THE TERSK STUD IS NESTLED IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS, TWENTY MINUTES FROM THE CITY PYATIGORSK, WHICH MEANS «FIVE MOUNTAINS».
LONG-LONG AGO, WHEN, MOUNTAINS COULD WALK, FIVE OF THEM TRAVELLED ONE DAY BUT STOPPED SHORT WHEN THEY SAW THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CREATURES AT PASTURE IN A VALLEY. BEAUTIFUL THEY WERE INDEED: GREY, CHESTNUT AND BAY HORSES; PROUDLY THEY CARRIED THEIR CHISELLED HEADS WITH LARGE PROMINENT EYES. SINCE THAT TIME THE MOUNTAINS NEVER LEFT THIS PLACE THIS IS JUST A LEGEND, BUT THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY, SURROUNDED BY ANCIENT MOUNTAINS, WITH HERDS OF HORSES ON THEIR SLOPES IS SOMETHING YOU WILL NOT FORGET.
THE ARAB, A BREED 0F ANCIENT ANTIQUITY AND OUTSTANDING BEAUTY IS FLOURISHING HERE, AT THE TERSK STUD-FARM. RAISED ON BLUEGRASS AND RICH WATER OF THE CAUCASUS THE ARABS THE TERSK .
STATE FARM WAS FOUNDED IN 1921 WITH A FEW FINE HORSES WHICH SURVIVED THE CIVIL WAR; ON THE 1930S THE FARM STARTED TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM OF SELECTIVE BREEDING OF PURE-BLOOD ARABIANS AND BY NOW IT IS WELL KNOWN IN THE WORLD OF ARABIAN HORSES AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND PROFITABLE STUD-FARMS.
THE ARABS BRED AT THE TERSK WIN NUMEROUS BLUE RIBBONS AND CHAM. PIONSHIPS AT DIFFERENT INTERNATIONAL SHOWS. THE CHESTNUT STALLION MUSCAT (SALON-MALPIA) WAS THE U. S. NATIONAL CHAMPION IN 1980, HE WAS THE IMMEDIATE SUCCESS IN CANADA AS WELL. THE SAME YEAR GREY PESENKA (SALON-PANORAMA) BECAME THE CHAMPION MARE. THE GREAT SON OF ASWAN MARSIANIN OUT OF MAGNOLIA WAS U. S. NATIONAL CHAMPION IN 1981. LEADING SIRE SALON QUICKLY BECAME CHAMPION IN THE NETHERLANDS, AND IN SCANDINAVIA HANDSOME STALLION ANTEJ (ASMAN-NEMEZIDA) BECAME A TRIAMPH.
AMERICAN BREEDERS APPRECIATED HIGHLY THE OUTSTANDING STALLIONS NAPITOK AND NARIADNI AS WELL AS INFLUENTIAL MARES PRISTAN AND NARIADNAJA. KATUN, A NOTABLE DAUGHTER OF ASMAN OUT OF KAPEL-LA BECAME CHANPION MARE AT THE WORLD'S EXHIBIT IN PARIS.
THE BREEDING STOCK OF THE TERSK HAS MANY POPULAR LINES AND TYPES FAVOURED IN THE ARABIAN HORSE INDUSTRY. PEDIGREE OF ANY HORSE, BRED AT THE TERSK TRACES BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL ANCESTOR REGISTERED IN STUDBOOKS OF FRANCE, POLAND, EGYPT.
A MEMBER OF W.A.H.O. SINCE 1976 THE TERSK STUD-FARM HAS CAREFULLY PLANNED BREEDING PROGRAMS WHICH PROVED TO BE VERY SUCCESSFUL. ALL HORSES THAT FALL SHORT IN THE MINUTEST DETAIL ARE RUTHLESSLY WEEDED OUT.
