MSU Serendipity (*Emanor X Pasketta)

Welcome the Michigan State University Horse Teaching and Research Center (HTRC) web site.  MSU boasts one of the oldest continuous Arabian horse breeding programs in the United States.  The primary mission of the HTRC is to educate the next generation of Michigan horse persons and solve industry problems through applied scientific research.  It has always been the philosophy at MSU to maintain the highest quality livestock on our farms for those purposes.  If students learn on average livestock then mediocrity soon becomes the acceptable norm.

The MSU Arabian breeding program began in the 1940’s with the W. K. Kellogg donation of the Arabian stallion Amidore. The importation of the Egyptian stallion *Ghalii in the ‘60’s and the purchase of the Crabbett mare *Silfretta (the 1956 champion yearling filly of England) set the standard for the breeding program which continues to this day.

MSU is dedicated to breeding beautiful performance horses that first of all are Arabian in type and sound of limb with that loving and showy personality for which the breed is famous. The present brood mare band carries the blood of some of the most important Arabian sires in the US. *Bask, *El Paso, Shaikh Al Badi, Huckleberry Bey, *Bandos, Concensus, Monogramm, and *Napitok, are all represented through their get and grand-get. In recent years the influential sires Afire Bey V, *Emanor, and El Nabila B have been used to continue the production of quality horse to be used and shown by students. Most recently, the opportunity to use the leased stallions * Emanor, and Huck’s Legacy has been a very positive addition to the breeding program.

In 2006 Michigan State University entered into a partnership with Bazy Tankersley of Al Marah Arabians to continue her breeding program into the future. MSU now owns nine Al Marah mares and six yearling and two year old fillies. Mrs. Tankersley has graciously provided the services of three of her outstanding stallions during this time, AM Seagfreed in 2006, AM Clem Dreamon in 2007 and 2008, and AM Power Raid who will arrive at MSU in the spring of 2009. This relationship further emphasizes our focus on breeding beautiful performance horses.

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