The Aria Journey
The *Emandoria Story
How fortunate to be able to have leased both *Pianissima - the queen of Janow Podlaski and *Emandoria - the queen of Michalow State Stud. This is my story of the *Emandoria experience....
In May of 2005 my family was invited to go to Poland to preview the sale horses which would be in the Pride of Poland auction in August. Greg Gallun and George Z were our hosts. It was our first trip to Poland, and it was a dream come true to visit the great state stud farms with their heralde.....
The *Pianissima Story
I am fortunate to have a magical story with *Pianissima. In December 2004, after being out of Arabian horses for several years, I read the December issue of the Arabian Horse World magazine in which the international shows were featured. I kept reading about a yearling filly who dominated the show ring and amazed everyone who saw her. Her name was *Pianissima, and I promised myself that if I got back into the Arabian horse business, it would be with *Pianissima. The next day I made several ph.....
The *El Nabila B Story
I love all Arabian horses....don't really know one I don't like. But there is no doubt that some are just more special than others. One of those really special horses is the great horse from Balbona Stud in Hungary - *El Nabila.
I first met El Nabila on a cool Feburary evening in Scottsdale in 2006. We had just purchased the great El Nabila daughter Sashaa who was Brazilian Junior National Champion Filly and so we were especially eager to see her esteemed sire.
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The *Piaff Story
in May of 2005, I traveled to Poland to visit the stud farms and to find horses to import as cornerstones of the Aria program we wanted to create. Greg Gallun and George Z were kind enough to host us on this first visit to Poland, and needless to say, it was unforgettable for many reasons - one of the most significant of which is that we were introduced to a very impressive horse at the Janow Podlaski State Stud named Piaff, a big bold charismatic grey stallion that was going to be shown late.....
