Spanish and CMK Arabians

Breeding Spanish and CMK Arabians has become an important aspect of life on the ranch.

Mel grew up with horses on a farm at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro. A neighbor, who had been the agricultural officer in Yemen, had a beautiful Arabian mare given by the local tribesman as a wedding present to his wife and brought to their ranch in Tanzania. This was the type of horse that Mel always wished for and in 1983 on another continent the dream became reality.

The first Arabian breeding stock was acquired from a Wyoming neighbor who also had a horse farm in Texas. They were primarily Egyptian (Gleannloch) crossed on domestic mares. We then moved onto Polish lines since our neighbor acquired the racing sire *Sambor and later sold us TC Mr Lucky, a pure Polish *Naborr son.

One of Mel's favorite riding horses for many years was an Abu Farwa grandson, who led us towards the Crabbet horses. The focus of this breeding has always been to produce solid family horses with good minds. We purchased *Indian Sundown, bred by the Dutchess of Rutland and imported from the UK, to cross on our mostly CMK mares. He was 15.2 and size was becoming important in enabling us to provide mounts for a wider range of guests.

In 2003 Bayard and Mel visited a riding center in Spain and were taken by our hosts to Diego Mendez' La Aldara Stud. We were very impressed with the Spanish Arabians who were big, athletic and also had quiet temperaments. We were lucky enough to have the use of the Stanley Ranch bred straight Spanish Arabian horse Si Si Savvy owned by Ginna Frantz for two breeding seasons. This stallion was the Region 7 USEF Arabian Dressage Champion in 2004. In lease agreements with the Stanley Ranch we had the services of Wradar (*Esperanto x Granada 1) and Al Exstatic (Exodus1 x Pascion S). We acquired our own straight Spanish stallion, Granizo (*Granizar x La Dulcinea) in 2007 and in 2008 added L Tivo (L Bravo x L Astar) to the herd.

Since some of our CMK mares were growing older we decided to keep that line going through the athletic SSA Mistics Shadow PC (RAS Amyr Dargee PC x FV Silver Mistic), whom we leased for 2 years. We then moved on to FV Aul Mystique (Aur Mystique x Aur Amber Magic) leased from Dr. David Ward of Fairview Arabian Stud in Canada and carrying proven performance lines.

Our mares are mostly CMK and straight Spanish. They can all be ridden and when not being bred are put to work on our Wyoming dude ranch. Our emphasis is on good gaits, temperament, and a willingness to do whatever is asked of them; they may be required to herd cows one day and jump the cross-country course the next. The foals and young stock are outside all the time, running in large pastures, which puts a good foundation on them. We own a total of around 90 Arabian horses, and raise about 6 foals a year.

This is one of the rare places where riders can have the pleasure of riding Arabian horses which are well trained and responsive at all paces and in varied terrain.

Arabian Horses for Sale

Stallions At Stud

CMK Mares

Spanish Mares