Candy

Recently we re-connected with Candy Peters, who bred the Antiquity's line of Heck Tarpan horses on her farm name decades ago, also serving as registrar.  Candy became an emergency physician and Tarpan horse enthusiast at an early age, and is also a mother and now a grandmother. Here, in Candy's words: 

"My journey with Tarpans began in 1990 when I responded to a plea to Help Save the World's Rarest Breed of Horse printed on the last page of an issue of a horse magazine.  Owning my first Tarpan stallion and mares in my late teens, Ellen Thrall and Tarpans laid the foundation for my lifelong passion for horses, teaching me common sense and practical approaches to horse management and horsemanship.  With Ellen’s encouragement I served as registrar and ambassador for the American Tarpan Studbook Association from 1991 - 2004 meeting with 4H groups, riding in NATRAC competitive trail rides with Ellen, administering the Adopt-a-Tarpan program, publishing newsletters on breeding and preservation efforts, providing information to universities on the breed and writing articles for contemporary equine publications on Tarpans.  Assistance from THCP has allowed my daughter and I to revive my original Tarpan breeding program (Antiquity Farms) as Relics of Antiquity.  Our current aspirations with our Tarpan horses lie not only in preservation of the Tarpans in North America, but we also hope to expand the available genetic pool for preserving these horses through importation of European breeding stock.  We seek to honor the legacy of Ellen Thrall's passion for animals and people and the generosity of the many equine enthusiasts who have touched our lives.  We hope to inspire other existing and potential horse lovers to share our appreciation of the unique character and beauty of the Tarpan horses." Find more at Relics of Antiquity on facebook.

Antiquity's Romulus, one of the many horses she bred and an important stallion for us, is pictured below (photo by Julia Bright).