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For the past two years, it has been quiet around Arabian Stars, but that doesn't mean that nothing was happening! Sure, the mares weren't bred and the horses weren't shown that much, but other than that, a lot has happened in my life. 2005 was a quiet year, some horses were sold, others went out on lease or on vacation in the pasture. I enjoyed the extra time that gave me to do different things besides 'life with horses'. In my life and that of my friends and family, there were big ups and big downs, we all get our share of those. The biggest 'up' in my personal life, happened in the course of 2006, during the showseason.  One of the biggest mysteries in life, is love. If you're lucky, it happens. I was lucky ! At a time I was least expecting it or searching for it, I found my soulmate and true love. Like most of you, I had already known Erik Dorssers for many years, ever since I was introduced to the world of the Arabian showscene. Where ever I went to see a show, he was there, presenting the most beautiful horses in the world. We never got much further than the occasional "Hi, how are you?" until last summer, when we again met on a show and finally sat down and talked. Something clicked, and that was that. No possibility to escape, however hard we tried.  This was fate. So, at the end of last January, I sold my farm and packed up my things, horses, dogs and cats, and moved across the country to Panningen, the home of Bluebell Arabians Training Center.  A new year, a new beginning, a new life....!!

On March 20th, we had to say goodbye to my dearly beloved dog Dayna. She had been lame for a couple of weeks, just a little bit in the beginning. We didn't think too much of it, since Dayna was a young (only 6 years old), lively and somewhat clumsy girl, who on a regular basis hurt herself in one way or another, just by playing too wild or by cutting corners at high speed. After about two weeks, when it didn't get any better, we took her to the vet, to see if nothing had been damaged in her frontleg. The vet also thought it was no biggy, so he gave us painkillers for her and told us to wait and see for another week or two. The painkillers lasted a week, and when they were all gone, the pain started to get worse fast, so we took her back to the clinic to take X-rays. We were completely devastated when we were told that Dayna had a big tumor in her shoulder... It was a very agressive one and it was growing fast. There was nothing that we could do, and since she was in so much pain by than, the next day we decided to give her peace and let her go. She was put to sleep here on her dogbed at Bluebell, and we buried her close to Eriks' beloved Plakat. Sweet dreams my princess, one day we will be together again. Until than, you can run free and play with all the other sweet souls we lost over the years, and you'll be safe in my heart, forever.

Extasia and Sabiy returned home from France and are both sold by now.

Shalima El Shaklan returned home from England where she was on lease, but due to personal- and health issues of the leassee was never bred or shown there, and is now on lease to Fantasiaa Arabians, Belgium. Shalima is for sale, also during the leaseperiod. Please feel free to contact us for information on her! 

Om El Seshara, who's on lease to Fantasiaa Arabians, Belgium, gave birth to her first foal, a beautiful and extremely sweet grey filly by Kadars Echoo. Nancy is so happy with her, that she decided to want another one, and so Seshara was rebred to Echoo for a 2008 foal. Congratulations Nancy on your baby 'Echoo's True Love' , and good luck with her and Seshara's new pregnancy!!

After a 3 year break from breeding, it's time to start again! 

Dachinea was bred to championstallion and proven sire Davidoff (by Kubinec), owned by Schmid Araber, Germany. Her daughter Shadhiraah, who has grown up by now, was just last week bred to double World Champion and worldwide supersire Marwan Al Shaqab! We're keeping our fingers crossed and hope she will be checked in foal in about two weeks.

The 2007 showseason has started, and it for sure will be a busy one ! Bluebell's stables are filled up with beautiful horses from all around the world, and more are yet to come! Our showcalender includes (among others) the International B show in Drammen (Norway), Emerald Trophy and Emerald Egyptian Event Brecht (Belgium), Scandinavian Open Championships at Blommerod (Sweden), International B show in Strohen, Gestut Ismer (Germany), the international A show in Vilhemsborg (Denmark), The Lowland Cup (B) in Exloo (Holland), the Elran Cup (A) at Borgloon (Belgium), and ofcourse the All Nations Cup in Aachen (Germany) and the World Championships in Paris (France). 

