Adonah

The grey stallion Adonah was born in 1936 at the Ujazd Stud of Baron Bicker in Poland. The baron started his breeding program by importing four Crabbet mares. Among those mares was the chestnut Fasila, a daughter by Rasim who was also imported to Ujazd Stud along the mares in the 1920's.
Baron Bicker leased the stallion Fetysz between 1933 and 1935 which became the sire of 3 of Fasila's foals. One was a filly and the other two ones where the stallions Sulejman and Adonah. Sulejman was imported by Henry Babson of the United States while Adonah was kept in Poland.
His sire Fetysz was not only a successful producer of Arabian blood but also served as chief sire at Trakehnen from 1936 to 1940, where he sired, among others, the important Trakehner stallion Famulus. Through Famulus’ son Maharadscha, this sire line remains active within the breed to the present day.
In September 1944, as the war advanced into East Prussia, Fetysz was evacuated from Trakehnen to Graditz Stud. This transfer is the last point at which his presence is securely documented. For decades, it was generally assumed that he perished during the final phase of the war, with various unverified accounts describing his death during the chaotic evacuations.
More recent archival research, however, has introduced a new and intriguing possibility. Records discovered in U.S. Army archives describe a 21-year-old white stallion, presented in April 1945 at Graditz by Soviet General Aleksej Semenovich Zadov to George S. Patton, and subsequently listed under the name “Faith.” The coincidence of location, age, and description suggests that this horse may have been Fetysz; however, in the absence of direct identification, this must remain a plausible but unverified hypothesis.
In contrast to his sire, Adonah survived the war. In 1943 he was transferred to a private breeder in Poznan and, during the final phase of the conflict, was brought to Germany, where his later influence could unfold under more stable conditions.
From 1946 to 1949 he was state sire near Stendal before he was transferred to Berlin. In 1952, Dr. Karl Lehmann acquired him for his private stud in Haldensleben, East Germany where the Fetysz son nicked well with the Babolna bred mare Rozka who Dr. Lehmann acquired from Achental Stud. The mating produced four significant full-siblings: the stallions Abdullah and Raswan and the mares Risala and Rawanah.
Adonah was standing in Haldensleben until the sudden death of Dr. Lehmann in 1959.
The Zoo in Rostock took him over to help building up their Arabian horse breeding program, mostly based on Polish bloodlines. In Rostock, he produced only three purebred foals of which one was his most influential daughter: Arabella. This grey mare was a daughter out of Armenia by Witraz. Arabella was the dam of Arabeske who was considered the best Arabian mare bred by Zoo Rostock. Arabeske was awarded German Elite mare.
Th second daughter was Maruschka out of Grazyna by Roszmaryn. The last purebred Adonah sired was his only son born in Rostock. With the Marabut daughter Galka he produced the chestnut stallion Akif. Akif produced the stallion Achmed (x Rumailla by Jager) who became a well-trained dressage horse under Jutta Hell.
In 1963, Adonah died at the age of 27 in Rostock.