söndag 22 november 2009

IFAHR

On Facebook I saw that there was a new thread telling how people came to start with the Arabian Racing. That was very interesting. Just starting by co-incidence with no knowledge what so ever. I think that is very common.

My own story starts long ago. I was born 1946 and that meens that I today have 50 years of saved knowledge.

I was reading pedigree and breeding from my early teens. I had an eager to learn. Everything that was available I searched for and read. My father had some coldblooded trotting horses and I was helping him with the training. A very close friend from the early time started co-operating with a TB trainer at Täby and took in his convalescents and made great progres with them.


After my car accident I found the remarkable arabian mare Penelope with the best pedigree I have ever seen for performance and with a movement pattern that was eye-catching!


I started my arabian racing "carrier" after 35 years of studies of pedigrees and breeding and worked from that knowledge. I did succeed indeed! My stallion was Swedish Arabian Race Champion 2001. He still has 5 track Records. Unfortunately he had his nose broken in the stall before a race at Gothenbourg race track. That was the reason why he did not compete in Europe. He was treated for this while the rest of the Swedish horses were competing abroad. He met a French horse and Portmer and was placed 3rd after those. The truth is, he had been off training for more than a month (after his nose bleeding went open again) and had just been trained twice before the race.


There was some details I did not count into my life though: The fear for the unknown and the envy.


I admit I am not the most beautiful woman in the world but who can be that after losing half of the face in an accident? I thought it was the result that was the important part and not my looks and lack of ambition to stand in the limelight to make myself visible and. My goal was to preserve the very best in arabian racing material that was to be found in the world and the result of the breeding was also one of the best horses ever born in Sweden.