Mulawa Angelica AN ANGEL EARNS HER WINGS
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volution is a natural, hopefully progressive, occurrence in every breeding programme of significance that has endured for decades. The last two years at Mulawa Arabian Stud have borne witness to this anticipated evolution, the passing of the torch from one generation to the next, as we bid farewell to several of the most influential breeding horses and industry icons within the programme from the last quarter century. Chief sires Fame Maker R, TS Al Malik and GLF
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Apollo whose careers began at Mulawa in the 1990s have all moved on to greener pastures and on the final day of the most unexpectedly challenging year that was 2020, we also bid adieu to one of the most beloved and esteemed matrons of that same generation: Mulawa Angelica. Angelica’s arrival at the very beginning of the foaling season in 1992 coincided with Mulawa’s transition from its second decade of existence to its third,
a period in which the programme was expanding in earnest beyond the traditional Polish and Crabbet bloodlines that had comprised its solid foundation in the 1970s and 1980s. While the aforementioned, recently departed, chief sires were all essential to this bold expansion of breeding vision, it was mares like Mulawa Angelica that would provide the reliable and proven genetic canvas upon which the newest generations of excellence would be constructed.
