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Gadebrook's story
featured in a two-parter in two recent Crabbet Heritage magazines
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For Part 1 click HERE
For Part 2 click HERE |
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Novice Crabbet gelding Hazar (Hadiya
x Azarina) bred at Gadebrook in
2020 was selected to represent Scotland in the Home International
Endurance Championships with new owner Josephine this summer.
They won their class and a trophy - what a debut! Hazar's
pedigree
Right: Hazar competing at Drumlanrig
Castle, 2025.
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Kamelliya,
Hazar's 2020 half-sister is in Dressage training with Harriet
Podd, ready for competition in 2026. Leyah's dam is the pure
Egyptian Kamillah, winner of the World Arab Horse trophy for
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The third half-sister,
pure Crabbet Bright Moonlight
(2020) by Hadiya x Inshallah Signature (imp Australia) so
¾ Australian bloodlines, has returned to Gadebrook
from backing and ridden training in Italy. To preserve her
unique genes, she has been covered by pure Crabbet half-Australian
stallion Binley Silvern Mujiza - 'Skippy' - (2020), National
Crabbet Champion at two, and British Novice Ridden champion
at four. She is scanned in foal, due mid-May 2026. |
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Home-bred gracious grey Crabbet mare Rhapsody in Blue (2005)
by all-round eventer and endurance stallion Shaded Silver
x Summertime Blues has returned to Gadebrook after a ridden
career. Rhapsody
in Blue's pedigree.
Right: She has been adopted by Bay Australian Crabbet mare,
Palma Benay.
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After years of winning the 'Arab Racing Sire of the Year'
Award (13 times in 15 years!), Gadebrook's AHS Premium stallion
Sambist has now added a Top Ten placing in the 'Endurance
Sire of the Year' awards to his resumé, for his progeny's
Endurance results in 2023 and 2024.
His daughter Mandarine (2010)
won the two-day 80k class and the Best Condition award at
the 2023 Golden Horse Shoe, achieving Gold speed - a great
result for her rider Kathy Carr (right).
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Mandarine |
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Blade (Mill
Park Blaidd x Palma Benay
2018) from all-Australian pure Crabbet genes, successfully
completed all four Endurance outings at Foundation level
and starts his Novice Endurance season this year with
Susan Hawes of Nightingale Farm Endurance Horses. |
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Gadebrook Blade |
Another pure Crabbet son of Palma, Dandini,
bred at Gadebrook in 2014 by Marbon Masadi, sired Seren
Auros the leading best 3-year old at the 2023 national Futurity
Evaluation and won the 'Leading Endurance Futurity Sire'
award as well. Dandini is now at stud in Sweden. He has
pure-Crabbet progeny in Britain, Spain and Scandinavia.
A grandson of Palma, Shaarif
by Kaalif (Palma's son) out of
another of Gadebrook's imported Australian Crabbet mares,
Inshallah Signature,
has reached FEI* level in Endurance, owned and ridden by
Anja Ward who won last year's Golden Horse Shoe 3-day 120kms
ride with him.
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Shaarif
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Crystal Magic (by Silvern
Sceptre x Crystal Lazuli 1998), an AHS Premium Merit
stallion, bred at Gadebrook and owned by Spirit Arabians,
is the sire of the 2023 leading Futurity Endurance mare,
Naheema's Spirit SA (2019). In 2017, Crystal Magic's 3-year
old filly, SAR Magical Spirit, gained Elite status, the
only one awarded in the Endurance section of the Futurity
evaluations that year!
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Anne attended the 2025 WAHO conference in Abu Dhabi in
April. For report, click HERE
Anne attended the 2022 WAHO conference in Jordan in October
2022. For her photos and report for the Arab Horse Society’s
Year Book, click HERE
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Congratulations to the owners of horses from Gadebrook
Stud:
Mandarine |
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Mandarine (born 2010) by Sambist, successfully finished
the 66km Red Dragon ride in tough conditions with
British National champion rider Kathy Carr, and gained
2nd place in the Performance Formula, an outstanding
achievement.
Pure Crabbet gelding Gadebrook
Blade (born 2018) from 100% Australian Arabian bloodlines
is sold to a top Endurance rider for endurance competition
and gained a Gold Premium at the 2021 Youngstock Evaluations.
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Home-bred Kalish
has swapped her high-level endurance career for a new and
active riding home in Leicestershire. |
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Remynisce |
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Our Remington Steele son Remynisce, has retired from
FEI*** endurance competition to join a loving family
in the Cotswolds who ride him daily.
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 Pure
Crabbet Arabian gelding Shaarif,
(born 2015), started at International level endurance in
2024, and will compete in the 80 kms linear race at the
Golden Horse Shoe on Exmoor in May 2025, ridden by owner
Anja Ward.
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Congratulations were due to Kaalif,
winner of Dinsdale Memorial Trophy for Champion Pure Arab
in the prestigious AHS Performance Horse Awards for 2019,
owned and ridden by Anja Ward, and also to her 13-yr old
daughter Victoria (right) on winning the Arab Horse Society’s
Farenza Cup on Kaalif for leading Junior Rider.
Kaalif won the pure Crabbet Endurance Championship at the
Crabbet Organisation Performance Awards 2019 and also the
FEI Endurance section.
