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American Shagya Arabian Verband Newsletter

June 2011

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Kristen ~ First 75 Miler ~ Dancin’

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Message from the Interim Chair-man - Darleen Steven

Hello Members,

Today is a new day and ASAV is moving

forward at a steady pace. We are excited,

for there are many projects that will be in-

troduced in 2011.

The 9th annual Arabian Horse Association

Sport Horse Nationals (SHN) will be held

September28 – October 2, 2011 at the

Kentucky Horse Park and the ASAV will be

there! ASAV will have a table set up for

promoting the versatile Shagya Arabian.

This is the first time we have attended such

an event. ASAV will also sponsor classes

for the event. We expect to host an ASAV

Membership-Get-Together one afternoon.

Volunteers are welcome to help staff the

booth. Hope to see you there. Details to

follow in a mailer. ASAV has set up a SHN

Project Group to coordinate all the details

of this event. Our first order of business is

the development of a new promotional

Shagya Arabian Breeders and Owners

Directory. This guide will list any ASAV

Breeder and Owner who wishes to be in-

cluded for free. We will also sell advertise-

ments inside the guide for your farm or for

anyone who wishes to reach the Shagya

market or to put your Shagya Arabian in

the Spotlight.

We wish to Thank Kilian Dill, Valerie Bull-

ock, and Denis Atam for their service to

ASAV. They have helped this association

show continual growth over the last four

years. We wish them well in their future

endeavors.

Our special thanks to Carolyn Tucker for

being our gracious hostess this year for the

National Membership Meeting. Her count-

less hours of work and coordination of this

west coast event will be remembered for

years to come. We cannot forget the fab-

ulous First California Hussar Regiment

and Ference Bakonyi. His dashing unit

and Hungarian culture gave a special flare

of fun to the event.

As most of you know over the last month

ASAV has been exhibiting growing pains.

We now can assure you that ASAV has a

bright future.

A mailer was sent early in June to mem-

bers announcing that the Office of Presi-

dent, Vice President, Secretary and Treas-

urer are open. Elections will commence on

July 17th at the next Regular Board of Di-

rectors meeting, after the ISG Meeting in

Radauti, Romania.

We have had a few members express

interest in running for these positions. We

are accepting all nominations from the floor

(members) and the Board until July 4th,

2011. Please send a short bio to be posted

on the web page.

To update you on the current ASAV Board

of Directors status~~ The three board

members held an Emergency Board of

Director‘s Meeting on June 22, 2011. At

that time the Bylaws were read to ascertain

the procedure to accept new board mem-

bers to fill the open positions. Brian Coss

was chosen to fill the director seat for Re-

gion 2, South, a position he once held.

Chris Evans was selected to chair the cur-

rent international director post. This gave

the ASAV Board a working quorum of five

to conduct business. I, (Darlene Steven)

was then elected Interim-Chairman of the

Board to officiate elections and will be the

representative to the ISG meeting in Roma-

nia. My post will only be for a few weeks,

until the new Officers have been installed,

then I will resign and let the board carry out

its business.

There are still two positions currently open-

Region 3 Pacific and Region 4 West. The

BOD is seeking qualified individuals to fill

these positions. There is one recommend-

ed candidate -- Karla Kerekes (our newslet-

ter compiler) for Region 3. If no other

member is interested in throwing their

name into the hat, we will accept this mem-

ber on to the board at a Special Board of

Directors meeting to be held on June 29th.

In closing, I believe that the ASAV Mem-

bership has now been brought up to speed

with the events of the last week. It is now

time that we mobilize and move forward

into a positive future in 2011. There will be

new officers and a legion of ideas that will

come out of this change. We know the

new ASAV Board of Directors will be work-

ing in new and creative ways to better

serve you and your horses.

Best regards,

Darlene Steven

Interim Chairman

ASAV News

Inside this issue:

ASAV News 1

Endurance News 2

Membership Stories 5

AHA Sport Horse Nationals 11

Advertising 13

Contact ASAV 14

Grey Dapple Horse Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault


Our First 75 Miler - 7th Place! by Kristen Camper

I debated whether I should do another year of 50 milers - trying my best to top 10 them or should I move up to 75's to keep the slower longer distance go-ing? The 75 miler won out. We went to the Spring Fling at the Sandhills in South Carolina. We ended up travel-ing through the night and arriving around 10:30 or 11:00. The ride man-agers were fantastic as was the state park management. Super friendly.

The morning started out with vetting in, so I was a bit worried about no warm up and very concerned about the speed at which the 75 milers would start out. Lily was great at the start even though we continue to use the bitless bridle and I was very pleased to find the start speed was slower than the 50's I have been to. The only issues we had last year were tack, well actually girth, rubs. So I rigged up my bareback saddle which is dressage style, with a western mo-hair girth. It was loose and the buck-

les tore my calves up but Lily looked like she had not been ridden at all at the end of the ride. So I will have to start riding in half chaps!

The weather was perfect and Lily was doing so well that after the second loop and almost half way done her heart rate was in the low to mid forties after just a few minutes. The vet asked if we had really done that loop? She continues to amaze me, and I continue to learn more about her style. She seems to want to get out after checks quickly, then settle in behind someone who is going about the right pace and will stay with them until the last 2-3 miles before camp and then she pulls ahead. She eats well at checks and drinks great. After we are in a good balance with each other for a while I try to post on the other diagonal and she hates this a lot. So I am going to try and just change after checks or water breaks. She is so focused! I often think of the song that goes "Ain‘t nothing gunna break my stride, Ain‘t nothin gunna hold me down Oh No! I got to keep on movin." I think that is her mind set.

We ended up vetting right in at the fin-ish, with her heart rate right on tar-get. I didn‘t even have to sponge her down. And to my surprise we came in 7th! On our first 75 miler! I had even brought a Lite Bright for my daughter and we finished before it was dark. We ended up doing this 75 miler in about the same time as our first 50 and she looked the better at the end of this ride than she ever had. With all that has been going on in my life lately I consider myself to be so blessed to have a horse that is so constant and steady and well..... just what I need.

