15.3½ hh metallic golden buckskin
by ATAMEKAN (Grade I) out of GULARA (Elite)
XANADU is bold, athletic, highly intelligent and adores people. He combines his sire’s lightness of movement with his dam’s greater substance.
His sire Atamekan passed on his jumping ability to all his offspring, and we expect Xan to do the same. A potential sporthorse sire for quality mares, he would also make the perfect “improver” for the heavier mare. He is throwing exceptional foals from a variety of mares – see below.
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Xan’s sire Atamekan was a Grade I racehorse in his native Turkmenistan. He carried out two ultra-long-distance rides in Central Asia and Britain, won several times SJ and jumped Open XC. His progeny, both home-bred and from outside mares, include successful SJ, Eventing, Endurance and Show horses, illustrating the versatility of the Akhal-Teke horse.
His dam Gulara is graded Elite by VNIIK (the All-Russia National Institute of Research and Horse-Breeding), which holds the Akhal-Teke “mother” studbook. She never competed due to a head injury at two years.
Xanadu is the only true “golden” Akhal-Teke at stud in the UK. He has the dilution gene with one recessive gene for chestnut, enabling him to sire both palominos and buckskins.
FOALS
Leilanadu, out of Trakehner x Warmblood 
Merlin, out of Appaloosa x Welsh 
Nokandu, out of Trakehner x Warmblood 
Altyn Duman, out of Thoroughbred 
Xan-Diego, out of ISH
Xan-Diego (Elvis): “A temperament to die for!! Full of character and a real sweet heart.” (owner Emma Metcalf).
“Very correct” observed the vet who came to microchip Altyn Duman (Manny).
**PLEASE NOTE** In the breeding table below, Xanadu’s grandsire is MAKSAD (black, b. 1980, Stud Book vol. IX),**NOT**SAINTWESTWELL MAKSAT (grey/buckskin, b. 1990)