It will be a very busy and exiting season, and we're very much looking forward to it!!

Thank you all for sticking with me, please keep checking this website, and the Bluebell website www.bluebellarabians.com , which will be renewed and updated as well very soon! See you at Bluebell, or at the showgrounds!

Sincerely, Erik & Josje

                      
      Davidoff                                                                            Marwan Al Shaqab

Om El Seshara will be on lease to Ms Nancy Lacoste, Fantasiaa Arabians, Belgium, for the 2005 breedingseason. She will be bred to Khidar, and after the lease period, she will return to us back in foal to Khidar. While standing at Fantasiaa Arabians, Seshara will also be shown.

It’s been a while since we have updated our site, but we finally found the time to do it. We hope you enjoy the new pictures and updates about our lovely horses! Thanks for staying with us! 

2004 was a calm year at Arabian Stars. We had only one foal, Extasia (Om El Extreem x Halcon’s Ellena), but she’s definitely worth seeing! 

We were planning on reducing our stock and that worked out perfectly. Halcon’s Ellena, Khidaarah and Elysia bint Extreem were sold, Shalima El Shaklan is on lease to the UK. Sabiy Zayan and Extasia moved to France for a long holiday in a big pasture. So at the moment, it’s kind of quiet in the Arabian Stars-stables, and that’s nice for a change. It gives us a little extra time and space to do some other nice things besides the horses.

After all of these years working intensely with the horses, it’s time for a break. With only a few horses left on our farm, we can possible even go on a short holiday ourselves ! This year, we won’t be breeding our mares, but in 2006 we will be “back in business”! 

We have still some really interesting horses available for sale or lease, so feel free to contact us! 

We wish everyone a wonderful and successful 2005, and hope you will keep visiting us and our website.

See you  here at the farm, or in the international showring! 

Sincerely, Josje

March 21st 2004

On this first day of Spring, at exactly 00.20 h., Halcon's Ellena gave birth to her second
daughter sired by Om El Extreem. It was a big surprise to see that this little girl is a chestnut!
To find chestnuts in her pedigree, we need to go back 4 generations, so of course we 
were counting on another grey baby, but she fooled us all. Elysia's babysister, who got the name 
Extasia, is very pretty, very healthy, and she's a little cutie. Since we are keeping her sister Elysia
for our breedingprogramm, Extasia will be for sale. But for now, we're going to enjoy and love
this little girl. 

March 2004

Ghajariy keeps on winning ! Living in Ajman now, he's competing in the Middle-East shows, 
and so far, he won twice! Last month he became Junior Champion at the Qatar-show, and just 
last week, he took the same title in Dubai, where he beat the current European Champion "
SC Dagash", and the current World Champion "Insh Allah" 
So far, Ghajariy was shown 6 times, and got 3 Champion titles (Aachen, Qatar, Dubai), 
2 Reserve Champion titles (Elran Cup Borgloon (B) and EC Verona), and in Paris he was awarded 
"Most Classic Head", and just missed the reserve title by an inch.
Needless to say that here at Arabian Stars we are extremely proud of this homebred colt,
who is conquering the world ! We are looking forward to see him again in Europe 
in the course of this show season....

February 3rd 2004

Dear visitors,

Due to an intended  50% reduction of our stock, we now offer for sale all of our horses. 
Not all of them will be sold, but now is the opportunity for you to make a choice and 
purchase part of our breedingprogramm. Please feel free to take a look around and contact us for 
any questions or other information!

Sincerely,
Josje

2003 in Short

Arabian Stars’ first few years have been tough ones, but 2003 has been a wonderful year. Now, in December, right after the World Championships in Paris, we are looking back and review all the great things that have happened here. The year started with the birth of Elysia Bint Extreem (Om El Extreem x Halcon’s Ellena). This amazingly pretty filly was born in the evening of February 7^th and we all immediately knew that she was something special. Pictures don’t do her any justice, so you just need to come see her, or wait for the next show season!  
Next in line was our Sanadik El Shaklan-filly, Shadhiraah, who was born in May, out of Halcon’s Ellena’s dam Dachinea. Two very special fillies, both born healthy and extremely pretty… we couldn’t have asked for more.