LC Stetson by Donna Coss Lily Creek Stetson, (Sarvar PFF x So-nata PFF) and Brian Coss came in 9th place at the Old Dominion 55 mile--AERC ride in Virginia. There were 80

riders and a 76% completion rate. Bri-an also won the Buckle for placing in the top 10 and a leather belt for placing First in the Middle Weight division. Stetson was in good form, threw two Boots, which took him away from the leaders, but had them replaced and thanks to his fine, hard Shagya hooves, the loss didn't affect him for very long. He is a barefoot horse most of the time, but uses the Easy Boot Gloves for racing.

Horus by Katie Millholland RWR Horus (Bold Bravo x Spiritualitee-ox by Pattrone*) was very out of shape when he first arrived last Octo-

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Kristen Camper and Lily (Lily Creek Dancin' - Sarvar PFF x Dynamo's Dancer) ) at their first 75 miler,

the Spring Fling at the Sandhills in S.C. Photo taken by Becky Pearman.

Brian Coss and Lily Creek Stetson came in 9th place at the Old Dominion 55 mile AERC ride in

Virginia. Photo taken by Carol Federighi.

Horus and his rider Dean Hahler at Mt. Adams pre-ride inspection.


ber for endurance training. He would get tired and sweaty just trying to avoid getting caught. And to go for a ride on top of that, are you insane! There were rides where poor Horus would just stop and say ―no more‖. This is a very nor-mal reaction to the introduction into the world of endurance. He got ponied several times a weekend and then rode once or twice. He learned to like the buckets of grain the best. One fate-ful day he got a bath instead. This really made him mad. Baths are not on his list of acceptable things to do. Next he got partially body clipped, like any self respecting endurance horse should. Again he was not happy with this new form of torture - he stood for it though.

As time went on he started getting bet-ter and better on the trails - minimal spooks and he even seemed to enjoy himself. Things were looking good and he was well on his way to being in shape for his first race. Then one con-ditioning ride he tweaked his ankle when he was almost back to the trailer. As a result he got some time off from training, However, it didn‘t get better. A chiropractor looked at him as his shoulder seemed to be giving him some trouble as well. Come to find out, Horus was way out all over his body. This cycle of ‗ride - go lame - get adjusted‘ went on for a few months. Finally something freed up in his hips and back and he has been moving soundly since. Horus still gets regular visits from the chiropractor just for good measure.

In March he did his first 50 mile ride at ―Home on the Range‘ in eastern Washington. As one would expect, it was very new to him. Upon arriving he was a bit excited and antsy about eve-rything. He had his buddy Fire along and since Fire didn‘t care he calmed down. He camped well. The day of the ride came and Horus was really amped up. Fire and Horus started to-gether to help Horus through his first start. The first mile was pretty intense for Horus as the first ride usually is. He

followed Fire and started to figure it out. When they split up Horus took it like a trooper and settled into the rhythm. He finished each loop well and was eating well. At the end of the day a very tired and happy horse and rider crossed the finish line. Eight hours and thirty-three minutes was their ride time. He was sound and healthy. A good night sleep then we were off for home with some tired and stiff horses.

Next up was the 50 mile race at Mt. Adams. Mt. Adams went really well and was done without a riding buddy. Horus ran slow and steady and fin-ished in eight hours and forty minutes. Horus looked good and came through his second race like a trooper. He is

officially an endurance horse.

Shagya Owner to Perform in "CAVALIA"

By Chris Evans Stephanie Evans, the daughter of Chris and Pierrette Evans, celebrated her 21st birthday on May 24 and coin-cidentally received the best birthday gift she could hope for - the news that she would become a rider in the pro-duction of "Cavalia". Cavalia is the creation of producer Normand Latourelle who is one of the founders of Cirque du Soleil - now a world fa-mous company with acts and produc-tions internationally. This show pre-sents the same kind of spectacular effects including historical backdrops, lighting, sound and a live orchestra

and singer. The acts present dres-sage , trick riders, acrobats, aerialists and horses at liberty. The breeds pre-sented include Arabians, Andalusians, Lusitanos, Quarter Horses, Paints, Percherons and a Comtois. The show focuses on Man's relationship with horses and offers continuous homage to this partner of Man. Stephanie was first put on horseback, with her parents alongside, at the age of 2. As many girls do, she fell in love with horses and continued with riding lessons and hunter/jumper competi-tions as a teenager. She attended her first Cavalia's production in 2003 as a 13 year old - in total awe at the perfor-mance and saying " I want to work for them". After graduating from high school in 2008, her only application for college was the Equine Science pro-gram at Olds College in Alberta. Her heart was set on becoming accepted - as one of 30 from approximately 300 applicants. Her dream came true after flying to Alberta in March of 2008 for the riding test. Graduating in April of 2010, having improved upon her experience and knowledge as well as training a young, flighty but highly talented warmblood, Stephanie sent her application in to her childhood dream - Cavalia - and this dream also came true as she was accepted as a groom with a "chance of advancement". On the last day of school Stephanie was immediately flown to Charlotte, NC which was Cavalia's next stop on their North American tour. They subsequently went to New York City, Montreal, Den-ver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vancouver prior to the arrival in Calga-ry this past May. Continuing to press for riding involvement Stephanie rode horses in exercise and training before and after her grooming hours. The fa-mous former director of the Spanish Riding School wrote a book called "My Horses, My Teachers" and this be-came true in reality for Stephanie as these spectacular horses showed her

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SA Aaleyah (Bayram x PA Artistry ox)

SA Franc (Bayram x Flojo)

how to perfect the aids for passage and piaffe as well as the acts of Span-ish walk and rearing on cue. Stepha-nie's dedication and ability as a confi-dent, calm, and kind rider finally paid off when the head trainer told her she was to be included in the performanc-es. There is still so much to learn and that process never ends with horses. The tour continues as the troupe ar-rives in Quebec City in mid July, then travels to Minneapolis in late Septem-ber. Rumors are the next stops may be Portland and San Jose before embark-ing for Asia next May. Quite the dream come true for a 13 year old mesmer-ized by this performance 8 years ago. The one holiday Stephanie has taken in her first year on the job was a "busman's holiday" last August when her family toured Babolna and Topolci-anky to see some of the historical foundations behind the Shagya breed. The trip included visits to the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and a dres-sage lesson in Lipica. Now, at home, Lily Creek Diva Dance has a part Shagya foal that will be Stephanie‘s future dressage prospect. Possibly the next dream will be to include Shagyas in the productions of Cavalia! Stephanie's parents, Chris and Pierrette, just took a quick weekend trip to Calgary to see her perform in person - needless to say a thrill to see her dream come true. If any Shagya owners happen to at-tend any of the performances, Stepha-nie would be happy to meet you!

