 1998 to present
ALBERTA DIRECTORS J.L. Simpson 1961-62 Paul J. Guthrie 1961-66, 69-74, 76 H. Lorne Thompson 1963-64, 66-72 Chic Miller 1963-65 John Rudolph 1966-68 Warren Fertig 1967-71, 73-76, 79-84 Charles Hubschmid 1969, 71-83, 85-87 George Allen 1971-73, 75-77 Dean Grant 1973-75, 77-85 Ernest J. Tessari 1974 Austin Whelihan 1975-80 Myrle Tessari 1981-88 Don Jackson 1983-85 Don Ferguson 1986-95 Ed Galloway 1988-89 Mara Coote-Freman 1989-95 Gerry Levasseur 1990-2004 Robert Sproule 1995 to present Mike Steenhart 1998 to present Lisa Levasseur 2005 Tex Kam 2006 to present
SASKATCHEWAN DIRECTORS George Iverson 1963-1964 Mrs. Gladys Dorsch 1965-67 W.L. Yonge 1968 to 1970 Carley Cooper 1971-72, 74-75 Gary Lang 1973-74 Ross Cannon 1975-77 Walter B. Thompson 1976-79 John Lothman 1978-81 William Pain 1980-81 Winn Barr 1982-87 Ed Friesen 1982-85 Cliff Beuker 1986-87 George Siemens 1988-93 Gary Spice 1988-91, 1994-2006 Megan Francis 2007 to present MANITOBA DIRECTORS H. Lorne Thompson 1961 Dr. J. E. Hudson 1962 Douglas J. Penner 1970-73 Dr. Michal M.M. Tack 1973-83, 85-86 Frank G. Fileccia 1984 Ann Decima 1987-95 Marcia Freisen 1996 to present
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ONTARIO DIRECTORS Dr Anthony Kingscote 1961 Charles Kee 1962-63 Joan I. Durrant 1961-63 Fred Wilkins 1962 & 1974 Dalton Finkbeiner 1963-66, 68-75 John Creighton 1964-1965 Mrs. Chris Wade 1964-66 Les K. Ash 1966-87 W.P. Harrison 1967-70 William C. Snider 1967-69, 71-72 Nyle Brunk 1973-75 Stanley R. Miller 1973 Jill Barton 1975-77, 93 to present Robert Anderson 1976, Warren Whitley 1977-86 Frank Marlow 1978-82 Ronald L. Johnson 1983 to present Jean Dinsmore 1987-88 Shirley Klassen 1989-92
QUEBEC DIRECTORS Jay J. Irwin 1970-72, 76-89 Onil Couture 1973-75 Heinz Luthi 1990-93 Marc Forget 1994-96 Pamela Blanchette 1997-99 Line Couvrette 2000-06 Hilda Markis 2007 to present MARITIMES DIRECTORS Donald R. Arsenault 1986-90, 94-96 Eldon Leslie 1991-93 Frank Taylor 1997-?? Wayne McLaughlin
CANADIAN ARABIAN NEWS EDITORS Dean Mayberry & Merle Stier 1960-64 Dean and & Mayberry 1964-1971 Ted Crooks 1972-83 Rob Evans 1983-84 Donna McConaghy 1984-85 Sandra L. Fischer 1986-87 Ann Beaque 1988-89 Kerry Powell 1990 Linda Roth 1990-91 Ann Beaque 1992 Shari Christie 1992-93 Peggy Arthurs 1993-1999 Nicole Toren 2000-05 Nicole Toren (Executive Editor) 2008 & Christina Weese (Managing Editor)
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OLKS F E H T F O W E *UST A F
Warren Fertig
Charles Hubschmid
Lew Young
Lorne Thompson
Austin and Pat Whelihan
Jack Cogger, Mrs. Finkbeiner and Del. Finkbeiner
Ray & Milly Tressaria
Janet Oddy & Raseyn Gezan Gladys Dorsch
Lady Century with Larry Kincade on the line
Paul Guthrie & family with Kaimr in the traces
This picture of Leo Maxwell appeared in the News, with an excerpt from his letter that says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Due to the fact that I am only a student ďŹ nishing my Grade 12 and hope to get a University degree I will be unable to bid on any of your tremendous horses but I am making plans to hitchhike...â&#x20AC;? Leo gave us an update on his trip â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actually I was able to get a ride to Winnipegâ&#x20AC;Śdid the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;railsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to Toronto and then a bus to Maryland. My parents â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;were toldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; I had a ride all the way. The mare in the picture, WB Kaitaia (*Ibn Irex x Victors Silver Duchess [x Victor Hugo]), went on to be Top Ten HA Halter and also produced TT Fairfax Firen Ice and TT Demaran Larayta. Kaitaia was bred by Brien and Jean Horne of Priddis AB. They also owned WB Tsavo, and co-owned JB Chas with the Kaisers of Hussar AB.â&#x20AC;?
Frank Fileccia (?) and Winn Furman (nee Barr) Jean Berg photo
Left to right Phyllis Kinsella, Warren Whitley, Dean Mayberry Ted & Eileen Crooks 1985
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YOU MAY REMEMBER
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Bob Klassen
Dr. and Mrs. Cole with Dalul
Austin Rowbotham on Rahcountoro++
Gail Tory Bob & Pam Zimmerman with Krakus Pandora+//
Carla Jackson
Mike Lindsay Eric Brand and Roanoak Barlo
A. Rutshauser, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miss Oso,â&#x20AC;? and Gail Dowding
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George Allen DVM with Silver Charm Left to right Tom & Marilyn Bell, Eric & Shirley Brand, Marilyn & Harvey Sheftel. The six stopped oďŹ&#x20AC; in Vegas on the way home from the US national Show in NM, 1989, Tom & Marilyn both long time trainers, breeders and showmen of the Arabian breed. Eric Brand, life-long trainer, and wife Shirley ran their training business from the well-known establishment owned by the Sheftels called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silverhillâ&#x20AC;?. After the untimely death of Harvey Sheftel in 1992, the stable was sold. The Sheftel Family and the Brands still keep in touch.
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Congratulations to CAHR from Region 17! www.region17.com
Pioneer breeder George Iverson of Prince, Saskatchewan imports Kashira #12 (*Nuri Pasha x Korein) and Khivane #13 (*Sunshine x Tebuk) from Albert W. Harris of Chicago, Illinois. In 1948 Iverson imports Bitraff (Rasraff x Bitwa), a weanling colt bred by John & Alice Payne of Chino, California. Four years later in 1952, Iverson imports the yearling colt George Iverson on Kashira and daughter Jean on Khivane. Victor Hugo (*Raffles x Gazyya), also bred by Paynes. Victor Hugo would be instrumental in spreading *Raffles’ genes through out Canada and the Eastern US. See “Forever Raffles,” p. 50.
Chic and Lillian Miller of Olds, AB travel to Seattle, WA to purchase the 3-year-old mare Ra-Shalla (Hanraff x Bint Holoo) from Woody Madsen, who would partner in Lasma Arabians. On their way home, the Millers stopped to see Abu Baha, Pacific Coast Champion, and Ra-Shalla would thus produce their foundation stallion Abu Alla the following spring. Abu Alla was the 1961 Canadian Breeders’ Champion, won a Top Ten at Nationals in 1962, and by 1975 had won 38 Get of Sire classes. Abu Alla, from the August 1975 cover of the News. He was the first stallion in Canada to sire over 100 foals, producing a total of 171 purebreds – a remarkable feat when one considers that the Millers were one of the first Arabian horse breeders in Alberta, and the majority of his get were from outside mares. He also sired the first partbred gelding to win a Legion of Merit in Canada, Gypsy’s Ni-Kalla. The August 1975 issue of the Canadian Arabian News is dedicated to Abu Alla.
