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[RC] Two Polish Arab Rescues Left - Smith, Dave

Yesterday I picked up my recently weaned Polish Arab filly and she is a little beauty.  Very well behaved.  Got into and out of the trailer with next to no problem (her first time in a trailer!). Using a “rump rope” she quietly let me lead her to her new digs even though she had never before been led.  She has been well handled and allows me to touch her everywhere, feet, ears, belly, etc.  She began eating right off and showed a very healthy interest in her new home and her two neighbors, my mustang geldings.  She has a very grown-up whinny which she employed quite frequently last night in search of her mom (who is back in Santa Rosa.)  I have nothing but praise for Sydni Davenport who helped orchestrate the rescue of 40 plus Arab racing horses from northern Napa County.  She did a great job with “Minuet”—the name we’ve given to little “Spring.”  Meanwhile, she informs me she still has two young studs (a year and two years of age) available in Petaluma.  These horses have great blood lines but likely don’t have pedigrees since the once renown breeder allowed her herd to go semi-feral with the three stallions in the group banding up the mares on their own so there probably is no record of who sired who.  These two youngsters are NOT halter broken but judging from young Minuet are probably very easily trained.  To find out more about them, call Sydni at (707) 546-6520 (home) or (707) 396-3861.  Donations for their upkeep are running out and Sydni is footing the bill on her own dime and is looking for a good home to take one or both.  According to one Ridecamper who was good enough to do a little research for me, the breeding stock has great bloodlines out of Poland.  Among the horses that figure in their bloodline are:  Bask, Comet, Ariston, Wiraz. Count Dorsaz. Bay-Abi, Indraff, Flis, Eter, Kontiki, Wielki Szlem, Witraz, Witez II, Tripolis and Priboj (whose name figured in the background of several of the recent top 10 at the Aachen WEG.  I think that anyone interested in developing a potential endurance horse could do worse than contacting Sydni.  I don’t know whether she’ll ask for some remuneration for one of these youngsters, but if she does, it would likely be minimal.