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Well, the American DID have a choice, since, unlike the case in the Arab registry, there was (and still is) dispute on the parentage of the cast out horses. However I replied privately to Ed that ATAA was just trying to do the right thing as they saw fit at the time.

However, the crux of the matter is that in a number of cases, the "proof" of impurity was pretty shaky. In the case of my own stock, I asked the MAAK (Russian Akhal Teke registry) director directly through an interpreter (Milena) what basis she had for removing the  forebears, who all traced back to one mare exported from Russia to Germany and then the USA. Her response was that a groom who had worked there many years before had implicated the owner (who did indeed have a TB stallion standing at his farm along with his Akhal Teke stallions) in using TB blood. One letter. No bloodtesting.  The decision was made by one person (the director of the Russian Teke registry). Some of the evidence used was shaky at best; certainly  not as definitive as the documented pedigree of the South American Arabs (which sparked this whole discussion.)

But, as I responded to Ed (and not the whole Ridecamp), ATAA, when they made the decision,  was trying to do what they felt was best so that they could  be acknowledged as a "serious" registry for Tekes.

Anyone in the Teke world knows where I stand on this...it's certainly not a secret that I disagree, based on the lack of  hard "proof" of many of the exclusions.  My position was, and remains that many of these so-called "impure horses" have a soundness,type and ability that should be valued by breeders, not cast aside.

Katrina

On May 19, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Cathy Leddy wrote:

> I'm on the ATAA Inc MO Board of Directors and as I'm the only one of us that's been lurking on Ridecamp, I'm forwarding our Registrar's clarification to Katrina's emails.? Sorry if this is a bit off-topic.
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> Here's an answer on what happened in the ATAA Inc. MO (Akhal-Teke Association of America, Inc.  MO) from our registrar.?
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> This action was not caused in any way by the American Akhal-Teke registry. In 1998 the current Akhal-Teke Horse Registry was formed, and while reviewing the inventory of Akhal-Teke horses in America it recognized that some American breeders over the years were duped by the Soviet/Russian system and purchased, directly or through other breeders, horses that were not pure bred.? Documents for these horses were issued in Russian; some were falsified by the Russian breeding farms, others clearly stated that the horse was not a pure bred, but no one seemed to be able to read Russian documents and verify pedigrees against the studbook of pure bred horses, which is also printed in Russian. After these horses came to Western Europe and America, breeders simply but erroneously assumed that the horses were pure bred.
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> While it may seem easy to blame "the politics that went on behind the scenes at the registry" the fact is that neither the Russian nor American registries had any choice in this matter.? All non-pure bred horses had to be identified and removed from the pure bred registry if the goal of the registry was to continue documentation and registration of pure bred Akhal-Teke horses.?
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