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Raseyn Gezan
Bud and Janet Oddy founded Oddy’s Skyline Arabians when they purchased their foundation stallion, Raseyn Gezan (Antezeyn Skowronek x Nadir by Gezan) 1956-1982, who had a National Top Ten Halter win in 1963. Oddy’s Skyline Arabians was located at Mt. Lehman and later Merritt, BC. Janet purchased her first horse by renting out her room during the 1942 Calgary Stampede, making $46.00, which was more than enough for “Midnight” who cost $35.00 and was stabled in her mother’s garage. Fifty-two years later, Janet and Bud still run the farm and currently stand the pure Polish stallion *Falk, by Balon, Poland’s 2003 National Champion.
The Canadian Arabian Horse Association, later known as the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry (CAHR), is incorporated under the Animal Pedigree Act to register purebred Arabian horses within the borders of Canada. The No. 1 horse registered was Al Hamseh (*Raseyn x Ismailia), owned by Philip K. Wrigley of Chicago IL. According to Director Ron Johnson, the Registry was originally started when some Ontario members wanted to show at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. In order for a breed to show there they needed a Canadian registry, as the Federal Government gave large grants to the Royal to run a train across Canada to bring livestock from the West. The first Champion Mare at the Royal was from British Columbia.
The first Canadian National Show is held in Calgary AB. The show that became known as “The Royal Red” would become the longest running national show held by the AHA, celebrating its 50th show in 2007. “Following the resounding success of the 1st All Arabian Horse Show sponsored by the Arabian Horse Association of Western Canada in Calgary in the year 1958 it was then decided that National Championship Classes could become a reality. In order to devote full time and effort to the formation of the National Championship Classes, an independently operated Division of the Arabian Horse Association of Western Canada was formed and known as The Arabian Horse Association of Western Canada, Prairie Division (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba).” - “The Canadian National Arabian Horse Show is Born,” by E. H. (Ted) Crooks, Canadian Arabian News,
The Canadian National show is sanctioned by the IAHA. The first Canadian Breeders classes are held as part of the show; Fahfaha, owned by Bar D.R. Arabians of Hanna AB, was Breeders’ Champion Stallion and Diklat, owned by Wilson’s Arabians of Calgary AB, was Breeders’ Champion Mare.
In February, the first issue of the Canadian Arabian News is released. Produced by Mrs. Dean Mayberry of Hanna, AB and Mrs. Merle Stier of Midnapore AB; the first issue was a black and white “newsletter” issue done on a typewriter. See “For the Love of the Horse,” page 27.
< Cover of the first issue of the News.
Keith and Gail Dowding are first introduced to Arabian horses. They would go on to found Rocking Horse Ranch, first at Surrey BC, then moving to Keremeos BC in 1972. Mrs. Dowding writes in a 1972 article, “As a general rule, when a horseman or horsewoman takes a vacation it’s to look at horses in the sunny southern States.” The Dowdings owned Najma+, the first Canadian-bred mare to receive the Legion of Merit. Others in their broodmare herd included daughters of Abu Jameel, Abu Farwa, Raffon, Bay Abi, and Raseyn Gezan. RHR stallions included Ahsan (*Witez II x Narzawi) 1952, Ibn Valaddi++ (Valaddi x Lundy’s Cayuga) 1963, and Swasion (*Gwalior x *Ostroga) 1968. Rocking Horse Ranch is still in operation today; for many years they stood the *Bask son Dyako (Cytranylla), they also stood RH Gentle Man (*Almaddinn [by *Aladdin] x Rocking Horse Tara), MHR Election (Elimar [by Celebes] x Bask Cameo), and a son of Ibn Valaddi++, RH Beau Valaddi (Elsinor Muzulteyn). RH Beau Valaddi’s half-Arabian get Nox Yur Sox Off+++// was 1997 Canadian National Champion Trail Horse, 1997 US Nat’l Champion Western Side Saddle, and US Res. Nat’l Champion A/O Western Pleasure.
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Todd Ehret Equine
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Congratulations from Dare to Dream Farm and FSF Jesse James!
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*Arwistawa (Geyran x Arfa by Witraz) 1958-1993 is brought to Canada as the crown jewel of a group of ten horses imported by PB and Lois Williamson of the Double U Ranch of Kelowna, BC, under the advice of their stud manager Allan Rogers. At the time, the price paid for *Arwistawa, who had set a track record in Poland, was rumored to be the most paid for any Polish import to North America. *Arwistawa went on to be the first double national champion in the history of the breed, winning US and Canadian National Champion Mare in 1965. Other notable Double U horses include *Edycja++ (*Naborr x Estokada), imported in the 1964 group, dam of Edytor (x *Kirkor) and Gay Apollo++ (x *Gaypolka); and the stallion *Gaypolka++ (*Pietuszok x *Caliope by Witraz) 1961-1982. *Gaypolka was imported in utero by John M Rogers of California; Gaineys ended up with the resulting colt and he was purchased for the Double U Ranch by Allan Rogers on a buying trip in 1963. *Gaypolka sired 234 purebred progeny. In 1970, following a divorce and the tragic death of their son Johnny in a car crash, Mrs. Williamson dispersed the Double U herd and many went to Allan and Lois Rogers, including *Arwistawa and *Gaypolka++. Allan and his daughter Roxanne Rogers continue to focus on pure Polish and Arabian racehorse breeding to this day (www.roxannerogers.com).
Above *Gaypolka++ Top right PB and Lois Williamson in the left front of the picture, on the rail. Right Allan and Roxanne Rogers with Bindaffa
1964
Allan Dale Arabians is born when Warren and Joyce Fertig venture into Arabian Horses. After Warren graduated with his teaching degree in 1964, their first two stops were at the farms of Lorne Thompson and Chic Miller, both of Olds, Alberta. The Fertigs purchased a filly and a colt respectively. Those first purchases began a long association with the breed that still holds true today. Warren served the Registry admirably over the years, first as treasurer and then as president for several terms. Over the years, many champions have come from their program in Red Deer AB. Allan Dale stood many well known stallions such as Witezon Zarzon (Witezar x Ferzona [x Ferzon]) and Proud Silver (Tornado x Silver Gleam [x Silver Drift]), but their best accomplishments came from breeding to Bey Shah to produce many National winners. Today, Allan Dale breeding can be found in show rings around the world. Joyce continues to live in Red Deer while Warren (now remarried) and his wife Jan still own Arabian horses in Red Deer, Alberta. Although the number of horses may be smaller, the quality has not suffered. Allan Dale competes regionally and nationally with their horses in Canada, the United States and Brazil.
Witezon Zarzon
1965 A membership in the
Canadian Arabian Horse Registry cost $5.00; lifetime memberships cost $75.00. A subscription to the News cost $2.00 domestic and $2.50 foreign for 11 issues.
1968 A press release in the Nov./Dec. issue
of the News by Hansi & Brad Heck of Serenity Farms Ltd. at Queensville, ON, announces that twenty-three Straight Egyptian horses arrived at 6:30 pm in Toronto, ON, from Cairo, Egypt. This was the largest single importation of Straight Egyptians Arabians thus far in the history of the North American continent. See “Serenity Farms,” p. 41. Silver Century ++
1967
Silver Century++ (*Silver Drift x Miss Century) is purchased as a weanling by Bob and Liz Lindsay of Circle L Arabians, Priddis AB. In 1973, Mrs. Lindsay wrote “Our search for an outstanding breeding stallion really began back in 1958. From that time up until 1966 we had primarily used two stallions and were pleased with what they had produced but felt we were looking for that extra ‘something’ that is so necessary in a breeding stallion of any worth.” Silver Century++ , by *Silver Drift (a full brother to *Serafix) and out of Miss Century, Dr. H.F. Kale’s 1966 US Nationals Futurity winner, certainly provided that extra ‘something’. He won 1969 Reserve Champion Canadian Breeders Stallion, capturing the Championship in 1970 and going on to 1971 Region 9 Champion Stallion and Canadian National Top Ten, topping it off as Canadian Reserve National Champion Stallion in 1972 and gracing the cover of the News in July 1973. Bob & Liz Lindsay held their dispersal sale June 7, 1980, retaining only Silver Century, the stallion Starbask, and a few mares.
