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| Commissions of veterinaries and officers were regularly sent into the desert and later to other parts of the globe in search of the best root stock of purebred Arabian and, that is, ameliorate constantly the quality of the Spanish breeding stock… | |
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Here
are some of the most important acquisitions made during that time (nearly
all of them made by the Yeguada
Militar). They would definitely leave a mark on the purebred
Arabian breeding in Spain, the horses imported from 1905 to 1912 being
found nowadays in most of the bloodlines. |
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1905 |
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| From the Desert | the stallion | MUSTAFA (sire of the mare NAVIN ) |
| and the mares | BINT (dam of VARSOVIA ) | |
| YMN (dam line of CONGO ) | ||
| ZULIMA (grandmother in dam line of the mare SIRIA ) | ||
| from Syria | the mare | ZARIFA (dam of EUTERPE ) |
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1906 |
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| From the Desert | the stallion | AB (grandsire of SIRIA ) |
| from Poland | the stallion | JELIOTROP (Poland was occupied by the Russians) |
| and 2 full sisters | KADRANKA (dam line of ZANCUDO) | |
| KEBREBASSA (dam line of many stallions) | ||
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1908 |
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| from Poland | 2 stallions | WAN DICK (sire line of many stallions ) |
| NOWIK ( sire of CAMELO and SIRIA ) | ||
| and the mares | DAMIETTA ( dam line of AGATA II ) | |
| ELEGANTKA | ||
| From the Desert | the great stallion | SEANDERICH who will become one of the two most important Spanish breed leaders especially through his sons ILUSTRE (sire of CONGO )and ECO ( sire of BARQUILLO) |
| and the mares | FARJA I ( dam line of GOMARA ) | |
| FATIMA ( grandmother in dam line of DIVINA ) | ||
| SAMBRY ( grandmother in dam line of FIANZA ) | ||
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1912 |
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| from Poland | the stallions | ORNIS, 3/4 brother of the legendary SKOWRONECK |
| URSUS who will become the 2nd most important Spanish breed leader | ||
| from Egypt | the stallions | KOROSKO ( sire of FONDAK, EUTERPE, FIANZA.etc.... ) |
| FARJAN | ||
| SABAT EL HEIR ( sire of ALFANJE ) | ||
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1923 |
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| from France | the mares | KENIA, KADIDJA II ( (who left very few descendants)) SULTANE and her filly SADA YAMA ( dam line of NEGUS II ) imported by the brothers Guerrero |
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1926 |
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| from Egypt | the stallion | SAWAH THE SECOND (by Sr Guerrero ) ) who would appear in the pedigree of many existing horses. |
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1927 |
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| from the Desert | the mare | GHAZEL ( sire line of URAL, NAVARRO III) |
| the stallions | BAGDAD (great-father in sire line ALHABAC ) | |
| MAROUF | ||
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The
first pure Spanish Arabian private breeder was the Marquis
de Domecq in 1910, who bought back few stallions not used by the
Yeguada Militar, but the only importations made by private breeders were the
work of the brothers Guerrero. Don Cristobal Colon ( descendant of Christopher Colombus in direct line),better known as the Duke of Veragua , bought back all mares of the Marquis de Domecq after the death of the later in 1921 ( EUTERPE, BENI AMER, FIANZA , etc... ) |
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