Well
hidden away in cold and wet Northern Germany you can find our
small Farm, located near Hamburg. Here we live in an old, typical
farmhouse with red brick panels. One end is used as living quarters
and
the other end contains the stables. The house has warmed man and
livestock for over a hundred years.
Since we were children, horses have inspired and coloured our lives
and for many years the keeping, riding and breeding of horses has been
our daily routine.
Fascinated by the beauty, elegance and overwhelming charm of the
Arabian horse, we finally decided that such a horse had to be ours.
In the seventies, however, it was not so easy to find an Arabian horse,
let alone to buy one. So after a long search, in the very cold February
1978 our first Arabian horse moved in besides our other horses in the
barn. It was a seven-year-old gelding, imported from Michailow (Poland).
His name was ZAMET. He was a riding horse par excellence and for
21 years our familys most loved friend.
A few years later charmed by ZAMET we bought another gelding from
Michailow, the four-years-old BANDOS-son, DYSK. Together with
him we enjoyed almost 19 splendid years, in which we were very
successful in innumerable long distance competitions.
We had years of pleasure and you can not imagine how this two Arabian
geldings taught us the meaning of the special friendship that only Arabian
horses can give.
Well infected by Arabitis our next goal was to raise a foal.
At that time
in the late 80s there was an increasing interest in Germany for
Straight
Egyptians. And lucky we were, we found a special Straight Egyptian filly
called HALIEFEE.
This little horse developed magnificent and three years later HALIEFEE
spent basic training on the Warsaw (Poland) racecourse. Well trained
but
without loose any of her freshness she came back home well ridden in
late
summer and ever since stayed with us, meanwhile giving us several excellent
foals.
In May 1992 when I visited Babolna, the Hungarian National State Stud,
I fell in love with the mare of my dreams. With the help of our dear
friend Walter Dill, not much later the almost snow white ABBAS PASHA
I-12 , with large dark round eyes, gracefully entered her new box and
took queen-status at our farm. We all knew that this pure Egyptian mare
of outstanding class had found her home.
In February a year later she gave birth to her first filly and the first
Egyptian foal born in our farm. We called her MUNIAH and also she has
become a part of our breeding program.
In the past 32 years, in which we have lived together with Arabian horses,
besides those referred to, there have been many more in our care and
use for riding and breeding. All of them are still in our hearts and
are also meant by the name of "al zamet , as we called our
farm after our first Arabian horse.
Day by day we have loved and cherished wonderful moments together. The
breeding program we have carefully put together has produced several
foals with excellent qualities.