Net Bytes - July/August 2001
compiled by Jean Sorensen

The Yellow Wolf Name Game
Do a name search for a QH named Yellow Wolf and you will find there are 10 unregistered QH's named Yellow Wolf. Six of those trace back the original Yellow Wolf (Old Joe Bailey x Old Mary). The Original Yellow wolf was foaled in 1912 and died in 1935. His full brother, Yellow Bear was foaled in 1913. Then there are a few Yellow Jacket horses that trace back to Yellow Wolf mares or sons of the Original Yellow Wolf. The Waggoner Ranch owned most of theses Yellow Wolf bred horses. Here is what the Waggoner Ranch owned and bred:

-Yellow Wolf (1912) THE ORIGINAL.
-Yellow Bear (1913).
-Yellow Boy sired by Chocolate by Yellow Wolf (1912) out of a Waggoner mare by Yellow Wolf (1912).
-Burnett Yellow Boy (1920) sired by Yellow Jacket out of Old Mary, half brother to Yellow Bear and Yellow Wolf.
-Yellow Fever by Yellow Wolf (1912) out of a Waggoner mare.
-Yellow Jacket 1908-1934. Owned by the Waggoner's from 1916-1924. He is the original Yellow Jacket as far as QH are concerned.
-Yellow Jacket by Yellow Jacket (1908) out of a Waggoner mare by Yellow Wolf (1912).
-East's Yellow Jacket by Yellow Jacket (1908) out of a Waggoner mare.
-Beetch's Yellow Jacket by Yellow Jacket (1908) out of a Waggoner mare.
-Adair's Yellow Wolf by Yellow Wolf (1912) out of a Waggoner mare.
-Brown's Yellow Wolf (no relation to Yellow Wolf -1912) but was owned and used by the Waggoner's. His breeding is unknown but said to be by Pid Hart by Shelby by Tom Driver. He was a seal brown colt and was a match racer, his name comes from the name of the Indian chief who once owned him.
-Burnett's Yellow Wolf by Yellow Wolf (1912) out of a Waggoner mare.
-Guthrie's Yellow Wolf by Yellow Wolf (1912) out of a Waggoner mare.
-Reynold's Yellow Wolf by Yellow Wolf (1912) out of a Waggoner mare.
-Young Yellow Wolf by Yellow Wolf (1912) out of a Waggoner mare.

Now these are just the horses owned and bred by the Waggoner Estates and most anything off the Waggoner Ranch will go back to Yellow Wolf.

Then there is:
-Moorhouse's Yellow Wolf (1939) by Humdinger out of Blasingame roan mare by Blackburn who is sired by Yellow Jacket (1908)(Waggoner's)
-Moorhouse's Yellow Jacket (1945) by King George out of JA mare by Yellow Boy P-18, 2nd dam a JA mare
-Yellow Boy P-18 is by Yellow Jacket (1908)
The JA ranch had Yellow Boy P-18 and other Waggoner/Yellow Jacket/Yellow Wolf breeding too.

*Note Moorhouse is not a typo. There is no 'e' there.

Breezing Dixie
Breezing Dixie was the dam of the 2000 National Champion Ladies Western Pleasure horse Alchemy, by Hollywood Taps GN.

MUSCAT
Imported from Russia in 1978. He sired foals in Russia from 1975-78. He sired foals in the US from 1979-1996 (with the last two being 1997 foals). He died in 1996. Muscat was a US National Champion Stallion. His registration numbers are: RASB #1845 or AHR #177179.

------Naseem 1922 grey
----Negativ 1945 grey
------Taraszcza 1937 grey
--Salon 1959 grey
------Skrzyp 1936 chestnut
----Sonata 1946 chestnut
------Odaliska 1941 bay
Muscat 1971-1996 chestnut stallion
------Piolun 1934 chestnut
----Priboj 1944 chestnut
------Rissalma 1932 chestnut
--Malpia 1958 chestnut
------Ofir 1933 bay
----Mammona 1939 bay
------Krucica 1929 chestnut

National Show Horse Requirements
The National Show Horse (NSH) is a registry formed for the Arabian x Saddlebred cross.

