King Peak Gartow 160 km CEI3*

King Peak started his 8 year old season with a 160 km FEI3* in Gartow, Germany. The average speed was 17.4 km/H and Best Condition. Next task is the World Championship for 8 year olds which is located in Babolna, Hungary this year in August.

Compiégne 2011

The last I heared about going to Compiégne was that Annelie has decided to give that up. She wants to match him with care as he has proven himself to be very potential for the task.

7-års tävlingarna i Compiégne
Det senaste jag hörde angående unghästtävlingen i Compiégne för 7 åringar var att Annelie tänker stå över den med King Peak.
Hon vill inte förta honom under hans andra säsong, utan kommer att matcha honom på ett mer genomtänkt och planlagt sätt. Han har nu varit ute på två tävlingar i år där han fått bekänna färg. Tävlingar som gått på tider i högsta klass, 19.1 över 80 km och nu senast 120 km(122,5)med extrasträcka på en tid som kanske närmar sig 19 km i timmen även där och då på en sträcka som närmar sig 140 km.
I båda dessa prestationstävlingar har han belönats med Best Condition och inte uppvisat minsta defekt under tävlingarna vid veterinärbesiktningarna.

King Peak Nordic-Baltic Champion

Today was a very exciting day! King Peak was out on his first CEI 2*, 120 km on the Nordic-Baltic Championship in Denmark.
The markings was very diffuse so on the second lap, the 4 leading equipages missed the track and went the wrong way. They lost 20 minutes on that mistake! Otherwise it was a smooth ride and they fetched back their positions on the nest lap. BUT, on the last lap it happened again. Annelie missed a marking and took a wrong way for the second time. Totally she had been riding at least 20 km extra on this 120 km competition! It looked rather bad for her, but in the last finish King Peak fought well and was the first over the finish line!
Despite this very tough race over almost 140 km King Peak had a Puls rate of 48 was rewarded for BEST CONDITION as well! The average km/H time is not available yet.
King Peak won the Gold Medal Individually and the Team took the Silver Medals.

King Peak Nordisk-Baltisk Mästare
Idag avgjordes det Nordisk-Baltiska Mästerskapet i Distansritt. Annelie Eriksson och King Peak ingick i det svenska landslaget. De låg i ledning tillsammans med 3 andra ekipage under den första slingan och allt fick bra i grind 1. På andra slingan var banmarkeringarna mycket dåliga och hela fronttruppen red fel. De blev sinkade med hela 20 minuter. Den förlorade tiden reds in under 3e sträckan och ordningen var återställd. På den sista slingan missade Annelie banmarkeringen en andra gång! Det såg minst av allt lovande ut med ytterligare en miss på flera kilometer och ytterligare sinkad tid.
Men, över mållinjen var King Peak trots dessa missar först! Han hade gått närmare 20 km extra och hade ändå styrkan att hämta upp och vinna!
Detta är en prestation som är värd att notera. I slutgrinden var hans puls nere på 48 slag i minuten och som grädde på moset blev han trots denna tuffa utveckling av loppet vald till titeln BEST CONDITION!!
Helt fantastiskt. Han verkar ha ärvt Parnassos oerhörda fysiska företräden.

King Peak 2011 season

The 2011 Endurance season has started this weekend. King Peak started his International career (CEI*80) with a very ignominious second place after been leading the race till the last meters when he lost the finish with the minimum of 0.01 second! The winner, Power, is an experienced horse with many miles and competitions behind. King Peak is nearly a "newcommer" and has just taken part a few National . He was very fresh and fit before their departure. If everything goes as planned, he will be prepared for the 7 y.o competition in Compiégne.

King Peak was awarded for Best Condition.

Panoria - the beautiful gold medal mare

Panoria, my dear homebred goldmedal mare has now moved to my niece. We will co-own and co-operate this beautiful mare.