THE EGYPTIAN-BRED GREY ASMAN, A LEADING SIRE OF THE STUD-FARM, WAS PRESENTED TO THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT BY PRESIDENT NASSER IN 1968. REPRESENTING THE SAKLAWI LINE TRACED BACK TO MANSOUR, HE IS HANDSOME, WITH WEDGE-SHAPED HEAD CARRIED HIGH ON AN ARCHED NECK AND CONCAVE IN PROFILE, WITH LARGE INTELLIGENT EYES, SMALL EARS AND A SMALL, SOFT MUZZLE.
FOALED IN 1958 HE IS WELL ALONG IN YEARS BY NOW, BUT STILL SIRES FOALS OF HIGH STANDARD. HE HAS 300 OFFSPRING, ALL TRUE TO BREED, WITH GOOD FREE ACTION AT ALL PACES. ASWAN'S PROGENY IS INCREASINGLY VALUED IN THE ARABIAN WORLD. HIS 47 BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS ARE IMPORTANT BROODMARES AT THE STUD ADMIRABLY REFLECT HIS STYLE. ASWAN'S SUPERIOR SONS MASCAT, MASHUK AND NEAPOL ARE VALUABLE SIRES; THEIR RIVALS, BROTHERS ANI-LIN AND BUSINESS ARE NOTED SIRES AS WELL, PASSING ALL THE CLASSIC FEATURES ON TO THEIR PROGENY.
A NOBLE LINE OF PIOLUN IS FAMOUS FOR ITS STALLIONS PETUSHOK, BEAUTIFUL POMERANETS AND ONE OF THE BEST SIRES, PRIBOJ. FOR MANY YEARS THE PIOLUN'S LINE WAS CARRIED ON BY AN OUTSTANDING SIRE TOPOL BY PRIBOJ AND OUT OF TAKTIKA, BUT WHEN THE BAY STALLION NAFTALIN (TOPOL-NEPRIAVDA) PROGRESSED HANDSOMELY TO PROPER MATURITY, HE BECAME ONE OF THE MOST PREPOTENT SIRES AT THE STUD. HIS PROGENY BAGDAD AND VERSAL POSSESS THEIR FATHER'S UNMISTAKABLE FEATURES.
AN OUTSTANDING LINE OF AMURAT IS REPRESENTED BY POLISH-BRED STALLION ARAKS, WHOSE MOST NOTED SON NABEG SIRED SUPER PESNIAR AND MENES, BOTH DISPLAYING ALL THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TOP-QUALITY ARAB. ANOTHER SUPERIOR STALLION OF THIS LINE IS TALLIN (NABEG-TALANTLIVAJA) AND HIS HALFBROTHER PELENG OUT OF PALMIRA. THE LINE IS CONTINUED
BY ELEGANT AMPER, BOSS AND CHESTNUT BALATON AND DARK BAY COLT VYMPEL WHICH MIGHT BECOME EVEN MORE HANDSOME THAN HIS FATHER VERY POPULAR IN THE ARABIAN BREEDING WORLD IS THE LINE OF NASEEM FROM OUDLY CARRIED CHESTNUT STALLION MURMANSK.
GREY POTOMAK OUT OF PANORAMA AND SINCE 1983 BY GREY STALUOM NIMROZ (MOMENT-NIZINA). ALL OF THESE HORSES POSSESS BRILLIANT ACTION, WELL RIBBED-UP BODIES SLOPING SHOULDERS, ELEGANT HEADS AND NECKS - PARTICULARLY HANDSOME ARE STALLIONS - POGREMOK, GREY MUROM AND BERENDEJ, BAY BOY AND VIRTUOZ WHO WILL SOON BEGIN TO FUNCTION AS SIRES.
THE LINE OF KOREJ (RIXALINA-KANN) IS NOT WIDELY REPRESENTED AT THE TERSK. THE MOST NOTABLE HERE IS CHESTNUT KUMIR, FOALED IN 1973, WHO CARRIES ALL THE BEST QUALITIES OF HIS ANCESTORS, PASSING THEM SUCCESSFULLY ON TO HIS GET.
