Kamut is the fruit of chance, one of those unexpected mistakes that, over time, reveal themselves as a deeply meaningful gift. It is the descendant of the Elderberry and the Punjab, two marked but extraordinary histories.
The Elder was a stallion from Cerdanya who had always lived in freedom, living with mares in the Pyrenees. When he was old and his destiny seemed to lead him inevitably to the slaughterhouse, we decided to take him in and offer him a new opportunity. He was a horse of exquisite nobility: he knew how to bond with sensitivity, he was peaceful and balanced. With the castrated males, he established clear limits, but he did so with direct honesty, without aggression, only with the right firmness.
Panjab, for her part, came from the ADE association. She had a history of severe abuse: she had been beaten with a saw, a sharp instrument that causes intense pain and leaves deep marks, both physical and emotional. Her relationship with people was marked by fear and distrust.
Both Panjab and Saüc shared, each in their own way, a story of suffering: he, witnessing year after year the loss of his foals; she, the victim of violent training and finally rescued from a situation of abuse.
From this meeting Kamut was born. We performed a vasectomy on the Elder, the first one performed on a horse in Catalonia, but in that brief period after this practice (the least invasive for fertility control) in which there can still be fertility, this new life was conceived, an unexpected life, but full of meaning.
His parents are no longer here, but Kamut is their living legacy. It thrills us to think that, in some way, Punjab has been able to continue to exist through him, after having experienced years of freedom that was finally granted to it.
Kamut symbolizes this: the rediscovered freedom of the Punjab, and also that of so many other “Punjabs” around the world. It is memory, it is reparation and, above all, it is hope.
He was born with the inner greatness of his father but with the physical size of his mother, who was petite. A well-proportioned and beautiful horse that we did not expect and that is now one of the Foundation's benchmarks!
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