World Championship in Kentucky 2010 - Endurance

The WC is now history. The Swedish riders did not place in the top 20. They were both approved though.
Maria Alvarez and Nobby did it again. It is very interesting to see Nobby´s carrier.
In the French Endurance Data base he started his carrier (recorded races more than 100 km) 2005 in France. His first 7 recorded races with another rider he placed:
130 km 97 participants, meta3
119 km 87 part, place 10
200 km 47 part, place 19
119 km 108 part, place 20
160 km 47 part, aband5
160 km 56 part, place 13
In December 2006 Maria Alvarez took over and her extraordinary cooperation with the hors started:
120 km UAE, participants 88, place 3 of 32 approved
160 km UAE, part 99, place 5 of 28 appr
160 km Port,EC, part 89, place 3 of 35 appr.
120 km UAE, part 61, place 26 of 29 appr. (The Emirates Chall CEI3*)
160 km WC Malasia, 126 part, place 1 of 48 appr.
160 km Assisi It, 101 part, place 1 of 31 appr.
And now winner in Kentucky....

King Peak starts jumping!

King Peak has now been out on his first official jumping competition. The obstacles were 90 cm and he was the proud winner! He seems to be an arab of great versatility.

Endurance Horses born 2004

I discovered some interesting figures when listing the kilometers for endurance horses for 2010. I do this for my own interest, but I found that King Peak is the horse with most kilometers, 310 to be exact at a rate of 18.2 km/H in his last 100 km race his first year. None of the horses born 2004 or 2003 has achived that during the year. He has been out in three Clear Rounds last year and 4 competitions this year and has been approved in all of them. That is very promising for the future.




His owner and rider Annelie Eriksson was riding her 12 year old gelding Zsulemi to a second place individually yesterday and the Swedish Team took the Gold Medal in the Nordic-Baltic Championship.




Today Annelie received the award for The best Swedish Endurance Horse of 2009, DAHLE and The best Endurance "Pony" of 2009 was ZSULEMI. Both prizes was given by The Swedish Arabian Horse Association SAHF.

Mothers of Arabian Race horses in Sweden

I was looking at the arabian mares, the mothers of racehorses in Sweden.



To compare the progeny noted in the sport system, the winners, total sum and the average sum/horse this is to be found (I will continue to fill in):


Penelope, 2 progeny, both winners, Total SKR 476 012, 2/238 006

Catinka, 1 son, winner, Total SKR 208 023 1/208 023, (40/11-15-6)

Velona, 9 progeny, 6 winners, Total SKR 1.682 101, 9/186 900

Winstra, 2 progeny, 2 winners, Total SKR 305 427, 2/152 714

Anjeka, 3 progeny, 2 winners, Total SKR 439 009, 3/146 336

Djamiljah, 12 progeny, 7 winners, Total SKR 1.496 982, 12/124 749

Golmohar, 7 progeny, 2 winners, Total SKR 331 713, 7/47 388

Besma, 11 progeny, 4 winners, Total SKR 490 287, 11/44 572

The breeding Stallion Parnassos/Avelshingsten Parnassos

I have been living in a thriller for years, but I feel that I have to write it down before it is too late:

Ever since Parnassos started to show his excellence and quality as a performer, the envy and evilness have followed him and in the long run even me.

In 2001 he was the Arabian Racing Champion and gave El Wodkine a real fight and won.

From that day, and the change of trainer, he had to meet his competitors mostly with two horses from their stables. The less good of their horses was going up and put pressure on Parnassos and the "best" one was waiting behind for the finish. I have saved all the films from his races and it is very obvious. The tactics was allways the same.

2002 started with a win. Next race should have been tested for doping. Parnassos behaved very uncommen the jockey said and he refused to go on board on the trailer. He looked around surprised as if he had just woke up.

To be continued....

The Swedish Endurance Team Championship

Concentration before the start signal!

The last loop remains of the 100 km race and the young King Peak is still willing to do his work.

The grooming team in action after the last loop

and the big hug when they had gone through the last Vet examination!

The Silver medal was a fact!