KUMIR SIRED MUKOMOL (OUT OF MALINKA) WHO IS HANDSOME INDEED, AND THE LATTER SIRED DAUGHTERS TAKEMA, TRAVKA, TROIKA WHICH ARE RESEMBLING PROUDLY THEIR FAMOUS FATHER. GREY STALLION PRIZRAK (KANKAN - PTASHKA) IS OF GREAT INTEREST TOO AND WILL FUNCTION AS A BREEDING SIRE IN 1984.
THE INFLUENTIAL LINE OF EL-DERE IS CARRIED ON HERE, AT THE TERSK BY PROGENY OF NASLEDNIK WHO HAS 80 OFFSPRING AND OF NOTE IS HAND SOME AHD VERY TRUE TO TYPE KARAVAN, OUT OF KAROLINA INBRED TO NASEEM.
THE SELECTIVE BREEDING PROGRAM OF THE TERSK STUD-FARM DEVFT Ï PED VALUABLE AND STRONG DAM FAMILIES; THE MOST PROLIFIC AND INFLUENTIAL BROODMARES WFRE FRENCH-BRED CARABINI ENGUSH BRED RODANIA AND KOALICIJA FROM POLAND, OUTSTANDING BROODMARES TAKTIKA AND HER MOST NOTED DAUGHTER PTASHKA, EXTRAORDINARY IN STYLE TARACZCZA AND NITOCHKA.
THE MOST NUMEROUS FAMILY IS THAT OF MAMMONA, WHO FOUNDED AN INFLUENTIAL BRANCH AND LEFT DAUGHTERS OF EQUAL MERIT.
NOW, THAT WAHO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED RUSSIAN-BRED ARABIANS, THE AUCTIONS, WHICH ARE HELD AT THE TERSK EVERY YEAR IN JUNE ARE IN THE SPOTLIGHT, AND MAKE A GREAT IMPRESSION IN THE WORLD OF HORSE BREEDERS AND BUYERS
THE TERSK FARM HAS A SPECIALISED AND AT THE SAME TIME WIDELY DIVERSIFIED ECONOMY, ENCOMPASSING ON ITS LARGE AND WIDELY SPREAD GROUNDS EVERY CENCEIVABLE BRANCH OF AGRICULTURE. APART FROM THE HORSE BREEDING THEY MANAGE FIELD FARMING, ANIMAL AND POULTRY HUSBANDRY, DAIRY-FARM. QUITE A PEARL IN THE CROWN OF THE STAVROPOL REGION ECONOMY! AND NOT ONLY ECONOMY. THE LOCAL PEOPLE HAS LONG BEEN NOTED FOR THEIR DARING HORSEMANSHIP AND HORSE SPORTS ARE EXTREMELY POPULAR THERE. WHITH THE HORSEBREEDING TRADITIONS ON THRIVE THE TERSK FARM PROVIDES TO-DAY MANY WAYS OF THE UPBRINGING OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION. THEY HAVE SUCCEDED THERE IN APPLICATION OF BUSINESS TO THE PURPOSES OF THE AESTHETIC, SPORTS AND GENERAL UPBRINGING OF THE YOUTH. ONE SHOULD SEE THE YOUNGSTERS HELPING THEIR FAMILIES FOR
LONG HOURS IN STABLES WHERE THEY ATTEND TO THE NEEDS OF THEIR PETS AND LEARN THE SOPHISTICATED ART OF HORSE HANDLING AND ABSORB THE BEAUTY OF THE COUNTENANCE AND THE MIND OF THE MOST ANCIENT FRIEND OF THE MAN AMONG ANIMALS IT IS THIS BEAUTY OF THE GAIT AND THE BRAVERY AND HONESTY OF THE CHARACTER OF THE HORSE THAT ATTRACTS THE YOUNG WHO LIKE TO COMMAND THE SKILL OF RACE AND BECOME ACCOMPLISHED JOCKIES SINCE VERY EARLY IN CHILDHOOD.
ASSETS OF THE HORSE OF «STAVRO-POLYE» CAN NOT BE OVERESTIMATED!
YOUR VISIT TO THE TERSK IS WELCOMED AND WETARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN THE NEAR FUTURE.