The adventure with the Arabian horses started with the horseback rides organized by Francis a bit all over the world. We met on horsebacks in 1969. The magazines wrote about our travels and breeders confided their stallions for promotion. In 1976, a great endurance race took place: The Great American Horse Race, 5000 km, 100 days, from New York to Sacramento. Francis took the race with a thoroughbred Arabian mare called Wassana from the Mac Abercrombie Stud in Atlanta, Georgia. He finished second in the category of equestrians who took the race with one horse only and 23rd in the overall ranking. This experience bound us to the thoroughbred Arabian horse.
Since this moment, we knew what we would expect from an Arabian horse. We finished our travels, founded two companies and worked for eight years without approaching to any horses, neither from a distant point of view nor in proximity to a horse, only with the big aim to be able to found our own stud in the most objective way possible. In 1987, the time had come. Our first foal, Azziz de Gargassan was born 1988. When he was sold to the French National Stud, his selling price broke records. Later, he was awarded to be one of the seven french elite stallions in endurance.
A year after the birth of our first colt Azziz, we purchased our own first stallion NA Colt (Warandes Plakat x Hamira von Euben). His pedigree resembled the one of Azziz. At the age of two, he became vice world champion in show. The line of Gargassan had started to become known. Our ambition? Charismatic, friendly horses with beautiful, efficient movements. To be short: Giving birth to the horses of our dreams…
…About 80 champion and vice champion awards later, amongst others two vice world championships (NA Colt and Papouchka) und a silver medal of the world equestrian games in Sartilly thanks to Nicolas Ballarin and Lemir de Gargassan, our horses and their owners are still our best ambassaders.