NEW AHOF PROGRAMS

HERITAGE BREEDERS

 As part of the AHOF mission for education, the Trustees authorized a new program to interview breeders whose horses have made an impact on the Arabian community.  The interviews will offer new breeders the benefit of  the success and failures of  long time experience.

There are many breeders large and small who over the years have developed a meaningful plan for their breeding programs.  They have selected what is ideal to them and blazed their own path to success.  Selected breeders have approximately twenty years of breeding experience and have produced horses that are still being bred even if the selected breeder has now retired

 Some of the questions include:

  What was your initial purpose in Arabian horse ownership

  At what point did you decide to formulate a plan

  What were the resources you used to develop your plan

  At what time and to what extent did you study genetics

  Trace the evolution of your thinking including change of course

  What had you learned to make you change

  Give us three to five guidelines you suggest for new breeders

  What are your plans for the future?

The first interview was conducted by Bazy Tankersley who interviewed Denni Mack.  Denni has bred Arabian horses for forty years.  She has developed a group of horses who are clearly identified as being from her Koweta  Arabians program. 

Already three more interviews are scheduled and more than fifty others are being researched.

This exciting new program will offer valuable insights for new breeders to consider as they develop their own programs.