Anette Mattsson
Ararat in 2011
One of my favorite mares in the 1980´s was the amazing Arra (Bandos x Arba/Comet), Triple Crown winner (Derby, Oaks and Criteriewinner) as well as 1983 European Champion Mare and 1986 Polish National Champion Mare, a fleabitten mare with huge black eyes, a beautiful head with a great neck and lot of charisma – a classical Polish mare that showed that a beautiful horse also could do well in racing/performance. Continue reading “Ararat (Palas x Arra/Bandos) – 29 years old!”
In 1993 when I visited Michalów State Stud I was thrilled to see the stallion everyone was talking about – a great moving chestnut stallion that totally impressed me with his sweet disposition but yet powerful approach when he started to move. This soon to be legendary stallion was the one and only Monogramm by Negatraz (Bask x Negotka/Negatiw) out of Monogramma (Knippel x Monopolia/Priboj), bred by Patterson Arabians and owned by the Bishop family in USA. I cherish the memory when I walked into his stall and he turned his beautiful head to me and from then I was a totally in love with this amazing stallion. Continue reading “Monogramm – the living legend”
The young stallions Empire (Enzo x Emira/Laheeb) and Equator (QR Marc x Ekliptyka/Ekstern) are the two young stars at Michalów State Stud in Poland. This week both of them had their first offspring born at the Stud and it will be an exciting spring seeing more foals by these two promising young sires. Continue reading “First foals by Empire and Equator!”
I just received the sad message that the legendary stallion Desperado V passed away today on the 13th of January 2014 at the age of 28. My thoughts are with Sheila Varian and everyone at Varian Arabians in this sad time, it is a huge loss for everyone who knew him. Continue reading “Desperado V (Huckleberry Bey x Daraska) Feb 23 1986 – Jan 13 2014”
I remember after the 2004 Polish National Show (which was when the WAHO-conference was held in Poland), everyone talked about the bay filly that was so spectacular and so perfect that no one ever seen anyone like that. Her name was… Pianissima. Of course she was named Polish National Junior Champion and Best in Show and everyone that saw her knew that they just witnessed the beginning of an impressive career. Continue reading “Happy Birthday Pianissima!”
There are some horses that make a huge impression on you and they will always be with you. Emandoria, Pianissima, Etruria, Emigrantka and Algeria are some of the mares I have met that blew me away. All of those amazing mares have also impressed lots of other people around the world and they are all with us through their offspring and their descendants. But not all the amazing horses have the chance to show the world what they are able to do and one of those truly spectacular mares was born at Michalów State Stud in 1990… This grey filly was something really special with a head so extreme that I never had seen anything like it before. Continue reading “Estarda (Gadir x Estancja/Palas) – the fairytale horse”
Today, January 10, is the 20th Birthday of one of the most influential stallions in Poland, the great Ekstern by Monogramm (Negatraz x Monogramma/Knippel) out of Ernestyna (Piechur x Erwina/Palas).
Continue reading “Happy Birthday Ekstern! The Champion of Champions turns 20!”