An NSH must be a minimum of 25% Arabian blood. There's no maximum amount of Arabian blood but it obviously must be less than 100%. The balance of the blood is Saddlebred. 15/16th Arabian NSH's have been bred!

Stallions must be nominated (by payment of a hefty fee) and can be purebred Arabian, purebred ASB or NSH. Mares must be purebred Arabian, purebred ASB or registered NSH and are not nominated.

The possible combinations are:
-Nominated Arabian stallion x ASB mare
-Nominated Arabian stallion x NSH mare
-Nominated ASB stallion x purebred Arabian mare
-Nominated ASB stallion x NSH mare, so long as the resulting offspring is at least 25% Arab
-Nominated NSH stallion x purebred Arabian mare
-Nominated NSH stallion x ASB mare, so long as the resulting offspring is at least 25% Arab
-Nominated NSH stallion x NSH mare, so long as the resulting offspring is at least 25% Arab

Over 96% of NSH are also registered in the IAHA Half-Arabian Registry, which means that they have a purebred Arabian parent.

NSH can be any color an Arabian or ASB can be and palominos and pintos are very popular.

And now to make things a little more confusing: when the NSH registry was first formed in 1982, it was possible to register any registered Half-Arabian as an NSH that first year. Very few (if any) of the non-Saddlebred crosses have bred on in the NSH registry because of the NSH emphasis on action classes (until recently that was the only type of classes in NSH shows). If the horse couldn't 'wave a leg' with the part-ASBs, it was hard to justify the (also hefty) registration fee. However (and the point of this digression): because of this brief "open registration" period, you could make a case for NSH of even more colors, such as true roan and frame overo. But you'd have to go back and pick up the color in 1982 but it can conceivably be done.

To Greener Pastures
Banshee Breeze, TB mare, d 4.14.01
Banshee Breeze, who retired last year with an 10-5-2 record in 18 starts, and $2,784,798 in earnings, was euthanized after having complications from the pregnancy (torsion of the uterus). They tried to deliver her Storm Cat foal by cesarean, but it was premature and died.

Dahlia, TB mare, d. 4.14.01. She was age 31. She was a champion race mare was pretty much unbeatable in her day and also an incredible broodmare.

Multi-World Grand Champion Ch. Skywatch (foaled in 1977) was put down 5.20.01 This incredible stallion was proclaimed by many to be the greatest Five Gaited horse of all time and was owned by Michelle MacFarlane/Scripps Miramar who also owned the great spotted Chubasco.

Standardbred Cam Fella was euthanized at Kentucky Horse Park on 5.9.01.

Approved Dutch Warmblood stallion Aram was euthanized 6.10.01 due to a broken leg. Check out www.majesticgaits.com for Aram info.

Glitter Please vs. The Jockey Club
Four Glitter Please foals have had their papers pulled by the Jockey Club, including Goldmaker and Dream in Gold because they were conceived via AI. The case is before the courts right now. The Jockey Club does NOT allow AI!

It was originally thought that his first foal crop was in 1998 but a previous owner has stated that he had a small crop of foals when he was 4yo (1986), including a chestnut and a buckskin. His 'official' foal crop is listed as1998. For more Glitter Please info, check out www.goldhopefarm.com/Glitter_Please.htm

Statesman and First Secretary
Sahaptin Farms Appaloosa mare Leola gave birth to the first 'test' foal of Secretariat, First Secretary, on 11.15.74 in Winona, MN. Although an Appaloosa, he looked like Secretariat in conformation. He died around 1993 or so. He was registered with the ApHC and ApHCC. View his pedigree and photo at http://members.tripod.com/~barnlot/firstsecretary.html.

Secretariat's oldest living son is the stallion Statesman. He was also a test foal, out of a draft mare used as a nurse mare at Claiborne Farm. Statesman has had an amazing career: sire of American Performance Horses, dressage horse, school horse, trail horse, jumper, etc… You will find an article about him in the December 2000 issue of The Blood Horse magazine.

