Skowronek (horse)

Skowronek (* 1908, † February 1930 ) was an Arabian thoroughbred stallion, drawn on the stud of Count Józef Potocki Antoniny. Its Polish name means as much as lark or skylark. Skowronek was a gray stallion which was praised for its Arab type, his fine head and correct conformation.

Early years

With regard to the year of birth of Skowronek there are different records. The Polish and English studbook for Arabians give 1909 as year of birth, the General Stud Book and the Originalpedigree of Count Potocki give but 1908.

The British painter Walter Winans bought Skowronek 1913 as a young horse by Count Potocki and imported him to England. Originally Winans traveled to Poland to in the private zoo of the counts in Piławin to go north of Antoniny hunting. He then saw the gray stallion and bought him Count Potocki for 150 pounds from. Winans rode Skowronek, however, took him as a model for some bronzes, which created the artist before he sold it to Mr. Webb Wares.

Wares Skowronek used his hand as a riding horse and then sold it, probably to Mr. HV Musgrave Clark, where Skowronek came for the first time with the show being and breeding in touch. This was probably also the time where Skowronek first caught the attention of Lady Wentworth.

Lady Wentworth acquired Skowronek through a list of Clark, who has strongly led to a cool relationship between the two breeders. As both parties were competitors in the breeding and showing of Arabian thoroughbreds, Lady Wentworth was probably assume that Clark the price of the stallion in the drive up, or the animal would not sell to them. Therefore you pushing against an American exporter as agents, which should make the purchase with Clark. Clark fell for the bluff and did not notice until too late that Lady Wentworth was behind the purchase.

Breeding history

Lady Wentworth sat Skowronek one on her Crabbet as stallion. He was often the case with daughters and granddaughters of the stallion Mesaoud - on Crabbet also a breeding stallion - used and brought a large number of offspring that nachkamen the breeding efforts of Lady Wentworth by großrahmigeren horses with Arabian type and elegance. Skowronek's descendants found not only in the UK selling like hot cakes, they were also exported to the whole world:

In retrospect, one can rightly claim that Count Potocki has grossly underestimated the value of the stallion at his sale to Winans. Lady Wentworth struck out once an offer to purchase the Russian Stud Tersk about 250,000 U.S. dollars.

Descendants Skowronek

Besides a large number of descendants, some famous names are listed below, which in turn had a great influence on the breeding of Arabian thoroughbreds in the country:

  • His son Raffles, sold to the American breeder Roger Selby
  • The stallions Raswan and Raseyn, exported to the United States to the known breeding of WK Kellogg - the first-mentioned stallion also played a crucial role in the life of Carl Raswan
  • Another son Naseem, referred to by many as the best offspring Skowronek was sold to the stud Tersk in Russia and is expected to be the world's most influential Skowronek son at all. His name can be found in the pedigrees of many successful horses of the present.
  • His daughter Jalila, sold to the Duke of Veragua, a descendant of the family of Christopher Columbus in Spain, the famous stallion Nana Sahib gave birth later

Pedigree

Family Tree Controversy

Regarding the descent Skowronek it came to controversial discussions that enabled the community of breeders and their associations in turmoil.

Lady Wentworth was assumed that Skowronek was a pureblood, referred to as asil stallion, so its pedigree can be traced in all lines except for the original Arabs of the desert Bedouins and consequently leads no foreign blood. In the studbook pedigree Skowronek ends with three grandparents what some enthusiastic Arabs Breeders purity Skowronek's left questioning blood. His father Ibrahim was no doubt he was a, in 1907 Poland imported original Arabs. His mother Jaskolka - also known by the spelling Yascolka or Yaskolka - on the other hand was a line drawn in Poland mare.

In Poland, Arabian horses were bred for a long time and it was quite usual to perform in addition to the pure cultures and cross-breeds with English Thoroughbreds and other Polish horses not of Arab descent. Advocate of the purity of the Polish Arabian referenced long time to studies that a tracing of the two grandparents Rymnik and Epopeja - also known as the spelling Epopeia or Epopya - brought forth on horses bred by Abbas Pasha, as well as linguistic misunderstandings regarding a letter from Prince Roman V. of Sanguszko. In this letter, wrote Prince Roman, who has the stud Slawuta inherited in 1860 from his uncle that all horses still in the stud had some non-Arab blood. In the letter, published in 1900, he wrote:

The statement regarding the descended from horses imported parents is interpreted by the advocates of purity as a linguistic misunderstanding, since under quite purebred horses can be meant in Poland. The doubters on the purity assume here, however, a introduction of foreign genetic.

Rise to new controversies was a work of Ursula Guttmann, in collaboration with Dr. Foppe Bonno Klynstra who thinks he can prove that Skowronek led his mother Jaskolka foreign blood, namely:

  • 5 times English thoroughbred
  • 2 times Turkmens
  • 16 times Polish country mares.

Other authors, among others, J. E. Flade have to put these conclusions from the Pedigreestudien in question. Thus, the frequently occurring in Polish pedigrees in the parent lines called " Polka" neither a proper name nor equated with " Polish land mare ," but means " in Poland pulled mare ", in contrast to the designated correspondingly, many original imported Arab stallions. The written pedigrees Polish Arabs go deeper than that of any other breed worldwide. Traditionally, the mother line was attached less importance in horse breeding, so the mares were in the very early Pedigress often referred to simply as "Polka ", " Kobyla " ( Polish word for mare) or " Matka " ( Polish word for mother). However, these designations do not to draw conclusions about its origin, nor are the dams so designated necessarily identical. One example is the 7th generation in Skowronek's pedigree emerging black Szumka II ( also Shumka ), whose mother are designated as grandmother in line with itself "Polka ". From Szumka II there are several watercolors by the Polish painter Juliusz Kossak, showing an extremely typey Arabians. Had such a horse with no security "Polish country Mare" to the mother. Other regional appellations for mares were common, such as Pruszyna ( preussin ) which, while suggesting how the name was purchased from Prussia, but why was not about a Prussian country mare what her father Gniady db proves.

However, the mentioned work of Guttman / Klynstra led to heated discussions between farmers and within the associations, which all have a " Arabian " defined previously as a pureblood. See, the original stud book definition of VZAP:

A homonymous principle is also found in the The Arab Horse Society founded in 1919, was led into the studbook Skowronek:

"Arabian horses Are Those in Whose pedigrees there is no other then pure Arab blood. "

" Arab thoroughbreds are those in whose pedigrees there is no other than pure Arab blood. "

This view was also reiterated by the former President of The Arab Horse Society in his book:

" ... She knows no foreign blood; indeed should be introduced which, so the result is abruptly either an Anglo Arab or a half-blood Arabs "

A retaining this definition would mean, however, that a significant portion, formerly part of the Arabian horses, this definition would no longer meet and have to be removed from the stud books. A publication of the World Arabian Horse Organization can be taken:

The effects that resulted from it, took such an extent that the associations then adjusted their definition of a Arabian horse - see reasons for the founding of the ASIL clubs.

" The breeding program aims to preserve and promote the breeding of Arabian thoroughbred (AV). ... On breeding program all breeding horses take part, in the stud book for the AV VZAP or another recognized by the WAHO Breeders Association are registered for Purebred Arabians. "

Death

Skowronek died at the age of 22 in February 1930. Lady Wentworth donated his skeleton, comprising the partially occurring in the Arabian thoroughbreds deviation of 17 instead of 18 pairs of ribs and 5 instead of 6 lumbar vertebrae, the British Museum in London.

Walter W. Winans Bluff (poker) Will Keith Kellogg House of Sanguszko 1970 1967 Anglo-Arabian
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