Bold, powerful and wonderfully conformed, Gadiel brilliantly combines the best qualities of Michalow stud's most famous athletic dam families.
Gadiel goes tail female to Poland's legendary source of athleticism: Forta. Forta's daughter Dyska was winner of the Oaks, was exported to France, and was a remarkable producer,
dam of stallions Dunajec (who won the Criterium twice, exported to U.S.A.), Damocles (exported to France) and Dramat (used in Poland).
Dyska was dam of mares: Dzisna (exported to U.S.A.), Desdemona (exported to France),
Dessa, Driada, Drumla, Dysgresja and Dysputa. Dysputa was one of Comets most beautiful and valuable daughters, and sold at the age of 18 for $300,000.00 at the 1985 Polish Prestige sale.
Comet blood is the source from which the Arabian inherited much of it's most extreme and correct action. Among them, Comet sons and daughters
have won 4 Polish National Championships, 3 European National Championships, 3 U.S. National Championships, 1 U.S. Reserve National Championship, 1 U.S. Top Ten, and 1 Canadian Top Ten.
One remarkable mare also won the Triple Crown of Derby, Oaks and Criterium. This as well as being the chief sires and broodmares of elite studs everywhere.
Gadiel is linebred to Comet on the female side of his pedigree, as Donica is out of Probat, the leading progenitor of the Comet line in Poland in addition to going tail female to one
of Comet's most beautiful daughters. Gadiel's granddam Donna has been said to have been one of the famous stallion Negatiw's most beautiful daughters.
Donna was exported from Michalow stud to Canada in 1987, selling for $72,000.00 at the Polish Prestige sale. She is dam of Doping (Italian National Champion stallion), Demon (exported to Sweden),
and Dekolt. She also conceived many extraordinary daughters, such as Drwina (who sold at the 1985 Polish Prestige sale for $72,000.00), Dubrawa, and Donia (full sister to our own Donica,
and Polish Junior National Champion mare). Gadiel's dam Donica has three crosses to the beautiful Naseem, Skowronek's greatest son. Her long neck, elegant carriage
and large dark eyes are come by naturally through these lines. Gadiel himself has six crosses to Naseem.
Gadiel is not only bred to be beautiful, but also to perform. Gadiel's dam Donica has eight crosses to the athletic, powerful stallion Ofir.
Donica is by legendary Blommerod-bred sire of invaluable importance to not only Polish, but world-wide breeding: Probat.
A pivotal sire in Polish breeding, Probat is the world's chief progenitor of the Kuhailan Afas d.b.-Comet line. Probat daughters are prolific producers of race winners in Poland, and show winners as well.
Many great sons and daughters went on to become fantastic show horses, race horses and outstanding producers. Probat, foaled at Blommerod stud in Sweden in 1975, was all Polish in his bloodlines.
His sire, Pohaniec (Swedish National Champion stallion and European Reserve Champion stallion), bred at Janow Podlaski stud, and his granddam Bogoria, bred at Albigowa State Stud, were sold to Blommerod in 1970 and 1965, respectively.
Probat's dam Borexia was the happy result of the cross of those two, and was Swedish National Champion mare. The Poles recognized Probat's value to their programs and leased him for the breeding seasons of 1980-1983 and for the
1985 breeding season.
He sired more than 100 foals in Poland. Probat daughters were of special value
to the Poles, and by 1986, 43 had been selected for breeding.
They found their glory in the Polish National Show where Probat is credited with siring six Polish National Champions and seven Reserves. The
1990 show gave Probat his greatest recognition as he had two National Champions and a Reserve. In racing statistics compiled in 1998, in a 15 year study of sires of Polish race winners,
Probat headed up the list with ten percent of the wins. Probat came to the U.S. in 1987 and became an important fixture of the Lasma stallion barn. The following year he was sold to Meadow Wood
Farms where he maintained valued stallion status. (This is where MWF Donica was bred.) His American foal total is 322, a total that includes 9 National winners who have four National
Championships. Said George Altenberg, who purchased Probat toward the end of his life, Probat was "an extraordinary horse and one of the all time greats. I never
realized a stallion could be so beautiful, particularly in the head and neck, and so gentle at the same time. The sweetest horse I have ever known. Actually, Probat had a wonderful life. Everywhere
he was in the world, from the time he was foaled, he was loved." (AHW, Jan. '03, obituary)
Gadiel's sire Ganges was Monogramm's most successful son on the racetrack in Poland (2/16, 3-3-6-1, 1) and "has always been Poland's premier choice of the many outstanding sons of Monogramm,
for with seven crosses to the legendary Ofir, Ganges best typifies the ideal type of his world renowned sire line." (Pride of Poland, '04) Monogramm himself singlehandedly changed the face of Polish and World breeding everywhere,
and traces in tail female to the legendary Mammona. Director Jaworowski noted "We recognize more than ever his (Monogramm's) ability to pass on his qualities of charisma, harmonious build, and his own
unforgettable look of quality, refinement and presence. Most important, we expect the same of successive generations." (AHW magazine) Monogramm must rightly be considered one of the greatest sires in the history of
Polish breeding. In just two seasons at only one of the state studs what he was able to accomplish is nothing short of legendary. Of the 112 Monogramm get foaled in Poland, 21 have major championships in national
and international competition. Monogramm has also sired 57 winners in virtually every discipline in which Arabian horses compete, including dressage, reining, jumpers, English pleasure and working cow horse, not only
in open but in amateur owner and junior owner divisions. Altogether, Monogramm has sired 82 champions in both America and Europe. "Monogramm, the horse with the beautiful head, swan neck, and dark large eyes won the
whole of Europe through his progeny," says Ignacy Jaworowski.
