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3 Tekes completed in the first Limited Distance ride of the Pacific NW season at Home on the Range in Washtucna, WA.  Cathy Leddy of Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes, Monica Bretherton and  Shannon Mayfield on Galen, Magdan (Danny) and Asil Tumay (Tommy). Cathy reports:
"We did have some adventures, which have been immortalized on blogs and Facebook.  You can read about it at:  http://cascadegold.blogspot.com/  (my blog),  http://blog.seattlepi.com/horsebytes/  (Monica’s blog) and also on Facebook under Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes and the PNER list.  We even have a song about us now…for having loose horses in camp!  What a way to become (in)famous. "

Catrina Mettam competed at Jump for Joy at the Clark County Event Center in Ridgefield, WA Event date: March 25, 2012 on her part-bred Akhal-Teke mare Mazaly bred by Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes. 
This was Mazaly's first competition.
Here is a report from Catrina:"Mazaly was great! We did 10 rounds and all 10 clean. We started the day at 12" and went up to 2'3". She ribboned in 9 of the classes and took home one coveted 1st place!!!! In the all around at 2'. I backed her at 8am and we did not finish until 3. I was exhausted but I think Maizie could have gone another 10 rounds...She is a Teke after all. We had to be lead into the arena every time, but she meet a lot of people and I was asked by about 8 different people what her breed was and saw many others talking trying to figure it out. So she did some really good PR for the breed!!!!!

Have some things to work on for sure, in 2 weeks I am taking her to an ODS league show and then at the end of the month I think we are heading to another jumper show."

Salam
2000 purebred Akhal-Teke by Maksut II and Saytkhanum.
Standing at stud at Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes.
Owned by Anne-Marie Rasch of Manchester MI.

Salamdor
2010 purebred Akhal-Teke colt by Salam and MV Elfia.
Standing at stud at Silver Hill Akhal Tekes in Billings MT.
Bred by Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes.

Pedigree Correction:
Golden Gait
2006 pure bred Akhal-Teke stallion by Pieter and Annastasia.
Bred by Shad 'Zadeh Akhal-Tekes LLC in Osakis MN.

Certificate Replacement:
Andymn
1997 Part-bred Akhal-Teke gelding  by Astrachan and Mirija.
Bred by Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes, owned by Cindy Balogh.
He is for sale, contact Cascade Gold.

President Barak Obama from the United States of America visited Turkmenistan this week to pursue his love of horse back riding.
He made headlines in the Turkmenistan national newspapers.
President  Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow was so impressed by devotion that he gifted him with his favorite white Akhal-Teke stallion Urbanfoolly.President Obama plans to become a member of the ATAA and will compete his stallion in dressage and endurance and is hoping to earn the year end awards.