Sun Arab Stables’ New Arrivals by Daunna Sellers

It has been a busy spring here at Sun Arab Stables. Bayram babies started with SA Antares foaling SA Altair out-side on January 10

th with the high of

ten degrees. Lil Al is now growing like the weeds here in KY.

Next came SA Aaleyah (Bayram x PA Artistry ox) in April. All three horses are in the photo below. Then Flojo (Anglo-Arabian) had Franc in late April.

SA Julie (Anglo-Shagya) just foaled SA Jett, a nice colt.

And I should also include Tuff E Nuff, a colt born late fall of 2010.

SA Jett (Bayram x SA Julie Anglo-Shagya)

SA Altair (Bayram x SA Antares)

SA Tuff E Nuff (Bayram x SA Miss Tenacious)

Member Stories . . . . . . New Arrivals

SA Bayram (Oman* x Biala


Meet the Directors by Donna J. Coss

My father gave me a little chestnut mare when I was about eight years old. He purchased her at an auction and figured she was well broke as she had a saddle mark on her withers and a half circle with ML brand on her hip. He made a good choice as Dixie and I rode many miles, until her retirement, about twelve years later.

I did not have any formal riding les-sons, but I still showed in several west-ern shows, and we managed to bring home a few blue ribbons. I was the typical horse crazy girl and practically lived in the barn with my horses and the three foals that Dixie produced.

I lived very close to Babson Arabians and knew many of their horses--even bred to one of their stallions. When I studied conformation, these horses have always remained in my mind's eye, the ―perfect‖ type. They were not what is commonly seen today in the Arab world, these Arabians would more fit our Shagya breed standard.

After my marriage, I purchased horses for my children from the local sales barn and they all learned to ride. Brian on his little Indian pony, and Jody on a half-Arab gelding, Tango, I had pur-chased for only fifty five dollars. He turned out to be long lived and cher-ished by many who rode him, as he could easily have won a versatility award, being a horse for any discipline. Jody continued her interest in riding and became interested in endurance. I was at Jan Worthington and Grace Ramsey's farm near Galena, IL. one day, when a new mare they had pur-chased needed attention. The mare, China, had been turned into a paddock and immediately went through a wire fence. She was cut up from head to tail with serious, but not life threatening body cuts. I spent an hour hosing her off and really liked her conformation and decided to purchase her if they would sell her. She had an impressive

pedigree and as it turned out was the perfect endurance horse with plenty of aptitude and attitude. China had an interesting personality! I was riding her once, when she jumped up in the air and performed a capriole movement-I stayed on, but barely. Jody said, ―oh she does that all the time, she is just happy‖!

A family discussion took place, con-cerning China and who would be the perfect stallion to breed her to? I stated that, ―I had been reading about the Shagya, but where to find one‖? My son, David, stated he knew of one in southern Illinois—a girl friend had rode at Dr. Kamarasy's farm, when attend-ing the university, and she had been impressed with a Shagya stallion, named BOLD BRAVO.

Thus began my journey into the Shagya world and the creation of LILY CREEK RIDGE. China was indeed bred to Bravo, I met Egon and Nancy Skakel and both Jody and I were astonished with Sarvar, Szamos, and all the others. I purchased SUMMER PFF, leased Sarvar and his full sister, SONATA PFF. I made a decision to breed purebred Shagyas, but at the same time I would purchase some Thoroughbred and sport horse type mares to breed to SARVAR--hopefully to produce a larger, taller mount that would be sold to finance the purebred endeavor. I had purchased an 80 acre farm in 1991, had purchased some Tennessee Walking mares, but Jody, kept saying, ―they are boring‖! I was ready to go with my first love, the Ara-bian, but as it turned out, it was an Arabian breed, that possessed many of the great qualities of this breed, with few of the undesirable traits. I was hooked!

I was very fortunate to have Lazlo Mo-nostory and Dr. Egon Kamarasy as mentors. Lazlo was the last living Hun-garian stud manager Egon and Lazlo always gave me support and there were memorable times when they visit-ed my farm. I learned so much from

them when we evaluated my mares and their foals. I always remembered the Babson Arabians and how im-portant legs, feet and conformation are to a fine, ride worthy mount and this was always my breeding goal.

To have SARVAR PFF, in my opinion, one of the best Shagya stallions pro-duced in the U.S. as my first stallion, was a blessing. He was such a kind stallion, easy with the mares and so wonderful to handle, at the time we considered him a miracle, only to find that almost all Shagya stallions share his great temperament. His foals have gone on to win in many sport horse disciplines and because of their ability to perform well very few have ever been re-sold, also a testament to their great character.

These sport horse, half Shagya cross-es have won, even divisional champi-onships, in the Hunter and Jumper world, mainly ridden by young girls. The experience of handling these young horses and selling them to the performance world only solidified my observation that these crosses are what is needed for young riders. You receive the size etc. from the mare, but temperament appears to be the most affected.

