The first two Volumes of the studbook were written by Gorelov and Mazanov beginning of the 20th century. Regrettably these hand-written notes have been lost. M.I. Belonogov published the 3rd studbook 1941 in Tashkent.

The careful reader of the 3rd studbook will be able to discern, that quite a few of the horses inscribed as Akhal Teke must actually have been of different origin. Their names still give away their original owners and tribal connections. Through this the 3rd studbook becomes an official document of two important facts:

• the modern Akhal Teke actually is a grouped breed of several Turkoman breeds
• foundation horses were accepted on orally traded pedigrees a mere 70 years ago

These are facts which do need to be specifically noted by anyone wishing to discuss studbook matters without myths and blarney attached.

The third studbook still discerned between Akhal Teke, Anglo-Teke, Yamoud and Anglo-Yamoud horses. Each had an own division. The reason for these divisions was the 1932 ride from Ashgabat to Moscow, by which the Turkmenian dshigits wished to prove the value of pure breeding of the Akhal Teke and Yamoud. The decision to stop the crossbreeding was based on the results of this ride.

However, already with the fourth volume the crossbred horses were moved together with the purebred ones. Additionally, the decision taken was retroactive, meaning that all horses having a non-Akhal Teke ancestor after 1935 should not be considered purebred.

This is - one needs to say it clearly - unparalleled anywhere in herdkeeping. There is no other breed whose studbook was retroactively closed in precisely this manner. Commonly a studbook is either closed with a contemporary date or as per actual research into the purity of a breed by a set limit (and of course also a contemporary date). Regarding closed studbooks and pure breeding mores all over Earth, this illogical method of using a timeline instead of pedigree cannot be found anywhere else.

What probably was the worst part of this, is that no effort was made to enforce this closure. Up to the 7th studbook, published 1988, which means for another unbelievable 47 years breeders were allowed to actually crossbreed the Akhal Teke. What non-Russians need to realize in this respect is that all breeders were government bodies: statefarms. We are not talking of a plethora of private and far removed owners, we are talking about a set number of farms ruled by the same government which maintained the general stud book.

During these 47 years several sire lines, as well as worthy competitive bloodlines, were continued on mares having foreign ancestors after 1935. Especially in Kazakhstan and Kalmykia quite a few carefully nurtured lines and breeding families existed, which belonged to this group. Effectively they more often than not did not carry more infusion than others whose influence dated back before 1935. As has been said before in the section about purity, genetically it does not matter at all, when an infusion happened, all that matters is the generation it happened in and on how many pedogree lines it travels.

The board which decided upon the 7th studbook now repeated the illogical decision of 1941 and exacerbated it to make matters even more interesting. Part of the reason for this was the wish to disallow the Dagestan sire Agat, much used in Dagestan, Kalmykia and Kazakhstan, an all in one approach apparently was called for.

Agat was sired by Askol and born 1959 out of the mare 1133 Astra. The studbook management purportedly received a letter written by a groom stating that Agat was not sired by Askol years later. This was sufficient to declare him being of half-unknown origin. During one of his last appearances in front of the studbook officials, V. Schamborant assured them of the Akhal Teke ancestrage of Agat. No English Thoroughbred had been around at the time that Agat's dam had been serviced, only Akhal Teke. Horses with Agat ancestrage were already bred with him in 4th and 5th generation at the time, among them many considered to be the finest of the area. He and his son Asker were used on some of the absolutley pure and rare dams in Dagestan and Chagorta. Like many of the horses with English blood infusion after 1935, his get was interbred with so many rare and valuable families, that their "partbred-alization" proved a disaster and did away with important variety of genes.

All of these horses were now actually evicted from the studbook, many of the newly privatized statefarms, but also the first private breeders in the CIS and Europe found themselves owning horses suddenly not any more purebred, even though they had been sold with papers of purebred Akhal Teke. By the way, these papers were all issued and controlled by the very same studbook officials and government officials who decreed they were partbred but a few years later!

It is doubtful that any such thing could have happened anywhere else. From the 7th studbook onwards now exist two books, one for "purebred" Akhal Teke and one for "partbred" Akhal Teke. The current edition, the 10th studbook has been discovered to suffer from multiple mistakes, even though it took ages to be issued. Inspite of bloodtyping and allegedly ruthless care regarding the purity of horses, still individual Akhal Teke get evicted from this studbook, no proof of cause provided, no possibility to present a case anywhere.