Akhal-Teke EST was founded in
January 2002 when the first two purebred Akhal-Teke horses were purchased - stallion
Kuvvatli (line Posman) and mare
Akkol (line Arab). Kuvvatli was already in Estonia, imported in
1994 from Turkmenistan. Akkol arrived to our farm from Moscow. In summer 2003 the second purebred AT mare Bahar (line Arab) was
imported pregnant from St.Peterburg. In autumn 2003 we had not-planned addition to our herd by an AT gelding
Djemgiet (line Gelishikli). Djemgiet had been imported from Turkmenistan to Estonia
with 5 other purebred AT stallions in 1994 - by the way, Kuvvatli was also one of those stallions.
Meanwhile Djemgiet had been gelded and used as a hobby-horse.
In summer 2004 we had a 5000 km car trip in Russia where we visited many Akhal-Teke farms. We saw hundreds of purebred
Akhal-Teke horses and collected the whole possible data including photos and video of about 200 sale horses.
We got great connections with many Akhal-Teke breeders, and could choose some new horses to our AT herd
addition. So in winter 2004/2005 six new purebred Akhal-Teke mares -
Bibigiz (line Gelishikli),
Firiuda (line Gelishikli),
Fragariia (line Kaplan),
Kichidjik (line Kir Sakar),
Kichitorgai (line Gelishikli)
and Sonata (line Arab) - from
Stavropol Stud and Yulduz farms arrived to Estonia. As two Stavropol mares were pregnant, they soon brought us
two wonderful colts - Myrat (line Posman) and
Serdarjan (line Sere) who became great breeding stallions later at our farm. Especially Myrat got much attention both from Aleksander
Klimuk himself from one side, and several Akhal-Teke breeders in Europe and the USA on the other side.
These horses became our main breeding stock in the beginning of our farm.
Later we have imported several more horses over the years to widen the genetics of our horses - in November 2006 two more mares from Russia, pregnant Sayatkhanum
(line Gelishikli) from Akhalt-Service Stud and Zeinab
(line Gelishikli) from stud farm Geli.
In February 2010 three more mares were imported from Russia - pregnant Regina and Toidjakhan from Veles Stud, Penza and Khanbibi from Tito & Natalya Pontecorvo stud Ahaltekinec in Dubna. in 2012 we imported a young colt Chirchiq A (line El) from Classic Performance Stud in Germany for our future breeding. Chirchiq A has become quite sensational and important stallion at our farm. The same year two more mares from Geli-Stud in Russia came to us - Pamela and Rubai-Geli (both line Posman). Later we imported Rukhly (line Gelishikli) from Stavropol Stud, Russia in 2017; Pelen (line Posman) and Sangam (line Gelishikli) in 2019 from Russia, another new breeding stallion Mudjahid (line Sovkhoz 2) from Dagestan in 2020 and a mare Girme (line Posman) in 2021 from Russia.
At present there are 38 purebred Akhal-Teke horses at Akhal-Teke EST, among them 3 breeding stallions and 20 broodmares. Over 90 purebred foals have been born at Akhal-Teke EST from 2003 up to now. The following sirelines are represented at our farm – El, Posman, Kaplan, Sere, Sovkohoz 2 and Dor Bairam.
Last but not least we have got really rare and unique frozen semen of two exceptional AT stallions - Gulistan who was a son of a line-founder Kaplan himself. Gulistan had passed away around 1982 and
as far as we know, he was never used in purebred breeding. In 2007 the very 1st purebred foal by him was born at our farm and so far we have got 3 mares out of this semen. Another one is Karat 2 from line Dor Bairam by whom we have got also one mare.
As there aren’t very many doses of this frozen
semen left, we use them only on our best mares.
We have sold over 50 horses to 21 different countries worldwide, the furthest ones such as Japan, Ecuador, USA and UAE.
Akhal-Teke EST is a member of MAAK and is
following the suggestions and advices in breeding only of the best specialists in AT breed. In August 2010 we were invited to Turkmenistan by Turkmen Atlary to become foundation members of new International Ahalteke Horse Breeding Association (IAHA).
The Akhal-Teke EST stud is managed mainly by Kätlin Leisson and Kaido
Puusepp who are both veterinarians specialised on horses (see here).