One of my mares, was a Dutch Warm blood, a daughter of CONSUL, with an impossible disposition, but royally bred. She had actually been donated to a rescue organization because of her unruly demeanor. Her foals bred to Sarvar were docile, kind and wonderful to work with. Her foals did win, one of them, even on the demanding western Hunter show circuit, ridden by a 13 year old girl. One of the TB/Sarvar crosses even won a state divisional championship and repeated this suc-cess many times. Her rider was also a young girl!

At this time, I also purchased two Ara-bian mares of mainly Polish descent. I had visited many of the Arabian farms because of my photography business

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Member Stories and was always a student of pedigrees and bloodlines. DYNAMO'S DANCER, was a fortunate choice, as there are three national champions in her line that leads back to + (i.e. Milordka) A daughter, LILY CREEK DANCIN', was 19th in the 2010 AERC championship race and has an amazing record under an amateur rider.

All of the Arabian and sport horse mares were purchased strictly from their pedigrees and most of them were from hardship homes. The two aged Thoroughbred mares were half starved, standing in a field of bare corn stocks, but their heritage background attested to strong lines. Not a large amount of money was needed to add them to my herd.

I had visited Europe with Dr. Egon Kamarasy twice and then made more trips in search of Shagyas to import. I believed that the U.S. desperately needed new bloodlines. *DANTE, *KS TRIBUTE AND *KS RUBIN came to the U.S. In 2001. I took a chance at weanling colts, but they had the criteria of successful parents with the correct conformation—how could I go wrong? The Conradtys', Dr. Walter Huber, Ruth Pack and Poldi Woegler were only a few who assisted me with my search and because of their expert knowledge, I feel the three stallions were prudent choices. The visit to Ba-bolna and the expert translation by Egon, of Tamas Rombauer, stud man-ager, was invaluable to me as here was the living history of the breed laid out before me.

I was unsuccessful with *OMAN breed-ing although I did have his daughters in my herd. I also imported frozen semen from Bahadur and produced LC BA-TAAN and LC BRIELLE. The Lily Creek horses are doing well all over the U.S., South America, Mexico and Canada, and often I feel rewarded by communications from those who have my horses. They have won hearts and won awards and that is what breeding horses is all about and also the satis-

faction that you have produced what to many are treasures and ―the best horse I have ever had‖! And this, I can take no credit for, because this breed is special and different and you will find this out, only when you have your own Shagya! +Footnote – Milordka http://www.arabhorse.com/article/beloved-one-the-story-and-legacy-of

The Ongoingness of Now at Willomar by Dr. George W Allen Gina Cook, daughter of Dr. Allen, is the trainer for Kilian and Drena Dill. The Willomar farm is in Mossyrock (western Washington) down near Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens. The farm was es-tablished by Dr. George and Lynn Al-len. Dr. Allen purchased and syndicat-ed *Pietuszok from Tersk stud for a million dollars. Dr. Allen has worked with European governments over the years and was a judge at many nation-al Arabian shows. If one views the ped-igrees of the horses in this article, one quickly sees the relationship to the Shagya breed as many were used both ways over the years. The Allen training legend continues over the years as the couple mentors many young horsemen and women. In the literature of the Ara-bian breed the word type has, in my opinion, caused more confusion than any other word. For the purpose of this essay we will define "breed type" as those characteristics that are specific and unique to the Arabian breed. These characteris-tics include the head, neck, top line, quality, and way of going. The head is to be triangular; it is to be wide at the eyes and re-fined at the muzzle. A dish below the eyes is

desirous; a Roman nose is most unde-sirable. The eyes should be large, soft, and set well apart. The neck should be well shaped, clean at the throat latch and very mobile at the pole. The top line should be quite flat with emphasis on a short strong back and powerful croup. Quality includes dryness; i.e. the skin being very tight over the rest of the body and a soft hair coat. The motion should be elegant, very elastic, and liquid in its portrayal.

There are very practical reasons for all of the above characteristics. An attrac-tive triangular head with large eyes that are well set apart indicates intelligence and a desire to please. Since the neck and head are the horses balancing mechanism, the neck needs to be clean at the throat latch and well hinged at the pole to allow the horse to stay in balance with ease. A short strong back indicates a clean line for the energy of impulsion to travel and drive the horse forward. Length of croup, and the depth of hip and croup, are important for the horse to perform as an athlete. Dryness is that quality that expresses hard dry dense bone, hard dry tendons and ligaments, clean joints and a soft supple skin and hair coat. These characteristics were what attracted early day cavalry men to in-clude the Arabian breed in the produc-tion of their horses, for these charac-

WM Narax (Pistachio x Nihani) the day after delivering her 2011 Main Smoke foal.


Member Stories teristics were what gave soundness to their horses in the long marches. In the desert, the horse was bred to be an athlete and often the horses life depended on this ability. When all of the characteristics of type are in place and are in harmony, then liquid fluid motion, the kind that could cover de-sert sand all day, is the result.

If we are then to apply the above defi-nition of type to the horses we come in contact with today, we then need to recognize that the breed is made up world-wide of a number of different "types" or flavors of Arabian horses within the "breed type". This occurred because each tribe from Arabia creat-ed a different "type", or flavor to suit their own purposes (much as we cre-ate different types of automobiles). To use terminology that is common in Eu-rope, these different types are identi-fied by the names: Kuheilan, Seglawi, Managhi, Hadban, and others that are lesser known. The Arabian breed is a very old breed and due to the physical-ity of its origin (i.e. isolation in the de-sert over a long time and especially isolation of the individual tribes), the genetic base of the breed is very con-centrated and the various types are therefore genetically very prepotent. It is therefore of great importance that the creative breeder recognizes the various types and their contribution to the whole. It is not productive for the breeder to judge all horses in the breed against one type, or model, for in doing so the breeder eliminates much of value that could contribute to his or her program.

As an example, Negatiw was by the noted Seglawi sire Naseem, and out of a Menaghi mare, yet he contributed greatly as a sire of significance in both Russia and Poland siring horses of Excellent Seglawi type. Seglawi horses are of strong oriental type, having triangular heads, large expressive eyes, well shaped necks, very round body parts, and great beau-ty. Common examples of this model

are the Raffles and Skowronek bred horses, the Naseem bred horses such as Negatiw and his offspring, and many of the horses originating from the Abbas Pasha stud.

