President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov has assigned Malkinsky Konzavod (stud-farm) 10 mln roubel (about 300'000 dollar) for reestablishing stud-book of Kabardian breed.

The money will be used for registering Kabardian horses found in the republic and reestablishing links to the previous stud-books. Latest stud-book (volume 5) was issued in 1995 and later discontinued.

Next year will be also a breakthrough in Kabardino-Balkaria's equine sport - there are two big competitions planned in 2007, first in June and second in October. June's competition will have prize fund of 1 mln roubel (30'000 dollar) and local authorities promised help to attract competitiors from abroad.

Kabardian horses are very important part of tradition and economics in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Import of "Circassian" (Kabardian) horses to Europe has been documented in XVII century's Poland.

Nowadays Kabardians remain one of the best horses for endurance and tourism. Since 2002 when they first appeared in Western Europe they proven to be the only breed that can actually compete Arabian horses in endurance racing, e.g. in 2004 a Kabardian gelding Karo won second place in Championship of Germany.

Unfortunately the breeding tradition of Kabardian horses has suffered major losses in 20's after Bolshevik Revolution and during perestroika in 90's. Now the strong and beautiful breed of horses gets back to organized breeding again.

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Saturday 20. of August 2005 Two Kabardians entered Poland

Another group of two Kabardian horses just finished veterinary procedures after entering EU from Russia. We prepared documents for permanent import of one horse and temporary import of another. These horses were later running in...

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Wednesday 17. of August 2005 Catja Smon and Shiraz 5th in Germany

German endurance rider Catja Simon and her kabardian gelding Shiraz finished on the 5th place in an endurance race near Augsburg on total distance of 113 km. The race was two days - on the first day Catja was first after 74 km....

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Wednesday 10. of August 2005 Eight Kabardians heading to Compiegne

We have just finished veterinary and customs procedures for eight Kabardian horses who came from Caucasus heading to Compiegne for European Endurance Championship. Our services included all customs and veterinary procedures for...

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Wednesday 03. of August 2005 New articles and photos from summer 2005 trip to Caucasus

Most interesting are my photos from the summer trip to Caucasus mountains where I spent around a week with the horse shepherds in a distant place 3000 m high, where mobile telephones don't work :) In the coming days I will also...

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Monday 01. of August 2005 Polish tourists in "Mountain horses extreme"

Two Polish tourists Maria and Angela have just returned from our "Mountain horses extreme" trip in Caucasus. They spent over week with horses in mountains at height over 2500 meters. They promised to send us photos from the trip.

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