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Mom's make a world of difference.

I had two mares that I adore and sons from each. And then a son of one 
mare by the son of the other. All of Dory's kids are level-headed to 
the utmost degree and gentle, easy-going souls. Not much of a spook in 
any of them and their mother could be re-named Spookbusters.  She never 
fusses at a thing. The son of Nimbus, who is the father of Dory's last 
effort Fagr, is so much more like his mother. He decides to spook at 
things and I know damn well that it's rubbish. She was exactly the same 
way.  All the colts have been raised with both mares and in a group 
with each other with plenty of handling from birth, so I've eliminated 
that. Since Fagr is basically a xerox of his mother in both temperament 
and looks, I'm giving top marks to Dory for the personality.

Nim was a beauty and she passed on a few months ago at the age of 30 
odd. Her son Nayzak was gelded after slyly siring Fagr (Who me? I 
wouldn't do a thing like that!). So now Dory is my only mare for 
breeding and I'm very happy with that. If I sold her offspring, I'd 
have people standing in lines for them. But I'm greedy and I love 
riding my own horses.

And these guys are all from that "notoriously un-mellow" background of 
Egyptians.

Maryanne
Cairo
On Monday, Jul 12, 2004, at 08:06 Africa/Cairo, heidi sowards wrote:
>  Should be interesting to see, however, I still blame his mom!
> ?
> heidi


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