The Kuhailan horses usually have more elongations through the head and are more angular in structure, of-ten with more emphasis on a strong system of levers. They are often long-er through the croup and hip area with some slope to the croup. Examples of this flavor are the Kuhailan Haifi hors-es such as Bask, to include many of his offspring, and the Priboj horses such as Pietuszok. Horses of the Hadban flavor are hors-es of good size with large muscle mass, substantial bone, and a good system of levers. Their heads are ex-pressive but often somewhat large. Examples of this flavor are some of the Crabbet horses such as Nuredinn and Berk. The Managhi flavor horse, while not very common in America, are im-portant to the breed as a whole. The-se are horses with a very strong sys-tem of levers, great angulation, longish and rather plain heads, great stamina, and great speed. Examples of this flavor are some of the horses of the Latif sire line including Kann and Korej.

In North America, the Seglawi horses became very popular in the 1950s and 1960s and then, as it were, breeders of this flavor of Arabian horse estab-lished the terms of "breed type" for the entire Arabian horse breed in North America in reference to their favorite flavor of horse! Indeed, careful study will indicate that "breed type" at that time emanated from the Polish bred Skowronek, used in England by Lady Wentworth at Crabbet Park. Later, in the 1970s, with the importation of the Polish horses, Kuhailan type came to be recognized, though often judged with reference to Seglawi type rather than as Kuhailan. More recently, im-portations from Russia and France

have introduced horses of the Managhi flavor which are outstanding athletes, but are again judged with reference to Seglawi type. To be sure, then, we have four com-mon and distinct types or flavors of Arabian horses. Plus we have combi-nations of the various types. It is up to the astute breeder, then, to determine as accurately as possible what types he or she is dealing with, and what combinations are most successful. As an example, strongly bred Kuhailan stallions cross well on Seglawi mares. Bask, when bred to many of the beautiful Siglawi mares of domes-tic breeding in this country produced many national champions. Interesting-ly enough, the opposite rarely holds true, i.e. breeding strongly concentrat-ed Seglawi stallions to Kuhailan Haifi mares of good quality very rarely pro-duces superior horses. Certainly many of the artisans, i.e. the serious breeders of the breed, recog-nized the various types within the breed and utilized them on occa-sion. Line breeding Seglawi type in America was very common in the 50s and 60s and produced many wonderful horses. An example of these horses were those of Mr. Dan Gainey, who line bred strongly to a small number of superior Seglawi sires and thus fixed a specific Seglawi flavor as his landmark in the breed. It was interesting to watch him use Bask (Kuhailan) blood with little apparent success. However, when he introduced the Seglawi Kuhailan blood of Comet into his pro-gram, he and his family produced beautiful national champion athletes. Now that we have established and de-fined the various types within the breed of the Arabian horse, the next task is to delineate the combinations of the above types that have proven to be successful in producing excellent hors-es. One of the most exciting combina-tions in the last 50 years was that of the Seglawi stallion Nabor (Negatiw x Lagodna) on the Seglawi bred Amu-


rath Sahib daughters of Poland. An example of this cross was the multina-tional champion mare, Dorna-ba. Mares of this combination were famous all over the world. In line breeding Kuhailan type the Poles used the Kuhailan Adjuz stallion Pietuszok (Priboj x Taktika) on their beautiful Witraz (Kuhailan Haifi) daughters and produced not only beautiful national champion offspring, but also Derby winning race horses.

Of more recent times, the Poles used the Seglawi son of Aswan, Palas (out of Panel by Nil), on many of their Seglawi mares and produced world champions such as Etruria (out of Et-na). Panel was a daughter of Platina who was a full sister of Pietuszok. In Russia, the breeders were highly suc-cessful in crossing the Seglawi blood of Naseem on the Kuhailan bred Priboj mares. Examples of this combination are Pustinia (Salon x Ptashka), Palmi-ra (Salon x Ptashka) and Muscat (Salon x Malpia). Mares and stallions of this combination have contributed greatly to the breeding system in Tersk and in North America.

The Bairactar sire line, utilizing the small but exotically pretty bay Seglawi stallion Nabeg (Arax x Nomenklatura by Naseem), was then used on the Naseem Priboj mares. The offspring of this combination were often very pretty and most commonly of Seglawi type. You will find this line represent-ed through Stop the Show and TR Narvina at Willomar.

One would expect more breeding pre-potency from colts by the Seglawi stal-lion Nabeg out of Seglawi mares such as Nariadnaia (Aswan x Nomenklatura by Naseem) and such proved to be the case. At Tersk they used colts out of the good-sized Priboj Naseem mares to carry on the Bairactar sire line. Horses such as Peleng (Nabeg x Palmira by Salon) and Pesniar (Nabeg x Pesnia by Aswan) were excellent examples.

The Bairactar sire line was car-ried on in Poland with the impor-tation of Tallin (Nabeg x Talan-tiviaia by Aswan). He was used principally on Seglawi mares with good success and his grandson Emanor (by Wojslaw by Tallin) is the 1999 US National Champion stallion. Emanor is a horse of superb Seglawi type. It stands to reason then, that in our Arabian population we have horses line bred strongly to Kuhailan type, horses line bred strongly to Seglawi type, and to a lesser extent, line bred to the other types. There are also horses of Seglawi Kuhailan combination with Seglawi being the most obvious phenotypically (the visible properties of an organism that are produced by the interaction of the genotype and the environment), and those that are Kuhailan Seglawi with Kuhailan being the most promi-nent phenotypically. It behooves the breeder, then, to understand what type he or she is dealing with in relation to the pedigree in choosing viable mat-ings with high chances of success. At Willomar it has been our desire to produce horses of superb Arabian type that would be successful in classical athletic competition. To this end we have line bred Kuhailan type. We used the linebred Kuhailan type stal-lion Pietuszok (Priboj x Taktika by Taki Pan), the linebred Kuhailan type stal-lion Rezus (Celebes x Rezeda by Czort), the Managhi type stallion El Kasaka (Patron x Purga by Kankan), and the Kuhailan Seglawi stallion Py-atigorsk (Pietuszok Dwa x Mystical lady by Tornado). In recent years we have added the Seglawi Kuhailan stal-lion Alkalia (Probat x Alka by Celebes) and the Seglawi stallion Pistaschio (Salon x Panntera by Kniazj). Our brood mares are predominately line-bred Kuhailan type. Too, one will find a group of mares in our band linebred

