Ronteza
| Ronteza | |
|---|---|
| Breed | Arabian horse |
| Sire | Witez II |
| Grandsire | Ofir |
| Dam | Ronna |
| Maternal grandsire | Faronek |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1954 |
| Country | USA |
| Color | Bay |
| Breeder | Donald L. Jones |
| Owner | Sheila Varian |
| Trainer | Sheila Varian |
| Honors | |
| Champion Reined Cow Horse | |
Ronteza (1954- February, 1986) was a bay Arabian mare who was the first of her breed to ever win the Grand Champion Reined Cow Horse class.[1] She was sired by Witez II, out of Ronna.
Ancestry
Ronteza was by Witez II, an accomplished sire, and out of Ronna, who had been a successful hackamore horse.
Witez II had been imported from Poland. When the Nazi Germany invaded his country in 1939, he was only a yearling, living at the Janów Podlaski Stud. He and Lotnik, amongst a number of other stallions, were rescued during World War II in a famous raid.[2] Witez was out of Ofir out of Federacja. Ofir was by Kuhalian-Haifi, a desert-bred stallion who had been imported from the Jauf region of the Arabian peninsula by Prince Roman Sanguszko of the Gumniska Stud. Federacja was a mare from Poland with bloodlines tracing back to that of the Balbona Stud in Hungary.
Ronteza is very distantly related to the famed Bask. Ofir's first foal crop was in 1938, and contained three colts who became sires of significance of the Arabian breed. They were: Witez II, Witraz (sire of Bask), and Wielki Szlem, a notable broodmare sire. Ofir and Federacja were also amongst those of the horses of Janow who were taken by the Russians during the Soviet invasion of Poland. Later in his life, Ofir was taken to the Tersk Stud at USSR where he sired Mammona, a dam of significance in numerous Russian bloodlines.
Her grandsire, Faronek, was 50% Crabbet.[3]
Life and career
At the age of 2, Ronteza was sold to Sheila Varian. There, at Varian's farm, she accompanied the mare Farlotta (Lotnik x Farza) who was a finished spade bit horse.[4] Much like Farlotta, Ronteza was trained in the "old-fashioned," Vaquero way and eventually ended up being a successful reining horse. By the time Ronteza was 4, she'd participated in her first hackamore competition coming out with third, and coming out undefeated in Arabian hackamore shows afterwards. She went on to compete in shows offered by the California Reined Cow Horse Association, which were mainly dominated by the Quarter Horse breed.
Although being at a disadvantage due to her small size, on October of 1961, Ronteza went on to compete at the Cow Palace competition in San Francisco, where she was up against 50 other horses.[5]
Pedigree
| Kuhalian-Haifi (PASB) Imp. Arabia, 1931 | |||||||||||||||
| Ofir (PASB) (Polish Arabian Stud Book) | |||||||||||||||
| Dziwa (PASB) | |||||||||||||||
| Witez II (PASB) (Polish Arabian Stud Book) | |||||||||||||||
| Burgas (PASB) | |||||||||||||||
| Federacja (PASB) | |||||||||||||||
| Koalicja (PASB), Imp Babolna, 1919 | |||||||||||||||
| Ronteza[1] 1938 bay mare | |||||||||||||||
| Ronek (AHR) | |||||||||||||||
| Faronek (AHR) | |||||||||||||||
| Farhan (AHR) | |||||||||||||||
| Ronna (AHR) (Arabian Horse Registry) | |||||||||||||||
| Abdullah (AHR) | |||||||||||||||
| Kiswah (AHR) | |||||||||||||||
| Kahawi (AHR) | |||||||||||||||
References
- ^ a b "Ronteza pedigree". Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "A Lifetime with Arabians" (Press release). Arabian Horse Times. December 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "Faronek Arabian Ancestry". Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ "Brief History". VarianArabians.com. Varian Arabians. Archived from the original on August 12, 2010. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
- ^ Mary Jane Parkinson (2013). [link.gale.com/apps/doc/A353438449/ITOF?u=wikipedia&sid=ebsco&xid=c8db83f5 "AHW's heritage horse: Ronteza"]. Arabian Horse World. 53 (12): 45.
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