by Linda Holst, Rancho Linda Marchadores, Bonsall, CA.
Batuque de Miami, US born Mangalarga Marchador stallion made the June cover of the Horseman’s News!
This perfect cover photo with the Brazilian flag and American flag, immediately conveys that Marchadors are a Brazilian breed here! The pdf file of the article is attached below. The article was written to go with the photo and explains the registration relationship with ABCCMM and why these Brazilian inspections are important and undertaken by many North American breeders.
Daniel Pulliam, riding Batuque de Miami at the SCHC Labor Day Show, is a new USMMA member and breeder with Rancho Linda Marchadores. He orchestrated an even bigger Marchador showing with many other MM owners and breeders in December’s Jingle Bell Show. Their next event will be in July. All are welcome to show, help or just enjoy watching.
July 6-9 SCHC Santa Barbara National Show. Santa Barbara, CA All breed horse show. Earl Warren Showgrounds. For more SCHC information, visit www.jinglebellhorseshow.com. Contact Daniel Pulliam 575-613-5148
Attached is a pdf file of the article as it appeared in Horseman’s News. We apologize, but the quality of the pdf is reduced to load it to our website. For the enhanced version of the file, please contact usmmarchador@gmail.com for the original and bigger file.
All of the North American Mangalarga Marchadors AND their ancestors have been added to our new pedigree system. It was a big effort to transfer our data manually.
938 Mangalarga Marchador horses are in our database. (206 are registered with the USMMA, but that number includes some horses that are now deceased). All of the North American horses have photos and overall, 37% have photos. Like Ancestry.com, you can go explore your horse’s lineage. You can find them in the Registry section of this website on the page labeled View Pedigree.
Information about the horses was added if it was available, like date of birth, color, registration number etc. However, if you look at the record, there is lots more room to add information about your horse – shows, awards, disciplines, height, weight, any kind of write-up. If you find errors, want to change the photo or want to add more information or video to your horse’s record, please send that request to the USMMA registrar.
You are able to download and print your horse’s pedigree whenever you want. On the pedigree form, you will notice a scannable code (using any smart phone) that will take you directly to the website and that pedigree on the website.
The USMMA registrar, now Megan McClarney Fallwell, will continue to issue the official registration document and the foal registration procedures remain the same.
Future Plans:
Classified ads will facilitate MM sales or stallion stud services. Photo shows Flying Oaks 2 year old colts.
Around April 2012, I will be adding and testing the WikiHorseWorld Classified Ads system if they have it completed on time.
WikiHorseWorld currently offers four ad “categories” for Horses, Products, Services, and Events. They will be developing four additional ad categories for Equine Real Estate, Trailers, Saddles, and Horse Hay (a total of 8 Classified Ad categories).
There will be options for simple ads and premium ads. Premium ads would include photos and videos.
During this timeframe is when WikiHorseWorld anticipates that members will be able to add photos, videos from your computer, and videos from YouTube to your Marchador’s pedigree. The classified ads and the horse’s pedigree, pictures and videos will be displayed on the USMMA website and also WikiHorseWorld’s website.
Gaia made history at 11:00 p.m.October 27, 2012, becoming the first MM foal born in the US using imported frozen semen from Brasil. A labor of love, our dream was realized when Agro Maripá collected and exported the first frozen MM semen from 3 of his stallions in Brasil. Our continued thanks to Agro Maripa!
Gaia is the product of Oma de Maripa and Brasilia do Summerwind. She was reserved by Dr. Adrienne C. Scheck of Scottsdale AZ and with SW Future Foal retaining breeding rights to her to ensure her genetics are carried forward in the U.S.
All of us are thrilled with her!!!!!
Her name Gaia was selected by Adrienne for a number of reasons. Gaia (“guy-a”) is the goddess or personification of Earth or Mother Earth (the Greek common noun for “land” is ge or ga) in pre-Olympian Greek mythology. The Gaia hypothesis proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a self-regulating, complex system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet.
All of the North American Mangalarga Marchadors AND their ancestors have been added to our new pedigree system. It was a big effort to transfer our data manually.
938 Mangalarga Marchador horses are in our database. (206 are registered with the USMMA, but that number includes some horses that are now deceased). All of the North American horses have photos and overall, 37% have photos. Like Ancestry.com, you can go explore your horse’s lineage. You can find them in the Registry section of this website on the page labeled View Pedigree.
Information about the horses was added if it was available, like date of birth, color, registration number etc. However, if you look at the record, there is lots more room to add information about your horse – shows, awards, disciplines, height, weight, any kind of write-up. If you find errors, want to change the photo or want to add more information or video to your horse’s record, please send that request to the USMMA registrar.
You are able to download and print your horse’s pedigree whenever you want. On the pedigree form, you will notice a scannable code (using any smart phone) that will take you directly to the website and that pedigree on the website.
The USMMA registrar, now Megan McClarney Fallwell, will continue to issue the official registration document and the foal registration procedures remain the same.
Future Plans:
Classified ads will facilitate MM sales or stallion stud services. Photo shows Flying Oaks 2 year old colts.
Around April 2012, I will be adding and testing the WikiHorseWorld Classified Ads system if they have it completed on time.
WikiHorseWorld currently offers four ad “categories” for Horses, Products, Services, and Events. They will be developing four additional ad categories for Equine Real Estate, Trailers, Saddles, and Horse Hay (a total of 8 Classified Ad categories).