to Arax (Amurath Sahib x Angara) on the maternal side concentrating Kuhai-lan Seglawi type from the great mares of Arax. Only recently have we intro-duced Naseem blood to our program with outstanding success, just as the Russians did so long ago on their Priboj mares. Pyatigorsk, a significant sire of the Kuhailan Adjuz sire line of Russia and Poland, has been a principle sire in our program for many years. He crossed well with Kuhailan mares such as daughters of Bask, i.e. Star of Ofir and mares of the Seglawi I line including the daughters of Aswan and the daughters of El Kasaka. Pyatigorsk was not particularly successful with the Seglawi mares of the Raffles branch of the Ibrahim sire line nor with mares of old Abbas Pasha breeding. Pyatigorsk was always very useful on line bred Kuhailan mares of good quality. In our experience, stallions of the Naseem sire line are often difficult to train because of a short attention span. We chose Pistaschio because he had been a successful race horse setting some track records and also he was out of the same family of mares that had produced Pietuszok and To-pol. Some of his geldings have be-come excellent 4-H horses which gives some indication of the soft quality of

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Five year old gelding, Nadallion (Main Smoke x Nedana). This gelding was trained and shown

by a 16 year old amateur.


their minds. His foals out of strong minded mares are more difficult to train. He has produced exceedingly well bred to daughters of Pyatigorsk, an example being Spirited Music out of Kalua by Pyatigorsk, presently racing in California. Kuhailan type has been instrumental in producing horses of superb type and superb athletic ability. Kuhailan Haifi sire line horses are presently numer-ous in the Arabian horse population because of the tremendous success of the Bask bred horses. The addition of Kuhailan Adjuz blood on these horses has been very successful in Europe and is worthy of consideration here.

An update to the breeding essay of years ago is now worth while. Two are-as of knowledge are now of value. The first is the number of breeders who have used the genetics of our program to produce horses of superior type, quality and classic athletic ability. The second area is what we have pro-duced to this end since the first essay. We would like first off to speak of our fellow breeders successes. One of the oldest farms to use some of our program was Carl Fudge et al of Stur-geon Creek Arabians who have pro-duced a number of outstanding endur-ance horses including the national champion endurance horse Reason To Believe (Pyatigorsk x Resza by Re-zus). This gelding also represented the US at the world equestrian games in Malaysia . Carl and crew have pro-duced an awesome number of horses competing in 100 mile rides, with a very enviable rate of completion. An-drea Deane of New Mexico produced Main Smoke ( Ghazni x Jaina by Pyati-gorsk) , a colt we have used very suc-cessfully here at Willomar. Andrea has recently purchased the mare Pan-dora (Pyatigorsk x Sophisticate by El Kasaka) and bred to the Monarch A H son, Imagine That Ma, with outstand-ing results. Imagine That Ma is out of Orla's ( by Pietuszok) family. Dennis Hanson and family of Idaho purchased

many of Willomar's line bred Priboj mares and has had spectacular re-sults, producing Believable Dream (Pistachio x Believe In Me by El Kasa-ka) and the outstanding colt, Kold Fu-sion ( Pistachio x Kute n Kool by Oratus). Dennis now has an envia-ble group of line bred Priboj fillies by Main Smoke and Monsour (Main Smome x Ma'Amoiselle by El Kasaka). Another endurance enthusiast is Keena Van Horn and her husband Mike. They presently have a Main Smoke filly in training out of their Wik-ing daughter and have recently pur-chased an Arpan (Kumis x Plennitsa by Aswan) grandson to add to the ge-netic pool .

Willomar has, for the last number of years, operated a small grass based breeding operation and have contin-ued on with the program. We continue line breeding to Topol and Pie-tuszok plus added some Naseem with the addition of Pistashio (Salon x Panntera). We chose Pistaschio be-cause he was a stakes winning race horse ( not all of the Salon son were trainable) and produced soft minds for the most part. His greatest contribution for us was four full sisters out of Nihani (El Kasaka x Bint Nepokornaia) These mares, line bred to Arax, are excellent brood mares producing classical ath-letes.

The mare families still used here are Harpia (Pietuszok x Arfa by Witraz,) Ida (Efar x Daida van Lissen-hof), Sil-ver Charm (Bajram x Silwara), Pos-lannitsa (Nabeg x Pesnia), *Sabellina (Abu Afas x Sabda), Metropolia ( Priboj x Mammona) and Nepokor-naia (Arax x Nepreklonnaja). It is in-teresting how these mare families con-tinue to produce classical athletes when covered by our line bred stal-lions.

Out of the Silver Charm family came Pygmalion( by Protocall), world eques-trian games endurance horse for the US team in Aachen, West Germa-ny. From the Ida family we have

Kasydasun (by Protocall) presently competing as a three day event horse under the capable guidance of Britt Roden. Kasydasun was bred by Dar-rel Allen here in Washing ton. The Sabellina family has produced out-standing endurance horses including the Tevis cup completion. The Pos-lannitsa family produced outstanding brood mares whose offspring by Main Smoke can be seen with Dennis Han-sen and family. The Harpia family pro-duced dressage horses and the Nepokornaia family presently has horses competing in three day events.

