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We sadly lost Pevensey Zariffia in April 2016 with a prolapsed
colon, giving birth to a long-legged colt Hadiya.
RIP Zariffia – irreplaceable. Read more about the birth
drama click HERE
The uniquely bred bay Crabbet mare Pevensey Zariffia arrived
at Gadebrook after a long flight from Australia, thanks
to the generosity of her breeder, Leon Bennett, who wrote
a feature on Zariffia for the Victoria Crabbet Arabian Group
newsletter, November 2012. Click HERE
for the VCAHG article
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Zariffia enjoys the autumn sunshine the
day after her arrival at Gadebrook in October 2012 |
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Anne first saw Zariffia's dam, the impressive Veridan Za'aria,
at
Pevensey Stud in 2005, with her first Ghazari filly, Ghia,
in the same paddock as Petra Benay and her filly Palma
Benay who came to Gadebrook as a two-year old in 2007.
Zariffia was born in 2006 and was retained
by Pevensey for breeding.
Zariffia leaves two progeny in Australia, the 2010 bay filly
Zaraya (by Magic Prophecy) and a 2009 bay colt Zayeed, (by
Pevensey Safari), already a show champion, now owned by Keldon
Park Stud.
Zariffia travelled over with Inshallah
Signature, another big moving bay pure Crabbet mare.
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Pevensey Zariffia has left sub-tropical
Australia for autumn at Gadebrook Stud in England, October
2012 |
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Pevensey Zariffia
was part of the Boomerang Plan
- Anne's effort to increase the pure Crabbet gene pool in England
by bringing back long lost lines from Australia. Zariffia will be
covered in 2013 by a pure
Crabbet stallion, and will appear at the World Crabbet Convention
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Ghazari, Zariffia's sire. bred at Fenwick
Stud, Australia. Photo: Nicole Emmanuel |
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Veridan Za'aria, Zariffia's dam at Pevensey
Stud, Australia. Photo: Nicole Emmanuel |
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Zariffia is inspected by the vet on arrival
at Heathrow airport after a 24-hour flight with Inshallah
Signature, also destined for Gadebrook |
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Zariffia's importation has been long in
the planning. I fell in love with her dam, Veridan Za'aria
when I saw her with her filly Ghia in Australia in 2005
- and then saw photos of the full sister Zariffia in
2006. But breeder Leon Bennett wasn't selling. Now on the
closure of Pevensey Stud, Leon has allowed this beautiful
mare to come to Gadebrook.
IRT arranged the transportation and the
mares arrived safely, if somewhat jet-lagged, on October
25 2012, to be met by an Arctic blizzard the following day!
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