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RE: [RC] Arabian bloodlines - heidiPrecisely. To the show world, horses such as *Witez II are
blasé. But he was a good sire of solid athletes. But
then get into even more obscure Polish horses--like *Sulejman (actually
a Polish-Crabbet cross, but his Polish sire was Fetysz--how many Polish
breeders have heard of him?). I'd take him in an endurance
pedigree any day, too.
I'm obviously more up to speed on CMK pedigrees, but who out
there has heard of Ziyadi? Gee, he's close-up behind both
Bezatal and Kontiki. Wanna talk athletes? He was the
stellar race horse of his day. And yet his blood is nearly
gone. It isn't just coincidence that it popped back up
onto the radar again via stallions like Las-Trad and
Argonaut. And Las-Trad's sisters Rad-Sor and Princess Sherod are
popping up in successful endurance pedigrees as well. And no
coincidence that Ziyadi's dam Follyat is the granddam of such
stallions as Aurab or Muhuli, both "over-represented" in pedigrees
of successful endurance horses as well. Sure, Abu Farwa has
been a positive influence, but the reason I bred to a stallion like
Argonaut was for the influence of Ziyadi, since I already had Abu
Farwa running out my ears. But try starting a thread on
Ziyadi or Follyat, and see how far you get on a modern Arabian
board.
Or how about the mare *Ferda? She shows up in the tail female
line of a disproportionate number of race and endurance winners, as do
Davenport mares (such as *Urfah, tail female of Heraldic, whose
successes have recently dominated the list, and old *Wadduda, the
famous war mare).
These horses weren't lackluster--people simply are ignorant
of who they were and what they have contributed.
Heidi
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