Atamekan

This tremendously tough horse has been brought out of Central Asia, having survived conditions of famine there which would have killed many less tenacious horses - and did kill literally hundreds.

Atamekan raced at the Ashkhabad Hippodrome for five full seasons, and at two and three years was classed as a "Grade I" horse under the Soviet grading system applied to all Akhal-Tekes in the former USSR.

He subsequently carried out a long-distance ride on the Silk Road route from Nisa to Merv, covering between five and six hundred kilometres unshod, and with little food other than grass.

He has a big jump, beautiful paces, a wonderfully gentle, affectionate temperament - and an iron-hard physique. He comes of a breed which, although barely represented in Europe, has nevertheless produced an Olympic Gold Medalist in dressage and a Grade A showjumper, but which above all has been famed throughout its long history for feats of endurance - the ultimate all-round sporting horse.

Atamekan has the potential to sire top-class horses in every field - eventing, dressage or showing; and, most of all, endurance horses.

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