Long considered one of the most important Arabian auctions in the world, the Pride of Poland Sale serves as an important barometer to Arabian pricing worldwide.  Some of the finest Arabians ever sold at public auction have passed through this all-important sales ring and silent sale, horses like BANDOS, BANAT, BATYSKAF, DRUID, PAMIR, ELANDRA, and SAVVANNAH. Therefore it has become a mandatory destination for the elite Arabian trainers and breeders in the world for the simple reason that the Pride of Poland Sale serves as the most significant access for international breeders to the Polish breeding programs.

While the main auction receives a majority of the attention, the silent sale has also provided a wealth of opportunity.  WIKING, EL GHAZI, KORDELAS, and DĘBOWIEC are proof of the extraordinary value for modest pricing in the silent sale as well. Consequently each Spring, the list of horses consigned to both the main auction and silent sale is eagerly anticipated, often proving to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for serious modern breeders and show/ race enthusiasts to make a key purchase. 

We have daughters of Polish breeding „milestones”: ALTONA (by Eukaliptus), ERRARA (by Monogramm), PIETA (by Gazal Al Shaqab), PRALINA and POLENTA (by Ecaho); proven broodmatrons, which have fulfilled their roles in the Polish breeding program, with successful progeny at home, thus at the prime of their productive years they can leave the Polish Studs to establish new dynasties abroad: WIAŹMA, BELLADONA, WANILIA, ALTONA; as well as promising young showstars, who are more than capable of reaching for the highest achievements at international arenas: SIKLAWA, PRUDENCJA, CELTA, EKONOMIKA, EUSALA, PIETA, ZŁOTA WIEŻA, EUKARIONT and EPICENTRUM. Aficionados of the performance Arabian should turn their attention to horses boasting successes from the Polish racing program: MAJOR, FIROSETTA, BELLADONA, DIAMENT, ZŁOTA WIEŻA. An extraordinary opportunity will be the presentation of NINIWA - a mare of petite height but huge athletic talent - European Arabian Horse Show Jumping Champion of 2006.

First up - ALTONA, one of the most sensational young daughters of Arabian breed legend EUKALIPTUS tracing to ALGERIA - the “Queen of Janów” – ALTONA represents the elite of the Janów Podlaski breeding program. Classically feminine with a noble elegance and superior breed type, ALTONA is blessed with the beautiful head, tremendous length and shape of neck as well as overall smoothness and harmony of design of her sire, the superb balance, strength of coupling and exceptional conformation of her dam along with the large, liquid eyes, aristocratic quality and ethereal presence of her maternal granddam. Like her full sisters AMRA, Polish National Champion/Best in Show winner, and AMBA, former Pride of Poland superstar and a young broodmare of great value for Hennessey Arabians, USA, ALTONA is a premier daughter of illustrious broodmatron ALBIGOWA, a mare of superlative quality and class and the most gorgeous eyes in Poland –cherished as the most valuable daughter of her immortal dam ALGERIA. In the grand tradition of her superlative dam, ALTONA has already produced two exceptional fillies for Janów Podlaski: the sensational show winner ALTAMIRA and the very promising ALABAMA. Without compromise, ALTONA represents the very best of the Polish breeding program - as one of the last daughters of EUKALIPTUS, expect her contribution to the next generation of the Arabian horse to be significant and lasting.

Janów’s hallmark „P” family is represented by POLENTA and PIETA. A full sister to the extraordinary PALMETA – European Senior Champion, Polish National Junior Champion/Best in Show, Polish Spring Show Junior Champion, Warsaw Summer Show Senior Champion & World Top Ten Junior Champion Mare, POLENTA represents the rare opportunity to buy into one of the most renowned and accomplished dam lines is the Arabian breed. Her dam PILICA is considered the best producing daughter of PIPI – Polish National & Masters Open Champion Mare – a Janów Podlaski legend as the dam of nine extraordinary champions producer, a crowning achievement unrivalled in the history of Polish Arabian breeding. Through PILICA, POLENTA inherits the extraordinary phenotypic gifts of PIPI and PILARKA - World Champion, twice European Champion, World Cup Champion as well as British National Champion Mare & Supreme Show Champion - a stunning beauty of perfect Arabian type, charming femininity, show-stopping charisma with an unforgettable trademark trot characterized by incredible loftiness and powerful elegance. This incomparable heritage is further magnified with the contribution of her sire - Polish National Champion & US National Top Ten ECAHO – arguably one of the most influential and prototypical Arabian stallions in the world today. ECAHO further blesses POLENTA with the ethereal elegance and incomparable aristocracy of the legendary World Champion ETRURIA and the “Queen of Poland” BANDOLA. POLENTA sells in foal to US National Champion ENZO for 2008 for what is sure to be the next generation of excellence for the Arabian breed.

