In fall of 2024 I got a text..." hi, I want to buy an Akhal-Teke horse, what do you have?" Come visit I said. I will, he said...oh my truck broke I can't he said...I though perhaps another teenager who has no place to keep a horse....
Then this nice lady texted, "I have been asked to come see your farm and see what horses you have for sale".
And she came, we became friends, she loved the horses....and told Olissio...who had asked her to visit me...because he's on a crazy busy schedule of running a CIRCUS!!!!
Ma'Ceo circus, and so Pay Altyn and Kesgir Surat got an exciting new live!
When I delivered the horses we saw their show! They love their horses...and the show is amazing!
To see where they are performing in 2025 look at their SCHEDULE!

In January I got an email if I could please take this mare in...last thing I need is another horse...but..she needed a home, and she is a rare breed...so I took her in..
And now I found her a husband!
Rikoshet lives in Poland, pure bred Budyonny stallion, and Kometa is 3/4 Budyonny, so her foal will be considered pure.
Rikoshet competes in dressage and showjumping in Poland.
Can't wait to see this foal hopping around!

In 2017 I received a call from Laura O'Connor. She was taking care of 4 Akhal-Teke stallions and the owner wanted to sell them, and she wanted to know their value.
Long story short, it is only now the stallions are finding new homes.
But what an honor to get to know Laura! and what amazing career she has had!
Watch her ride to win here!

The best thing I ever did was taking the breeders class at my farm a few years back. David Riddle came to our farm and thought us all there is to know, well,..he tried...and before we knew it we were using the ultrasound machine, collecting and test freezing semen, the list goes on.
The next year we had a record foal crop...7 foals!
There is so much information,  I did the ultrasound class again in 2022 and the freezing class, this time at David's house in Texas.
If you are serious about your breeding program, then this class is for you!

We have switched to Dynamite products and have become a dealer. I can't say enough good things about them!
Excited to be going to their 40th anniversary  conference this year.
To see my Dynamite shop click here: DYNAMITESWEETWATE FARMAKHALTtEKE

For years now the rumors on Facebook have been that there are no pure bred Akhal-Teke horses in Turkmenistan.
It is true they have been crossed with TB to gain speed on the race track.
But not every breeder in Turkmenistan has been crossing...and now we have scientific proof!
In December I had a breeder from Turkmenistan visit my farm, and with him he brought hair form his stallion.
He wanted to have it checked for purity of the breed.
Long story short, finally the results are in and they are fascinating!
I send the hair to Gus Cothran who still works with the University of Texas.
 
The process is this, they compare the DNA to those they have collected, and these are the horses it came most closely related too:
 
1-Turkoman
2- Arab
3- Caspian
 
Here is Gus Cothran remarks:
 
Gus Cothran :
 I couldn’t tell about the AT specifically unless it was  one of the to 5 hits which it was not.  However, the Turkmenistan horses were primarily crossed to Thoroughbred in Soviet times.  This horse showed absolutely no evidence of Thoroughbred so I think it is quite pure and I think the results support that.
 
It is complicated but mainly is due to the fact that it is sometimes hard to compare one individual to a whole breed, even if it is the right breed. As well the data from the reference pool used may be somewhat different than that of the population this horse comes from. ATs from the US will be different from those of Turkmenistan and I think what was used was US data.
I have a large number of Turkoman sample but yes the ones in the reference panel for the ancestry testing came from Louise Firouz.  Also I have about 50 from Turkmenistan and many others from Iran (most oft those are of questionable value as many are clearly mixed).  I also got Akhal Teke samples from Louise Firouz but less than 20.  Based upon blood typing they showed no evidence of Thoroughbred crosses unlike all others I’ve tested but I don’t seem to have DNA data from those. I can’t really do as thorough a search for that from home as needed. By the way, yes I would love more samples as you mentioned a couple of emails back.
 
In a nut shell, the Turkoman horses are those that fled to Iran when the Soviets took over.
Most Akhal-Teke horses in the USA come from Europe, in turn they came from Russia and some from Turkmenistan with some already crossed with TB under Soviet rule.
Tanya Rosen made the connection with the Turkmen breeder possible, she works preserving the snow leopard in all the "Stan" countries and together we will work  getting Gus Cothran more samples for a better picture of genetics.
 
I met Louise Firouz in Turkmenistan 20 years ago, she was working with Dr.G us Cothran to establish the origins of the Turkoman horse, she discovered the Caspian horse in Iran and realized how unique it was and they made the link trough DNA testing the crossing of Akhal-Teke and Caspain made the Arab.