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A pre-war weekly magazine addressed to breeders, athletes, racing and horse enthusiasts. Poles for whom the history of our country is inextricably linked with horse breeding and equestrian sports.
Below we present the introduction to the first issue of the weekly Jeździec i Hodowca from January 1, 1922:
"By starting this publication, we do so in the belief that Polish sport and breeding have already entered the stage of creation, which requires a comprehensive exchange of ideas, critical illumination, and the establishment of the direction and goal of work, and this mediation must be fulfilled by a special body, the creation of which we are starting with the with all your energy. Although the Polish press, perfectly understanding the role of horse sport, has never spared space for all the symptoms of his life, it is our duty today to recognize the burden of the hospitable press, which faces the entire immeasurable area of state life.
Our publishing house is a timid, modest and tentative realization of ambitious dreams: by elevating horse sport to the dignity of a life phenomenon that plays an important role in it, and by dispelling the perfunctory, here and there still lingering opinions about the role - "fun" - of sport, to get closer to to Western beliefs in this direction, which placed sport among the most vital educational moments. These most correct beliefs are spread in Western societies through special bodies that enjoy great publishing power. They fulfill their informative, educational and propagating role in an unparalleled way, based on the experienced maturity of the belief that in the life of every nation, sport of any kind is not only a co-creative moment, not only a practical school of character, not only a high-ranking virtue, but that it is at the same time, one of the components of powerful social forces.
This is not the place to argue for the important role of sport; fortunately, the belief in this importance is becoming more and more widespread and the understanding of the historical role of the Olympic field and stadium arena is becoming more and more profound. The Olympic victor's wreath is one of the most noble and radiant symbols of human glory. The long educational work of special magazines among Western societies has had its effect; Our publishing house, dreaming of such great results, will try to do the same with noble persistence, according to its strength and resources. Often, enthusiasm and energy will have to replace resources, which will not obscure the clarity of our intentions. We are all in a period of hectic construction and foundation laying. And we are laying foundations on which a building may one day be built. We sow the first seed in the field we love with all our hearts. Maybe one day it will produce a rich harvest.
Our modest intentions to serve in every possible way in the field to which this magazine will be devoted, still have in mind a living, contemporary and brilliant example: here is our previous work in the field of sports and breeding, scattered by the war, almost killed, trampled to the ground by the war storm. — she came back to life. Not by a miracle - but by an effort of will. A handful of people who understood that what they do, they do not for public fun, but for the benefit of the Homeland, convinced of the social value of their work, unearthed this work from the ruins, brought it to light and illuminated it. Thanks to this tireless effort, the Polish State is assured of one department of the national economy, standing on the European high: the horse breeding department.
We will devote our writing to the life of this noblest creature, this most faithful companion in Poland's war and misfortune, to his works and triumphs; a soldier's comrade from Sammossiery, Krechowiec, a participant of the heroic August days, is worthy of more than just a few praises and rhymes. He deserves a painstaking and urgent chronicle, like a patient farm register, which will be a collective document of experiences to be used by everyone who understands the role of the horse in the national farm. Breeding a Polish horse is one of the national commandments. The splendor of its history and, more importantly, the splendor of its future, will be the primary concern of all the words that will appear on these pages."
Author: Editorial office of the magazine Jeździec i Hodowca.
All issues of Rider and Breeder have been digitized in cooperation with the Polish Horse Breeders' Association, BoberTeam, the Silesian Digital Library and the Cieszyn Library. Currently, the entire series is also in development by Polish Digital Equestrian Library.
Entry updated: 22.05.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX
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"Bibliography of the content of the weekly Jeździec i Hodowca" (1958) - Unrug W., Uznański J.
