Established 1969. Celebrating over 50 years of
breeding world-class performance Arabians

Anne Brown welcomes you to Gadebrook Arabian Stud. We raise pure-bred (mainly Crabbet) performance Arabian horses for racing and endurance based mainly on pure Crabbet Arabian lines from Australia.

We have been home over the years to top Arabian stallions: Racing superstar Sambist, World Endurance Champion Hachim (left), and Performance Horse Awards overall champion, Binley Prince Salim. We represent the US winner of the first WAHO trophy and multi-talented Remington Steele*++.

Samba B (by AHS Premium stallion Sambist x Jazmyn 2012) had seven successful outings out of seven in 2023, including 80km graded rides at Avon Valley and Hardy's Ride. He is FEI 1 star-qualified for the 2024 season.

Samba B is part of the 2024 Endurance GB development squad and is entered in the 80km CER class at King's Forest in April with plans to compete in the Golden Horseshoe Ride on Exmoor in May

(Right - Susan Hawes wins 40kms class, King's Forest with Samba B)
(Far right - Martin & Samba B, June 2023)

View video of Sambist's 11-year old Advanced endurance son, Samba B ridden without bridle by trainer Martin Leonard for owner Susan Hawes at Nightingale Farm Endurance Horses

13-year old Mandarine by Sambist won the two-day 80k class and the Best Condition award at the 2023 Golden:Horse Shoe, achieving Gold speed - a great result for her rider Kathy Carr. (photo)

To read Anne's articles in the 2023 Arab Horse Society Year Book, follow the links below:

Crabbet Round up
Frozen semen handling
Coping with genetic mutations
AHS Premium Performance Scheme - Article 1
AHS Premium Performance Scheme - Article 2

with lots of Gadebrook successes!

After years of winning the ‘Racing Sire of the Year’ Award, Sambist has added the Endurance Sire to his resumé, placing third in the 2023 Top Ten list.

Gadebrook Blade (Mill Park Blaidd x Palma Benay 2018) from all-Australian pure Crabbet genes, successfully completed all four Endurance outings at Foundation level and starts his Novice Endurance season this year with Susan Hawes of Nightingale Farm Endurance Horses.

Gadebrook Blade

Another pure Crabbet son of Palma, Dandini, bred at Gadebrook in 2014 by Marbon Masadi, sired Seren Auros the leading best 3-year old at the 2023 national Futurity Evaluation and won the 'Leading Endurance Futurity Sire' award as well. Dandini is now at stud in Sweden. He has pure-Crabbet progeny in Britain, Spain and Scandinavia.

A grandson of Palma, Shaarif by Kaalif (Palma's son) out of another of Gadebrook's imported Australian Crabbet mares, Inshallah Signature, has reached FEI* level in Endurance, owned and ridden by Anja Ward who won last year's Golden Horse Shoe 3-day 120kms ride with him.

Shaarif

Crystal Magic (by Silvern Sceptre x Crystal Lazuli 1998), an AHS Premium Merit stallion, bred at Gadebrook and owned by Spirit Arabians, is the sire of the 2023 leading Futurity Endurance mare, Naheema's Spirit SA (2019). In 2017, Crystal Magic's 3-year old filly, SAR Magical Spirit, gained Elite status, the only one awarded in the Endurance section of the Futurity evaluations that year!

DRAMATIC PROVENANCE JUST DISCOVERED!

We now learn that all of Gadebrook's Crabbet Arabian horses descend from Abbas Pasha's most important and influential stallion Ghadir, with a very dramatic provenance.

See end of page for details

The three foals by Hadiya we entered for the 2020 national Futurity Evaluations all did extremely well, all gaining Gold, with Bright Moonlight (pictured) earning the second highest score for Endurance foals, Hazar the third and Kamelliya the fourth – with the highest vet score! Caroline Hawes has kindly produced mini-videos of their performances. Video links below:

Pure Crabbet filly Bright Moonlight (born 2020) is sold to international vet Erik Siccardi for a career in international endurance. She loaded like a dream at Gadebrook, travelled well and has settled in happily with the Siccardi family.

Pure Crabbet Hazar (born 2020), (right) was lightly backed by top trainer Richard Walker in July 2023 for an endurance career. He is now sold to a Performance rider.

Congratulations to the owners of horses from Gadebrook Stud:

Bright Moonlight, 2-year old pure Crabbet filly, has settled in her new home in Italy with Endurance vet Erik Siccardi. She is now backed and even doing walks at the half-pass with her lightweight trainer.   Bright Moonlight       Mandarine   Mandarine (born 2010) by Sambist, successfully finished the 66km Red Dragon ride in tough conditions with British National champion rider Kathy Carr, and gained 2nd place in the Performance Formula, an outstanding achievement. Pure Crabbet gelding Gadebrook Blade (born 2018) from 100% Australian Arabian bloodlines is sold to a top Endurance rider for endurance competition and gained a Gold Premium at the 2021 Youngstock Evaluations.