Gin Dhandi+++
1968
Gin Dhandi+++ (Imagin x Abuseyna) is the first Canadian-born Arabian to earn his Legion of Merit. Trained by Dr. James Rooker as a three-year-old, Gin Dhandi was bred and owned by Mrs. W.C. Snider of Sarnia ON. CAHR 50 years August 2008 69
Rae-Dawn Arabians
Stonebridge Farms of London ON purchases the yearling *Morafic son Dalul (Dawlat). Dalul would go on to be the most prolific sire in the Straight Egyptian craze sweeping Canada – he is, to this day, the leading sire in the CAHR studbook with 390 foals to his credit, ranked no. 73 in the world. (Editor’s note: At Dalul time of publication, Magic Dream had moved to first place with 392 purebred foals). He would go on to be 1971 US National Futurity Colt Champion, 1972 and 1975 US National Top Ten Stallion, and 1976 Canadian National Top Ten Stallion. Dr. and Mrs. John Cole purchased their first Arabian mare at a Gleannloch Sale of Champions in Barksdale TX in 1966.
The Canadian Arabian 306-373-6346 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan www.rdarabians.com
Horse Association is pleased to announce in December the purchase of the Canadian Arabian News from Mr. & Mrs. Russ and Dean Mayberry of Hanna, AB.
Ted Crooks at Canadian Nationals c. 1982
Grande Prairie AB & Scottsdale AZ www.pomeroyarabians.com
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Ted Crooks takes over as editor of the News. He would hold this position until 1983, and continue as editorial consultant until 1985, all on an entirely volunteer basis. Ted was an enthusiastic horseman, a founding member of the Alberta Light Horse Association and the Chinook Arabian Horse Club, and for 10 years the manager of the Canadian National Arabian Show. Ted passed away January 15, 1994.
*Baharr (Ego x Banda by *Pietuszok) is imported from Poland by Paul and Helen Guthrie of Triple A Ranches, Edmonton AB. By 1982, his purebred get had won more National ribbons than any other living Canadian sire. *Baharr himself was a Canadian Breeders Champion Stallion, Region 17 Champion Western Pleasure horse, and Reserve Champion Stock Horse at Scottsdale and Canadian Nationals. In 1973 Triple A Ranches also stood the stallions Kaimr (Mraff x Kairona), Sur-Boneyn (Sureyn x Bonita), and their foundation stallion, Brusally Gwiaztyn 1965 (*Gwiazdor x *Gontyna by Doktryner ), Canadian Breeders Reserve Champion in 1971 and Champion in 1972 with Ron Paul Guthrie Palelek. Paul Guthrie believed very much in “using horses” and was a strong supporter of Arabian racing, which flourished in Alberta during the late ‘70’s and ‘80’s.
Gai-Champion (Gay Rouge x GaGajala by Ferzon) is Gai-Champion advertised as being “undefeated in 10 shows,” and wins his 2-year-old Colts class at Scottsdale as well as Grand Champion Stallion at the Chicago International Show. Gai Champion would go on to be Canadian National Champion Stallion in 1975. He was owned by Warren Whitley of Warob Arabians, Belleville ON, a noted breeder and president of CAHR in the early 1980’s. Warob Arabians’ trainer Bob Klassen also showed Dalul to his Top Ten at US Nationals. Standing for Warob in 1973: Radio (Ferzon x Radiant), Bada Serendip (R-Rakkas x Serendipity) Region 10 Champion and 1972 Eastern Canada Breeders Champion Stallion, Adios (Azraff x Rose of Cherry), and Comar Zepazraff (Azraff x R-Zepa by Sotep).
Mr. Geert Keur acquires Arabians for the first time from the Gainey program, which would go on to produce the signature horses of Quilchena Farms. Born in Holland in 1906, Keur moved to Vancouver BC in 1927 and owned his first Arabian in 1956. Mr. Keur is perhaps one of the foundation breeders who is most fondly remembered; the May 1980 issue of the Canadian Arabian News states, “If anyone loves his horses, this gentleman does; he absolutely beams when around them.” Using his own breeding acumen, Keur built a herd of Ferzon/ Azraff linebred horses who were “consistent and prepotent in their beauty and elegance, and greatly admired by all who have seen them.” Quilchena Farms stood Quilchena Parada (Gai Parada x Galatina), whose sire and dam were both by Ferzon. Quilchena Parada was a notable broodmare sire, with daughters such as QF Laila (Martje Mar), dam of 2x National Champion Colt SH Phantom Echo (x Echo Magnificoo). Geert Keur passed away in 1986.
Mr. Geert Keur and Gai Gay Belle
*Baharr at the Janow auction in Poland; he was the high seller.
Brusally Gwiaztyn
It was a good show year for Brad Kluzak and Isfahan++ (Ga’zi x Aaraba) – the pair swept Region 17 Western Pleasure and Costume Championships, won R17 Reserve Champion English Pleasure, and a Canadian National Top Ten in Costume. They finished the year as US National Costume Champions. It’s interesting to see how popular equitation classes were at the time; that year it was advertised that Brad had won nine equitation firsts, a Stock Seat and Saddle Seat Medal. Brother Ron won medals in Stock Seat and Saddle Seat as well.
*Baharr, from the March 1975 cover of the News
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Ray and Milly Tressaria’s Dragon Place Arabians, breeding since 1962, shifts gears to focus on black Arabians. The farm has had much success with their exports; they sent three fillies to England, including DP Black Angel (DP Black Smoke x Black Lace) who won a Top Ten at Ascot and placed at British Nationals in 1995. They exported the stallion DP Black Smoke (Malabar DP Black Smoke Duke x Spark of Magic), DP Black Minx (DP Black Smoke x Black Mariah) and DP Black Dakota (DP Black Kyber x Driftwoods Shakira) to Germany, where DP Black Smoke would earn High Point Arabian Performance Horse for all of Germany, and win European Champion Arabian Dressage Horse in 1990. Dragon Place has exported 21 horses to Europe and 3 to England altogether. Today, Dragon Place Arabians still breeds for black, with a focus on Straight Egyptians. (www.canadianblackarabians.com)
The Canadian Arabian Horse Association changes its name to the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry.
403-887-2651 Red Deer, Alberta www.toplinetraining.ca
TR Magnum
Dr. Larry Kincade of Sherwood Park, Alberta traveled behind the Iron Curtain to the Tersk Stud in Russia. He was accompanied on this trip by several North American breeders including Howard Kale Jr. of Bothell, Washington and Ken Guilbeaux of Lafayette, Louisiana. Dr. Kincade’s early importation of the Aswan daughter *Paluba (Pustinia) was one of many Russian imports that followed onto the North American continent. Kincades Lakeview Arabians became home to many wonderful broodmares and the renowned stallions *Patent and TR Magnum.
The Crooks Family Circle C Performance Horses
Medicine Hat, Alberta 403-548-2882
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Cherry Hill Arabians of Stouffville ON acquires their foundation stallion, Shamahl (*Talal x *Shamah) 19742002. Eric and Arlene Lehmann’s fascination with Egyptian Arabians was originally inspired by Serenity Farms. In 1978 they purchased their foundation mare, Il Bint Soufian (Soufian x Narjisa) from Mantei’s Diamond M Arabians. Other influential stallions used in the Cherry Hill program include *Mameluck (Hadban Enzahi x Moheba 11), whom they had on lease for four-anda-half years, and *Ben Ben Bilal (Misk x Nazeema), who is enjoying his retirement. Shamahl Other notable Cherry Hill horses inlcude *Ashwak (Ibn Shahrzada x Basima), imported by the Lehmanns from the EAO in 1986, Saida Sudani (Shamahl x Zelta) 1979, Eastern Canadian Breeders Champion Mare, and Eastern Canadian Breeders Champion Stallions Hafiz Moniet (Ibn Hafiza x Il Bint Soufian), owned by Vaughn and Victoria Snelgrove, and The Cairo Bey (Mameluck x Bint Jamila) who won in 1996. *Ben Ben Bilal is also the sire of Allan Ehrlick’s DAL Apollo, whose titles last year included championships in PB Working Hunter AO & AT with a Reserve in the Open at Canadian Nationals. The last foal born at the farm was United Colours (True Colours x Set El Kol) 2003, owned by Julie and Jarrett Green of Blue Mountain Arabians. (www.cherryhillarabs.on.ca)
*Pietuszok
Pyatigorsk
1978
Wunderbar Arabians, owned by Jack & Helen Friesen of Saskatoon, SK, had a clinic and open house in the summer. Gordon Shea, former trainer for Gainey Arabians, gave a full day of demonstrations using the beautiful champions of Wunderbar such as Gai Sparkler and Princess Galama. Over 200 spectators came out for the day. On Oct. 28 & 29, Spruce Meadows, AB hosts a horsemanship seminar given by Gene & Ray LaCroix of Arizona. 540 people attend; at that time it was the largest clinic audience they had had in North America. Attendees travel from as far as British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Minnesota, Colorado, Idaho, and Washington.