On Saturday, July 10, we went to Uppsala to watch King Peak taking part in the Team Championship. One of the four participants was excluded before the race so there were just 3 starters in the team. Annelie started in a moderate way and was about 15 minutes after the leading group. They were second placed for a while but Annelie decided to slow down as he is just 6 years old. The average speed was 18.2 km/H and that is rather fast. He seems to have inherited his fathers exeptional physics so he was recovering fastest of all the horses in the race!

2010 Swedish Team Championship in Endurance

The list of entrants is now out on the net. Unless there will be some delayd entrances or changes, the Team Championship looks very interesting. Seven Teams will be out there fighting over 100 km.


King Peak will have his debute with free speed and this will be his first try over 100 km.


In the weather forecast one can read that there will be a risk for a temperature around 30 degrees Celsius. That can cause drying up problems during a day like that. No need for speculations more than a week before the event! Just wait and see. Anyway, it will be an interesting race, that´s for sure.

The next step...

I am reading a very educational book at the moment. I will tell more about it shortly.
At the moment I wait for the definit list of centenders for the Uppsala ride next Saturday. If I am correctly informed and nothing has changed the plans, King Peak will compete in his first 100 km race and probably participate in the DDRF Team. It is the Swedish Team Championship.

Second son out on Endurance racing!

June 12 Bayron, 6 year old, completed his first Clear Round.


Parnassos has just 3 sons and a daughter despite his world class pedigree. You can look into the pedigree of whichever performing horse you choose among the best ones in the world and you will not find a horse with such a genuine pedigree as his. This goes for both Racing horses and Endurance horses.

..and the day after the Sydnärke ride...

Now King Peak has qualified for higher tasks. He can now compete in International 80 km and next step is 120 km. Quick work for a 6 year old!
I´m rather confused about the criterion of Best Condition. King Peak had a final pulse rate of 52 beats and the chosen one had 60. Is there other criteria than what can be understood by the figures and that the horse is fit and alert?

Anyway, he has now done 3 Clear Rounds as 5 y.o. and this year as a 6 y.o. 3 competitions. All approved and not used at all. He has inherited the fysical advantages from his ancestors, that´s for sure!

Next week-end Bayron will do his first Clear Round too.

Sydnärkeritten June 5, 2010

I was thrilled and very surprised to discover that Annelie Eriksson will start 2 horses on the 80 km Sydnärkeritten. Things had been changed and she have two younger horses to qualify before they are allowed to go "free" speed. She will ride the mare Expenza herself and the 15 year old Swedish Young Rider Champion Fannie Eriksson will ride King Peak. They have to keep their speed below 16 km/H so it will be like a walk in the Park.......

Parnassos´sons

Bayron and Matilda

I had a bunch of photoes yesterday from Tilda. She was riding bare back with just a halter very light dressed in a summer dress. They were galopping around in the dandelion filled meadow with an air of radiance. I must share this fantasic pucture!

Surviver - the word can associate with different things

There is a worldwide discussion about allowing Embryo Transfer on Arabian Horses or not at the moment. The God-substitute in the shape of Greedy, lacking of empathy, self-fulfilling human beeings are now in a very short time of the evolution cycle, destroying species of nature, that has been existing for more than 6000 years in this breathtaking perfect shape.
Whenever the humans interfear and put in their new epistermologi and interrupt the nature´s devinity, the result is always the same: Catastrofy!

From the very beginning and till recently (maybe the last 30 years) the nature has been selecting the horses to mature and continue the developement. The last 30 years the humans has taken over that part through veterinarian actions. Week creatures that had been lost in the past are today breeding animals and the deficiencies are inherited by the generations to follow.
This can even be enlargend by the possibility to multifold not only a deficient stallion but also a mare by taking out several foetus during the same season. That is a very serious encrouchment disturbing the natural way of reproduction when not needed of ethnical reasons.

Överlevnad i andra tolkningar
Det pågår en världsomspännande diskussion om Embryo Transfers vara eller inte vara för närvarande. Människor som i sin tro på att ha rätten till att överta den gudomliga skapande rollen håller nu på att förändra det redan perfekta. Styrd av sin girighet, brist på empati och med självuppfyllande syften håller man nu på att skapa en ny katastrof!

