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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Wednesday 17. of May 2006 Results from Kabardian Endurance in Parsberg

Last weekend in Parsberg (Germany) Kabardian Endurance gathered almost 60 riders mostly from Germany. The organizer, Tobias Knoll, says the event was very successul and next year they will organize a longer one. This competition...

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Thursday 27. of April 2006 Kabardian studbook is coming back

Horse breeders from Kabardino-Balkarian Republice, origin of Kabardian horses, had a meeting with President Arsen Kanokov.

Main topic of the meeting was reestablishing Russian Studbook of Kabardian Breed, which effectively...

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Monday 27. of March 2006 Winter endurance in Moscow

While all Europe's endurance mostly falls asleep during winter, Moscow riders have organized a 50 km competition which has to be called extreme. Temperature reached -20C at the start. Kabardian horses took part too, below you can...

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Wednesday 01. of March 2006 Kabardian Endurance 2006

Continuing very successful and, we hope, new tradition of Kabardian Endurance Tobias Knoll from Kabardiner.de is organizing another competition this year.

The competition will be held in Parsberg, Germany on May...

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Tuesday 21. of February 2006 Kabardian vs Karachai horse?

This subject has always been controversial in Caucasus - is Karachai horse just subtype of Kabardian, or is it a separate breed? But I've never seen such a hot discussion on this topic before. It seems like the problem has...

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