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SKOWRONEK
A Polish Prince Invades
England
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Skowronek
Facts:
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Sex:
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Stallion |
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Sire:
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Ibrahim
PASB |
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Dam:
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Jaskoulka
PASB |
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Color:
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Grey |
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Markings:
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snip
on nose, left fore fetlock |
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Born:
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1909 |
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Number:
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Registries:
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PASB/GSB/AHSB |
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Breeder:
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Count
Joseph Potocki of Antoniny Stud Poland |
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Importer:
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Winans
(to England) |
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Tail-Male:
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Ibrahim
PASB - desertbred stallion |
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Tail-Female:
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Jaskoulka
PASB |
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Height:
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14.2
hands (he was registered as being this tall) |
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Strain:
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Died:
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1929
at age 20 |
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IBRAHIM
(Heijer x Lafitte)
Was imported to Poland from the desert
by Count Joseph Potocki in 1907.
IBRAHIM also sired:
>ORNIS, found in Spanish
pedigrees; >KALINA, dam of DZIEWANNA who is
commonly found in Polish and Russian pedigrees;
>ELSTERA, dam of MOROCZ and FLISAK;
>POSEJDON, sire of LAGONDNA who was the
dam of *NABORR. *NABORR had several lines to
IBRAHIM.
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SKOWRONEK
was bred in Poland at the stud of Count Joseph Potocki at his
Antoniny Stud. His sire was listed in the stud’s books as
being IBRAHIM, a desertbred stallion brought to Poland. His
dam was JASKOULKA, who had several generations of European
Arabian breeding behind her. He was born in 1909.
(While some Arabian horse purists
will never concede that JASKOULKA was a purebred, SKOWRONEK is
never-the-less accepted by WAHO as being a purebred Arabian).
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The
translation of SKOWRONEK from Polish means "lark."
His dam, JASKLOULKA, was the "swallow."
SKOWRONEK was
brought to England, changing hands a few times until he came
to the notice of Lady Wentworth of Crabbet Stud. She first saw
the silver white stallion in 1920 at a pony show in Islington
in 1920. SKOWRONEK was eleven years old at the time.
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SKOWRONEK
with Lady Wentworth. Skowronek
is beginning to show some age. |
SKOWRONEK'S
first foals were produced while he was in the ownership of Mr.
HV Musgrave Clark. They were born in 1920.
Lady Wentworth
acquired SKOWRONEK through some nefarious means, as she was
certain that he would be her new outcross stallion.
His first foal crop at Crabbet was born in 1921 and consisted
of six foals.
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SKOWRONEK
produced 47 foals at Crabbet. Of that 47, 23 were eventually
exported to other countries and of that 23, nine were brought
to the United States.
By 1926, Lady Wentworth was feeling the pinch of the
Depression, and offered SKORONEK to W.K. Kellogg in the hopes
that he might endow Crabbet Park with an infusion of cash.
The deal never materialized and SKOWRONEK'S last foal
crop was born at Crabbet Park in 1929. Although his
death was not recorded, it is felt he died that same
year. He was 20 years of age. He
had served only eight years at stud, but
his impact is still felt in the show rings around the world.
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