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Foundation Caspians

Below are the majority of the foundation stock from which the Caspian breed originates. Imported stock and important first generation stock appear in the Archive section.
Caspian names in purple are links and can be clicked to view a photo of the horse.
The ICS apologises for the poor quality of some of these photographs, mostly taken from the original records of Louise Firouz and subject to copyright.

FOUNDATION STOCK OF IRANIAN ORIGIN IMPORTED INTO THE U.K.
BETWEEN 1971 AND 1976

FOUNDATION STALLIONS		FOUNDATION MARES
DARIA NOUR*	Previously to Bermuda	MITRA*	Previously to Bermuda
PALANG*		KHORSHID KOLA*
		SHIRINE*
		DOUEEZ*
		FATEMEH*
		TALOCHE*
		PARI*
		SIYAH GOSH*

STOCK BRED FROM FOUNDATION STOCK AND IMPORTED INTO THE U.K.
* represents foundation stock (Upper case)
 (although present in several imported stock, foundation lines are only mentioned once)
Hopstone Banafsheh was carried in utero from Iran via Taliyeh and is the only representative of the stallion Felfel to survive.

STALLIONS IMPORTED	MARES IMPORTED		STALLION Foundation Represented	MARE Foundation represented
	Momtaz-e-Mahal	Previously to Bermuda	OSTAD*	ALAMARA*
	Taliyeh			JEHAN* AFROUZ
	Touran			ANAHITA*	Via Pourandokht
Mehran			ASEMAN*	MEHRI*
Rostam			RUBA*
	Vashta	Born in Bermuda
	Roshan	Born in Bermuda
	Atesheh	Born  in Hungary
	Susiana	Exported to Australia
	Gulpar	Exported to Australia
	Aloucheh	Exported to Australia
Maroun
Karoun
Amu Daria
Darius
Ruba II		Exported to Australia	NOUR-e-JEHAN*
	Hopstone Banafsheh	Imported in utero	FELFEL*

Mehregan was exported from Iran to the USA but had no offspring

JEHAN* was the first Caspian to be exported from Iran to the USA but had no purebred offspring.

STOCK BRED FROM FOUNDATION STOCK IN IRAN AND IMPORTED INTO THE U.K.  IN 1994

STALLION IMPORTED	MARE IMPORTED	FOUNDATION STALLION REPRESENTED	FOUNDATION MARE REPRESENTED
	Persicus Ai Banou	ZEELAND*	BALSAGHAR*
	Persicus Khoshgel Khanum		MARIUM KHANUM*
	Persicus Tehou
Persicus Kuchek Khan		SECANDAR GOL*
Persicus Amir			TARANEH*
Persicus Yussef		SOHRAB*
Persicus Nicky			KHORSHID*