ARABELLA (CROSS-ATA)

Arabella, chestnut mare, born in 1971 (Cross – Ata), bred by SK Pruchna.
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She spent one season on the racetrack. Trained by Dorota Kałuba, she won all six races in which she took part. Since 1975, the Oaks race has been named after her.

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I remember that the breeders from Ochaby, Mr. Zygmunt Kwarczyński and Lech Strzałkowski, with whom I had the pleasure of working, were always proud of the bravery of their Anglo-Arabians.

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Arabella won the Derby under Stanisław Karkosa confidently. She spent one season on the race track. Trained by Dorota Kałuba, she won all six races in which she took part. Out of the named races, apart from Derby, she also won Trial, Oaks and Stubna. Since 1975, the Oaks race has been named after her.

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Arabella comes from one of the founders of the Pruchna-Ochaba Stud. Atalante xxoo (Maubourguet xx - Seduction xxoo) b. 1944 in France, she was one of the 40 mares purchased in 1946 by a commission under the direction of Eng. Stanisław Hay. In Pruchna, she founded one of the largest (currently 17 broodmares) and more valuable female families. Such well-known sports horses come from it, such as Darlet, to whom Jan Kowalczyk owes three of his 15 titles of Polish show jumping champion, or Elba (ex Astrala), on which this rider, in turn, starts) at the European Eventing Championships. Bursz, Babylon, Birbant, Argon, Dial, Danaos, Rangefinder, Akt or Atlantyk - these are the ones that did not reach the Darlet class, but were visible in Polish sport.

The addition of Arabian blood in Arabella's pedigree is small but excellent. Devil comes from a great sire line of Kuhailan Haifi, an original Arabian imported from the Arabian Peninsula Czort was a large horse for an Arabian and very brave; among others the other in Derby.

Arabella was a short mare (161-178-19,5 cm), very noble and dry. A chestnut with a red shade with a regular narrow arrow, in the opinion of the current stud manager, Bogdan Kuchejda, was not pretty, but it must be added - for an Anglo-Arabian. It would be difficult to see in her appearance Arab features, of which her pretty grandmother, Atavia, had so much.

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Entry based on the article by Marek Szewczyk entitled "Arabella" from 1994.

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