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gu-ku-vi
Gold Member

Denmark

744 Posts

Posted - 20 Nov 2008 : 2:44:05 PM

Marbon Mead, Melissa and Mastarifah are going home to Diane Ellis and I am hearthbroken thinking about that I shall not see Mead in my stable anymore in fact never more, do her mane and cuddle her. I had also so badly wanted, that I could have keep at least Melissa for the rest of her life, giving Diane a foal instead from her, both girls are so wonderfull horses and a great pleasure to have.Beauties too.

Circumstances in many ways have forced me to cut down, prices for food, blacksmith, vets, all those fertility bills, my age, but up to now I have handled it, in the best way, the force has been the interest in breeding some beautifull 100% crabbets for the future.

Another thing is that, here in Denmark there is not much interest for crabbets, people are mostly interested in showhorses and advice the newcomers to only buy from studs, where the horses has been shown or else you are not serious

We don�t have small local shows, only nationals and internationals wich means you can�t go there if you don�t use a proff. trainer and MY horses will never ever been send away to such things, after I have read what can happens to a showhorse, and I can�t see that it is good for the breed at all.

I have had a lot of bad experience, first the difficulties with all the scidcarriers, then the troubles to find another clear stallion.

I tried the frozen semen from Safari,(I had my eyes on him long before I went to UK for the mares), semen turns up to be bad.

That was exstrimely costly, allthough I get the studfee back, I have payed a lot of money for transport of the semen, stabling of tree mares by the vet and the first insimination scanning etc. I am not blaming any persons such things happens.

Diane has help as far as she could, loaning me Melissa in hope to get her pregnant to Safari, then loaning me Mastarifah after the fellow who bought Lenny don�t keep he�s word that I should use him in the spring, but all of it cost a lot of money in registrations, transport a.s.o.

In those four years I have tried so hard to start a breeding program and it all fell apart.I only wanted to breed Crabbets, Old English as I think there is enough breeders of all the others

I do hope that both Mead and Melissa are pregnant now and will give Diane two fillies, which I know she want so badly. I also know that Diane will take good care of Mead, my darling dreamhorse and first 100% crabbet, as she was very sad, that day she left her, for going to Denmark, now she will be home again.

My first 100% crabbet foal died of scid, then fortunately I have Meadley and Sami and I am so happy for that. Another mare I had from UK turns up to be a scidcarrier too and lost her foal.I sold her to a lady, but the seller are now angry with me that I do that.

Silver Zara Saint are planned to go to Daphne Cockedge as soon as we can arrange something and I know she also by Daphne will have a good home,be respected for the good qualityblood that runs in her veans, which is importent to me.

Back in my stable is now, Meadley, Sami, Martini, Sala and Ballet our mare out of our first arabian. In that way I still have some of Mead, Silver Zara Saint and Moulton Millennium

Don�t think I will be breeding any more foals, but never said never.

I once though it was importent to some people keeping this old lines alive, remember some years ago there where a talk about some interest in a group that maintane the old species, but time has change a lot, so have the arabian world, adopting more and more from USA and the socalled arabian industri, and it seems to me that only showhorsebreeders are respected.

Nowadays you should have an agent, a trainer, a middleman, if you can do that, you can sell allmost everything, good or bad.

Just have an e-mail from Sweden where the same things happens to a breeder there, and she is also cutting down in the crabbetlines, so if you don�t live in UK it is to hard to have this lines.

We have promised each other not to cut everything away. You need to have someone, who are interested in the breed and can swap coverings and foals with, if you want to continure in such breedingprograms.

Showing pics here in DK of all the wonderfull crabbets dosn�t help either, they can�t compare to the modern photos with horses full of make-up standing in a awfull way, in frozen positur, so the younger people can�t imagening how good those horses in fact was.

Think that some day there will only be room for those people, who had the big pockets to buy coverings from the great stallions, the matadors, but many of them can�t see, where the breed are going, my homble opinnion.

It is so sad that a showarabian is much more worth, than a good ridden one, who is nicely put together and healthy and I think that the showpeople in that way have spoiled a lot for the arabian horse as a good ridinghorse. Snort and blow is what they marketing nothing else.

Now I will just love my horses, do my kitchengarden, forget all about breeding, forums and just have fun.

Last evening I was a trip down Memory Lane finding my very first post on Al surching for a crabbet, then for a stallion.

Then the tread of my cancer and the beautifull answers from Shinook.

The tread about my first scidfoal and all the helpfull people that came along, when I recognice all my scidcarriers.

I also now remember how many times I have been about to give up the whole thing, finding it too difficult how you chear me up again and again, thank you all for that, and how sad some people was, when this horses go to Denmark.

Now it is up to you to support those people who hang on to this wonderfull arabians, so there forever will be some crabbets left.

I have had a great time while planning all the things I wanted to do, so no reason to be sad at all, just wish I was much younger.

I will still hang on, but will not have so much to tell anymore.

Kind Regards Gunni.

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Crusaders Angel
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England
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Posted - 20 Nov 2008 : 2:58:01 PM

So sorry to read your story, your obvious affection and respect for your horses comes across very well. It is such a shame that it is not echoed by your countrymen.

I wish you well with your remaining horses and hope that the fashion changes and good quality workmanlike horses are recognised and appreciated once again.

Lucy