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Honorary Patron: Polish Olympic Committee
Patron: White Eagle Foundation
Guardian: The Princes Lubomirski Foundation
Polish aristocrat, horse breeder and owner of the Widzów Stud. Creator of Polish Olympism.
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He was born on May 5, 1862 in Dubrovno as the son of Eugeniusz Lubomirski. He died during World War II, on June 5, 1941 in Kraków.
In 1885, together with his brothers Stanisław (an economist and the first president of the Industrial Bank in Warsaw - the creator of the first aircraft factory in Poland) and Władysław (a horse expert, sportsman and artist - he sponsored, among others, the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra), he founded a company dealing with running the Horse Stud Full English Blood. This prompted the Lubomirskis to buy, in 1896, the Widzów farm, a few kilometers away. Stables, which were modern for those times, were built there, and drained paddocks were set up.
Until the outbreak of World War I, Lubomirski's racing horses triumphed on Polish, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and German tracks, winning: 4 Derbys (2 times in Warsaw, once in Moscow and Vienna), 2 times in the Great Baden, St. Leger in Budapest, Oaks several times in Warsaw, Moscow and Vienna. On December 12.12.1919, XNUMX, he became the first president of the Polish Olympic Games Committee (later POC).
Click on the links below to access related materials in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library (will open in a new tab):
"Horse Stud in Widzów" (2018) - Jan Lubomirski-Lanckoroński
"The Spectator Horse Stud" (2011) - Jarosław Koch
"Breeding racehorses by number" (1898) - Bruce Lowe
"Breeding racehorses by number" (1898) - Bruce Lowe
In the latest volume of the lexicon "Lubomirscy. Polish princes” (vol. III), you can read about the history of SK Widzów, whose founder was Prince Stefan Andrzej Lubomirski.
A fragment of the description of the Horse Stud in Widzów from the lexicon "Lubomirscy. Polish princes” (vol. III).