Gadebrook Blade

Pure Crabbet Arabian gelding Shaarif, (born 2015), here ridden by Debbie from NZ, romped home after his first-ever Ride at Wellow in Nottinghamshire and is aimed at high level endurance with owner Anja Ward, who successfully competed him at the tough Red Dragon Ride in the Welsh mountains.

He starts at International level endurance in 2024.

Congratulations were due to Kaalif, winner of Dinsdale Memorial Trophy for Champion Pure Arab in the prestigious AHS Performance Horse Awards for 2019, owned and ridden by Anja Ward, and also to her 13-yr old daughter Victoria (right) on winning the Arab Horse Society’s Farenza Cup on Kaalif for leading Junior Rider.

Kaalif won the pure Crabbet Endurance Championship at the Crabbet Organisation Performance Awards 2019 and also the FEI Endurance section.

However, tragedy struck in autumn 2020 when Kaalif broke his leg in his field and had to be put down – such a loss of an exceptional horse.

Kaalif was pure Crabbet by endurance sire Silver Zaanif out of my imported Australian mare Palma Benay. Kaalif was the sire of Shaarif (2015) from my imported Australian mare Inshallah Signature. He is also owned by Anja Ward and starts his Endurance career in earnest this year.

Anne is proud to have won the Arab Horse Society 'Breeder of the Year' award for 2018, and also the Crabbet Endurance “Breeder of the Year” award.

The results were based on the achievements of horses bred at Gadebrook including Kaalif, Remynise, Azarina, Kalish, Samba B, Mandarine and Kalista.

Photo right: Anne was at the WAHO conference in
Australia when the awards ceremony took place so
only received the rosettes and garlands on her return

Gadebrook is delighted to have acquired the talented and beautiful pure Egyptian AHS Premium Performance mare Kamillah from her breeder Judy Phillips.

Kamillah is the World Arab Horse trophy winner for 2013, the first ever NaStA Performance-tested mare, a winning eventer and endurance horse. She is dam of the Royal Cornish Show Champion 2019, also two fillies, Gadebrook's Kamelliya, and jointly-bred Gadebrook Lily

Kamillah produced a refined and beautiful filly, Kamelliya, to Hadiya in June 2020

Kamillah with new-born filly Kamelliya by Hadiya, 14 June 2020 at Gadebrook

Kamillah

Gadebrook's racing supremo Sambist (deceased 2014) won the AHS 'Arabian Racing Sire of the Year' award in 2018 for an unprecedented 13th time in 15 years.
Sambist appears on the cover of the AHS Centenary Premium Performance Scheme commemorative book of stallions, and his genome sequence features in the Centenary exhibition and on the back cover of the Centenary book. He was the first Arabian in the world to have his genes identified. A limited amount of frozen semen is available to approved mares.

Sambist

Advanced endurance mare Azarina (2007) produced a delightful bay/grey pure Crabbet colt Hazar by Hadiya in May 2020.

This is a very special foal as he represents the 4th generation of Gadebrook breeding, Anne having bred Azarina (by Shaded Silver) and her dam Zaharina (by Ludomino) and owned her dam Zarah (by Orion).

Photo right: Anne with her beloved riding
mare Azarina, at Gadebrook May 2019

A limited amount of Remington Steele's frozen semen is available to approved mares, stored at West Kington Stud.

As Vice-Chairman of the Arab Horse Society Council, Anne chaired the AHS Centenary 2018 committee. She was heavily involved in raising funds and organising the 2018 events, including the Performance Horse Parade at the National Heritage Centre in Newmarket, the special exhibition "From the Desert to the World" from March to July, also at the National Heritage Centre in Newmarket, and the successful Centenary Marathon in Newmarket in October 2018. Photo right: The chairman, Joanne Lowe (on right), thanked Anne with a pot of flowers.

Anne compiled the fully illustrated AHS "Centenary" book and attended a book-signing in Oundle in May 2018. It sells for £40 (£35 to AHS members), available from the AHS website.

Anne presents the Gadebrook Trophy to the Reserve Performance Horse Awards Champion at the National Championship Show each July, and also the Gadebrook Shield to the overall Crabbet Champion (Gayzella in 2018, photo right with owner/breeder Fiona Leng).

Anne chairs the Premium Performance Scheme (PPS) committee of the Arab Horse Society and supports breeding using AHS Premium stallions - like Sambist!
PPS webpage