Our goal has always been to produce horses of classical type that are suc-cessful in classic athletic competition. To this dream we have remained steadfast. History has shown that outstanding Arabian horses, successful in athletic competition, can add significantly to sport horse breeding programs. We of recent years are participating at a three day event stable. To us it seems that our purebred Arabian horses can be very successful at the lower and sometimes intermediate lev-els of this classical sport. However, we are sure our brood mares can, crossed with the proper warm blood and thor-oughbred stallions, contribute to pro-ducing world class athletes for this dy-namic sport.

Getting to Know a Shagya by Karla Kerekes and Robert Dullinger

When I moved back to Colorado after living in Kentucky for several years, my first priority was finding a place to board my horse, SA Menkent (Bayram x SA Enif). I wanted it to be a place where there weren‘t too many other horses and one that was run by some-one that didn‘t mind helping a green-horn improve. After almost giving up, I met Robert Dullinger through a friend of a work acquaintance. He owns a 35 acre spread near Vail, CO and boards a handful of horses for friends as well as having four of his own - including a

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Member Stories and Farm News nice German Warmblood. He was kind enough to agree to take on one more boarder and the inexperienced owner that came with him.

Robert has been around horses most of his life. By his count he has had somewhere in the neighbourhood of 30 horses of different breeds and siz-es. He rides Western, but prefers Eng-lish. He competed in hunter/jumper classes, cross country and low level dressage with his Thoroughbred geld-ing. There are lots of ribbons in his tack room that he and his daughter won in shows around the state.

His favourite pastime is riding out on the trails - over mountains, meadows, streams - enjoying the gorgeous scen-ery and wildflowers from a well man-nered, athletic, surefooted, beautiful horse like Kent. Robert grew up in Austria and loves the diligent breeding and wonderful performances of the Lipizzaner's. He thinks the Austro – Hungarian Cavalry did an amazing job developing such a versatile horse as the Shagya. By the way, Robert had never heard of a Shagya before Kent came into his life - even after growing up in Austria.

According to Robert, when Kent ar-rived in August 2008 he was a little anxious and jumpy in his new and un-familiar environment. Robert was not exactly bowled over. Although Kent never really gave Robert any trouble, for the first six months he just seemed

like your average horse. By the time spring 2009 rolled around, Kent had made it through his first Colorado win-ter and had settled in to his new home. To help keep Kent in shape, Robert rides him two times a week. We both appreciate Kent‘s natural talent and willingness to work. Between Robert and I, Kent gets to jump, do dressage and go out on the trail.

Robert recently told me ―That‘s the best all around horse I have ever worked with. And he is so sweet, kind, respectful and appreciative. It is a true pleasure to be around him. He is a wonderful horse to work with. He is sound in mind, body and spirit. He is well balanced, has great feet, good bone structure and best of all, he pos-sesses a wonderful disposition.‖

Kent has established his place in the herd and the hearts of all those who get to know him. I am so lucky Kent came into my life. My thanks to Daunna Sellers for making my dream a reality. I am so fortunate that my first and only horse is a Shagya.

My First Shagya Steve Boles, ASAV member from Dill-

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by Donna Coss

A big, long legged colt was born June

14 to Lily Creek Seredy (LC Stetson

X SW Selabration), sire is *Dante.

This is my first purebred Shagya foal

and I am very excited!

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Robert and Kent doing a little dressage work.

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ASAV to Have Booth at AHA Sport Horse Nationals

The ASAV plans on having a promo-tional both at the Arabian Horse Asso-ciation Sport Horse Nationals (SHN), to be held from September 28 to Octo-ber 2, 2011. This is the Arabian and Half Arabian Sport Horse Nationals, which will be held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. The Sport Horse Nationals celebrates its ninth anniversary in 2011. It is the only Sport Horse show offered by a breed association. From dressage to hunter jumper to pleasure carriage driving, and much, much more, the event of-fers a chance to see some of the best horse athletes in the industry. Details at: http://www.arabianhorses.org/competitions/nationalevents/sporthorse/2011/ The ASAV Sport Horse National (SHNPG) Project Group met on June 28, 2011 via phone conference to dis-cuss their plans (see minutes). The group is looking for other members that wish to work at this event in Octo-ber. Members attending the event that have time to sit at the ASAV booth should let the project leader know so they can get you scheduled. The event lasts for a week and volunteers will be welcomed. If an ASAV member plans on competing with a qualified half Shagya Arabian, please let us know so that we can promote the competition pair during the event.

At the meeting Chris Evans suggested that we should also consider having a Shagya Arabian join the Parade of Breeds held daily between 11 am and 2 pm at the Kentucky Horse Park out-door arena barn yard. After further investigation, the dates during SHN will not be available. However, the ASAV will get a group of horses together to participate later in the fall. The SHNPG, also discussed the possi-bility of holding a raffle at the event. Items mentioned for the raffle included donations of breeding or donations of time such as a free riding lesson. Donna Coss and Darlene Steven will be working on a promotional handout for the event. A proposed ASAV Breeder ñ Owner Guide would allow members to advertise in a directory format with a booklet layout (5 x 8). Black and white full page ads will be sold for $30 to members and $35 for non-members. A simple listing in the guide would free for members. Mem-bers will receive an information sheet in the near future via the mail. Any one interested in being included in the di-rectory should return the sheet as soon ap. Also discussed was the possibility of having a full color glossy cover on the guide with a number of horses on the front cover. The back cover, inside front cover and inside back cover would be available for sale although the costs were not known at the time of this article. Please contact Donna Coss at [email protected] if you are interested. Ad copy should come camera ready, although simple ads can be laid out if returned before the deadline of August 16, 2011. At this time, all the details are being collated for an ASAV mailer to members. We are excited to have this booth available to us, and the ASAV will sponsor a Sport Horse National class

or event. In the past the ASAV has sponsored a jump during the event held on the west coast. Any printed handouts, promotional ma-terial, sale lists or advertisements that the members wish to have displayed on their behalf during the SHN event must be sent to ASAV P.O. Box 169, Finchville, KY no later than September 1, 2011. All ads that will appear in the Breeders ñ Owners Guide have a deadline of August 16, 2011 so that Donna Coss has enough time lead time to complete the guide. Promotional postcards similar to those used in Europe were talked about. We hope to have more information on this, with Donna Coss reporting back to the committee. We also plan on having a ‗meet and greet‘ for all ASAV members in attend-ance one afternoon at the event. The date will be announced as we get clos-er to the event. If you have any questions, please con-tact Darlene Steven @ 502-419-6738.