1979
Pyatigorsk (Pietuszok Dwa x Mistical Lady), 1979-2004, is born to Willomar Arabians, the fruit of many years of work by Dr. George and Lynn Allen of Taber, AB. In 1972, the Allens travelled to Poland to obtain *Pietuszok, who was imported in 1973 at 18 years of age. He passed away one year later, having sired four foals in North America, all colts, including Pietuszok Dwa out of the Willomar foundation mare Silver Charm (*Bajram [*Pietuszok] x *Silwara). Pietuszok Dwa unfortunately sired only one foal crop before his accidental death, but it included the bay colt Pyatigorsk. Pyatigorsk is currently the fourth leading sire in Canada with 335 purebred foals. Willomar was a significant force in Western Canadian breeding in the 1970’s and early 80’s, holding numerous yearly productions sales. Willomar is still in existence and located in Mossyrock, WA. (www.willomar.com)
1979
Martin and Sylvia Lenzner of Marsil Arabians begin their breeding program. For a small farm (producing approximately forty foals in just over twenty-five years), the Lenzners have done incredibly well. Their purebreds include Saskia Bey (Bey Shah+ x NV Espania), Star World Champion and US Nat’l Top Ten Mare in 1985, Mascara (NV Beau Bey x Mahalya by Bey Shah+), a black 1997 filly who was sold to Germany by Flying A Ranch, and Akhademy+/ (Soldat x Padomac Hilane), standing at Todd Ehret’s in Wetaskawin AB. It is, however, in the world of half-Arabians that the Lenzners have had the most impact, mainly via the great Soldat (Bey Shah+ x NV Espania by *Werbor++), 1983-2004, whom they bred and stood at stud his entire life. Soldat’s 125 offspring have produced thus far a combined total of 8904.7 points (Sweepstakes stats) and include half-Arabian champions Baroque++//, SAF Sohigh++++/, WL Sole Commander+//, Naughty Or Nice++++//, Soleya++++, So Double Your Bet+//, KV Leggidiann+++/ and Tragically Hip+//. Soldat himself was shown to a 1986 Canadian National Top Ten Stallion by Mike Neal; he was the first Canadian-bred and -owned stallion in 16 years to earn that honor. More recently, Lenzners produced the HA gelding Kohlminer+++/ 2002 (RA Hot Every Nite ASHA x Orriya by Avatar Obsidian). Martin passed away in 2006 but Sylvia continues to breed Arabians in Spruce Grove, AB. Soldat
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Yes, there were Arabians in Canada’s far north! In the Feb. 1980 edition of the News, a memorial to Royal Victory (*Victory Day II x Maarnatta) 1951-1979 by owner Vivian Hayward-Breakwell says: “With great pride I must write of Victory Candida, the first purebred Arabian mare in the Land of the Midnight Sun, Victory Sunshine, Victory Fiesta and Royal Victory’s own half-brother, Victory’s Falha – all in the good hands of Mr. and Mrs. Clive Boyd, and daughter Tracy, of Whitehorse, Yukon. These fine horses compete at Haines, Alaska each year bringing back to Canada a great many trophies. Also, this year Candida and Sunshine were first and second in the tough Yukon Endurance Race.”
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alone show, with 44 classes being held.
Canada hosts the World Arabian Horse Organization (WAHO), August 16-20, Calgary AB. WAHO delegates are presented with a Canadian Arabian Breeders Exhibition, with Dr. Gordon Kluzak as Master of Ceremonies. Held at Spruce Meadows, some of Western Canada’s finest stock is presented, including horses such as Precious Me (Wunderbar), Fara Cinda (Hassan), Bask Rhythm (an Allan Dale horse sold to Tye-Trans Training Centre Ltd.), *Baharr (Triple A Ranches), Style Master and Proud Silver (Allan Dale Arabians), Quilchena Parada (Quilchena Farms), Pyatigorsk (Willomar), and Shamruk (Diamond M Arabians).
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Susan Fyfe purchases the weanling Surokhan (Osaka x GG Mantra), foundation sire of Keno Hills Stable in Sherwood Park AB. Susan’s experience working at Spruce Meadows and in California alongside the US Olympic Team would show in the success of her students; Surokhan provided the horses for them to win on. Surokhan’s national champions include Ghia’s Gal+// (Surokhan x LR Ghia [x Gaypolka++]) 1983, Canadian National Surokhan Champion in PB Hunter Hack (2005 and 2007) and Res. Ch. in Working Hunter (AAO 2005/2006, Open 2005). A Little Piece of Heaven+// (Surokhan x LR Ghia [x Gaypolka++]) 1996, was Western Pleasure JO 14-17 Res. Champion (2002) and Champion (2003), and Side Saddle Western Res. Champion (2007; all at Canadian Nationals). Both mares were ridden to their championships by Susan’s daughter Ashley Shan Fyfe Brown. The line-bred Surphin Boy+// 1994-2007 (Arco’s Royal Khan [x Surokhan] x Surphin [x Surokhan]) was 8x Canadian National Champion and 4x Reserve Champion in PB Jumper (Open and AT) and Working Hunter (AAO and JT 17 & Under), owned and ridden by Lorraine Prowse. With her other grey gelding, Sur Teddy’s Magna+// 1997 (Surokhan x HM Magna), Lorraine won championships in PB Working Hunter AAO (Cdn. Nat. 2005), Hunter Hack (Cdn. Nat. Res. 2005 & 2007; SHN AAO Res. 2006) and Sport Horse Under Saddle (Cdn. Nat. Res. 2006). Half-Arabian winners include Keno’s Treasure+// (x Surokhan), 5x Canadian National Champion Jumper owned and ridden by Crystal Sheck.