One of the most promising young daughters of international Sire of Significance GAZAL AL SHAQAB, PIETA perfectly represents the Pride of Poland as the masterful combination of the breed’s most elite and accomplished individuals. Her sire, World Champion GAZAL AL SHAQAB, is the ideal combination of his exemplary Egyptian and Polish heritage through National Champions KAJORA & RUMINAJA ALI, World Champion KABORR, and Supreme Champion ANAZA EL FARID. As the proud progenitor of this incomparable heritage, GAZAL has established himself as a sire of legendary proportion, with World Champion MARWAN AL SHAQAB, EMANDORIA & PIANISSIMA as the best examples of his lasting contribution. Maternally, PIETA is a member of Janów Podlaski’s indomitable “P” family of champions through that family’s most exotically beautiful and irrefutably legendary member – World Champion PILARKA. PILARKA has blessed generations of progeny with her aristocratic elegance and one-of-a-kind enchanting beauty, including PIETA’s grandam, National Champion & all time leading aristocrat dam PIPI, as well as her dam, National Champion PILAR, dam also to Polish National Champion & Best in Show winner PINGA, full sister to PIETA. Destiny awaits this distinguished young beauty – her astonishing good looks, impeccable pedigree, and expectant 2008 foal by International Champion GANGES make her a sure bet for success.

And last but not least - a member of the famous athletic family of the mare Sabellina, in which a dosage of Egyptian blood revealed show talent. As one of the most beautiful and accomplished daughters of LAHEEB, SIKLAWA perfectly embodies the elegance and exoticism of her Egyptian heritage with the strength and power of her Polish dam line. Snow white, with a full and flowing mane, forelock and tail, SIKLAWA serves as the prototype for the modern Saklawi Arabian. Her superb type, refined head, lean and elegantly shaped neck, harmonious build, desert dryness and distinct aristocratic bearing are the trademark gifts of her sire LAHEEB, a multi-international champion in the show ring, who has proven himself one of the most influential Straight Egyptian sires in the world. Maternally, SIKLAWA inherits the outstanding balance and solid conformation of her dam family, along with abundant maternal capacity, strength and substance, as well as proven athletic performance. Her distaff family is that of the indomitable SABDA, foundress of the famous “S” family of champion athletes, renowned for having produced seven continuous generations of female race champions in both the Oaks & the Derby. SIKLAWA sells in foal for 2008 to Brazilian National Champion EL NABILA B, the international standard of the Egyptian-Russian cross, a breeding combination which makes her a sure bet for success.   

In its diverse offer, Michałów put forth the “big ones”. Unfailingly among these ERRARA will have many supporters. As one of the most superlatively designed, exotically beautiful and extravagant moving daughters of MONOGRAMM, ERRARA exemplifies the world-class caliber of the Arabian mares of Michałów. ERRARA excels as an Arabian mare of superior type, noble elegance, endearing femininity, perfectly balanced three-dimensional proportion, stellar structure, broody capacity, and resilient substance, with an exotically refined head, a long lean wonderfully shaped neck, ideal length, strength and slope through the shoulder and hindquarter, impressive depth of girth, and brilliantly animated, powerfully impulsive movement with considerable length, lightness of loftiness of stride. ERRARA is widely recognized as one of the best get of her significant sire MONOGRAMM, whose contribution to Polish breeding and the international success of Michałów is nothing short of extraordinary, especially through his daughters, who alone have secured his lasting legacy to the breed. As a direct tail-female descendant of Oaks and Criterium winner ESTOKADA, ERRARA belongs to Michałów’s world-renowned “E” family of champions, through her athletically gifted COMET daughter ESTONIA. Her daughters ESTRADA & ESTRELA established strong families of capable performers, with numerous winners in the most important shows all across Europe as well is in Poland’s most prestigious races. ERRARA’s dam ESTELA, a Bask and Embargo Stakes winner who also finished second in the Sambor, Kohelian I, Comet and Orgia Stakes, was one of PROBAT’s most beautifully regal and well constructed daughters, and an accomplished producer of exotically typical, superbly conformed, tenacious athletes. The splendid combination of MONOGRAMM brilliance and the supreme athletic heritage from Michałów’s most celebrated dam family makes ERRARA an obvious choice for the international breeder committed to excellence on all levels.

