Lowelas

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In 1924, the two years old stallion Koheilan I was sold by Babolna stud to Janow Podlaski. At Janow, this grey stallion sired 45 foals before he was sent back to Janow in 1937. Among those foals born at Janow Podlaski was his chestnut son Lowelas.
Lowelas' dam was Elegantka, a bay daughter by Bakszysz who was a direct son by the desert bred stallion Ilderim. Ilderim was imported fromTurkey to Polish Slawuta Stud in 1900 where he founded the Polish sire line XVI.
Through Elegantka, Lowelas was a maternal half-brother to Wielki Szlem. The dam line of Elegantka traces to the grey Syrian mare Gazella, a Kuheylah Adjuze who founded one of the most influential dam line in Poland.
Lowelas was used as sire at Janow Podlaski from 1935 to 1940. Among his first foal crop was Skrzyp out of Dziewanna, a daughter by Bakszysz who also produced Piolun (sire of Priboj). Skrzyp was Lowelas best known son at Janow. He sired the mares Solianka II (successful race horse) and Sonata, dam of Salon.
Important Lowelas daughters born at Janow Podlaski were Madila, the dam of Mak by Korej and the grey Laba who was the dam of Lak by Kankan.
Like many of other Arabian stallions of that time, Lowelas was licensed for the Trakehner breed. He was sent to Trakehnen in early 1940 where he stood as chief sire until WW II hit the stud in 1944. The last stud director Dr. Ehlert described him as 'a sire par excellence' with a lot of nobility and riding horse traits. At Trakehnen, he sired the Purebred Arabian stallion Kanzler who was later sent to Germany and used at the State Stud of Marbach. Kanzler was an excellent dressage horse.
Although Lowelas sired several other Purebred Arabians at Trakehnen, his most important foals were out of Trakehner mares. To name here is the grey mare Pelargonie who also had Arabian blood through her maternal grand-sire Fetysz. She survived the WW II and founded an important Trakehner family later in West Germany.
Lowelas himself was evacuated to Graditz Stud (East Germany) in September 1944. His last foals were registered in 1945 and no trace of him was recorded after that year which might indicate that he died sometime between 1944 and 1945.
His blood is preserved in his great grand-daughter Sascha (x Smoky by Kanzler), dam of Amir El Shaklan, significant sire in Australia.