I alla situationer när människor går in och lägger sig i evolutionen och i sin enfald tror sig göra landvinningar, görs detta inte för att förbättra i det stora perspektivet utan det görs alltid i det korta perspektivet och för kortsiktig ekonomisk vinning för ett fåtal. Vad konsekvenserna sedan blir är rätt ovidkommande eftersom de som går i bräschen för sådana förändringar oftast saknar empati och grundläggande begrepp = sunt förnuft.

För att gå framåt måste man blicka bakåt. Läs och begrunda historieböckerna. Om alla hade den inkänningsförmåga som krävs utifrån detta skulle situationen i världen se annorlunda ut idag. Den stora massan skulle genomskåda dem som försöker dupera och förleda sina medmänniskor och de skulle aldrig få fäste för sina sjuka och förljugna idéer. Tyvärr fungerar det inte så. Människor behöver "ledsagas" av andra eftersom det är det enklaste och bekvämaste sättet. Någon annan tar då ansvar, eller? En blind leder en blind är mycket väl illustrerande till detta fenomen.

En hästras som har 6000 år på nacken och utvecklats i ett lugnt tempo och av naturen väl genomtänkta faser har nu under ett fåtal år, vi kan nog säga ett 30-tal år, plötsligt blivit föremål för den nya tidens rovdrift. Genom veterinära metoder håller man liv i individer som naturligt skulle fallit bort och dessa används senare inom aveln för att i sin tur vidarebefordra sina medfödda defekter och svagheter. Den nya metoden ger inte bara möjlighet till att föra vidare defekter från undermåliga hingstar, den ger även möjlighet att genom multifödslar från ett och samma sto under samma säsong föra vidare hennes kanske inte alltför fullkomliga arvsanlag. Detta är resultatet av Embryo Transfer - kanske den nya tidens stora katastrof för Arabhästens fortlevnad?

Looking into the French Racing Arab/Inblick i de franska arabgaloppörerna

Sometimes in the middle of 1990th Mary Bancroft had a report about the French Arabian Racehorse written from the UK angle but very clear and distinct to give an everage description of the background and the foundation horses of this fenomenon. The thing is that people with little knowledge just see the racehorse in its standards of today and believe it is something very unique and of an old longterm breeding. The truth is that about the same amount of horses of this old French branch and very close related too, had been exported to Russia and Poland but the difference was that in those two countries the old French plain horses were integrated into the common Arabian horse breed in a natural way just to strengthen the exterior cuality and in France they were not. Those horses was not attractive so they were almost lost. The mare Magicienne 1937 (Nedjanor) had just one daughter - Magnesie 1949 and the French Racing Arab is originated from her two daughter Mandragore 1955 and Mandarine III both by Dragon.


På 1990-talet hade Mary Bancroft en artikelserie i den Engelska Arabhästföreningens tidskrift The Arab Horse där den franska arabgaloppören granskades. Man kan tro att detta är en väldigt gammal och gedigen linje som har gamla galopp-anor men så är inte fallet. Under Andra Värdskriget blev hästbeståndet illa åtgånget i hela Europ. Hästarna var ju en del av själva krigsmakten på den tiden och de som inte ingick i den hanteringen ansågs vara lyxprodukter som man inte hade användning för. Omodernt kanske man skulle kunna uttrycka det idag.
Alla dagens tusentals franskstammade galopphästar har sitt ursprung ur två ston på 50-talet, nämligen Mandragore 1955 och Mandarine III 1956, döttrar till Magnesie1949 (Denousté) och båda efter Dragon.

The Björkvik race/Björkviksritten

Today King Peak was competing in his first 80 km race. As a beginner he had a speed limit of 16 km/H. He accomplished his race on a speed rate of 15.6 km/H and his puls rate was 48.
I was told that he was totally uneffected - he was not even perspiring! This seems very promising for his coming carrier. If he has inherited the heart-lung capacity from his father, he can continue up through the classes without any efforts at all!