Gadiel's sire Ganges is no exception. Ganges is a Multi-National and International Champion whose wins in Europe include
being named International Champion stallion at Blommerod, Sweden in 2000, 2001 Polish National Champion Stallion, and 2001 Nations Cup Reserve Champion stallion in Aachen, Germany. In the U.S., just two weeks after his arrival,
Ganges was Reserve Grand Champion Stallion at Scottsdale. He went on to win Reserve U.S. National Champion stallion in 2003. This dynamic, 15.2 hand stallion
has an "uncanny resemblance to Bask" (Nichols Arabians) with a long, high set neck with extreme length of poll, short back, extremely good legs and a beautiful refined head with distinctive, large nostrils.
His value as a sire has been proven in both Europe and North America, with get such as: Dobra Nowina (Polish Spring Show and Poznan International Reserve Champion), Kodak (Warsaw Summer Show Reserve Champion),
and Wieza Wiatrow (Polish Spring Show Champion and Best in Show, Polish National Reserve Champion and Twice World Top Ten). Wieza Wiatrow made history when she was placed as a last minute addition to the
2002 Polish Prestige sale as the first yearling filly ever offered at auction in Poland. She was sold for the sale topping price of $220,000.00 to a Saudi Arabian sheik.
Maternally, Ganges is a premier member of the highly successful dam family of Gilza, Michalow broodmatron supreme, whose list of internationally distinguished progeny include:
Grenlandia, Gil, Grafik, Gaspar, Geneza, Garonna, Gwaro, Gafal, Gitar MF, and Girlan-Bey.
Many thanks to Monika Luft, the editor of polskiearaby.com and the photographers Krzystztof Pless (english photo) and
Katarzyna Dolinska (native costume photo) for allowing us to share these photos on our website! I am including an excerpt from this news article which was posted on polskiearaby.com
(9/8/2007):
"...the Autumn show at Janów Podlaski closes the show season in Poland...Organizers as well as the spectators highly appreciate the riding classes for Pure breds – very spectacular costume classes and classic dressage."
IInd Autumn Show at Janów – junior results: "In both costume classes-Classic Pleasure and Native Costume, the best was *Ganges with his rider Michal Gryglas. Ganges also had the biggest group of
fans at riding classes." The panel of judges: Izabella Pawelec-Zawadzka (Poland), Elizabeth Chat (Austria), and Claudia Darius (Germany.)
Gadiel should go on to be a great progenitor of the world renowned Kuhailan sire line as he himself has a whopping 15 crosses to the stallion Ofir. He is Sweepstakes, Futurity, CAHC Futurity and COBRA nominated.
At his first show, the Region 8 Championships, he was a Top Ten Yearling Sweepstakes colt against extremely steep competition. In his second show, he was champion halter stallion. And in his third time out he was a Regional top 5 as a four year old. Admittedly, he is not your typical "American style" halter horse...he is more athletic, and more correctly built than the modern day halter horse and suitable much more for a European style halter horse. In 2008, Gadiel competed for the first time in the sport horse division in Estes Park. He did very well in this division, besting the beautiful, highly decorated (and much more mature) stallion Al Marah Asterisk in his qualifier, and was Region 8 Champion Sporthorse Stallion In Hand, Open. At this competition he was still growthy (at four years old 15'1" and butt-high) and inexperienced in the show ring, and we were proud of him. In 2009 he competed at his first National Show. We traveled to Lexington Kentucky and competed at the Sporthorse Nationals and he got his first taste of a long distance road trip and did us proud.
Please click here for photos of our Sporthorse Nationals Road Trip and Show!
Gadiel has a lot to learn, and did not perform his best in the ring at the Nationals, but did an outstanding job of handling the environment and the pressures, including the busy warm up arenas. No matter where he has gone, he has attracted wonderful response from mare owners and spectators who are drawn to him, and we look forward to a future where he can really show what he can do!
Gadiel has proven extremely fertile in his collections and cools and ships extremely well. Gadiel has a disposition second to none. At the Region 8 show as a four year old, he was prepared for his class entirely by a fourteen year old girl and her mom. He can be handled in his daily routine by his friend Ashleigh, that same fourteen year old girl...and as you will see in some of his pictures on his photo page, he loves to play with the children of the family, who can even ask him to rear on command when he is turned out at liberty. He is gentle, intelligent, powerful, and beautiful...and his charisma is undeniable. He is powerful and yet is undeniably full of Arabian
type and beauty. He is regal and kind, and a true "King of the Wind"!