About Tukum
Tukum means seed, descent. The site began in 2009 as a card index kept by Janyl Kurmanbek kyzy (reg. Kurmanbekova), then a lecturer in the TSU veterinary faculty, for her students' practical work on breeding. Breeders asked for copies, so in 2011 it went online on MyPage@Attelkom, and it has been at tukum.net since 2016. She retired in 2022 and breeds a few Chongtors at Kara-Oi in the upper Talas valley. A handful of volunteers in Talas, the valleys and the United States read in new lists.
Where the records come from
- The printed volumes of the Soviet Akyel studbook (AK numbers) and the Chongtor herd books (CH numbers).
- The annual lists of the National Akyel Studbook (NAS numbers, from 1998) and the Chongtor Studbook Registry (CSR numbers, from 1994).
- State Archives Fond 218 (studbooks and guilds) and Fond 402 (the Horse-Breeding Trust), read in the reading room.
- Oral pedigrees taken down by the Registry's inspection committees, and owners' papers.
- For Iradi horses abroad, the American Akyel register (AAR) and the owners.
What it is not
Tukum isn't a registry and doesn't issue papers. If our record and a certificate disagree, the certificate wins, and please tell us. Studbooks are kept by the Akyel Equine Logistics & Breeding Syndicate (Akyel) and the Chongtor Studbook Registry. For export papers, see the step-by-step guide on e-Irad. We don't list prices and we don't carry sale adverts.
Elsewhere
- Irad Wiki: Akyel Horse, Chongtor Horse, List of notable horses of Irad.
- Visit Irad: horses, for riding, the Hippodrome and the stud farms you can visit.
- Ermek Saparbekov's horses at the Irad Palace of Art, Iyık Janyl, among them the founding studbook stallions.
Reading the numbers
Inbreeding is Wright's coefficient, worked out from every ancestor we have. Where an ancestor is "not recorded", the real figure may be higher. Leading-sire counts include only the foals we have entered.
Thanks
To the reading room of the State Archives, the Hippodrome stewards, the breeders of the Guild, and everyone who has sent us a photocopied certificate.