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Caspian Horse in America
The first Caspian to leave
Iran was imported into the United States on April 15, 1966. Jehan*
was a beautiful 12 hand liver chestnut stallion, found in 1965
by Louise Firouz in the mountain province of Mazanderan in Iran.
This lively 2 year old stallion spent
the first year with Louise
at her farm near Teheran being trained to ride and drive. Jehans
trip to the United States involved a very long flight that included
stops in Lebanon, Cyprus, Italy, Switzerland and England, finally
to New York for sixty days of quarantine. Displaying the typical
Caspian temperament, he remained calm and curious throughout
the entire ordeal. He then traveled to his new home in Great
Falls, Virginia to met his new lifelong owner and companion,
Mrs. Kathleen McCormick. Jehan* participated in many exhibitions
and shows throughout his long life. Although there were no purebred
Caspian mares located in the United States for the continuation
of his purebred line, he sired numerous partbred foals before
his death at Sycamore Hill Farm, Lovettsville, Virginia in December
of 1993.
Next to arrive in the United States was a yearling grey stallion,
Mehregan, in 1973. Mehregan traveled from Iran to a farm for
disadvantaged children in Connecticut. He spent his entire life
devoted to the joy of the needy children who passed through this
exceptional facility called the Green Chimney Farm. Unfortunately
he passed away in the fall of 1994 before having the opportunity
to sire any offspring either.
The continuation of the Caspian survival saga occurred in
May, 1994, when 2 stallions, Kineton Kalif and Runnmede Karamat
and 5 mares, Mullacot Bathsheba,
Mullacot Chestnut, Runnymede
Beryl, Henden Shazee, and Shepton Terraneh were imported from
the United Kingdom into the United States. This importation represents
the first time that Caspian mares
arrived in the United States
to secure a purebred breeding program. Later that year stallions,
Henden Hannibal, Darkhorse Siydeh and Darkhorse Siykander and
mares, Mote Shalaby, Runnymede Camelia, Jandowae Shahsva, Darkhorse
Tiram and Costessa Bellamira joined the new breeding
program set up at the Monastery of St. Clare in Brenham, Texas. This
exceptionally beautiful herd of Caspians represented the offspring
of foundation lines imported from Iran to England in the early
1970s. In 1995 and 1996 ProtoArabian imported 23 more Caspians to further
expand their breeding and sales program.
Twenty two of the original thirty imported
Caspians were sold to establish other Caspian breeding farms most
notably the Kristull Ranch in Austin, Texas, who started with two of the stallions
and five mares. Their farm is now located in Bowling Green Kentucky, where they
enthusiastically import, breed and promote thier Caspian horses.
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