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interview with Dr Nasr Marei
Ansata
IBN Halima
Kerman
National Arabinan horse Show
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MARY GHARAGOZLU
The voice of Arabian horse in Iran
on
14th September 2001,Mary Gharagozlu passed away.She
had been a memberof WAHO since
the
early 1970,Her father,Naghi khan,was a doctor who
came frome a long line of persian
landlords and statesmen descended from the
gharagozlu tribe,her mother was katherine ladd,an
american librarian at John Hopkines university.
Mary grew up
to become Iran's foremost expert on dry farming and
a tireless worker for the
benefit of the nomadic tribes
of Iran.
In
due course mary married majid khan bakhtiar,a chief
of the Bakhtiari tribe ,who introduced her
to
the Asil horses of Khuzestan that were to be come
her passion.After his death in a plane
accident,mary's
circumstances changed greatly but she never gave up
her work to bring the
Arabian
horses of Iran to the attention of WAHO and the
world.
For the peaple in Iran
Mary Gharagozlu,is a role model even today,a
pioneer,an adventure displaying an unbelievable
amount
of courage and horse sense.She demonstrated that a
woman was able to take an
important
part in the internatonally visible part of horse
breeding even in the Islamic society of
Iran
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