More about Alektra...

Alektra was selected as our second broodmare for her fabulous pedigree rich in Polish bred performance horses, her show record (a hunter pleasure class A champion, winning 12 blue ribbons in only 6 shows over 13 months!), and her champion production (dam of Alektrafy, 2004 US National Hunter Pleasure Futurity Top Ten).  We expect her foals to have a wonderful length of neck and legs, and be fantastic movers!

SIRE:  Allionce +/, Sire Line:  Kuhailan Haifi

Allionce+/ was the youngest stallion to ever achieve National honors in both halter and performance.  His show career highlights include 1993 Scottsdale Champion Stallion of 1990, 1993 US Nationals Reserve Champion Futurity Colt, 1994 US Reserve Champion English Pleasure Junior Horse, 1995 Canadian National Champion English Pleasure, 1995 US National Reserve Champion English Pleasure Junior Horse, 1996 Scottsdale Reserve Champion English Pleasure Driving, 1997 US National Champion Informal Combination, 1998 Scottsdale Champion English Pleasure, and 1998 US National Top Ten English Pleasure Horse.  His accomplishments after 1996 were made with sight in only one eye; he lost sight in one eye due to a fungal infection! His accomplishments as a sire are no less than in the ring.  His breeding achievements in the first two years along include 1997 Arabian Breed's #10 Leading Juvenile Sire List, 1997 Leading sire of US Nationals halter winners, 1997 & 1998 a Leading Sire of Scottsdale Halter winners, 1998 Leading sire of regional sweepstakes winners, 1998 Arabians' Breed #4 Leading Juvenile Sire List, 1998 #1 Cal-Bred Honor Roll of Stallions.  He continues to be on the breed's top ten sire lists for national shows' performance and half-arab halter classes.  His last published stud fee (2006) is $3,500.       

Allionce+/ is sired by Alada Baskin.  Born in 1982 and deceased in 2006, this stallion proved himself as both a show horse and a sire.  Alada Baskin was a 2-time Scottsdale Reserve Champion 2-year colts (1984, 100 entries), Buckeye Reserve Champion Stallion (1984), Scottsdale Reserve Champion 3-year old colts (1985), Scottsdale Reserve Champion Stallion (1986), US National Reserve Champion Stallion (1986 & 1990), US National Top Ten Stallion (1992), and a Buckeye Champion Stallion (1990).  He then became the senior stallion at Ventura Arabians with a final stud fee of $4,000, and sired multiple nationals champions in halter and performance.  His most prominent sons include Allionce+/, Legacy of Gold (1995 US National Champion Stallion), Alada Baskin I (four top tens in stallion halter at US and Canadian Nationals, US National Futurity Top Ten Colt, and Canadian Reserve Champion Stallion), and Bugacci (US and Canadian National Champion in hunter pleasure open, amateur, and youth).

These stallions are of the popular Polish Kuhailan Haifi sire line, noted for consistently siring exceptional conformation, long well-set necks, dry chiseled heads, athletic ability, and good and trainable minds.  Kuhailian Haifi was the most important of the original imported stallions from Arabia to Poland in 1931.  He made his most important contribution through his son Ofir 1933, called "the best stallion of the inter war period and the regenerator of the race".  In 1938, he sired the 3 great 'W' stallions Witraz, Witez II, and Wielki Szlem; he also sired the great mares Wilga and Ofirka.  His son Witraz was a special looking horse much like his sire, and routinely passed his looks onto his get.  He sired three sons of major influence; but also sired 27 mares selected for use in the Polish studs, of which six became dams of leading sires.  His son, Nureddin 1953, spent his early years as a circus horse, but was discovered and imported to Sweden.  His biggest achievement was simply siring the great *Aladdinn, 1978 Swedish National Champion, 1979 US National Champion, and Leading sire of National Champions.

Kuhailan Haifi	Ofir	Witraz	Nureddin	Aladdinn

Other great horses in Alektra's pedigree on the sire side:

DAM:  Ofeliaa, Dam line: Gazella via Gazella II 1914, Fryga II 1924 branch

 Born at the famous Lasma Arabians in 1979, the beautiful bay mare, Ofeliaa, was sired by the leading sire *Bask++ and out of the famous Polish 'O' dam line known for it's athleticism.  This mare had 9 foals for Lasma Arabians, Ventura Farms, Charisma Arabians, and then ended her life in the pastures at Marsha Parkinson's Canterbury Arabians.  Her progeny have been bred, shown, raced (including Inherit the Wind, winner of $28K+), and exported to Brazil, France, and the UAE.

Ofeliaa's sire, *Bask++ (Witraz x Balalajka), will likely be left in history as the most influential Arabian stallion of all time.  He was born at the Polish State Stud and imported to the U.S. by Gene LaCroix in 1963.  In 1964, he was named Scottsdale Champion Stallion and Park Champion, and then US National Champion Stallion and Top Ten Park Horse later that same year.  In 1965, *Bask++ dominated 39 competitors to win the US National Park Championship.  *Bask was the first Arabian National Champion Stallion to win the Park Horse Championship, and the first to win his Legion of Merit in only four shows.  He then went onto to become the 1966 Scottsdale Park Champion and 1967 US National Reserve Champion in both formal driving and combination.  As a sire, he continued his greatness by siring 1,050 registered Arabians with 196 nationals winners, 495 class A winners, and race winners.  He passed away at 23 years of age, and his remains now reside at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. 

				*Bask's sire:
Ofir	x	Makata	=	Witraz
				*Bask's dam:
Amurath-Sahib	x	Iwonka III	=	Balalajka

Ofeliaa and therefore Alektra are part of the Polish Gazella dam line, known as the most valuable of all Polish dam lines.  Three mares of this line survived World War I, including Gazella II 1914.  Her daughters were quite influential in Polish breeding, and three of them founded their own branches.  One of these branches was founded by Fryga II 1924, whose line descends into modern Polish breeding through her daughter Ofirka 1939 (by Ofir). 

Gazella		Gazella II		Fryga II

These mares are then also part of the important Polish 'O' line, known for its racing and performance abilities.  It was founded by the mare Ofirka, who was saved as a lost foal post-war.  This line is known to best cross with Koheilan Adjuze sire line horses such as Laur and *Pietuszok, which is the cross that created Alektra's great grand-dam, Orla.  Orla went on to become a Polish triple crown race winner, winner of 10 of 11 starts, and was later imported to the US in 1982.  She had 8 foals including the stallion Ortalion (Swedish National Reserve Champion, stakes winner, and stood stud by Ventura Farms).  Orla's cross with Comet son Carycyn produced *Ostrawa.  She was born at Janow Podlaski State Stud (Poland) in 1969, imported to the U.S. by Lasma Arabians in 1976, and dam of 10 foals (including Ofeliaa). 

Comet	x	Cerekiew	=	Carycyn

 

Pietuszok	x	Ofirka	=	Orla

 

"A horse gallops with his lungs,

Perseveres with his heart,

And wins with his character."

~ Tesio

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