Planning for ASAV Booth at Sport Horse Nationals

The kickoff meeting for the Arabian and Half Arabian Horse Association Sport Horse Nationals Project Group was called to order at 9:15pm on June 28, 2011 via a conference call.

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In attendance: Chris Evans, Donna Coss, Daunna Sellers and Darlene Steven. There were no previous minutes to be read. Minutes taken by Darlene Steven. New Business: 1) Darlene discussed: Booth placement in the old blue cov-ered arena with other Arabian Horse Clubs tables. We talked about Arabian type decorations that Darlene had used in the past at various events. Available at the booth: members bro-chures, handouts and advertisements and The Breeders ñ Owners Guide. Darlene said that she has the old ASAV posters and banners at her house, along with distance trophies and her old personal trophies which can be displayed. 2) Booth Set up: Darlene mentioned she has tables and chairs if need, but believes they are only offering us a table. Darlene said she had a lattes for a back drop and Donna mentioned that Michael‘s (a craft store in the USA) has a cardboard back drop they sell inexpensively. 3) Chris discussed: Kentucky Horse Park Parade of breeds. Chris said he would get the information and send it to the committee. We thought that having a nice Shagya available at the show to use during the Parade of Breeds would nice. Donna said she thought that. Christy Johnson, who owns, Bonfire by Dante may be at the Nationals showing. 4) Raffle of donated items: Members of the committee mentioned that they thought that having a daily raffle would be nice and might bring people back to the ASAV booth to see if they won. It was discussed that if we had a 2012 Membership Drive that a number of raffle tickets should be given away with each new membership. 5) ASAV Brochures available: Old Jumpstart breeding flyers. Win a 400

dollar stud fee idea? 6) Sponsorship to Sport Horse Nation-als will be checked out by Darlene Ste-ven and was budgeted at the last meeting. 7) Breeders Directory: Darlene to mail out membership letter for ads. Send out letters to old past members. Cost of BW inside ads are $30 for members and $35 for non-members. A glossy color ad will be more - prices to come later by Donna. 8) Postcards for $50 bucks? (500) 4x6 inches Donna Coss will lay out cards for a minimum layout fee. 9) Donna said, make sure something goes into the Newsletter. Darlene said she will get on it, need to write an arti-cle about the event. 10) Talked about giving away water at the table to draw people to come to the table, Someone suggested candy. Diane Marksberry was suggested to set up schedule manning the booth. It was mentioned that she should join committee, and maybe Kathy Papp as they live close to the Kentucky Horse Park. Minutes: Read and approved. Will be distributed to the Board of Directors for their next meeting. Meeting Adjourned at 10:30pm.

Sport Horse Nationals Comes to the Horse Capital of the World

Lexington, Kentucky., known in many

circles as the Horse Capital of the

World, will host the 9th Annual Sport

Horse National Arabian and Half-

Arabian Championship Horse Show

(Sport Horse Nationals) September 28

to October 2, 2011. Competitors will

compete in more than 80 different

Sport Horse classes across four divi-

sions, including sport horse in-hand

and under-saddle, dressage, pleasure

carriage driving and hunter/jumper.

Sport Horse Nationals, which has alter-

nated venues in the east and west

since its inception, returned to Nampa,

Idaho in 2010 while Lexington hosted

the World Equestrian Games, but will

settle in Lexington at the Kentucky

Horse Park for at least three years

starting in 2011.

Sport Horse Nationals ranks as the

only single-breed sport horse event in

the nation offered just for Arabian, Half

-Arabian and Anglo-Arabian horses

registered with AHA or the Canadian

Arabian Horse Registry. An estimated

650 horses will compete at this prestig-

ious event, which will name the na-

tion's top horses.

Competitors from 27 different states

and provinces will compete for walnut

plaques, rose neck garlands and a

Gladys Brown Edwards trophy statue

depicting the renowned ideal Arabian

horse. Other awards include gold jew-

elry, and select classes receive addi-

tional prizes such as bridles and sad-

dles.

While they are not in the show ring,

exhibitors will have a chance to shop

the commercial exhibitor area that will

feature jewelry, tack and clothing.

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ASAV Contact Information/Board of Directors ASAV Corporate Mailing Address:

ASAV - American Shagya Arabian Verband 15918 Porter Road Verona, KY 41092, USA

Email: [email protected]

ASAV Registrar:


ASAV Membership Services:


ASAV Treasurer:


ASAV Newsletter Submissions: [email protected]

Interim Chairman Darlene Steven [email protected]

ASAV-President:

Vice-President:

BOD Founding Members: Daunna Sellers [email protected]

Darlene Steven [email protected]

BOD International Contacts: Chris Evans [email protected]

Regional Directors:* (information about regions below)

Region 1 North: Donna Coss [email protected]

Region 2 South: Brian Coss [email protected]

Region 3 Pacific:

Region 4 West:

ASAV-Officers:

Secretary:

Registrar: Daunna Sellers [email protected]

Treasurer: Elisha Moorehead [email protected]

Membership Chair:

Promotions Editor: Donna Coss [email protected]

Newsletter Editor: NL Committee [email protected]

Web-Master:

Youth-Program: Kesleigh Lehman [email protected]

Breeding Committee: Daunna Sellers [email protected]

Darlene Steven [email protected]

*ASAV-Regions:

Region 1 North: New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maine, Connecticut , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michi-gan ,Rhode Island, Maryland, Delaware, Vermont, Massachusetts, District of Columbia

Region 2 South: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, West Virginia

Region 3 Pacific: Washington, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Iowa, Oregon, Nebraska, Idaho, Canada*

Region 4 West: California, Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii Kansas Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri




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