Than the show season started, Khidaarah (Khidar x Rashidaa) became 4^th in Blommerod in a very large class filled with high-quality horses. That was a nice start, but the best had yet to come…

Our homebred Ghajariy (Khidar x Esta-Passada) started his show carrier at the Elran Cup in Belgium. A few days before the show he still was suffering from a flu and had high fevers. But on the day of the show, he felt good and got second place in his class, right behind Massai Ibn Marenga, a colt that had already won some titles earlier in the season. On Sunday in the championships, Ghajariy was on the second row, but still he won the Reserve Junior Title!!

Than it was time to go to Aachen. I quote the Araber Journal when I say “Ghajariy came, saw and conquered”. He won his class with, what turned out to be, the highest score of all Junior Colts, and the next day, he was crowned All Nations Cup Junior Champion!!!!
The iceing on the cake was the fact that his sire Khidar did the same thing and became Senior Champion. It was the first time in the history of the All Nations Cup, that father and son both won the title. What a great success!!

One month later it was time for the European Championships in Verona, Italy. Four out of the five judges placed Ghajariy first in his class, the fifth judges didn’t like him at all and placed him last. In the end he became second, and so he didn’t have a chance to become European Champion as well. But…. Again he was picked out of the second row and won the Junior Reservechampion title.

Last on the calendar was of course Paris, the World Championships. On Saturday, Ghajariy didn’t show himself as well as he could, but still did a good job and became third in his class. He did win the “Most Classic Head-award”, having the highest score for type and head/neck (3x20). So still, anything was possible in the championships on Sunday. Everyone that has ever been to Paris knows that Sunday is a completely new day, and lots of horses have a shot at the title. Ghajariy did a great job, much better than on Saturday, so there was still some hope. When the judges gave their votes, it turned out that “Insh Allah” was Champion with 3 championship-votes and 2 reservechampionship-votes, “F Shamaal” got 2 and 2, and Ghajariy got 2 and 1, so he was only one vote short of becoming World Junior Champion. What a success for a Dutch-bred horse!!

Ghajariy will be moving to the Middle East now, and has a fantastic show- and breeding carrier ahead of him! I’d like to congratulate and thank everybody that has been involved in Ghajariy’s success-story, especially Johanna Ullstrom of European Training Center, Belgium.

Now the year has almost come to an end, Christmas is coming up, and shortly after that, the preparing for the next show- and breedingseason will begin. Here at Arabian Stars, we’re expecting two foals in Spring. Both are sired by Om El Extreem, the mothers are Dachinea and her daughter Halcon’s Ellena. Two other young mares will be bred next Spring ; Om El Seshara and Khidaarah. If all goes well, they both will have a baby by Om El Shahmaan in 2005. 

But let’s not get too far ahead of things and enjoy our 2003-successes some more. I like to say Thanks to all of you who have visited my website, and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a spectacular, happy and healthy 2004!! 

Sincerely,

December 31th 2002

Dear visitors,

It took us a while, but finally our website is new and improved and completely updated !
I apologize for the delay, and hope you all like the new version. 
From now on, this site will be updated very regularly ! 
Please come back again some time to read about all the new adventures of the 
Arabian Stars Horses. Remember, the new foals will be born soon !! 

Thanks for sticking with us, all I've got left to say, is HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you !

Josje

November 2002

The wonderful stallion Khidar, who sired already three foals (the fourth is on the way) at Arabian Stars, was named 2002 European Senior Champion ! We are very proud to have some foals by Khidar, and herewith congratulate the Nesj-family with this great success !!

June 2002

Dachinea is back in foal to Sanadik El Shaklan (El Shaklan x Mohena) for May 2003. We are hoping for a little baby sister for our Sabiy Zayan!