Zodiac Matador+ (*Bask++ x RO Fanciray) wins his first National Park Horse Championship at Canadian Nationals. He would go on to win US National Champion Park Horse in 1985 and 1987. He was the first stallion to win a double US National Championship in Park; both were won with Gene LaCroix in the saddle. Bob and Mil Bradburn of Pinnacle Arabians, Edmonton AB, saw Matador for the first time in the ring at the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show – they were instantly attracted to the youngster and purchased him on the spot. He would go on to found a trotting dynasty for the Bradburns, with Pinnacle becoming the #1 International Breeder of Open English Pleasure and Park National Champions in the history of the breed (AHA Magazine June 2004). Pinnacle-bred horses have gone on to not only break records in the show ring, but many sons and daughters of this program have become important sires and/or broodmares in the industry. The Pinnacle breeding program, simply put, was to breed Matdor to the best mares possible – those with some *Bask in their bloodlines often produced the best results. Important stallions that have come from the Pinnacle breeding program include Zodiac Matador sons Mamage, Matrifik, Matio+//, Matoi, Mats Toi, Matisto and Mattafair, as well as Triften (x Matrifik), Pension (x Matrifik), and Tomage (x Matio+//). Exceptional Matador daughters include Mattess, Matalove, Matoska, Matamint, Mattaroyale+//, Magical Medley+/, SRF MakeMyneMynk++/ and Ms Manhattan+/. (www.pinnaclearabians.com) d Mike Whelihan
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William and Lillian Mantei attend the Gleannloch Sale of Champions. Though they had acquired their first purebred Arabian in 1962, seeing *Morafic and two of Gleannloch’s imported Nazeer daughters convinced them their future lay in Egyptian bloodlines. Diamond M Arabians, located in Estevan SK, would purchase three foundation mares from Gleannloch: Il Mandil (*Moftakhar x *Salomy), Il Mara (*Morafic x *Somaia), and Narjisa (*Moftakhar x *Bint Nefisaa), purchased by their son Bob. They leased various Gleannloch stallions over the years including the Nazeer grandson *Soufian (Alaa El Din x Moniet El Nefous), *Ibn Antar (Antar x *Bint Mona), and El Shalyar (*Soufian x Wafa by *Morafic). Shamruk++ (*Ibn Hafiza x *Bint Maisa El Saghira) was brought up from Gleannloch on lease in 1975 as an unproven two-year-old. His foals were so sensational that Diamond M purchased him the following year. One of the Diamond M high points was when their homebred Shamruk ++ Egyptian Belle (Shamruk++ x Moniet Il Mandil) sold for $330,000 in the Gleannlock Legacy Sale at Beaver, Pennsylvania, the third highest price in the sale. Another was the great success of Egypt’s Love Song (Shamruk++ x Zeynah Aneesah) at the 1982 Egyptian Event, where she was named World Champion Mare of 1982, Reserve Sr World Champion Mare and Reserve Supreme World Champion Mare.
In May, Dalul would grace the cover of Arabian Horse World magazine. Stonebridge Farms goes public as a Limited Partnership with a proposed purchase of 37 Straight Egyptian mares and 3 stallions. The partnership was projected to be ‘in the black’ within three years but ultimately the unsound investment strategy would spell the end for Stonebridge.
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Congratulations CAHR! Cori Wilson
The Minotaur Syndicate is formed. Minotaur+ 1986 (Menes x Amurath Selari [*Ramses Fayek x *Sanacht]), is the 1995 Region 5 and 8 Res. Ch. Stallion, 1997 unanimous Region 13 Champion Stallion, and won US National Top Ten (’96) and two Canadian Nat’l Top Tens (’96 and ’97). According to the Grand Arabians website, he is the winner of over 20 Most Classic awards [16 recorded on Datasource] and three-time Manitoba Provincial Champion Stallion. Minotaur is owned by The Minotaur Syndicate, Roger Belton of Belton Arabians in Winnipeg MB and Linda & Dave Mehney, Grand Arabian Farms, Grand Rapids MI. Minotaur is still alive and Linda says, “He is at our farm and doing very well – he still thinks he is ten and looking at him you would think so too. He is a delight to have here!”
CAHR adds to their
services the Canadian Partbred Arabian Registry (CPAR), for Anglo and partbred Arabians. 250-764-4145 www.shygayfeen.com
Salah Al Din+ (SX Saladin x Kashmiri), owned by Howard McKee
Lorne Thompson of Olds, Alberta holds a final dispersal of all of his horses, “The Gathering Sale,” held on June 25. Over the years Lorne was credited in selling seed stock to many breeders such as Allan Dale and Wunderbar. Lorne was a dedicated servant of the CAHR for many years, acting as Secretary and President. In the May/June 1991 issue of the News, Lorne writes, ‘I know all things do come to an end. My only hope is that one of my grandchildren will learn to love and care for one of the Arabian horses I will leave behind, progeny of number -253-, -236-, -359- and -519- of the “Book”.’
In the Nov/Dec issue of the News, WAHO’s president Jay Stream states that Canada is the only country in WAHO to still practice double registration [in Canadian and US studbooks], which is completely unnecessary under WAHO guidelines. He advised that Canada should abolish the double registration and use only our own Canadian registry which is “highly recognized by all other countries.”
Congratulations to the Registry on 50 Years!
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Shirley Klassen is voted Horse Person of the Year by the Arabian Horse Association of Eastern Canada. In spite of the demands of being a full-time trainer, Shirley has done a tremendous amount of volunteer work as Vice President of the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry, AHA Region l8, and the Quebec Arabian Horse Association. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Arabian Horse Association of Eastern Canada. The AHA has had Shirley on their list of Recommended Arabian Judges since l987, where she has held the highest possible rating since 1999. Shirley has held Senior National Arabian Judges status with Equine Canada since l982 and General Performance Division status since l992. Shirley has owned and bred Arabians since 1973. In 1980, ‘Shirley Klassen’s Training Stable’ opened for business in Ontario, and has continued since 1996 under the new name of Ferme Klassique, after relocating to St. Joseph-du-Lac, near Montreal QC. As a breeder, Shirley has bred US and Canadian National Top Ten winners in halter and was the breeder and trainer of Canada’s first National Show Horse Top Ten winner.
1990
Red Tape+// 1980 (*Bask++ x Delaharin) wins his first National Championship. After winning Reserve Champion at the 1988 and 1989 US Nationals in Formal Driving, Red Tape+// started a winning streak with the 1990 Canadian National Park Horse title. He went on to double unanimous wins as the US and Canadian National Champion Park Horse in 1991, repeated his double National Champion Park Horse wins in 1992 and 1993, and added a Canadian National Championship in Formal Driving in 1992. The chestnut *Bask son was owned for most of his show career by Dr. Dianne Stackhouse of Summit Arabians, Cambridge, NB, who purchased him in 1989 from breeder Jerald White of Encinitas, CA. (www.summitarabians.com)
Red Tape+// with Mike Whelihan
1990
Amurath Baikal 1977 (*Bask++ x *Sanacht) arrives at Rideaufield Farms in Merrickville, ON. Rideaufield was established in 1975 and is owned by Janie Greenberg and Terry Ekdahl. Amurath Baikal, by the legendary *Bask, and out of *Sanacht, second all-time leading dam of Champions, was 1980 US Reserve National Champion Futurity Stallion. He passed away in 2004 but leaves a long legacy at Rideaufield, including his son Earl Grey (Amurath Baikal x NV Masira by Bey Shah+), 2001 Eastern Canadian Breeders Champion Stallion, 2001 US National Top Ten Futurity Colt, and 2004 Region 18 Champion Stallion. Rideaufield also currently stands Pomerol (*Padron x *Poviest by *Salon) and Xceptshahn (Bey Shah+ x RSD Khaptivation by Khemosabi++++). A few of Xceptshahn’s very successful show ring get include Sir Royal Bey Montana++++//, multi-Regional Champion in both halter and performance and Canadian Res Nat’l Ch Ladies Side Saddle; Pretty Woman+, Eastern Canadian Champion Mare three years in a row and 2004 Region 16 Champion Mare both Open and Amateur; and Atiah Zafar, Region 16 and 18 Reserve Champion Mare and 2006 Eastern Canadian Breeders Champion Hunter Pleasure. (www.rideaufield.com)
Amurath Baikal
1990
Etaya Amir
Jennifer Parsons purchases Norriba+ (*Norus x *Ghariba) and enters the world of straight Egyptian Arabians, founding Etaya Egyptian Stud. Norriba+ would go on to be the 2001 Egyptian Event Performance Grand Champion, Eastern Canadian Breeders Show Hack Champion, and an open dressage competitor. Etaya’s original foundation mares came from Abitibi Farms in Quebec. Both Abitibi Fleur (x Serr Maariner) and Abitibi Madelina (x *Imperial Madheen) were out of Abitibi Maamouna (x Moniet El Nafis). Other mares that came later were by *Ibn Safinaz, *Ben Malik and *Mameluk. One of Etaya’s most successful stallion is Etaya Amir (*Simeon Shai+ x Abitibi Madelina). He started with 2002 AHA of Eastern Canada High Point Yearling Colt, the 2002 Easter Canadian Breeders Yearling Championship, and won the Egyptian Breeders Challenge Championship at the Egyptian Event. He was purchased in 2007 by Karija Arabians of Emerson MB. Other notable horses of Etaya breeding include Etaya Shai Zahab (*Simeon Shai+ x Abitibi Fleur), ECB Res Ch Stallion in 2001/2003 and Champion in 2002, and the mare Etaya Rasheeka+ (Norriba+ x St Sabiyat [x *Mameluk]), ECB Hunter Pleasure Jr Horse Champion in 2001/2002 and Region 18 Res Ch in Training Level Dressage. Recently in 2008 she captured both the Eastern Canadian Breeders Arabian Sport Horse Mares In-Hand and Under Saddle Championships. Etaya Rasheeka+ is owned by Faun Casely of Mississauga ON. CAHR 50 years August 2008 77
Surokhan
His progeny does it all! Breeding & Progeny Avail. Sur Teddy’s Magna+// Multi National Championships - Working Hunter, Hunter Hack, Sport Horse under saddle
A Little Piece of Heaven+// Canadian National Championships Western Pleasure, Side Saddle
Country English Pleasure Dressage First Level Dressage Training Level English Trail Horse Gelding In-Hand Halter Showmanship Hunter Hack Hunter Pleasure Hunter Seat Eq. Not to Jump Hunter Seat Eq. over Obstacles Jumper Ladies Side Saddle Mare Breeding Regular Working Hunter Sport Horse Gelding Sport Horse Mare Sport Horse under Saddle Trail Horse Walk-Trot Equitation Walk-Trot Pleasure Western/Reining Seat Equitation Western Horsemanship Surphin Boy+// Western Pleasure 8 time Canadian National Champion 5 Time Reserve Champion Jumper, Working Hunter & Equitation
Ghia’s Gal+// Canadian National Championships Working Hunter, 2x Hunter Hack
A Little Piece of Heaven+// Canadian National Championships Western Pleasure, Side Saddle
KENO HILLS STABLE & TACK SHOP phone 780-922-2941 email kenohills@gmail.com
Keno’s Treasure+// 5 time Canadian National Champion Jumper
52165 Range Road 210 Sherwood Park, Alberta, T8G 1A1 www.kenohills.com
CAHR approves the use of transported semen.
