I am looking for any pics or info on him.I have a mare thats related to him nd would love to know more about him.

Ofir

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Ofir other

Here is two more..

There is a lot of information about Ofir in Polish. Promise to look for them for you soon.

from Freeman Arabians Website:

"Ofir was Kuhailan Haifi's most noted son and is given most of the credit for carrying on the Kuhailan Haifi sire line. Ofir was bred at Janow Podlaski State Stud in Poland, and foaled in 1933, in Kuhailan Haifi's first crop. Ofir's dam was Dziwa by Abu Mlech and traces in tail female to the desertbred Sahara, imported in 1845. Hailed as the "Regenerator of the Breed", Ofir proved to be just that.
Ofir was the chief stallion at Janow Podlaski until he was captured by the Russians in 1939, and sent to Tersk in Russia. While he was in Poland, Ofir sired only twenty-one foals, plus one exported in utero to the United States. The Ofir sons which were most important in establishing the Ofir Dynasty were all born in 1938. These stallions are known as the 3-W's; Wielki Szlem, *Witez II and Witraz.

Another "W" son was Wyrwidab, also born in 1938, was renamed "Wind" in Germany where he has had great influence upon the German Arabian breeding programs.

In 1939, Ofir was one of the "war booty" group taken from Poland to Russia. In the Russian Stud Book, Ofir is listed as the sire of 64 foals. Ofir's sons did not do well in Russia but his daughters did. Of the 33 Russian bred Ofir daughters, 21 became broodmares. The most important Ofir daughter was Mammona, foaled at Janow Podlaski, in 1939.

As a suckling foal, Mammona walked 1,000 miles from Janow Podlaski to Tersk with her dam. Several months after arriving at Tersk, all the horses had to be moved to the East into Asia to avoid the Nazi Army. Many of the Thoroughbred and half-blood horses evacuated in this 2,000 mile march were not equal to the journey. NONE of the Arabians died. The tiny purebred Arabian filly, Mammona, survived this trip.

Mammona represents the common tail female line in the first group of Russian stallions imported to America; *Muscat, *Nariadni, *Napitok, *Nanam, *Ptersk and Marsianin.

Mammona is not the only Ofir daughter to have importance in American bloodlines. The Ofir daughter *Wierna and two of her daughters, *Werra and *Wierka were among the horses imported as "Spoils of War" by the United States Army in 1945 and all three have established family lines of their own.

The real impact of the bloodline of Ofir, took on a life of it's own with the importation to the United States of his grandson, *Bask (Witraz x Balalajka). When *Bask was bred to domestic mares, many with *Witez II as a sire or grandsire, the results were phenomenal.

With the importation of sons and daughters of Wielki Szlem and Witraz from Poland and the acceptance of the Russian bred Ofir sons, daughters and grandget, the spotlight was again on this amazing "Son of Poland". Ofir has had, and will continue to have, more importance in worldwide Arabian breeding than even Skowronek, the other famous "Polish Son". Poland has indeed proven to be the Fountainhead of the Arabian Horse."

Kuhailan Haifi, Ofir's sire:


Dziwa, Ofir's dam:

Thanks Janek.

hopefully I've done this correct so that the pics will show with the links. - d-n-s



http://www.rtm-anglo-arabs.com/Ofir.html



http://www.freeman-arabians.com/ofir.html

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The Polish breeding program today is, as it always has been, based on its broodmares. There are many dam-lines in use, all dating back 100 to 150 years or more-some from the turn of the nineteenth century. Sire lines have been somewhat more diverse. In the early twentieth century, there were approximately 30 sire lines in use.

Two of the four 1931 imports left particularly significant lines in Poland. Kuhailan Haifi, known for his athletic prowess, sired Ofir, who produced the triumvirate of Witraz, Wielki Szlem and *Witez II. Witraz, who was more beautiful than Wielki Szlem and possessed a fiery temperament, was the sire of *Bask++.

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Witez II was by Ofir out of Federacja. Ofir was by the desert-bred stallion Kuhalian-Haifi, foaled in 1923, who was imported from the Jauf region of the Arabian peninsula by Prince Roman Sanguszko of the Gumniska stud. Seeking an outcross for his mares, Sanguszko sent Bogdan Zientarski, accompanied by Carl Raswan, to buy horses from the desert in 1931.[2] Kuhalian-Haifi died in 1935, having only sired 14 foals, of whom Ofir is the best-known. Federacja was a Polish-bred mare with bloodlines tracing to both Polish breeding and that of the Babolna stud of Hungary.

The 1938 foal crop was Ofir's first, and contained three colts that became sires of significance in the Arabian breed: Witez II; Witraz (Ofir x Makata), who was the sire of Bask; and the noted broodmare sire, Wielki Szlem (Ofir x Elegantka).[2] During World War II, Ofir and Federacja were among the horses of Janow that were taken by the Russians during the Soviet invasion of Poland. Ofir was later used at the Tersk stud in the USSR, where he sired the mare Mammona, a dam of significance in a number of Russian bloodlines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witez_II
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Kuhailan Zaid (a stallion) was purchsed for Babolna, the Hungarian state stud ranch. The other stallions were Kuhailan Haifi and Kuhailan Afas (ancestors of Comet) Among the foals born to Kuhailan Haifi was Ofir, a great Polish sire. Ofir was at Janow Podlaski from 1937 until 1939, when he was taken by the Russians.
http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/Arab.html
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pics and article on OFIR - "REGENERATOR OF THE BREED"
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http://www.freeman-arabians.com/ofir.html

d-n-s

Love him...can you tell by my member name? LOL!

Ofir was the last Polish Asil Arabian (all his ancestors were or.ar, what means they were desert bred horses descendants). Since we've lost Ofir we have no more Asil Arabians in Poland. All of our arabians have some domestic lines (like Milordka, Woloszka, Szweykowska) in their pedigrees.
I really wonder if there are any true Asil Arabians in the world. Would love to see them!