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RE: [RC] Marlene - pedigree - heidi

I always get a chuckle out of the notion that nationality designations of bloodlines are "pure" anything.  Cyprin is a case in point.  He would certainly be described as a Polish stallion, since he came from there, but as for "pure" Polish, let's take a closer look at his actual pedigree. 
 
First, his sire *Cypr was indeed imported from Poland.  His sire, Pietuszok, was bred in Russia and imprted to Poland (and then later to the United States and later yet to Canada).  Let's take a look at his sire Priboj, who was bred in Russia.  Priboj's sire, Piolun, is by the stallion Koheilan I, imported to Russia from Hungary.  Priboj's dam, Rissalma, was a straight Blunt mare bred by Crabbet Stud and likewise was exported to Russia from England without ever going to Poland.  So Priboj, from Russia, is a quarter Hungarian and half Crabbet, with his other quarter indeed being Polish (Piolun's dam was exported from Poland to Russia).  Then let's take a look at Pietuszok's dam, Taktika.  Her sire, Taki Pan, was bred in Russia, the offspring of two horses exported from Poland to Russia.  But his sire, Kaszmir, is out of a mare named Hebda from Austria.  Taki Pan's dam, Krona, is by a stallion named Kann, who was imported to Russia from France.  Krona's dam, Star of the Hills, was a Crabbet mare imported to Russia the same year as Rissalma.  All in all, *Cypr's sire Pietuszok is half Polish at most.
 
*Cypr's dam Cissa and Cyprin's dam *Moczarka are of much higher percentages of traditional Polish breeding, but do both have lines to Kaszmir, and hence to his Austrian dam Hebda.
 
I'm no expert on Polish pedigrees, but all of this information is readily accessable on AHA's DataSource, where one can actually trace the horses back to their countries of origin and check out the import/export records.  I always get a bit leery when people start talking about "pure" this or that, as unless one is talking about specific desert sources, most "nationality" programs got horses from other sources and are not "pure' to their adopted country at all.  And Cyprin is certainly a case in point.  The history is fascinating--one might as well get it accurate.  And in this case, the Russians would have to get a fair amount of credit for what is behind *Cypr, given that they imported horses from several sources other than Poland in generating the breeding program that produced him.  Too often people seem to think that Russian and Polish programs are interchangeable--they aren't.
 
Heidi

 


Ha ha "sire line mostly polish", I think not.  He is totally pure polish!  IOW your new mare is half pure polish maybe more depending on the dam lines of her dam.

According to my "The Polish Arabian Horse in North America"  written by Neil L. Wood, Cyprin is listed as a pure Polish, and he was foaled in 1971, and is a Bay, number 074412.   So, all of his  relatives behind him are pure polish, and no other.

Cyprin a bay is of the Pure Polish horse family of the Kohelian-Adjuze he was foaled in 1877 and purchased from the desert for the Babolna Stud in Hungrary.  

Cyprin is by the stallion *Cypr, a bay, foaled in 1963, imported by Guthrie in 1963, an out of the mare *Cissa foaled in 1949 a grey, (of the pure polish Mlecha family) .  She was imported by Work in 1963, and *Cypr's sire is *Pietuszok (more info below), a bay 1954, imported by Allen in 1973.

*Cissa is of the pure polish horse family of Mlecha which was imported in 1845 from the desert by Count Juliusz Dzieduszycki, this line survived the World Wars through two mare branches only:  Fanfara a 1945 chestnut and Lysa foaled in 1915 a chestnut.  Lysa left three notable daughters:  Mabrucha foaled in 1928 a grey, Safta foaled in 1929 a chestnut, and *Iwonka III foaled in 1936 a chestnut.  Safta left a laegacy in racing, and *Iwonka III is the grandam of *Bask and Bandola through Balalajka, and their half sister, the excellent mare *Bachantka (by Wielki Szlem)

The Kohelian-Adjuze line is known for such horses as Priboj, a 1934 chestnut of the Tersk family, Orzel a 1963 bay (by *Cissa), and several of the Brusally horses Brusally  Orselost, Brusally Orsalin, Brusally Orselar, and Brusally Orzaborr.  

In 1958, the Priboj son *Piefuszok was brought into Poland from Tersk Stud. *Piefuszok left a significant Kuhalian heritage in Poland, however, the most important cross being on the Witraz line.  He left 18 excellent daughters.  A number of *Pietuszok sons have stood at stud including *Wosk, a Derby winner, and chief sire at Janow, *Orzel a US Nat CH Racehorse, US and CN top 10 stallion and US Nat Ch Side Saddle, and a few others sons.  The book notes that the sire line is not represented in Poland today.
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