Rider and Breeder - magazine (1922-1939)
"New racetrack in Służewiec" (1939) - Zygmunt Plater-Zyberk
"1938th anniversary of the Polish Equestrian Championship" (XNUMX)
"On Lady Wentworth's Book" (1938) - Roman Potocki
"Honorary Riding Badge" (1936)
Rider and Breeder (1934) No. 30 – Breeding of Anglo-Arabian horses
Rider and Breeder (1934) No. 12 - Horse Sport
"Forgotten hippological works of Emir Rzewuski" (1934) - Józef Mencel
"Anglo-Arabs in Antoniny" (1934) - Józef Potocki
"Expose of the President of the Polish Equestrian Association" (1933)
Rider and Breeder (1933) No. 33 – Arabian Horses
Rider and Breeder (1933) No. 30 - Feast of the Polish Cavalry
Rider and Breeder (1933) No. 19 – Thoroughbreds
Rider and Breeder (1933) No. 10 - Cavalry
"Emir Rzewuski" (1933) - Witold Pruski
"Lt. Col. Karol bar. "Rómmel as a jubilee" (1932)
"Polish Equestrian Association" (1929) - Tadeusz Machalski
Rider and Breeder (1929) No. 9 - Fryderyk Jurjewicz
"Arab Breeding in Great Britain" (1929) - Józef Potocki
"Polish Riding Association in Warsaw" (1928) - T. Machalski
"Voices of the American press about Polish triumphs..." (1926)
Related Legends:
Leon Con
Horse riding trainer, co-founder of the Polish Equestrian Association and its general secretary. Knight of the Cross of Valor and the Silver Cross of Merit.
Tadeusz Dachowski
The best Polish rider before WWI. Between 1894 and 1914 he won over 300 awards. In 1912-13 he competed in Wielka Pardubice (2x second place - Zeppelin).
Joseph Trenkwald
Soldier, rider, bronze medalist of the Olympic Games Amsterdam 1928, team eventing, Knight of the Virtuti Militari, Emperor Charles Cross, Cross of Valor.
Kazimierz Suski de Rostwo
Soldier. Rider. Coach. Olympian at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris (7th place). Lt. Col. Commander of the 21st Vistula Uhlans Regiment (Battle of Mokra).
Leon Burniewicz
1939nd Vice-Champion of Poland in the Comprehensive Riding Horse Competition. Soldier, Trainer. Activist of the Polish Equestrian Association. Awarded the Medal for the War of XNUMX. Major of the Polish Army.
Jerzy Grabowski
Rider, breeder, director of the Stallion Stud in Kwidzyn, trainer of the Polish team in eventing at the Olympic Games in Munich 1972.
Jan Grabowski
Hipologist and scientist. Author of many works related to horse breeding and equestrian sport, e.g. acclaimed album "Hipology for All".
Stanislaw Schuch
Polish hipologist, great exterierist and organizer of horse races. Co-founder of horse breeding in Poland after World War I and II. With W. Pruski and J. Grabowski, he wrote the second volume of the textbook entitled "Horse breeding".
Michal Toczek
Soldier, major, artilleryman. Rider and trainer. He was awarded, among others, 3 times with the Cross of Valour. PN Winner, New York 1926, Nice 1926 Hamlet 2.20. (And them.),
Casimir Gzowski
Rtm. 15th Poznan Lancers Regiment. Silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Amsterdam 1928. in the show jumping competition, on the horse Mylord.
Waclaw Rzewuski
Romantic, horse breeder, Crown Field Hetman. A descendant of the oldest and most powerful families of the Commonwealth. "Goldbeard Emir".
Roman Abraham
Brig. Gen. Polish army. Heroic defender of Lviv. Commander of the 26th Greater Poland Lancers Regiment and the Greater Poland Cavalry Brigade in the September 1939 campaign.
Michal Woysym-Antoniewicz
Major of the cavalry of the Polish Army, silver and bronze Olympic medalist in equestrian.
Seweryn Kulesza
Major of the Polish Army cavalry, Olympic silver medalist in equestrian (Berlin 1936). Polish Champion in eventing in 1936 and 1937, and in dressage in 1937.
