Below is CYSTYR's story:
LG CYSTYR, born 17 Feb 1979, was my first purebred Arabian mare after a
long
and intensive search for that special Arabian mare. I fell in love with
her
the first time I saw her in person! She was by the pure polish stallion
*CYTRYS and out of a WITEZ II granddaughter - LADI UTEZ.
CYSTYR like WITEZ II had a rough beginning. The
people I bought her from, FalconCrest Arabians, told me they had
purchased CYSTYR from a Bankruptcy Auction. The farm CYSTYR came from
originally went bankrupt and all the horses were put in a cow field
until things were settled. Money from the estate was sent to the owner
of the field to purchase hay and grain for the horses, but it turned out
that the horses were not being fed the extra hay and grain. Several
horses died, and when CYSTYR was in the auction she was very thin and
her
muscles were spongy.
My friends at Falcon Crest Arabians, bought her and got
her back into shape as they raise Arabian horses for many years. By
chance I read a sales list of theirs and liked CYSTYR's pedigree. When I
saw her, I fell in love with her but at that time her price was 3 times
my budget. 12 months later, I read that the FCArabians was having a
barn sale. They only had a video of a weanling filly out of CYSTYR by
DWD Tabasco which they sent me. In the video I saw little bits of
CYSTYR...I immediately called them back during their sale...found out
the price had been lowered for the sale and I told them I would buy
her...sight unseen after a year...but I knew she was the mare I needed!
Since then she has produced 2 foals for me -
MUSCESTARA, a mare by MUSCAFIR and a CYR ECHO, stallion by RAY DOR ECHO. Both have been shown Class A
winners and were champions in their own right.
CYR ECHO by RAY DOR ECHO is at
ROSEWOOD Farm in Montana and his first foals were born in 2003.
MUSCESTARA by MUSCOFIR
produced a gorgeous grey filly,
MISS NADIA STAR, by multi champion ALI
DHALAN in May 2003. MUSCESTARA suffered a stroke 5 weeks after
giving birth and had to be humanely euthanized.
CYSTYR was humanely
euthanized at the age of 23 on 19
Dec 2002 at 0930 due to health complication that was causing her great
suffering. I had a chance to spend quality moments hugging her and
holding her head and telling her how much I loved her before she left.
She was buried in a very special location on our farm next to my very
first horse, Happy, my Thoroughbred gelding that lived until 29.
LG CYSTYR is truly missed not only by the Mircheff
family but by her daughter, MUSCESTARA, who was her constant pasture
mate for 11 years.
