On June 25th Maralle gave birth to this beautiful filly sired by Aliger.
Her name Merwerit means pearl in Turkmen. Not only does she look like a pearl, I feel lucky to have a filly by the wonderful stallion Aliger who does not have a lot of offspring and is an older sire born in 1995.

May 21st, 2018 Kamil was born. His name means "perfect socks"! Only too often do horses have 3 stockings or just one and make their legs look uneven...I feel extremely lucky to have 4 matching socks! I think this colt has potential to stand at stud! Excited to see him grow up!

I am very excited that the mare Ayal Pikira is in foal to Kambarbay. The foal will be due in May.
Ayapl Pikira is suoer typee and shiney, and so is Kambarbay! Can't wait ti meet the new foal!

From the stallion Aliger I am expecting 2 foals. Aliger was born in 1995 and stands at stud in Colorado. He does not have that many foals on the ground, a real shame in my opinion!
Aktepel and Maralle are both pregnant by him.

Sweet Water Farm imported the first 10 dozes of Kambarbay's frozen semen to the US in 2014, and used it on 5 mares, four got pregnant the first try.
The foals born in 2015 were Ak Farfor out of Leucosia, Arslan Jorap out of Ahlie Rhatan, Aykyssa out of Aktepel and Komissar Hyrdar out of Sheherezad.

In 2015 Ahlie Rhatan was bred back to Kambarbay's frozen semen and Ak Hadysa has born in 2016.

Also born in 2016 were the filly Nezhnaya out of Gagatli and Swan Bir Sah out of Pipi.

I'm very excited to see the next generation from these foals!

Kambarbay, the silvery shiney perlino stallion standing at stud in England has a full sister
SARYYAGYZ is her name, she was bred by the same breeder who bred her full brother, Akhal Teke Est in Estonia
Saryyagyz has had 3 foals as of today and all have been sold in Europe.
Sadyk >> stallion by Serdarjan (line Sere) 2012
Salgym >> stallion by Serdarjan (line Sere) 2013
Mydarsak >> stallion by Myrat (line Posman) 2014

shirin Giz gave birth to a filly out of Pan Tau. Not sure what color she actually is!!!!!
she is as cute as can be!

as the days went by, and due date passed, I got anxious I would miss this birth! Due to go to the Akhal-Teke convention in Turkmenistan, the morning before getting on the plane I did an early morning check and there she was! So relieved to see that all is well!!!
​a much better way to start the long trip!

Every year the international Akhal-Teke conference is held in Ashgabat.  About 25 or so of guests are chosen to be at the meeting. The night before we get to practice how the procedures will go and we are shuttled off to the meeting room. first we all get a place in line to shake the presidents hand and tell him our name and association. Then we all stand on a determent spot and have our picture taken. After that we proceed to the round table meeting room and find our seats.
The president of Turkmenistan sits at the head of the round table. We have headphones for translation, someone is doing their best to translate on the go...

Here are my notes:

The president welcomes everyone and declares the official language for the meeting will be Russian.
"welcome to the birthplace of Akhal-Teke horses, the Association now has 137 members from 32 countries, membership is growing. There is an increase of interest in the Akhal-Teke horse, and the breeding of AT horses the hart of horse breeding world wide.
Turkmenistan is bringing equestrian sports to the highest level. All 5 provinces of Turkmenistan are now developing equestrian sports and youth now learn about equine sports. An Equine quarantine center has been build. New specialties of horse breeding is introduced to the Turkmen culture. Development of top level equine athletes to compete at world level. The Heavenly horse magazine and website educates the world.
The objective is to popularize the Akhal-Teke world wide and make a registry of Akhal-Teke horses in all countries and improvement of training techniques.
Our task is to test our horses by participating in sports and experience new professionals to improve.
Sports such as endurance, Show jumping to be developed in Turkmenistan. The Asian Games in September will have show jumping competitions. The opening ceremony of the Asian Games will be in honor of the Akhal-Teke horse.

Soon the Akhal-Teke horse will be competing at the world class level. This will help the people physically and health wise.
Soon dressage will be added.

The Akhal-Teke is a miracle of nature and I wish you success in your noble efforts."

From the horse festivale in Iran, Tehran September 2016.
The 3rd day we were to watch a jumping competition and give the winners their ribbons. Some of the riders and horses were well trained, and some where more like watching a bowling game...at least no one got hurt.

We had a lot of spare time and did a lot of sight seeing! Woman have to be completely covered yup visiting a mosque.
We visited several riding stables.
The last day was at the race track. There were a few Akhal-Teke horses racing, and one very handsome AT stallion won the race of his class. There were Iranian Arab classes, Yomut, Iranian TB's...and the crowds just went crazy! A very fun day!
Again we were to give the winners their winnings. At least by now we had learned that woman do not shake men's hands while being televised...like I did with the show jumping prize giving...oops!!!
We were all given a copy of their first studbook! I was so excited! And why did I not think of it...al in farcy!
Our flight out was at 2 in the morning that night, so we did a lot of tea drinking and talking...it was great to get to know the faces behind Face Book friends! It was a wonderful trip.

We don't always get snow...so we enjoy it while it lasts...