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The stallions are still often the main representatives of breeders and studs. The stallions' semen is shipped all over the world, and foals are produced independant of which continent or country a stallion is based. The semen of stallions is ordered like from a catalogue - seeing a picture of the stallion or hearing about it - ordering the semen, receiving it and breeding the mare. So easy it is (or seems to be) today! But what about the results? Is the stallion really accomplishing or adding to the mare what she needs to be bred? Is the horse as it looks like in the picture and those qualities seen in the pictures coming through with the foal? 'Photoshop' makes many (all) things possible today - horses are becoming "made" to perfection - at least in the pictures. But at the end we have to admit that is the HORSE in flesh, it's pheno and genotype, it's blood and ancestors that breeds ahead, not what the computer created!
The stallion pictured in this 'Monthly' is the 2003 born KADRI by Ansata Safeerand out of MB Kershana who is by Orashan out of a Dalul daughter. He is straight Egyptian bred in Jordan and owned by Fahad Al Jeri from Kuwait, a young smaller breeder. Al Jeri became excited about the Arab horses as student, and decided later on to include these creatures into his life as a part of his culture and beliefs, and to see and have them around him. |
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