Dionizy Trzeciak

Dionizy Trzeciak from Semetycze, a breeder of Lesser Poland and Arabian horses, which were most popular among cavalry officers.

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Mr. Dionizy Trzeciak, the later founder of the famous "Taurus herd", was born, grew up and raised among lovers of oriental horses and was passionate about raising them from childhood.

There are stories about him from his early years that when the nurse, in the absence of his parents, could not cope with the little "Dyzie", who missed his mother and was fussy, she carried the screaming and frantically thrashing boy out of the nursery straight to the stable and there she would ride the most beautiful horse - and then little Dyzio, whether during the day or at night, would forget about his mother and the crying, he would brighten up and immediately stop grimacing.

When he went to school in Tarnopol, he studied hard there and was an exemplary student - because he had an innate understanding of compulsory work, deeply implanted by his parents. The only thing he didn't like was geometry, because this type of dry learning did not suit his lively temperament, and during these lessons, ignoring the professor's boring lectures, he used to draw the heads of noble horses between triangles, trapezoids, or deltoids in his notebook, dreaming that when he grows up, , over time, come into possession of at least one purebred eastern horse.

In 1852, his dreams finally came true, because at that time Count Juliusz Dzieduszycki gives Mr. Trzeciak three mares of pure oriental blood, namely: "Żulema", "Kokietka" and "Nelisonka", and the gray Jarczowiecki "Stęp", to which Mr. Trzeciak also bought three mares of high eastern blood, and : "Helega" and "Tetis" in the Brzeżany herd of Count. Aleksander Potocki and "Marucha" in the herd of Messrs. Cikowski, former owners of Sloboda in the district. Brzeżański, Złotnik.

Author: Stefan Bojanowski

Source: "The Herd in Taurow" (1906) - Stefan Bojanowski