I have a new horse!!!!
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Yippie, some Arab lovers!!! AND you know I have been having grey withdrawls since I lost Joy and adopted out Bailey. Don't you think based on his mane tail he may end up looking like his sire? He is really going gray fast.
Did you look over his pedigree and know anything about it? I need to be schooled on it a little since I have been out of the loop.
I have thought about calling him:
Frosty
Silver
Cloud
OR
Possum??? lol.
Names, we need names!
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Bailey's?
Based on his pic he looks more red-based than his sire, but you never know with how gray screws around...
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OT - first year in undergrad I had a physics teacher/TA by the name of Steven Frautschi, who was awesome on so many levels. I'm totally mixing them up. If you want to be super nerdy, you could call him
Steve
Bootstrap
Pomeron
Hagedorn
:-B
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Oh, THERE is Genetic Testing Man! We need him in the "rare" Appy thread. In fact, I've said it before but I'll say it again here... I think GTM and the Sabino Scapegoat need to be added as stock images here on the forum so we can all type in a simple shortcut and they'll just show up. :mrgreen:
Also, I never name a horse after its color. I figure it's all been done. When I got my first little round grey pony, the barn owner wanted me to call him Snowball. Nope, he's Owen.
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[quote="Sara"]
Also, I never name a horse after its color. I figure it's all been done. When I got my first little round grey pony, the barn owner wanted me to call him Snowball. Nope, he's Owen.[/quote]
Ebony was named for her colour...and I can't count the number of changes she's given us...if I didn't know for sure that both mum and dad were black, no agouti in site, I'd be thinking she might be a black bay right now!
Oh, and congrats on the new horse, Steff!!
Diane
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[quote]Did you look over his pedigree and know anything about it?[/quote]
Do you plan on breeding him, or is he gelded/will be gelded? If breeding is a possibility, I'd have him tested for Cerebellar Abiotrophy. There are some lines in his pedigree that are known to carry it.
Those are good lines, though. Very nice Egyptian horses in his pedigree! And he is quite stunning!
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[quote]Did you look over his pedigree and know anything about it? I need to be schooled on it a little since I have been out of the loop.[/quote]
His pedigree is highly inbred to a horse named Nazeer - this is what is called "new egyptian" blood. Nazeer was bred in the desert and found and used by the Egyptian state stud (EAO). He had many, many famous offspring, which were exported all over the world. In this pedigree, he comes mainly through his famous sons Ansata Ibn Halima, Morafic, Alaa El Din and Ramses Fayek.
You would be hard pressed not to find Nazeer back in the pedigrees of most modern Arabians. Non-Nazeer, straight egyptian blood is considered a vanishing subgroup. He was probably best known for passing on great "type" to his offspring. I believe he was also very fast, and many of his offspring are noted for movement. He had some conformational defects, notably in the hindend, and some of his offspring did as well.
His lines have several dynasties to their credit, including the Ansata stud, the Al Badeia stud, and the Simeon Stud. I know of two books written about his offspring, one about Ansata Ibn Halima and one about Hanan.
*edited to add - Hanan was a granddaughter
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Yay, congratulations to you and Morgan! You know I love Arabs. :)