25. CENTURIA

Racing record:

unraced

Breeding status:

bred to LAWRENCE EL GAZAL

Profile:

An exciting offer as the very first Polish get of ESPARTO to be offered through public sale, Centuria is a superb youngster from the barns of the revitalized Białka Stud.
ESPARTO is the best son of “King of the Ring” EKSTERN and no doubt his heir apparent. Boasting an incredible collection of show titles from Europe and the Middle East, ESPARTO’s most significant honors include Emirates Senior Champion, Doha International Senior Champion, Dubai International Senior Reserve Champion, Sharjah International Senior Champion, All Nations Cup Senior Reserve Champion, Al Khalediah Horse Festival Senior Reserve Champion, Polish National Senior Champion, European Senior Reserve Champion Stallion and four times World Senior Top Ten.
Masterfully linebred to Michałów’s dynasty of “E” champions, ESPARTO carries a double dose of this precious genotype through both sire EKSTERN and dam EKSPOZYCJA. A Polish National senior mares’ class winner, EKSPOZYCJA is also a granddam to the hottest new chief sire on the Michałów roster this season - EQUATOR, Junior Spring Show Champion, Polish National Junior Champion, All Nations Cup Junior Bronze Medalist, European Junior Champion Stallion & World Junior Reserve Champion - making this branch of the “E” family a leader in supreme stallion production.
After returning from the Middle East, ESPARTO took to stud duties in Poland beginning with Białka. His first crops delivered several outstanding specimens for the youngest State Stud, deservedly propelling them into the spotlight with Wrocław Summer Show Junior Champion, Autumn Show Junior Champion/Best in Show, Abu Zabi Junior Bronze Medalist & UAE National Junior Reserve Champion EGEMA, Polish National Junior Reserve Champion & Wrocław Summer Show Junior Champion PERON, Wrocław Summer Show Junior Reserve Champion & Autumn Show Junior Champion PERNAL and Polish National Junior Reserve Champion & World Yearling Top Ten PERFINKA.
Whereas on the distaff side Centuria is currently the damline’s 18^th consecutive generation in an unbroken line of Polish-bred broodmares through one of Polish breeding history’s singular most important broodmatron GAZELLA II and her daughter ELEGANTKA, whose influence on Polish breeding remains unchallenged via her son WIELKI SZLEM. Regarded as the best son of the epochal OFIR to this very day, WIELKI SZLEM was an outstanding chief sire who unified and implemented classic Arabian type to the dispersed Polish broodband after World War II and whose blood is present in almost every horse of Polish Arabian breeding today.
Centuria is linked to the above via her great-granddam CIUPAGA, whose descendants  include race winners CIRKUS, CIRSZA & CERLIT, Warsaw Summer Show Junior Reserve Champion, Poznań Junior Champion & Bełżyce Junior Reserve Champion CIARKA, Breeders’ & International Championships Europe Senior Top Five CIRILLA and class top fives CIRKUS, CIRKA, CIRSZA, CHAGALL, CORINA-CORINA & CIABUKA.