However, tragedy struck in autumn 2020 when Kaalif broke
his leg in his field and had to be put down – such
a loss of an exceptional horse.
Kaalif was pure Crabbet by endurance sire Silver Zaanif
out of my imported Australian mare Palma Benay. Kaalif was
the sire of Shaarif (2015) from my imported Australian mare
Inshallah Signature.
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Anne is proud to have won the Arab Horse Society 'Breeder
of the Year' award for 2018, and also the Crabbet Endurance
“Breeder of the Year” award.
The results were based on the achievements of horses bred
at Gadebrook including Kaalif, Remynise, Azarina, Kalish,
Samba B, Mandarine and Kalista.
Photo right: Anne was at the
WAHO conference in
Australia when the awards ceremony took place so
only received the rosettes and garlands on her return
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Imported Australian
mare Palma Benay is the foundation of the Boomerang Plan to
re-introduce Crabbet genes to the UK; winner of the Crabbet
Mare trophy at the Crabbet Organisation's 2019 awards for
winning achievements by her first son Kaalif |
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Gadebrook is delighted to have acquired the talented and
beautiful pure Egyptian AHS Premium Performance mare Kamillah
from her breeder Judy Phillips.
Kamillah is the World Arab Horse trophy winner for 2013,
the first ever NaStA Performance-tested mare, a winning
eventer and endurance horse. She is dam of the Royal Cornish
Show Champion 2019, also two fillies, Gadebrook's Kamelliya,
and jointly-bred Gadebrook Lily
Kamillah produced a refined and beautiful filly, Kamelliya,
to Hadiya in June 2020
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Kamillah with
new-born filly Kamelliya by Hadiya, 14 June 2020 at
Gadebrook |
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Kamillah
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To read Anne's articles in the 2023 and 2024 Arab Horse
Society Year Books, follow the links below:
2023
Crabbet
Round up
Frozen semen
handling
Coping
with genetic mutations
AHS Premium
Performance Scheme - Article 1
AHS
Premium Performance Scheme - Article 2
2024
Social
Licence to Operate
New Diseases
warning
New
AHS Premium stallion test
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Anne attended the
2019 WAHO conference in Australia, and afterwards visited
Palma’s breeder Leon Bennett in New Zealand. In association
with Leon, Anne now shares the important pure Egyptian mare
Simeon Shurah (Asfour x Simeon Safron), a great-granddaughter
of 27 Ibn Galal V, with her filly foal Shiraz sired by Simeon
Shulchan by Anazah Bey Shahh (a Morafic grandson) out of Simeon
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Gadebrook's racing supremo Sambist (deceased 2014) won
the AHS 'Arabian Racing Sire of the Year' award in 2018
for an unprecedented 13th time in 15 years.
Sambist appears on the cover of the AHS Centenary Premium
Performance Scheme commemorative book of stallions, and
his genome sequence features in the Centenary exhibition
and on the back cover of the Centenary book. He was the
first Arabian in the world to have his genes identified.
A limited amount of frozen semen is available to approved
mares.
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Sambist
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Advanced endurance mare Azarina (2007) produced a delightful
bay/grey pure Crabbet colt Hazar by Hadiya in May 2020.
This is a very special foal as he represents the 4th generation
of Gadebrook breeding, Anne having bred Azarina (by Shaded
Silver) and her dam Zaharina (by Ludomino) and owned her
dam Zarah (by Orion).
Photo right: Anne with her
beloved riding
mare Azarina, at Gadebrook May 2019
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A limited amount of Remington Steele's frozen semen is
available to approved mares, stored at West Kington Stud.
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Gadebrook has done
especially well at the
Crabbet Endurance Awards. Anne has won the Crabbet Endurance
Breeder title for results from Remynisce, Kaalif, Kalish and
Azarina.
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As Vice-Chairman of the Arab Horse Society Council, Anne
chaired the AHS Centenary 2018 committee. She was heavily
involved in raising funds and organising the 2018 events,
including the Performance Horse Parade at the National Heritage
Centre in Newmarket, the special exhibition "From the
Desert to the World" from March to July, also at the
National Heritage Centre in Newmarket, and the successful
Centenary Marathon in Newmarket in October 2018. Photo right:
The chairman, Joanne Lowe (on right), thanked Anne with
a pot of flowers.
Anne compiled the fully illustrated AHS "Centenary"
book and attended a book-signing in Oundle in May 2018.
It sells for £40 (£35 to AHS members), available
from the AHS
website.
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Anne presents the Gadebrook Trophy to the Reserve Performance
Horse Awards Champion at the National Championship Show
each July, and also the Gadebrook Shield to the overall
Crabbet Champion (Gayzella in 2018, photo right with owner/breeder
Fiona Leng).
Anne chairs the Premium Performance Scheme (PPS) committee
of the Arab Horse Society and supports breeding using AHS
Premium stallions - like Sambist!
PPS webpage
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For report on World
Endurance Championship 2005 win by Crabbet gelding Hachim,
bred and trained at Gadebrook, click HERE.
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The
Boomerang Plan to re-introduce rare bloodlines to the Crabbet
gene pool has imported three more pure Crabbet brood mares
from Australia, in foal to top Crabbet performance stallions.