Janusz Komorowski
Major of the Polish Army, sports equestrian, Olympian from Berlin, medalist of the Polish Championships in eventing. After the war, a horse riding coach in England and Argentina.
Zdzislaw Dziadulski
Two-time Olympian (IO Paris 1924 – horse 'Zefir', IO Amsterdam 1928 – 'The Lad' – reserve). 7th Regiment of Mounted Riflemen in Biedrusko (Poznań).
Zdzislaw Kawecki
Silver medalist from the Olympic Games in Berlin (horse 'Bambino'). Knight of the Cross of Valour, Silver Cross of Merit. 7th Regiment of Mounted Riflemen Wlkp.
Paul Popiel
Polish hipologist, writer, landowner. At the age of 60, he became famous as a "traveler on horseback through Poland", which he described in his reports.
Zygmunt Plater-Zyberk
Architect. A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology (1927). Author of, among others, the Służewiec Horse Racing Track.
Horse Racing Track Służewiec
The track was opened on Saturday, June 3, 1939 and at that time it was the most modern and largest horse racing track in Europe.
Maria Plater-Zyberk
Merited for breeding sport horses in the world. On her farm (Wojcieszków) an outstanding horse (father of sports horses) Ramzes was born.
Witold of Prussia
Full professor of agricultural sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences, recognized hippologist and Polish chronicler of horse breeding.
Stefan Adam Zamoyski
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Fryderyk Jurjewicz
Organizer of horse races in pre-war Poland. He saved 250 thoroughbred horses by moving them in a herd from Odessa to Warsaw.
Andrzej Krzyształowicz
SK in Janów Podlaski is inseparably associated with the figure of its long-term director. He became a legend while still alive.
Henryk Leliwa-Roycewicz
Soldier. Rider. Riding trainer. Participant of the Warsaw Uprising. Commander of the Kilinski battalion. PAST winner.
John Ritz
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Roman Wladyslaw Sanguszko
Prince, breeder of Arabian horses (Slawuta Stud, Gumniska), philanthropist. One of the 30 richest landowners in Poland in the interwar period.
Wladyslaw Anders
Soldier, horseman, owner of a racing stable, commander of the 15th Poznań Lancers Regiment. Winner of Monte-Cassino.
Henryk Dobrzanski
Soldier, rider, Olympian. The last Polish commander of a Detached Unit during World War II. He died with a gun in his hand.
Casimir Szosland
Maj. Sergeant of the Polish Army, the leading Polish equestrian in the years 1923-1935, two-time Olympian (1924 and 1928 - silver).
Józef Gozdawa-Tyszkowski
A horse breeder, a celebrity in the Żywiec region shrouded in mystery. A man who devoted his whole life to "Polish Arabian horses".
Charles Rommel
Soldier, trainer, artist in painting, drawing and horse riding. Three-time Olympian (1912 - Stockholm, 1924 - Paris, 1928 - Amsterdam). He was active in KJK in Łódź (1937) and JLKS Sopot (after the war).
Leonid Ter Asaturov
Breeder of Thoroughbred horses, a man of great merit for breeding, who saved valuable breeding material during the war.
Henryk Wozniakowski
Thoroughbred horse breeder in Stud Widzów. The best horses bred by him are the stallion Casanova, the mare Bastylia and the stallion Bałtyk. Painter.
Stefan Andrzej Lubomirski
Polish aristocrat, horse breeder and owner of the Widzów Stud. Creator of Polish Olympism.
Adam Królikiewicz
The first Polish Olympic medalist - bronze medal, Olympic Games Paris 1924 (Picador horse).
Bogdan Ziętarski
Cavalryman, breeder, traveler. One of the visionaries of Arabian horse racing and breeding in Poland. He died forgotten in poverty.
Ludwik Adam Krasinski
Aristocrat, breeder and farmer who founded in Krasne the first Stud of Thoroughbred horses in Poland (Ruler stallion).
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