The spectacular pure Polish son of *Gazal al Shaqab x *Eqviria by Pers has been leased for three years by Marsha Parkinson, Canterbury Farm at Melfield, in Maryland.

He has had an excellent show record in Poland as a yearling and two year old, including the capture of the National Championship Junior Res. Stallion honors, as well as other titles. *Equifor was in race training during his three year old year, and came to the United States shortly after returning from the track in August 2006.

Outstanding features of *Equifor are his exotic head, with tiny muzzle, refinement and excellent dish, plus huge luminescent eyes set well in a large eye cage. He has an exceptionally long neck with good hook and it is set very high on his deep, well angulated shoulders. He is very correct in the leg department, with good flat bone, and short cannons. The hindquarters are equally good, and he naturally drives up underneath himself.

The movement he possesses is breathtaking, for he moves with good lift, high, round knee snap and with power, cadence and effortlessness. He sets up naturally high in his neck, and the English potential is written all over him.

*Equifor has a Look-At-ME presence, and he does command attention. On the other side of the coin, he has a wonderful disposition with kindness in his eyes, plus a willingness to please with anything asked of him.

His sire is the world class *Gazal al Shaqab. This sire has made quite a mark in Poland, crossing exceptionally well with mares of both Kuhailan and Saklawi type. *Equifor is a blend of both phenotypes, as well as genotypes. He is influenced in his neck length by Kadjora, the lovely American bred bay mare who is *Gazal's dam. She is one of the all time beauty queens of the Arabian breed. *Gazal's sire, Anaza el Farid is straight Egyptian bred in the USA. Kadjora is more than 3/4 Polish breeding with a touch of Crabbet and American breeding. She traces in tail female line though the exceptional *Pietuszok daughter, *Edessa, to Ellora. This is the exceptional Kuhailan family descending from the tap root mare, Woloszka. Ellora, and full sisters Celina and Elzunia, have created a dynasty of highly significant horses throughout the world. From Ellora comes innumerable champions and top breeding horses including US National Champion Stallion, *El Paso, *Elizaa (dam of *Elimar and Elita), El Azrak (sire of Banat), Elewacja, Polish National Champion Mare and dam of *Elta, *Ellorus (sire of *Algerina), and Elektra (dam of *El Ghazi).

*Equifor's tail female also traces to this same family of Woloszka, hence both sire and dam are from the same line, making up a large part of the outstanding qualities of *Equifor. Full sister to Ellora, is *Elzunika. She, when bred to Faher, she produced the highly influential mare, Etna. Etna was the dam of significant sires Etap, Eternit, and *Etiw as well as the spectacular mare, Etruria winner of innumerable international Championships, and daughters, Etiologia, *Etyka and the gorgeous black mare, Equitana. Equitana was sired by Polish National Champion Stallion, *Aloes. She was bred to Palas, producing one of the two extremely rare black daughters of this stallion. This mare was *Equina, purchased by Mike Nichols. *Equina was bred in Poland to Pers, a line bred stallion of double *Bandos breeding. Pers was sired by Polish National Champion Stallion *Enoss (*Bandos x Enora) and out of the most beautiful *Bandos daughter, Pentoda. Pentoda was Polish National Champion Mare, and dam of *Penicylina, US National Champion Mare. This unique breeding of half siblings created one of the best Saklawi stallions of the *Bandos sire line. He proved to be a superlative stallion, siring beauty, type, correctness, and unusually good motion. Pers unfortunately died young, leaving few foals. Two of his most beautiful daughters are in the USA, one being *Perdela out of European Supreme Champion Mare, *Candela, both owned by Canterbury Farm, and *Eqviria, recently purchased by Pride of Poland, LLC. *Eqviria is a gorgeous silver white mare, of excellent conformation and motion. She is the dam of an excellent race mare, Eqvida by *Wojslaw, and other horses yet to be shown in Poland.

*Eqviria was bred to *Gazal al Shaqab in 2002, producing the exotic grey colt *Equifor in 2003. He was destined from the beginning to be a spectacular horse. He was bred to be. And he is.

In 2008, *Equifor will be shown by Greg Gallun. Greg is extremely enthusiastic about this young stallion, and we are all looking forward to see these two combine their talents in the show ring.

Please contact Marsha Parkinson for breeding contracts to *Equifor, and for purchasing pure Polish mares in foal to this stallion of destiny.

*Equifor photo credits:
Two-year-old photos by Lidka Pawlowski ~ Four-year-old photos by Stuart Vesty

CANTERBURY FARM POLISH ARABIANS
Marsha Parkinson
160 Melfield Lane, Centreville, MD 21617
443.262.9525 ph  |  443.262.9196 fax