True Colours
True Colours (Thee Desperado x Daheda [x Dalul]) is born. Bred by Fred Waring of London, Ontario and purchased as a yearling by Source Arabians International of Waterford ON, True Colours went on to have an impressive halter record. His wins include 2000 Region 18 Champion Stallion, a Reserve Champion at the 2000 Egyptian Event (Colts of 1997), a unanimous Champion (Stallions of 1997) and Reserve Supreme Champion Stallion at the Egyptian Event of 2001, and 2003 Scottsdale Res. Ch. Stallions of ‘96 and ‘97. He has also done well overseas, winning World Champion Most Classic Sr Stallion and Top Five Elite Sr Stallion at the 2001 World Championships in Paris, France. True Colours is the sire of Royal Colours (Xtreme Wonder), Junior World Champion Colt at the 2006 Salon du Cheval, Paris and 2006 ECAHO Cup Winner. True Colours is currently owned by Beverly Grey of Utah.
The Canadian registry, following the lead of the US, withdraws membership from WAHO. After a ten-year and often bitter dispute, the AHA and CAHR would rejoin WAHO in April 2008.
,
In May, CAHR registers
Medalion
its 40,000th purebred Arabian – the mare Sadeequi (Latif MA x Haqiiqiiy), owned by Don Williams of Meaghers Grant, NS.
Tex Kam of Little Acre Arabians in Edmonton AB imports Medalion (*Dar x Marushka) from Colonial Wood Arabians in Texas. Medalion was one of the most talked about young performance stallions in his day. Originally bred by Patterson Arabians of Sisters, Oregon he went on to be the sire and grandsire of many National Champions. Little Acre Arabians over the years stood many Pure Polish stallions such as US National Top Ten Stallion WA Fools Gold (Barzik++ x Bold Brilliance [x *Bask++]), and the park horse VF Premonition (Pro-Fire x Aerial Fire SAI). The Polish program was begun in 1979 and has had many name-brand mares and stallions come through it, such as *Gitara (Eskimos x Gildia ), dam of Gitar MF (x Afire Bey V).
The Canadian Arabian News changes its name to the Canadian Arabian Horse News. After the catastrophic events of Sept. 11, 2001, the office was besieged by reporters from around the globe looking for comments on the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, not realizing we were a horse magazine. The Registry felt a change in name would help clarify the situation.
The BC Arabian Youth Team wins the IAHA Regional Youth Team Championship. 2001 would be the second of three Region 17 wins for the team (2000, 2001, 2002) and the first time ever a Canadian team had won the overall competition against all regions in the US and Canada. The team consisted of six horse & rider combinations: Jenna Bevan (AD Torsion+//), Heather Glascock (Sonny Drift+/), Stacey Tidmarsh (Knight Twister+/), Laura Wingrove (SS Silver Man+), Lauren Wispinski (RK Colossus++), and Laura Wolsey (Bit O’ Echo+/), along with coach Brenda cover: Driediger. The competition tracks points for each team member in two On the ++/ o+ ll o ESP Ap r Erica divisions; points are accumulated by winning or placing in classes. The e n w o h wit rider total point accumulation for the team in 2001 was well over 300. Sahm & son in Marilyn
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Production Sale Sunday August 31, 2008 2 p.m. Approximately 25 head total Location: Flat Mountain Ranch Arena, 13 km North of Regina on Hwy #6, 2.5 km E. on Foxleigh Rd Preview: Saturday August 30, 2008 4-8 p.m. • Dispersal of paint mares & young APHA stock (Approx 10 head) • Purebred & Partbred Arabian Perfomance prospects (some w/endurance bloodlines, one selection will be sweepstakes Nominated)
* some started under saddle • Online catalogue at www.lazyeweranch.com Please contact us for other Sweepstakes Nominated Prospects not included in this sale Megan Francis • Southey, SK CANADA • Phone: (306) 781-2056 cell: (306) 540-7797 Visit us during Canadian Nationals, we are less than 10 minutes from Regina. Photos: Laurel Golemba
Sweepstakes Nominated Stallion Regional Top 5’s in Halter Regional Championships in Western Pleasure Jr. Horse Regional Championships in Western Pleasure Open Regional Championships in Western Side Saddle National Top Ten in Western Side Saddle
Cytosk x Arabay Hilana
Congratulations CAHR on 50 years! - Salisbury Farms
Bob Sproule ~ Salisbury Farms Ph: (780) 467-2062 email: bobsproule@salisburygreenhouse.com www.salisburyfarms.com
2003
Movado++ (Versace x Cindra), bred and owned by Wunderbar Arabians, wins Open Championship Gelding at Scottsdale. This is the first time a Canadianbred horse has won this title in the history of the show. That same year, he was also Reserve Champion at Canadian Nationals and Top Ten at US Nationals. Movado++ was purchased in 2006 by Doug Amell and Heidi Keyzer of Moose Jaw SK.
2005
After the Nationals issue, The Canadian Arabian News ceases print publication in favor of an online website. It would be resurrected in January 2008 through the efforts of Director Tex Kam, welcomed back by the membership as the official magazine for Arabians in Canada.
Movado
2004
Mike Wheihan relocates his breeding and training barn to Washington state from Edmonton AB. The Whelihan family became famous in Alberta Arabian breeding circles in the late 1970’s for stallions such as Eskalibor (Tornado x *Eskadra++) and Drifting Mist++ (*Silver Drift x Mitzi McCoy). Mike apprenticed with Bud Kernell at Kales Arabians in Washington as a teenager and eventually became one of North America’s great English Pleasure and Park horse trainers. Perhaps Mike’s greatest crowning glory was riding Zodiac Matador+ to his first National Championship in his hometown of Edmonton in 1984. The applause and cheering was deafening as Mike carried the roses from the ring astride Matador. Mike’s family has been immersed in the Arabian business for many years. His father, Austin, was the Chairman of the Canadian National Show Commission and Mike’s daughter, Carlyn, is one of today’s premier young riders on the show circuit.
