GIRLAN-BEY (PESAL – GRACJA-BIS)

The first privately bred horse in post-war history to become Polish Junior Champion. Over the next years, this stallion won several dozen shows, both national and international.
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Since 1998, the Białka Stud (formerly a stallion herd) near Krasnystaw has hosted the Junior Arabian Spring Show. And while each of them has its place in the history of breeding horses of this breed, the show, which took place from May 31 to June 1, 2003, was clearly remembered by the breeders. For the first time a privately bred horse won his class, the championship and became the best horse of the show.

And that horse was the gray colt Girlan Bey, bred by Katarzyna and Michał Bogajewicz, who were the owners of Niewierz Stud, located near Poznań.

Girlan Bey's ancestor - the gray stallion Ilderim db 1894 was imported to Sławuta in 1900. This stud farm for generations (1506-1917) was owned by the Sanguszko Princes. Picturesquely situated among forests on the Wołońska plateau on the Horyń River, which is the right tributary of the Pripyat.

As Stefan Bojanowski writes:You will not see such a second stable anywhere in the world because in this stable there are usually about 100 carriages and riding horses, and these horses are all stallions, and these stallions are all Arabians - because Prince Roman Sanguszko does not use any other horse for his harness and saddle only stallions and only Arabian. Sanguszów horses have high Eastern blood - constantly refreshed by the best original sires used. The Sławuta herd, i.e. the sires, mothers and youngsters, was not located in Sławuta itself, but in Chrestówka and is often called the Chrystowieskie herd.”

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The entire publication and other sources can be found in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library (click)

Author: Jerzy Dudała

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