Louise Firouz at her Ghara Tepe Stud in Iran

This film about Louise Firouz (1933-2008) was made in 2002 during a trip to Jargalan, near the border with Turkmenistan. Louise describes the horses in her stud. This footage is unique and now edited for the first time, throws new light on the different types of Turkman horses and the relationship they have with the thoroughbred. She mentions the Akhal, the Yomud, the Goklan and the Nokhorli. A description of their characteristics can be found on the website www.museumofthehorse.org

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Caspian
• Akhal
• Teke
• gaited

[museumofthehorse]

How amazing that you grew up with Louise. She was an important pat of my life too. I think she still looks down on us. All who love the Turkoman horse. I can hear her voice. I hope you enjoyed the film. I have 3 hours of her riding and talking. What a lady.

much love and thank you for writing to me.

Caroline.

[KingKiavash]

Is it true that the true Turkoman horse is extinct and Yamud/Akhal Teke are the modern day survivors of the breed?

[museumofthehorse]

@KingKiavash

Louise Firouz found some Turkoman horses. There are more in Iran because when the Turkmen fled the Russians they took their horse with them. However these are poor people and we arrived in a village where they had just sold all their horses for meat. Makes you want to cry. The one in my film is a Turkoman horse. He is shackled with a cotton rope normal for that part of the world where there are no fences. So there are some but not sure how many. Does that help?

Caro

[coeblackwell]

Thanks for putting this online - that's a visit I would like to have made myself....

[museumofthehorse]

@coeblackwell

Sorry not to have replied earlier. But yes all horsepeople should have visited Louise. She was wonderful and so important I cannot begin to explain.The museum of the horse will have information about people like her. She made my life rich and I know now that is all any of us have is a chance to make a difference.

Caro

[bigrawG100]

@princemaziar what will be the price of pure tukomani horse in Iran ? and is Turkoman more expensive than Asil and Kurdish and Chinari?

[princemaziar]

I grow up in Louise's stable, she learned me riding she learned me living and i steal can't believe that she is gone, she was as powerful in my life as I steel can see here when ever I need her.

She will never gone,but the sad thing is we can’t see here ,learn more and enjoy more.

Best Regards for the Best in the World

Maziar Jamshidkhani,

[KingKiavash]

@museumofthehorse The breed is officially declared extinct almost according to every respectable source that there is out there. I believe it is imperative to make a contradictory declaration, even if there is only one horse is left.

My grandfather lives very close to Turkmen Port ( Bandar Torkaman and Torkaman Sahra). As a child I remember seeing Turkoman horses but it was until recently that I discovered the breed is supposedly extinct and it came to me as a big shock. I'd love to know more

[museumofthehorse]

@museumofthehorse

Sorry not to have replied before. I will miss her. Her voice her knowledge and the fact that it took me so long to find her. I so want the museum of the horse to incorporate all the really important people in the horse world. She is one of them. thanks

Caro

[museumofthehorse]

@pulpan6464

I wish I understood Iranian. Sadly I don't but so glad you saw the film. Louise was a great woman a lovely friend and I felt I let her down by not being able to fly out to Iran and be with her when she broke her arm.

[museumofthehorse]

@bigrawG100 Thank you for your comments. Yes she was one of the few people who really understood about the different breeds and the way the Turkmen bred the horses. Her death is a great loss to the horse world.