June 15th

Fire at Complutum Arabians in Spain. The main barn burned down to the ground, 25 horses got killed. Luckily for us, our lovely Mel Quelinka and her newborn foal are both safe!

June 14th

Esta-Passada gave birth to a beautiful healthy grey colt by Khidar, named Ghajariy. This baby and his mother are both for sale.

June 1st

Mel Quelinka gave birth to a beautiful, healthy colt by Khidar (Ansata Sinan x Elizja), named Quiyadi. Both mother and son are doing fine and are enjoying the sun in Spain.

April 2002

Shalima El Shaklan is in foal to Khidar (Ansata Sinan x Elizja) for March 2003.

March 2002

Halcon's Ellena is in foal to Om El Extreem (Sanadik El Shaklan x Om El Bint Shaina) for February 2003.

February 2002

A new Star arrived at the stables of Arabian Stars. Her name is Shalima El Shaklan, she's a double granddaughter of the famous El Shaklan. She's here to give us some beautiful babies!

October/November 2001

On October 4th 2001, I left Holland to visit my dear friends Jay and Sigi Constanti at  Om El Arab Int., California. Two months before, I had purchased a beautiful babyfilly, named Om El Seshara (Estopasan x Sariet) and I decided it was time to pay her a visit.
The plan was to go for just 10 days, but those 10 days turned into over 5 weeks…
I was expecting Seshara to move to Holland early 2002, but when we called the agent, it seemed like there was a flight available in the beginning of November. I decided to take this opportunity and stay until Seshara could fly to Holland, and travel along with her.
Those 5 weeks in Santa Ynez, California, were the best weeks of my life. The weather was perfect, I got to spend a lot of time with the Om El-horses, especially with my all time favorite stallion Sanadik El Shaklan (El Shaklan x Mohena), and in between the farmwork, I got to do and see a lot of wonderful things. I visited some farms and breeders, we all went to the US Nationals in Albuquerque, saw a lot of movies, visited a lot of nice restaurants and went water-skiing (although this trip didn't quite turn out the way we planned, due to some troubles with the boat). I also had the pleasure to spend my 30th birthday in Sunny California ; the Constanti family made sure that was my best birthday ever !
After that, October turned into November and the time came to prepare Seshara and myself for our long trip home. On November 9th, Jay took us to LA airport, where Seshara was shipped into our big Boeing. I had to go through customs, and when I had boarded, the crew took me to the Cargo-area of the plain, where Seshara was standing between a few other, big horses. My little girl was very calm and relaxed during the complete flight and I got to stay with her all the time, which was a really great experience. In the afternoon of November 10th, we arrived at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport where we were picked up by a friend, who took us home. We were both very tired, and as soon as Seshara had finished her diner in her new stall, she laid down to sleep, and after calling Jay and Sigi to let them know we arrived safely, so did I. The next morning, Seshara was completely rested and I took her outside for the first time in her new country. She had a blast and didn't seem to be troubled by her new environment at all. She adjusted very well and she's doing great ever since. The trip from California to Holland was our first big adventure together, the first of many !! Herewith I want to thank Jay and Sigi Constanti once again, for giving me the opportunity to take this wonderful filly home with me, for raising her and taking care of her in the first few months of her life, and for taking such good care of me in all the weeks I spent at their beautiful farm. Thanks for being my friends !

 

October 2001

We have the sad duty to inform you that our lovely mare "Rosaly" (Azhar x Shaquira) has died. She was leased out to a big farm in Spain, on the purpose of breeding some foals. Unfortunately, she was involved in an accident which she didn't survive. We all are very sad about the loss of this wonderful mare.

September 2001

The pride of Arabian Stars, Mel Quelinka (Calero x Mel Lianka) currently lives in Spain, at the farm of Complutum Arabians, Mr. Antonio Gonzalez.
Mr. Gonzalez is planning on getting some amazing foals out of Mel Quelinka for his breedingprogramm. The baby she's carrying right now, sired by Khidar (Ansata Sinan x Elizja) will be born in May 2002 and sent back to Holland. We wish Mr. Gonzalez all the best and lots of successes with Mel Quelinka !