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This is truly a breed without frontiers! Please open the articles to see the fabulous scenery of the ride! 240 km in 7 days from Germany to Italy! Is this a ride you would like to be on?
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Marcelo and Sophia Baptista are the owners and breeders of Agro Maripa. They are great riders, adventurers and more like scientists in their research to produce a great Marchador sport horse. They have been breeding Marchadors for over 30 years in Brasil. These two stallions, Patek and Urano are both sons of Oma de Maripa, whose frozen semen we have here in the U.S.
From the article:
“One more time we set ourselves in another adventure with our horses Patek and Urano de Maripa. This time we crossed the Alps with our friends Astrid oberniedermayr and Dieter Mader, both riding Ourofino El Far, another Marchador stallion. Since the horses are based in Morlenbach, Germany, taking part in the ABCCMM’s Vitrine of the Mangalarga Marchador Project, and due to the exceptional performance of Patek’s and Urano’s on the Santiago Way ride in Spain (May 2011), we have decided to test them again.
We left Lechbruck, Bavaria, South of Germany, on a rainy and cold, (9 C) morning, May 13th, 2012. Seven days and 240km later we arrived in Castel Iuval, Northern Italy, where we ended our trip. We rode through Oberammergau, Lermoos, Imst, Lafairs, Reschen, Laas.
Once more our horses bet themselves proving ail their resilience, courage, docility, providing us with great pleasure during the whole trip. They have not only improved our repertoire but also enriched our genetics knowledge.” – Sophia Baptista, Agro Maripa
2012 — Three stallions! Three great choices!
We’ve met our goal! We wanted to create a frozen semen bank of superior Mangalarga Marchador stallions from Brasil. We felt that this would be good for the genetic diversity of the Marchador breed here in North America and also could help us to keep or improve our breed quality. Many of these superior stallions would never have been sold, but we can get access to their semen through modern reproductive technology!
If you have never used frozen semen, please contact us to learn more. We’d be happy to help you find a breeding vet in your area and see if your mare is a good candidate for using frozen semen. Success rates are often just as high as any AI using cooled semen.
Here is our offering! Frozen semen only.
SW Future Foal offers a 10% discount to all SW Future Foal customers and also to any MM breeder.
SW Future Foal will continue to add stallions to the semen bank whenever possible. Please check back to see if more stallions are available.
Amadeus do Summerwind and Kristy Everson are learning mounted shooting together. Kristy loves it and they look great together. Watch for them to show up in competitions soon! Their first is March 30.
Tigre do Summerwind and Elba Cruzalta (Bella) sell to Jeff and Michelle Bosley, NC!
Chama Lustre do Lucero is moving to Maine from AZ! Chama will be the first Marchador in Maine and in all of New England. A giant step forward for the MM breed. Howard Bonis is busily completing his barn and plans to ride Chama in the 4th of July parade. Howard released his reservation on a SW Future Foal to take advantage of an opportunity for an adult, marcha picada horse. Smooth sailing, Howard!
Diego do Summerwind is offered for sale by Pat Rollingson, Alberta, Canada. Pat has sold her ranch and is moving into a city in 3 weeks. Diego has been with Pat since birth. He is the first Marchador born in Canada, the son of La Paz Jivago and Vedete de Itajoana, both imported by Summerwind. For anyone in the U.S., importation paperwork is easy enough. Offers welcome! Contact her at marchadors@gmail.com.
Flying Oaks Ranch, Oklahoma has added Marchadors and a fulltime trainer to their operation in February. For selection, selection and selection, they have the most Marchadors in the country. Added Paxaio do Vale Vermelho, imported MM grey mare and her daughter, Marchwind Aitana. Aitana will be offered for sale. Flying Oaks Windsmoke and Flying Oaks Stardust who had been staying in AZ, returned home. In addition, they added their first 2012 MM foal, Flying Oaks Thor in February!
Rox Rogers places 2nd and 3rd in her first Cowboy Dressage event in MT on Mangalarga Marchadors! Have you ever heard of Cowboy Dressage? It’s really growing in popularity here in the West! Great training for you and your horse!
Have you seen the photos of Connie Claire starting her young horse Leo? (DaVinci do Summerwind) Way to go Connie! She has been following the step-by-step program of Clinton Anderson and achieving great results! They look like they are both enjoying learning! Great job, Connie!
The Brasil in Focus photography competition is coming to Minas Gerais. Their wonderful works offer you a sneak peak into Brasil! Beauty, art, perspective all wrapped up in one day of shooting! The photographers are from around the world, and they are in Brasil scouting out where and what they will shoot. Minas Gerais state is the birthplace of the Mangalarga Marchador, so there will be horses, for sure.
This video is Agro Maripa, where one of our mares is from and also the imported frozen stallion semen from Oma, Tiziu and Ximoio. We were there in July 2011! Would you like to go back with us?
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.
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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.
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.
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 for eternity.
