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The Don horses look a lot like Akhal Tekes, another Russian breed.  I 
wonder what the relationship is, if any, between the two breeds.
Laney

Steph Teeter wrote:
> Yes, fun stuff! I hadn't heard of the 'Don' breed before.  The best 
> horse I've ever known was my horse Nature's Khruschev - out of a Russian 
> Orlov Trotter stallion, and an Arabian mare. Lari Shea 
> (www.horse-vacation.com) came by an Orlov Trotter stallion - 'Nature's 
> Ballet' decades ago and while she had him she bred many half-Orlov 
> horses. We ended up with two of them - Khruschev and  Quicksilver.  
> Khruschev is now 17 and teaching a young girl how to do Endurance. 
> Quicksilver is 18 and also still doing Endurance. (a little trivia, this 
> mare bucked our Belgian friend Leo off before the start of the Outlaw 
> Trail - 1996 I think :)
>
> For Tom Sites: do you remember the Orlov stallion that did the first 
> half of the Great American Horse Race? that was Nature's Ballet. His 
> owners pulled him at the halfway point (before Dave Nicholson took the 
> rebel group across the country to finish in California). They pulled him 
> from the GAHR (at 2000 miles) and then drove him to California where he 
> finished the Tevis. An amazingly tough and brave and beautiful breed. 
> They were bred in Russia to pull the Troika's (Dr. Zhivago style) - and 
> had to go through a rigorous selection trail before they were accepted 
> as breeding stock, which included a 100 mile race. Count Orlov created 
> the breed by crossing Arabians with Warmbloods.
>
> a little bit of Russia ...
>
> Steph
>
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Laney Humphrey wrote:
>
> > Lots of fun to look through.
> > Laney
> >
> > John Teeter wrote:
> > > A fun look at endurance in Russia!   http://www.goldenhorse.ru/en/   
> > > http://www.goldenhorse.ru/
> > > jt
> >
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