PRUDENCJA, as an accomplished broodmare and experienced show horse, has what it takes to become the cream of the crop. A beautiful champion daughter of esteemed Polish sire EMIGRANT, PRUDENCJA typifies the excellence of both her sire and her dam line. As both a show horse and a sire, EMIGRANT has served as the standard for superlative Arabian type, with his perfectly designed, exotic head, large luminous eyes, small well shaped ears, refined muzzle, upright neck, superb balance, strong, level topline, excellent tail carriage and powerful animated movement. Maternally, PRUDENCJA belongs to the esteemed Michałów branch of the Gazella dam line through the distinguished TARASZCZA, a Polish confiscate who founded an invaluable dynasty of descendants at Tersk, including All Union Exhibition Champions TEPLITSA, NASLEDNIK & TALANTLIVAIA, Russian dam of Distinction NITOCHKA, and most importantly, legendary international sire & All Union Exhibition Champion NEGATIW. The Polish “P” branch of this family originated with Polish Oaks winner PORFIRA, dam of the similarly accomplished PARDWA. The PARDWA family includes Canadian Top Ten English Pleasure winner PERKOZ and the priceless Polish broodmatron PLISZKA, primarily through whom this branch has gained its greatest acclaim internationally. The dam of a remarkable 18 foals, the descendants of PLISZKA include dozens of accomplished performers with significant achievements in the most elite international competition. This combination of EMIGRANT and PLISZKA is a sure bet for imminent success in the show ring, the performance arena and the breeding barn.

The Polish breeding program is visible in the “bold and beautiful” ZŁOTA WIEŻA. Large framed, superbly constructed, elegantly refined in an enchanting shade of rich dark bay, Polish Stakes Champion & Polish National winner ZŁOTA WIEŻA embodies both the phenotypic strength and genetic predictability of her exceptional and highly esteemed heritage. Her sire is the international phenomenon GANGES – a many times champion in the show ring and on the track – whose best get inherit his large, elegant, well balanced, harmonious frame, considerable strength and substance, excellent conformation, length, shape and set of neck, a distinct aristocratic bearing as well as his undeniably accomplished athleticism. The distaff side of ZŁOTA WIEŻA’s pedigree is also regally distinct, as she is a member of Poland’s sensational “Z” family of international beauties and consummate athletes. ZŁOTA WIEŻA descends directly through ZULA and ZAZULA, mares from whom she inherits exceptional feminine charm, large lustrous eyes, an elegant upright forehand and a smooth harmonious outline. Both ZULA & ZAZULA are remembered as two of Michałów’s all time legendary beauties, who have furthermore proven their worth as broodmatrons of merit as the combined source of several prestigious international winners. As one of the most appealing and accomplished young Kuhailan mares of her generation, expect ZŁOTA WIEŻA to leave a long and lasting impact on the next generation of international Arabian breeding.

WIAŹMA’S fan club will definitely show up for the last performance of this meritorious mare under the banner  of Michałów. Broodmatron supreme at Michałów, WIAŹMA is indisputably the best daughter of the legendary US National Champion Mare WIZJA. Very much her mother’s daughter, WIAŹMA is an absolute stunner whenever given the opportunity to strut her stuff. Her stellar attributes include a completely enrapturing presence, undeniable timeless aristocratic quality, outstanding shape and length of neck, length and elasticity of throatlatch, broody maternal substance, and exuberant “snort & blow”. These qualities are further enhanced by her hallmark characteristics: the largest, most luminous liquid black eyes and an incomparable show-stopping trot of sensational power, impulsion and animation. These virtues have earned WIAŹMA first place honours at the Polish National Show, but her greatest triumph came as the very first Polish Spring Show Junior Champion Filly. Amazingly, she has produced two daughters who have earned the same titles - WIEŻA BABEL & WIEŻA WIATRóW – back-to-back winners as Junior Champion Fillies & Best in Show. Their sister, WIEŻA MARZEŃ is another Polish National Show class winner. Those breeders who demand nothing but the very best will find the ultimate combination of genetic supremacy and phenotypic excellence in WIAŹMA – the legacy of unforgettable WIZJA lives on.

Białka’s offer is best characterized by youth, designating the daughters of Pesal. The most attractive among these promises to be EKONOMIKA. An elegant, harmoniously designed young mare with a noble Saklawi pedigree, EKONOMIKA typifies the aspiring potential of the young mares in the 2007 Pride of Poland. EKONOMIKA is sired by PESAL, an immensely successful show horse over the last decade in the toughest international competition. PESAL has further proven his worth successful as a sire of several impressive show champions, each of whom has inherited his superlative type and quality, elegant upright carriage, harmonious design, well-conformed structure and powerful movement. Tail female, EKONOMIKA belongs to the dam family of the illustrious ELLORA, one of the most celebrated daughters of WITRAŻ, and the dam of: US National Champion EL PASO; Polish National Champion ELEWACJA; Polish Derby winner ELFUR; and the beautiful broodmatron ELEKTRA – dam of US Reserve National Champion English Pleasure, Polish Stakes winner & international sire of significance EL GHAZI. The legacy of ELLORA also includes: US National Champion KAJORA; US National Champion English Pleasure Futurity BSF ELECTRA; Polish chief sires ELLORUS & EL AZRAK; and World Champion GAZAL AL SHAQAB.