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Gadebrook has been honoured with visitors from all over the world.
Francis from Nigeria and Chompoo from Thailand
were the very BEST visitors over Christmas 2018
They made friends with the horses and helped clean the fields
Help from overseas at Gadebrook in December 2018:
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Annamaria from Hungary, Bereket from Ethiopia, Anne, and Min from China
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I was delighted that Janine-Helen Daniel from Australia, whom
I had met at the WAHO Conference in Bahrain in 2017, was able
to drop in for a short visit in April 2018 during her course at
the German State Stud at Marbach.
We packed in a huge amount - a visit to HH Sheikh Hamdan's Nunnery
and Shadwell Studs in Thetford, the AHS Centenary Exhibition in
Newmarket, West Kington Stud in Wiltshire and Nicky Freud's endurance
training yard at Hook's Green where she rode my FEI** mare Kalish,
in appalling weather!
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Anglo-Aussies with Anne Brown enjoying the Crabbet Show at Equifest
2015.
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came to Gadebrook after spending a day at the Crabbet show at Equifest
in August 2014 and were especially smitten with Sambist. Shirley
definitely didn't come to see the sheep - they have enough of those
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Sambist fans from Australia came on a 'Bucket List' visit to
Gadebrook to see the sire of their stallion, Samson Tai. Breeders
Deb and Ian Watson (right) of Moondarra Stud in Queensland came
with Lyn Hall (left) of Lyndale Arabians on a very wet August
day in 2014, prior to joining Anne for a day at the Dubai International
race meeting at Newbury.
They were suitably impressed by Sambist and also our Australian
Crabbet foals.
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Visitors from Oundle's German twin town Naourt
and French WWOOFer Adrien (right)
meet Zariffia (with Anne) and her filly Mazaria, May 2014 |
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Engineer Majeed Almanea and his wife Alla from Saudi Arabia
visited Gadebrook in June 2014 with their daughter and her school
friend from Oman. They soon made friends with the horses including
colt foal Dandini
Major General Sherazi and Lt Colonel Razaaq
study the Gadebrook brochure as they select
horses to go to the Pakistan National Stud, January 2014
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Anne (centre), Prof Doug Antczak and equine
reproduction
specialist Dr Sandra Wilsher with Pepelka at Gadebrook, July 2013
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One of world's leading equine geneticists, Prof Doug Antczak
from Cornell University, USA, visited Gadebrook in July 2013,
en route to genetics conference in the Azores - what a thrill!
His TB mare 'Twilight' was the first horse in the world to have
its entire genome mapped - Gadebrook's racing stallion Sambist
was the second.
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the Middle Eastern TV station Al Jazeera filmed the Arabian horses
at Gadebrook in July 2012. |
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From South Africa: Janita & Van Duyn
Doyer of Arkab Stud; Johan van Eeden from Jasmyn stud; & Hendrik
Jacobs.
From the USA:
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Tory Bailey, 6ft 4in son of Gadebrook's American partner Patti
Bailey, visited England in the darkest days of January 2012 to meet
15.3hh Sambist, sire of 11 Damb Much, the endurance stallion he
rides in the USA.
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Dr Larry Cohen (right, with Anne and Sambist) made
the pilgrimage to see Sambist in the flesh in 2010, having bought
all his frozen semen in the USA for his herd of pure Russian mares
based in Florida.
"I was even more impressed by him than I thought
possible", confirmed Doctor Cohen.
"He is truly one of the best Arabs in the
world."
We were particularly happy to meet Merrie Boone
(with whom Anne toured many Crabbet studs in the USA in 2005 and
Britain in 2006); & Patti Bailey (with whom we have established
the importation of frozen semen from her Living Legend stallion
Remington Steele*++ through Gadebrook AI Services); also Jeri and
Marty Kirkhuff from Desert Thunder Arabians; & Magic Domino's
owners Kim & Mark Thomason of Arabian Dream Farms.
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From Kuwait: Ayed Almuteiri came to
Gadebrook Stud in June 2010, and met yearling colt Rizaam.
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Gulsen and Nuzhet Kahraman. |
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Abu Dhabi: Deirdre Hyde Stud Manager for HH Sheikh Sultan Bin
Zayed al Nahyan.
From Syria: Dr Hazaim
Alwair, an expert on the original bloodlines of the horses brought
in to Britain by the Blunts from Syria and the Middle East in the
1880s and 1890s to Crabbet Park.
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Anne and the Gadebrook team welcomes Dr Hazaim
Alwair to the 2007 Gadebrook Open Day |
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Australian breeders Leon Bennett of Pevensey
Stud (left) and Br Peter McIntosh meet Binley Prince Salim, bred
by Caroline Sussex (centre left) and now owned by Anne (centre right),
(wet) summer 2007
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From Australia:
Astra Temple and her husband, Randall
of Starpark Arabians; Bob Curtin & seperately his daughter
Tanya, from Monach Lodge Stud; Sean Johnson, owner of Kendra Park
Arabian Stud; Brother Peter McIntosh, Leon Bennett, owner of Pevensey
Arabians; Jackie & Neil Dand; & Bruce and Fay Copland
(below left) from Koah Stud & Karyn and Aditja Gitsham (below
right) from Brentwood Park Stud
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Above: Fay & Bruce Copland with Palma Benay, Anne's Australian
imported filly |
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Right: Aditja (left) and Karyn
Gitsham (right) with Anne
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| Neil and Jackie Dand from
Australia always find time to visit Gadebrook when they come to England
- this time they meet three month old Tango (Sambist x Jazmyn), summer
2011 |
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Show me! Show me! Kallista (right)
demands Australian breeder Ken Johnson of Kendra Park Arabians show
him her details (summer 2010)
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From Australia:
Tracy Stephens (left) from Henley
Farm in Australia helped bring Silver Sunbeam into the world when
she came to stay in May 2009. Her knowledge and experience were
invaluable and we hope she comes back to see Sunbeam's progress
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From Canada Cathy and John Southwell of Southwell Stables, great
Crabbet enthusiasts, visited in wintery January 2009.
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From Russia:
Vera Burtseva and her six year old
daughter Katja visited in spring 2011 at the same time as WWOOFer
Moises Treviño from Spain and toured the remains of Fotheringhay
Castle, with Anne
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From China:
The Chinese National Endurance Team visited Gadebrook June 2011.
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Vivien, Jason, David and Rebecca with Al Wajbah |
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From Germany:
A jazz band from Oundle's twin town
Naourt, in Germany, held court on the lawn, summer 2010
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