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| Parantella, in 2019 at the Bialka Junior Spring Show, photographed by Ewa Imielska-Hebda |
Parantella, bred by the Michalow State Stud, is the 2016 daughter of Palanga, sired by Kahil Al Shaqab (Marwan Al Shaqab x OFW Mishaahl), who was named the World Gold Medal Senior Champion Stallion at the Salon du Cheval, 2014. Prior to that win, in 2011, he earned the World Gold Medal Junior Champion Stallion. In Kahil Al Shaqab's tail female line, he traces to a mare named Habina, a 1957 Hallany Mistanny daughter, bred by Howard Marks of California. No stranger to the show ring, Habina was a Canadian National Champion mare and a two time United States Top Ten mare. As competitive as she was in the main arena, her greatest achievement would not be in the show ring but as a broodmare, producing 13 foals in her lifetime, of which six, matured to become United States National Champions, all sired by *Bask. It would be the *Bask sired foals like Basquina (great-great-great granddam of Kahil Al Shaqab) who would become significant, because these were the horses who helped establish *Bask as a sire of great significance. It is interesting to note that Basquina's daughter by Gwalior, Basquisette, was bred to *Bask, producing the mare, Balaquina. Overall, *Bask represents a little more than 15% influence in the pedigree of Kahil Al Shaqab and when bred to Parantella, a Monogramm grandaughter, her genetic side brings an additional line to *Bask, increasing the number of lines to *Bask to seven, and approximately 11% of Parantella's genetic influence.
Parantella, like her dam, is a gorgeous mare, embodying an intensity of breed characteristics that have endeared her to the spectating audience, wherever she is shown. I personally love the set of her neck and the flowing line down through the wither, her back and croup. The roominess in her throatlatch is excellent, as is the underline of her neck. I love the degree of the angle drawn from the point of chest to the wither. This is a most formidable mare! Last year, at the Pride of Poland show, Parantella was judged first in the 4 - 6-year old mare class. She is an experienced show mare, with many show wins behind her, as she has been competing in the halter arena since 2018. However, like her dam, Palanga, and the chain of mares that came before her, Parantella's greatest achievement may be outside of the show arena, as a broodmare. She is currently in foal to Ariela Arabians' Al Ayal AA (Al Ayad x The Vision HG). This Al Ayal foal will share common ground with Parantella's maternal sister, Padrona, as her sire, El Palacio VO is a son of Al Lahab, who is out of the The Vision HG, the dam of Al Ayal.
In the Spanish language, "parentela" refers to your entire family, that is, the people that you descend from, like parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. In English, we may use words like "relations", "kinfolk" or even, "extended family". It's a bigger group of people, as compared to your immediate family or nuclear family unit. I think it is a wonderful and most fitting name for a horse uniting a diverse group of horses from all over the world, incorporating as many lines to *Bask or even the blood relationship that an unborn foal will share with her dam's sibling. In many ways, the Arabian horse "parentela" helps to make the global community that we all are a part of, that much smaller, that much more embraceable.
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