2007
2007
RD Fabreanna (Falcon BHF x GF Simply Magic [x Magic Dream]), bred by RaeDawn Arabians of Saskatoon SK and owned by Sloan Arabians/Mystica Arabians, wins US National Champion Sweepstakes Filly, the first Canadian-bred filly to earn this title.
Mariachi WA (Baske Afire x Brooklyn Bey), bred and owned by Wunderbar Arabians, wins 2003 Scottsdale Champion 3-Year-Old Colt. (See Wunderbar Arabians, p. 33)
Mariachi WA with Keith Krichke.
RD Fabreanna with Andy Sellman
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Mounted * Shooting A new sport based on an old skill demands a quick hand and a smart horse. By Bert Carron
Have you heard about mounted shooting?
... It’s a little like barrel racing, with a gun. Riders shoots black powder-loaded blanks cartridges, from 45-caliber pistols, at balloons, and are scored on accuracy and time. Participants are dressed as if you are “rolling back the clock” to the late 1800’s, we try to look as authentic to the period as possible, by wearing shirts without collars, and high waisted pants with buttons, not zippers. You can also wear modern western ranch garb, and even 5-pocket jeans, as long as you wear chaps or chinks! Mounted shooters use 45-caliber single action revolvers like those used in the late 1800’s. Single action revolvers must be cocked each time before firing by drawing the hammer back. A double action revolver can be fired by simply pulling the trigger, without cocking the hammer. Double action revolvers are of the period, but they are not allowed, only single action revolvers are permitted. The ammunition is .45 Colt caliber – the brass cartridge is loaded with black powder (like that used in the 1800’s) and then crimped on top or closed at the end with a cardboard. This load will break balloons up to 20 feet, that’s the maximum range with certified CMSA ammos. Live rounds are strictly prohibited – at each match, an armorer is appointed to load the firearms with certified ammunitions. The guns must be carried by the rider in leather holsters; those can be bought as “off-the-shelf replicas” or you can have them custom made by leather artisans to suit your wishes. Any breed of horse or mule can be used in mounted shooting; as far as your mount there are no official requirements – as 82 Canadian Arabian Horse News
long as he doesn’t mind you shooting off his back! Some horses take to the sport easily, others need more time to train. It’s up to your horse’s temperament and your desire to train him or her to get used to shooting, turning and going fast. Some riders will use ear plugs for themselves and their horses. Mounted shooting competitions consist of doing a pattern (there are 54 possible certified patterns, the patterns everyone will ride are drawn out of a hat on the day of the competition). A competition consist of 3 to 6 patterns a day, depending on the time available. Each pattern consist of 10 balloons. To give you an idea of a riding pattern, let’s say that there are five white balloons and five red balloons – the white balloons may be grouped together in one place or spread out over the entire arena. The rider shoots all five white balloons first, then holsters the first gun and, while riding to the far end of the arena, draws the second gun, and shoot the five red balloons, which are set 36 feet apart in a straight row toward the finish line. This is called the “the run down”. Different levels of skill are accomodated by three divisions:a men’s division, women’s division and a senior division for both men and ladies, with classes 1 to 6 in each of those divisions. The riders are scored on time and accuracy. There is a five-second penalty for each missed balloon, a five-second penalty for dropping a gun, a ten-second penalty for not running the course correctly and a 60-second penalty for falling off your horse. Speed is important, however, accuracy is usually more important than speed. A typical pattern can be run in 15-35 seconds, so penalties can really hurt.
Photo: Sandra Fortier sanfimage.com
Photo: Sandra Fortier sanfimage.com
Now that you know about mounted shooting, let me introduce myself – my name is Bertrand Caron, nickname Bert; I am 54 and I operate my own business as an aircraft maintenance engineer at St-Donat municipal airport in Quebec. It’s a remote village located 100 km north of Montreal; in my spare time I take my horses and go to the gun club to train them for mounted shooting. During the winter season I do ski joring; I’ll write an article on this subject in a future issue of the News, but for now you can visit the ski joring website at www.nesja.com . My second passion and hobby is handgun shooting, which led me to mounted shooting when I first saw an article from SASS (the Single Action Shooting Society) in an American gun magazine, where people were shooting balloons from horseback. I searched a little more and found out that there was an association that was sanctioning and promoting this discipline – the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association (CMSA). They have their own magazine as well, “The Rundown Journal.” I joined the CMSA and found a mounted shooting club in NH with this association. In the winter of 2005 I contacted Dick Moody, the president of the NH association and met him in person. In April of the same year a clinic was held in New Boston NH; I went with my son to this clinic and got hooked to this sport. Since then I’ve been in two competitions in 2006 and five in 2007. Mounted shooting is a fast growing equestrian sport – in 2004 New England had one club, and now in 2007, four clubs are active in this region. CMSA has over 7000
active members. Last summer I participated in four demonstrations of mounted shooting during western festivities and rodeo in Quebec, to expose more people to this sport. I formed a club in Quebec, the ”Quebec Mounted Shooting Association,” affiliated to CMSA and the first club to introduce mounted shooting in Canada. A new club is in formation in Ontario, in the region of Owen Sound, north of Toronto. Now about my mounted shooting horse – I own a 9-yrold Arabian mare named Yakxie. I did acquire Yakxie in the spring of 2000 from a local person who bought her from Mr. Fernand Jacques in Mirabel, Quebec. She’s purebred and very nice looking at 15.1 hands with a bay coat and four black legs. I put all of her training on her from the ground up. When I started to train her for mounted shooting in 2005, she was 7 years old – in 2006, we went to NH to compete twice, and last summer she did well with four demonstrations in rodeo in Quebec and we finished the season with five competitions in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. In mounted shooting everyone starts at class 1 and moves to a higher level by winning a match; to move from class 1 to class 2 you have to win two competitions in class 1; to upgrade from class 2 to class 3, you have to win three competitions in class 2; to upgrade from 3 to 4 you need four wins in class 3, etc… and a minimum of three competitors must compete in your class for you to upgrade. The first match that I competed in in 2007 was in New Hampshire in September (class 1). The last one was at the end of CAHR 50 years August 2008 83
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October in Massachusets, and I need one more win to upgrade to class 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the goal for 2008 is to reach class 4. At this point in her training,Yakxie is a class 4 horse because she can take a class 4 shooter. You can have a fast horse, but if you miss targets the speed is useless â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;no missâ&#x20AC;? is the key for winning. The sport of mounted shooting is very exciting, I can try to paint you a picture of the feeling of this equestrian sport. On the start line, Yakxie just needs the intention from me of engaging the course of fire and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone, she runs the first five white balloons in the random portion of the course. While I am thinking about the coming â&#x20AC;&#x153;rundownâ&#x20AC;? sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take me to the last white balloons; my first 45 is empty, all the whites are gone, the rundown barrel is coming very fast and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still holstering my first revolver. When I get at the level of the rundown barrel Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got my second revolver perfectly positioned in my hand and cocked. Yakxie slows to turn around the rundown barrel, and I have the feeling of having my saddle attached to a stretched bungee cord that suddenly breaks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the acceleration is terrific. There is 36 feet between each rundown balloon, and she covers this distance in approximately 4 seconds â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it gives me less than one second per shot with a single action revolver to blow the five balloons. Whew! One competition is scheduled for 2008 in Quebec in August and a clinic is also planned, location to be determined. I talked with Jim MacIntyre, president of the new Canadian Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association in Alberta, and Jim confirmed that there will be Mounted Shooting at the 2008 Calgary Stampede.
