11/14/2025
We’re just thrilled to announce! ☺️
New tests on Tuesday morning have revealed that Akhal-Teke mares Ally and Kurinka are pregnant! Woohoo!! 🎉🎉
These new results bring the conservation breeding program at the nonprofit Akhal-Teke Center up to four foals expected in 2026.
Each of these pregnancies brings us closer to the big goal of sustainability for Akhal-Tekes in North America!
And each of these pregnant mares is available now for sponsorship at any level that works for you:
Zenus x Goklen, expected around March
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/241403-sponsor-zenus
Anadana x Arik, expecting around March
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/241330-sponsor-anadana
Ally x Danny, expecting around June
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/241362-sponsor-swan-akylly-baytal
Kurinka x Danny, expecting around June
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/241349-sponsor-kurinka
With only about ten foals born across North America each year, every pregnancy and every healthy foal is a breakthrough for the endangered Akhal-Teke breed.
The numbers show that most Akhal-Teke foals who are sold commercially never get bred — simply because most horse owners are not horse breeders.
Valuable diverse genetics can get lost, and annual foal crops have dwindled, as most of the few ‘Tekes born in the U.S. have gone to homes that don't breed them. That's completely normal in the American horse world. But it is devastating for a breed as rare as the legendary Akhal-Teke.
The Akhal-Teke Foundation was borne out of an analysis that revealed that one of the primary threats to recovery of this breed was actually, in a way, its own popularity. The foundation’s conservation breeding program is guided by horse first principles… and on a demographic model of what it will take to save the Akhal-Teke breed.
At the foundation's Akhal-Teke Center in Lexington, Virginia, with your help, the ATF is actually starting to reverse the breed's decline, building a genetically diverse breeding herd to maintain a critical gene pool while serving as a rich resource for breeders nationwide.
The bottom line is that your support is what makes these sweet, beautiful, endangered Akhal-Tekes possible, today, and tomorrow.
Thank you!!
📷 Akhal-Teke stallion Danny
Read this announcement on the web…
https://akhaltekefoundation.dm.networkforgood.com/emails/4300041?recipient_id=B4BvkeaCgoR-bw33gHjUlg%7C%7Cc3dhbmZhcm1kZXh0ZXJAZ21haWwuY29t
