Century Farms' Arabian Night Dancer Pictured above at 10 year old!
...Conscientious breeders of truly Arabian featured miniature show horses with often concentrated pinto genetics. We are a small, highly selective breeding farm, where every broodmare and stallion have been selected for their conformation, bite, way-of-motion, & natural Arabian features. While many miniature breeders strive to produce a "strain" of miniature Arabians, none of us have the perfect Arabian herd, producing consistently Arabian individuals. I feel strongly that the day is not far off, and that we have more Arabian characteristics per individual than most....and feedback from MANY full size Arabian breeders/full size successful Arabian trainers,some of whom have 30 plus years of experience with them, share this opinion. We also have the nations' Top Quality Horses, as our World Grand Champion Titles attest too. We would be honored to place one of our horses with you!
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Arabian Features that our stallions & mares possess
and often pass on to their offspring are:
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Gorgeous
Arabian Heads with
Great width between large expressive eyes (see Arabian Night Dancer above!)
, often dished faces, large circular cheeks, tiny teacup
sized muzzles, and some of the cleanest refined under-jaws in the industry
(look at the black senior stallion below!)
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Naturally thin
throatlatches with that
natural Arabian
"hooky" arched neck ...look
for that triangular "slice of pie" added to where the neck joins the head.
(Arabian
horses only - and extremely rare in miniatures)
Long naturally thin necks - it's in our genes! |
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Bill Bailey One of his sons, Century Farms Arabian Night Dancer
The Highest of Tailsets! Colts by Bailey often have long flat croups!!! |
Level top-lines. . . f rom birth to maturity... Look at each of these horses' croups...They are the loooongest, flattest croups (Araby!) that you can find! The croup is the " line" from the top of these HIGH tailsets to the point of the swirly hair where the hip joins the barrel of the back!) Notice also, that we have some of the shortest Araby backs out there!!!... recall, TRUE Arabians have less ribs than other breeds, so these rare short backs are truly Arabian in feature! The back length is the point of croup to the start of the withers. The withers are the "bony bump" where the neck and back join on top. If you look at many peoples' miniature broodmares, they have very long backs and very short severely sloped croups, making for lower tail sets... this is the opposite of what I breed for.
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pictured: Century Farms Just ExQuizit ~ broodmare
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High tail sets , with tails that often flare straight up or out for sustained periods of time, not just 2 minutes during a picture shoot, or with artificial treatments of gingering - which we have NEVER done under ANY circumstances - ours is ALL NATURAL imbedded in our genetics!!! ..... it is said that only true Arabian blood can produce this feature.
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Some of the Greatest Leg- Action in the industry!
Pictured top left is Century Farms Crystal's Image, known to the whole industry as " OSCAR! ". Oscar is AMHA NATIONAL GRAND CHAMPION SINGLE PLEASURE DRIVING HORSE OVER ALL IN THE WORLD IN 2003! (He is also AMHA Regional Champion Senior Halter Stallion in his height class and Supreme halter stallion!) We have bred/raised NUMEROUS National Champion driving horses here, and continue to do so. Our breeding consistently WIN halter and driving and liberty and jumping classes at the very top of the industry... in both registries...time and time again. Oscar's full brother , Century Farms Bey Masquerade , known to the whole industry as " BayLee ! " was also bred by Century Farm. Baylee was 2003 AMHA RESERVE NATIONAL GRAND CHAMPIOIN SINGLE PLEASURE DRIVING HORSE the year Oscar was Grand Champion.... it was AMHA's 25th anniversary! & we got the top two honors in the world at their momentous anniversary show! What a thrill for us!!! Baylee then came back in 2004 to become the 2004 AMHA WORLD GRAND CHAMPION SINGLE PLEASURE DRIVING HORSE and multiple national and world top titles in many divisions! - (pictured bottom left)
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Often concentrated pinto genetics ! But we do have horses in solid colors such as bays, blacks, chestnuts, silvers, buckskins, and others for your consideration.
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| Exceptional intelligence & naturally active, making them easy to condition, train, and handle. Because of this, I believe our genetics offers exceptionally high metabolisms. My horses have naturally thin barrels and naturally long thin necks through their genetics. |
| More refined & fine~ boned than most, without sacrificing strength & durability |
| Actual Arabian hip and muscling! Many mini-breeders' horses have fuller Quarter Horse type "rumps" , while this is awesome on that type of horse, and looks very nice, they do not realize that that is NOT what true Arabian breeders strive for...and incorrectly call their hip/muscling ~Arabian. |
We are extremely proud of the horses we have produced here on our breeding farm.
It has been a true labor of love for me.
My horses are loved and handled each and every day. Each horses' happiness and creature comfort is paramount to me. We clean each stall and paddock often twice a day year 'round. They are turned out much of each day into large tree-studded grass pastures, and brought into roomy, well -bedded stalls/buildings (during the heat of the day ...under fans in the summer) and again at night (year-round). Broodmares and show horses enjoy heated huge stalls in our cold winters. I stay up on each horses' vaccinations, wormings, grooming, and hoof trimmings meticulously.
Please take a moment to browse our pages listed below to see what Century Farm has done in the last 18 years, and what we can offer to you and your breeding program or show string. Thank you for browsing our site.
Sincerely yours in the Love of miniature Arabian Style horses,
Alison Johnson
Sales List Araby Mares Our Winning Ways
NewsFlash!
Congratulations to Ken & Terre Armstrong of Wisconsin on 27.5 inch tall
Century Farms Arabian Apache's
2007 AMHA CENTRAL CHAMPION SENIOR HALTER STALLION UNDER 28 INCHES WIN!!!
Century Farm raised horses won many 2002/2003/2004/2005 -2007 AMHA & AMHR regioinal & National and Reserve National Titles!!!
Including, but not limited to:
THREE 2007 AMHR NATIONAL CHAMPION
Driving Titles, including the Driving Stakes Winner!
2007 AMHR NATIONAL Reserve CHAMPION Senior Halter Mare
in the 28-30 inch class!
MANY 2007 AMHA WORLD TOP SIXES IN HALTER AND DRIVING
2005 AMHR NATIONAL RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
2005 National Champion
Junior Halter Mare
2004 AMHA WORLD GRAND CHAMPION
Single Pleasure Driving Horse
Many World Champion & Top Tens!
2003AMHA NATIONAL GRAND CHAMPION
Single Pleasure Driving Horse
Many National Champion & Top Tens
&
2003 AMHA Reserve NATIONAL GRAND CHAMPION
Single Pleasure Driving Horse!!!
*SEE OUR WINNING WAYS HYPERLINK FOR AWESOME PICTURES & DETAILS!!!
Alison Johnson ~ 7564 B Avenue ~ Arlington, Iowa, 50606 ~ USA
telephone 563-633-5381
updated: June 26, 2008
