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Patron Honorowy: Polish Union of English Thoroughbreds Breeders
Mecenas: Katarzyna & Marcin Konarscy
Opiekun: LKS Stragona Strzegom
„The great successes of Polish equestrianism, world championships, Olympic medals … all this would not be possible without a wide base of conditions such as breeding, tradition, sports and equestrian clubs, and above all people who, thanks to their knowledge and passion, devoted all their life.”
Tomasz Konarski
Grzegorz Konarski was a director of Strzegom Stud Farm for many years. Maria Konarska was the main breeder therein.
Grzegorz Konarski was a founder, a creator of the first successes and many years’ president of the Equestrian Club Stragona Strzegom.
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Grzegorz Konarski was born on 16 April 1942 in Kluczewsko in Włoszczowa district, at Konarski’s family property.
His family was connected with land for generations. Grzegorz’s grandfather, Maksymilian Konarski, was born in 1876. He had agricultural university education, managed the estate between 1900 and 1937, made a contribution to the commune development, founded a mill on Czarna river, was a communal judge, a founder of a Grange, a Fire-Brigade and a Savings and Loan Company in Kluczewsko. Besides, he was a member of a district council, Agricultural Association of Kielce and a church supervision. They had three children: Stanisław, Krystyna and Andrzej.
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Author: Artur Bober on the basis of his conversation with Grzegorz Konarski.
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Maria Konarska, from home Moraczewska, was born in 1946 at Piotrkowska street in Łódź. Her mother had a dress and elegant clothes studio over there and a flat upstairs. Maria lived there a short time because her parents moved a year later to Odolańska street in Warsaw and she spent her childhood in this place. She keeps in mind her childhood as very happy despite many tragic events that happened to her family.
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Author: Leszek Karpina on the basis of his conversation with Maria Konarska.
Below you will find links to related materials in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library.
Polish Digital Equestrian Library:
Click the following links to go to related materials in Polish Digital Equestrian Library (they will open in a new page):
„Grzegorz Konarski” (2022) – Artur Bober
„Maria Konarska” (2022) – Leszek Karpina
„Osiodłane wspomnienia” (2021) – Leszek Karpina
„Historia Stadniny Koni w Strzegomiu” – Maria Konarska
„Wręczyliśmy nagrody najlepszym w sezonie 2005 na Służewcu” (2005) – Jan Zabieglik
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Gallery:
Janów Podlaski Stud Farm (late sixties).
From left (standing): Michał Maciejewski, Kazimierz Guziuk, Bolesław Orłoś, Grzegorz Konarski.
From left (sitting): Ignacy Jaworowski, Marek Piotrowski, Zdzisław Hroboni, Jerzy Chachuła, Andrzej Krzyształowicz.
Janów Podlaski Stud Farm (late sixties).
From left: Antoni Święcki, Andrzej Krzyształowicz, Grzegorz Konarski and Marian Gadzalski.
From left: Antoni Święcki, Andrzej Krzyształowicz with his dog… and Grzegorz Konarski. Late sixties. 
Janów Podlaski. Grzegorz Konarski on the left. The staff of Janów Podlaski Stud Farm during horse team training. 
From left: Stanisław Kurowski, Tadeusz Marchowiecki, Grzegorz Konarski, Bolesław Orłoś. Służewiec Racecourse. 
The stallion Cardif (Kasjan – Carmen / Torpid) under jockey Józef Gęborys, ahead of Trol and Diagonal.
The winner of Prime Minister’s Award, 1984. Łukasz Abgarowicz, a trainer
Hipokrates (Alywar – Hipoteza / Conor Pass). Award of Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy, 27/09/1998. Jockey Józef Gęborys, trainer Maciej Janikowski. Photo: Edyta Twaróg. 
Award of PRESIDENT of the REPUBLIC OF POLAND 01/10/2006. From left: Janusz Romanowski, Michał Romanowski (trainer), Maria Konarska, stallion Kamerdyner (Country Club – Karioka / Unblest), a lad, Grzegorz Konarski, Jean Pierre Lopez (jockey). Photo: Edyta Twaróg. 
Hipoliner, a winner of Iwno Award in 2006. Służewiec Racecourse in Warsaw. From left: Michał Wojnarowski,
a director of Iwno Stud Farm, Janusz Romanowski, Grzegorz Konarski, Maria Konarska, a lad, Józef Siwonia (trainer), Anton Turgajew (jockey).
Photo: Edyta Twaróg.
Award of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. From left: Grzegorz Konarski, Aleksander Reznikov, a lad, Nick of Memory (Double Alleged – Nick of time / Mtoto), deputy prime minister Henryk Kowalczyk, Andrzej Walicki (in the rear), Maria Konarska, director Pietrzak and Janusz Romanowski. Photo: Edyta Twaróg. 
Służewiec Racecourse. From left – Michał Wojnarowski, Maria Konarska, Grzegorz Konarski (behind her), Maria Świdzińska,
beside Roman Krzyżanowski, Anna Katarzyna Krzyżanowska (spectacled).
Służewiec Racecourse. From right: Maria Konarska with Domart, a winner of Ruler’s Award in 2003,
and Mieczysław Mełnicki (a trainer).
Maria Konarska on horseback at meadows of the Stud Farm in Strzegom, Żelazowo branch,
with her sons, Marcin (ahead) and Paweł (behind). Photo: Zofia Raczkowska
