Re: Disunited Trot
lindavan.eqath@juno.com
Sat, 21 Dec 1996 02:08:24 PST
>Susan wrote-------------------------------------------------------
>I remember the late Norm Dunn at the Kellogg Arabian Center, who was a
walking encyclopedia of bloodlines, said something like that once, too.
He mentioned they had had a few of the original Kellogg horses that
tended towards a singlefoot (in his words), much less so now that so
much Polish has been interspersed with the original Kellogg lines. All
the original Kellogg horses came from Crabbett Park, including Rayseyn,
of course. Rayseyn was a Skowronek son and Raffles was a Skowronek
grandson through his dam Rifala, so I wonder if it's the Skowronek blood
that produces the "gaitedness"? I once had a Fersen grandson who on
occasion would do "something" that sure felt like a gait of some sort
(definitely four beat and you couldn't post to it, other than that I'm
clueless) and obviously he was from Rayseyn lines as well.
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Raffles was indeed a Skowronek grandson, he was also a Skowronek son. My
smaller mares are heavy Skowronek and they do this trotting
"gaitedness"/'overdrive' (if those are the same thing). However, they
are not nearly as adept as the two 16h. horses I have/had. The Fiddler
had no Skowronek blood, only a little bit of Crabbet, a lot of the old
Himadi 'Egyptian'. The rest was Halima (Egyptian) and Witez II
(Polish). The big mare is 1/2 Thorobred (Man'O'War-lines) and 1/2
Egyptian.
I think it is more of a phenotype thing than a genotype thing. I rode a
sister of my Raffles mare, she didn't do that gate but she was a
different phenotype. (Different training too).
Lindavan