If one wants to create a model of endurance, beauty and purity, then one should take the Ahalteke horse as an example.

(26.) 

I have powerful Türkmen thoroughbred, would you groom it Jygalybeg ?

I have also a broken and uneased heart, would you groom it, Jygalybeg ?

My bowers are shackled, my Çandybil is a grieved country now,

And our ill-fortune never awakens, unless you, unless  you…, Jygalybeg!  

(30)

There was white wheat five thousand years ago, too.

The same must be said of the Türkmen horse of Ahalteke, the Türkmen iti (dog), the carpet and the other artefacts.

(67.) 

If the spirit of the Türkmen is accepted as ‘horse’ in the fifth period, then it must be ‘eagle’ in the third period. 

(112.) 

In the past our ancestors presented themselves to the world by the strength of their swords; now, we should present ourselves with our rationality and with our immense spiritual values. Türkmenistan is known for its unique Ahalteke horses, for its carpets that are examples of the wonders of the world’s art, and for its limitless wonders of nature.

(158.) 

How can a man who rides horses, learns to fight at four or five years of age and is trained for war not be brave?

How can our nation not be brave and self-sacrificing, when all our books, epics and talks are related to the homeland and bravery?

The vizier of Baly Beg in the epic of Görogly said to his Soltan, “My Soltan, if you want the Türkmen to be slaves, be sure that the first thing that you should do is to take them off their horses.”

In the end the enemy understood this.

They managed to make Türkmens dismount and took away our horses at the end of the last century.

(172.) 

The travellers that came to our country said that the Türkmen horses were well-kept and ready for war throughout the year. More interestingly, young Türkmen men are also ready for war throughout the year. In contrast to the other peoples of Central Asia, even the farmers and the keepers of animals in our country do not like meat very much. They consume it as fried dried meat. It is easy to prepare food from dried meat and this meat can be conserved for a long time. The most famous food of the Türkmens is bread; much care is taken in baking bread. There is no need to eat anything else with the bread because it is delicious on its own. The Türkmen, who gives hay to his horse, himself eats bread made of dries wheat. He drinks the milk of the camel and also gives it to his horse. So he and his horse are always pure and healthy.

(181.) 

When it becomes evident that Türkmens will go to war, they pay attention to what they eat for three or four days before the battle. They feed themselves up on melted white fat, and they exercise to become supple. They always have logala (a round food made up of oil or dough for the animals) for their horses. Logala is made of a mixture of the tail fat of the sheep and salt. It is given to Türkmen horses which will go to battle. If the war lasts a long time, then the soldier will give more logala to the horse. It gives the horse more stamina. It can maintain its strength even if it does not eat for a few days after eating logala. Our shepherds still drink a half plate of melted fat before noon in summer so that they do not become hungry and thirsty until the evening.

(182.)

At the period when Oguz Han’s state was not yet very powerful, taking advantage of this situation, a powerful state tried to capture Oguz land by war. The enemy sent a messenger and demanded the best horse in the Oguz country.

Oguz Han’s commanders put forward their ideas:

“The enemy is ill-meaning. Let us make war, but let us not give the pedigree horse.”

Oguz Han said to them:

“It is wrong to prefer the worst, when what is only worse is still possible. One never knows, we may lose all our horses if we are defeated. Give him the horse and let him go!”

(246.) 

History is your ancestors and grand children

And grandfathers, father, children and nation.

Entering the most fortified palaces with your horse,

You are the Türkmen with strong and agile arms.

(274.)