Arabian horse sire lines

One would expect more breeding prepotency from colts by the Seglawi stallion 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 carried on in Poland with the importation of Tallin (Nabeg x Talantiviaia 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 prominent phenotypically. It behooves the breeder, then, to understand what type he or she is dealing with in relation to the pedigree in choosing viable matings 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 stallion Pietuszok (Priboj x Taktika by Taki Pan), the linebred Kuhailan type stallion Rezus (Celebes x Rezeda by Czort), the Managhi type stallion El Kasaka (Patron x Purga by Kankan), and the Kuhailan Seglawi stallion Pyatigorsk (Pietuszok Dwa x Mystical lady by Tornado). In recent years we have added the Seglawi Kuhailan stallion Alkalia (Probat x Alka by Celebes) and the Seglawi stallion Pistaschio (Salon x Panntera by Kniazj). Our brood mares are predominately linebred 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 Kuhailan Seglawi type from the great mares of Arax. Only recently have we introduced 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 Topol. Some of his geldings have become excellent 4-H horses which gives some indication of the soft quality of 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 numerous 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.