Net Bytes - May/June 2000
compiled by Jean Sorensen

Greener Pastures:

* Glitter Please, the palomino TB stallion and FEI dressage champion, Jan 24, 2000. Euthanized due to severe enteritis.
* Deck Of Stars, QH stallion, Sept 7, 1999. Euthanized due to a breeding accident. LFC: 2000
* Smokey Duster Too, QH stallion, Nov 4, 1999. Euthanized due to arthritis.
* Asadd, Arabian stallion. Dec 15, 1999.
* Special, TB mare, Dec 28, 1999. Full sister to Irish champion Thatch, dam of Nureyev and grandam of Sadler's Wells among others. Retired since 1991.
* Zen, TB stallion, at age 26 due to infirmities of age. Retired in 1996 following the breeding season. Buried at Hill N Dale.

Straight From The Horses Mouth. This month, the Pony of America Club (POAC). Thanks Laurel!

Approved crosses for POA:
Canadian POA
American Buckskin Registry
American Connemara Pony Society
American Morgan Horse Assn
AQHA
ApHC
Appaloosa Horse Club of Canada
AHRA (Arab)
Australian Palouse Pony (New South Wales)
Galiceno Horse Breeders Assn
Int'l Buckskin Assn
Palomino Horse Breeders of America
JC (TB)

With the following "subject to individual breeding of animal":
American Mustang Assn
American Quarter Pony
American Shetland Pony Club
Half-Arab and Anglo-Arab registries (IAHA)
Spanish Mustang Registry
Welsh Pony Society of America

Names can be up to 24 letters/spaces. No numerical prefix, suffix or number within the name. No punctuation. No name already used by a registered pony.

Not POA but here is one more straight from the breed registry - the Spanish Mustang Registry does NOT allow tobiano pinto patterns!! There are a number of Mustang registries and others do accept tobianos but NOT the Spanish Mustang Registry. Thanks to Daralyn for discovering this one.

What does a 'strain' mean for Arabian horses?

A strain refers to the original tribe of the desert that bred the foundation lines of those horses. Different tribes desired different looks and distinct types were created. The strain is passed through the mare line in Bedouin pedigrees so the tail female line always determines strain. When both the stallion and the mare are of the same strain the resulting offspring is said to be "pure in the strain". Common strains found in [Al Khamsa] Arabian horses are Saglawi, Dahman, Hamdani and Abayyan.

Breeding Groups or Country of Origin bloodlines are not the same thing as strains. The strains are traced only through the female line. From www.destinyarabians.com/definiti.htm.

That cream gene!

Dunalino is the dun gene plus the cream gene, one copy of each on top of chestnut. Without the dun gene, the horse would be palomino. Without the cream gene, the horse would be red dun. Both together results in dunalino, which at first glance looks like a palomino but has darker legs, a dorsal stripe, may have primitive marks and sometimes a darker or two-toned tail. The same process on top of a bay results in dunskin. Page Bull Parker is an example of a dunalino QH. He looks palomino with a dorsal, darker legs and two-tone tail. You can check Page Bull Parker out at www.pcswebs.com/pcswebs/Equine/pagebp.htm.

What do you do with those cremellos QH's until AQHA allows them? The APHA will register a cremello out of 2 registered AQHA parents. It may require a little more paperwork if the AQHA stallion is not listed with the APHA. Going into effect on Jan 1, 2000, BOTH the sire and the dam will have to be DNA tested! This is a new requirement for all crop-out QH's to be registered with APHA. They will take them in the breeding stock division if they do not have enough white to make the regular registry.

This could have also been under Straight From The Horses Mouth. Elizabeth wrote the American Cream Draft Assn. and was answered by Dorothy Beardsley-Smith. She informs there are no cremello Cream drafts. Their color is the result of a dilution factor. Normal dilution results in Cream color coat, pink skin, opaque eye at birth that turns to amber as an adult, usually with 3-4 white socks, white mane and tail and a blaze. The addition of an extra dilution factor results in what is called a 'pink champagne' color with pink skin, white m/t and pale amber eyes. It is actually 'ivory champagne' but the Assn does not use that term.

If there is no dilution factor, the result will be a ruby red sorrel, flaxen m/t, dark amber eye, dark skin (not black), beige or dark beige socks. If you crossbreed a Cream Draft, there is an 80% chance it will be Cream. However, since the gene pool is so small they do not encourage this and are seeking the aid of people who will dedicate their efforts to the preservation, promotion, promulgation of the breed.

There are no mature Cream Drafts who are blue-eyed. All of them develop the amber eye color eventually. Check out www.amcrmdrafthrsfdn.com for photos.

Caroline and Erica supplied the pedigree for the hunter mare Elfin Magic, better known as Rox Dene, a 1986 grey Dutch Warmblood mare. Rox Dene had a 1999 foal by the grey TB stallion Loyal Pal and is bred back to him for 2000. Her full brother, Rox Don, 1988, was also a hunter.

Key:
xx - TB
SF - Selle Francais

------Ukase (Ibrahim -SF x Joyses)
----Onyx
------Urani (LeMiche xx X Gitane -SF)
--Aristos B - DWB
------Ghill Manor xx (Gilles de Retz x Constant Worry)
----Nenia
------Genia (Pascal x Urenia)
Rox Dene
------Frosty Mr. (Blue Swords x Gray Auntie)
----Frosty Hai
------Falibhai (Alihbai x Ficklebush)
--Ninety Nine xx -grey
------Thinking Cap (Rosemount x Camargo)
----Detective
------Night Beat (John Constable x Twilight Game)

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