There will be options for simple ads and premium ads. Premium ads would include photos and videos.
During this timeframe is when WikiHorseWorld anticipates that members will be able to add photos, videos from your computer, and videos from YouTube to your Marchador’s pedigree. The classified ads and the horse’s pedigree, pictures and videos will be displayed on the USMMA website and also WikiHorseWorld’s website.
We met the precious cargo at Scottsdale Equine Reproductive Center!
In 2011, we were unbelievably excited to receive the first shipment of frozen semen exported from Brasil. Ho-hum, you say. It happens all the time. NOT! We had worked for over four years to see this happen. There were two main issues.
In Brasil, each breed is regulated by the Ministry of Agriculture. For this to work, the ABCCMM had to modify its registration regulations, which had previously not allowed the use of frozen semen. Then the Ministry of Agriculture had to create the rules for exportation for the MM and approve veterinarian clinics for collection and exportation. To our knowledge, there are only 2 clinics in Brasil that have been approved so far.
Ximoio de Maripa semen arrived in 2011 from Agro Maripa! He is pure blood Abaiba of very old genetics.
The second is that there is not much demand for frozen semen in Brasil. With so many horses and land, often the preferred method of breeding is still live cover. For us to get Brasilian Marchador semen, the breeder needed to want to do this for us – for the good of the Marchador breed around the world.
Enter Mr. Marcelo Baptista, owner of Agro Maripa who fulfilled our dream. Agro Maripa collected and shipped 3 Maripa stallions of excellent quality and impeccable lineage to us in March 2011.
Talisma Kafe, from Haras Elfar, is a stallion whose semen has been collected and we are working through the importation process for 2012
Frozen semen (and later frozen embryos) is very important for the future of the Marchador breed here in the U.S. Imported frozen semen adds many things:
Diversity – new bloodlines, new individuals to the North American gene pool.
Quality – these stallions are first-rate individuals, champions in their own right and proven producers. Often not for sale, frozen semen offers a way to bring their blood here.
Excitement – it is exciting to be able to have a larger catalogue of beautiful Marchador stallions to choose from.
Today, there are 13 USMMA registered breeding stallions in North America. We froze La Paz Jivago (100 breeding doses) before gelding him for owner Rox Rogers.
For us the diversity and quality were the key items. The excitement is just an added bonus! We could have an immediate boost in quality in one generation. For diversity, one could argue that we are okay there for now. Because we are fortunate to have many breeding stallions here in the U.S., enough to breed the mares and cross-breed the resulting next generation. But what about the third, fourth and fifth generation?
We may not be alive to see those MM foals born, but we are doing this for them. Continued importation is the key for maintaining and improving the quality of the Mangalarga Marchador breed here. We plan to import more semen, from different bloodlines and make it available – a semen bank – either through the SW Future Foal franchise or the M Foundation.
Connie Claire with La Paz Jivago foal DaVinci do Summerwind. DaVinci was the first MM foal born using frozen semen in the U.S. We are expecting a 2012 foal from Oma de Maripa using his frozen semen!
We would encourage MM breeders to freeze their stallion’s’ semen here if it’s viable (before they are gelded or get too old). Perhaps your great grandchildren would like to have a foal from him someday!
Frozen semen lasts forever. It is a great investment in the future of the Mangalarga Marchador breed!
Epopeia do Vale da Prata and her grandson Oxum, imported by Regal Legacy. Shown here at age 22.
The IMPORTERS is a series of articles about the history of the Marchador breed coming to the U.S. and the breeders who brought them in. This is the fifth installment of the series — Regal Legacy and Premier International LLC. The bloodlines highlighted in this article are many.
If you click on this link below (it will take 2 screens), the full article is available for viewing. Enjoy!
The IMPORTERS is a series of articles about the history of the Marchador breed coming to the U.S. and the breeders who brought them in. This is the fourth installment of the series – Cascade Marchadors and Flying Oaks Ranch. The bloodlines highlighted in this article are Abaiba and Herdade.
If you click on this link below (it will take 2 screens), the full article is available for viewing. Enjoy!
The USMMA lost 2 great mares this year: Summerwind’s Chanel de Miami 1996-2011 and 4 Seasons’ Tapixaba do Vale Vermelho 1998-2011.. They left us before their time and the only saving consolation is the foals they left behind them.
Chanel de Miami, USMMA 0000001
Chanel had 5 foals: Artemis and Enya will stay with Summerwind. The others are Destiny do Summerwind in TX and Caesar do Summerwind in CA. Her first foal Coco de Miami is deceased, born in FL.
The kind soft eye of the Marchador
Tapixaba had 4 foals, all pintos! 2 foals Tapi’s-Pinga and Ze Travao are with 4 Seasons. The others are Casablanca do Premier in OR and 4 Seasons Edipo is deceased.
The IMPORTERS is a series of articles about the history of the Marchador breed coming to the U.S. and the breeders who brought them in. This is the third installment of the series – Summerwind Marchadors. The bloodlines highlighted in this article are Favacho and J.B.
If you click on this link below (it will take 2 screens), the full article is available for viewing. Enjoy!
The IMPORTERS – a series of articles describing the history and stories of the horses and farms that started the breed in North America. #2 in the series covers the Lazy T Ranch and Montana Mangalarga Marchador, Dr. Tresa Vivian Smith and the Tabatinga line.