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For more information on mounted shooting, contact: Quebec Bert Caron 819-424-7842 aviationcaron@gmail.com Ontario Lawrence Cannon home 519-794-9912 cell 519-373-9912 cannons.lj@sympatico.ca Alberta Jim MacIntyre, CMSA President 403-650-2270 macturnloose@yahoo.ca And you can visit the CMSA web site www.cowboymountedshooting.com
Magic Dream continued from page 24... filly, Dream Fantasy. “It was probably the only time I had actually hoped for a colt,” she admits. Fantasy went on to become a Canadian Breeders Reserve Champion mare and winner in Hunter Pleasure. After a short time back in Brazil, Ali Jamaal returned the next year to capture the US National Championship. The Dreamspinner was bred once more and on June , the colt Jo-Anne had originally hoped for was born. From the moment he was born she knew he was ‘magic’. “His enormous eyes and those tippy ears, his overall presence made me think he was special,” beams Jo-Anne. She was certainly not alone in her opinion of the youngster. His first mare was booked to him at days old – the result of that breeding was GF Forever Magic+, a multi-Champion regional stallion. A repeat breeding produced GF Simply Magic, also a Regional Champion and the dam of RD Fabreanna (x Falcon BHF), bred by Murray and Shirley Popplewell of RaeDawn Arabians. She was the first Canadian-bred filly to be named US National Champion Yearling Filly. Greg Knowles came out to see the dark bay colt when he was five months old and saw the potential that Magic Dream had. He tried to convince Jo-Anne to sell, but she wouldn’t hear of it. Finally, when Magic was in his two-year-old year, Jo-Anne agreed to syndicate him and the Magic Partnership was formed. By the time Magic Dream was three his first crop of ten foals had arrived. “We were all thrilled at how prepotent he was,” says Jo-Anne. Whether the foal was out of a Spanish, Polish, Egyptian or domestic-bred mare, the foals all had the “magic” look. Five of these foals made the trip to Scottsdale as yearlings and in huge classes (this being before halter classes were divided into age groups), both colts and all three fillies made their qualifying cuts. Of those, all but one of the fillies ended up in the Top . It was a real boon for Knowles’ Arabian Expressions – from that moment, Magic Dream’s breeding career took off. As Knowles says on his website, “We turned around after the morning session and there were a hundred people there, waiting to buy breedings. As they say, the rest is history.” In Magic Dream was shown to Canadian National Top Ten Futurity
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Stallion (rd overall) and US National Top Ten Futurity Stallion (th) by Greg Gallun. For Jo-Anne, this was the fulfillment of one of her ultimate goals. “One of my dreams had been to breed a top ten futurity colt and I had always hoped Magic would be the one,” she says. The Dreamspinner is now years old and is a constant joy for Jo-Anne. She is an Aristocrat mare, having produced six champions, with four of them winning national halter titles and most of them with wins in performance. Another of her famous sons, EF Kingston (x Padrons Psyche), owned by Jo-Anne’s dear friend Kristi Hopp, completed his first -mile endurance ride just two weeks after being named Canadian National Reserve Champion Stallion AOTR. When Kristi bred her Magic Dream granddaughter Angelina DPA (EA Echstravagant x AE Faith) to EF Kingston, it resulted in Vegas DPA, the current Ohio Buckeye Jr. Champion Colt and Region Champion Colt. As for Magic Dream, his popularity has grown around the world with offspring being sold to England, Austria, Italy, South Africa, South America and the Middle East. “I could never have imagined how successful Magic has become as a sire, siring close to foals to date. His daughters, in turn, have become exceptional broodmares and are sought after worldwide,” says Jo-Anne. He was indeed sought after world-wide – in May , the magic went international, with Magic Dream’s sale to Tinus and Francis Strydom of Strydom Stud in South Africa. The magic continues...
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Available for sale: two full sisters to the ďŹ lly pictured above, Elegance Reins. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ellieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (owned by Chris Martens) is scoring in the 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in her cow horse and cutting and has won a reining class now too! Watch for her at the Royal Red in HA Working Cow Horse. See other ads for her maternal 1/2 brother, Justice Shines, and her paternal 1/2 sister, Turn On The Charm.
Watch for Justice Shines in Arabian Junior Horse Reining at the Royal Red in August! While he is not available for sale at this time, we have siblings of his who are for sale. We also stand his half brother at stud and have oďŹ&#x20AC;spring available for sale. See Elegance Reins and Turn on the Charm.
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Brave, sane, sound and fun to ride! Anyone can ride her but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not at all dull. Peeler has been on three CTRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s placed 6th, 3rd and 1st. Not at all spooky, crosses bridges and creeks without hesitation. No fear of dogs, traďŹ&#x192;c, birds or bicycles. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d make a fun gymkhana horse too! Her siblings are scoring in the 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in cutting, cow horse, reining and in the high 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in CTRs. She comes from a winning family!
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Turn On The Charm ���� # 2ďż˝ 06446 Three yr old black bay roan ďŹ lly, three quarter Arab, Appaloosa cross. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Catâ&#x20AC;? scored a respectable 69 in her ďŹ rst working cow horse class this summer. She also came ďŹ rst in her reining class. This ďŹ lly can work! Good mind makes her fun to be around. She will be shown until sold. Excellent Part Arab WCH Futurity prospect!!!!!
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Horses For Sale
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*Sandman’s Magic (American Curly Horse) x Ana-Alisia (Purebred Arabian)
sired by El Matrabb (Al Metrabbi++ x Ana Gayah by *Morafic), pictured above. Some started under saddle. Some with show records. AHA Breeders Sweepstakes Nominated.
*Sand Runner is a wonderful example of what an Curly/ Arabian can look like, he is wonderful! He has a friendly temperament, he is hypoallergenic and he will be suitable for just about any type of sport and endurance too. Asking $2500.00 for him, terms available. Contact Shelly @ 250-486-6773 or sm.white@shaw.ca or visit us online at www.curlystandardplace.com
For more info, pedigrees and additional photos check out www.aimbri-arabians.com. Or contact Jeannette Jardine at aimbri_arabians@yahoo.ca or (306)771-2968
Straight Egyptian halter/performance/breeding quality young mares, sired by Moon Sheine (El Hilal x Nafairtiti by *Morafic) pictured above. For more info, pedigrees and additional photos check out www.aimbri-arabians.com. Or contact Jeannette Jardine at aimbri_arabians@yahoo.ca or (306)771-2968
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Mystery RoyaLee Mystery RoyaLee is beautifully marked with just a touch of colour that really makes her stand out. Reg 99.2% Arabian bred. Friendly and nice to handle. Asking $2800.00. http://www.mysterymountainarabpt.com mysteryarabpt@cyberlink.bc.ca 250-422-3163 Jodi
HERMIONE Bay 5 yr. old mare by NV INFERNO. Bay filly at side by FSF JESSE JAMES. Rebred to ALLIONCE+/ for a exciting 2009 foal. Hermione & foals represent bloodlines of National & Regional winners. 2 or 3 in One Package available. (403) 748-2268 • hassanarabs@yahoo.ca
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A rare opportunity Heirloom bloodlines, straight Egyptian, Egyptian-related, Al Khamsa. Intelligent, loving, people oriented horses with good conformation and graceful, athletic movement, 7 mares & 1 stallion. Also: large collection of Arabian horse books. Arab Horse Yearbooks 1957 to 1976, Arab Horse News from 1948, including the first edition. Trace the development of the breed, top Arabian horses, champions & pictoral show records from U.S. and Canadian shows. For a complete list email elmarees@sympatico.ca or call (519) 376-6417. BLACK RARE SHEYKH OBEYD COLT BLACK Arabian colt for sale. Al Khamsa, Straight Egyptian, Sheykh Obeyd. The only one of his kind in Canada. Very pretty, exotic, gorgeous floating movement, pretty head, great legs, very, very smart. Babson/Sirecho/ Halima/Pritzlaff with a line to Alcibiades. The ultimate in Sheykh Obeyd breeding, very RARE. Asking $4000. For info call 780-4590979 or e-mail nejdarab@telusplanet.net Bint Dharra is a very laid back horse with good disposition. Trained last summer under saddle. Good sporthorse prospect. Needs miles put on. Asking $1000. E-mail laur@ mirarialpacafarm.com for more info. The Canadian Arabian News is looking for salespersons in eastern and western Canada! If you love talking horses, give us a call. 306-931-7187 - Christy Weese, Mg Editor
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