If you're wondering about the reason for using test mares, here's the answer. Secretariat had been syndicated and the tests were mainly to satisfy the syndicate's shareholders and insurance company that he was actually fertile. He was tested on three mares. The first one came up empty and everyone panicked until the other two came up in foal - they were all afraid they had this multi-million dollar "dud stud" on their hands. You don't have to do a sperm test to get fertility insurance though. (As a result: Cigar.) This is because most stallions ARE fertile and the insurance company makes more money on all the premiums of the fertile horses than the rare claims on the infertile ones.

A Thoroughbred stallion sometimes has to be trained to do his "duty". If you're conditioned for years that you are not to even think about mares as breeding partners, you can end up not knowing what to do when the time comes.

The other factor is that if Thoroughbred mares were used, the stallions first official crop would all be FALL-born babies and since all TBs age every year on Jan 1st, regardless of actual birth date, you'd have 2-4 mo. old foals being considered yearlings! That's not good for racing purposes.

Lure also has fertility problems and the original syndicate filed a fertility claim on him and the insurance company then owned him. They auctioned him off and Coolmore bought him. He went to Ireland first but now is back in the states at Coolmore's Kentucky division - Ashford Stud. Ashford acknowledges the problem and has established a policy for breeding to Lure similar to that of El Gran Senor - if the mare is not in foal after two cycles, the owner can either choose a different Ashford stallion or go elsewhere. Lure's fee for 2001 is $15000 according to Ashford's information packet. Many of the Northern Dancer line horses have fertility problems.

Racetrack Failures
-Keen - Olympic team bronze dressage
-Napur- USET jumper and SF approved sire
-Pressurized- USET jumper
-Native Code- USET and NZET jumper
-Anderoo- USET 2000 Olympic team silver eventer
-House Doctor- 2000 Olympic gold Australian team eventer
-Patrona - USET eventer '92 Olympics

Colorful Thoroughbreds
Goldhope Farm [http://www.goldhopefarm.com]
They have a palomino TB stallion and a white-sabino TB stallion at stud.

Trinity Breeders [http://www.trinitybreeders.on.ca/]
They have a cremello TB and a blue-eyed chestnut sabino TB at stud. Plus a wonderful assortment of broodmares including a palomino, two almost-all-white sabinos and a chestnut that may be sabino or Splash.

Gestut Falkenhorst (in Germany) [http://www.gestuet-falkenhorst.de/]
Mostly Warmbloods but a wonderful range of rare colors such as cremellos, palominos, dilute tobianos, a tobiano Trakehner and leopard Knabstruppers. They also have an amber champagne 3/4 Arabian (Khalvin Khlein KpM) and two palomino TBs, all imported from the US.

Red Fox Farm [http://www.redfoxfarmtx.com/]
Colorful sport horses of many breeds. They have two palomino TB stallions and one cremello which will be at stud when he is old enough and a chestnut sabino/rabicano TB stallion who is double registered as a Paint.

Painted Desert Farm [http://www.painteddesert.net]
They have the sabino TB stallions Airdrie Apache and Prince Stanley. Airdrie Apache is out of a white-sabino dam and he is passing on the color very strongly and has sired at least 2 all-whites so far and many very loud sabinos that are more than 50% white.

Norsire Farm [http://www.norsire.com/index.html]
Palomino and cremello TB stallions, plus various colorful Warmblood and TB mares and foals. They have a white-sabino TB mare.

True Colours Farm [http://www.angelfire.com/on3/TrueColoursFarm]
A new stallion is in their line up for 2001. Joining Spot Pocket (16.1hh chestnut overo TB stallion) and LooksPalominoToMe (palomino TB stallion) will be: Sato - the only palomino sabino stallion in the world, owned by Jerry Tyler of Double Tree Paint Farm. He has been leased and will stand the 2001 season in Ontario, Canada, both Live Cover and AI.

Color World Ranch [http://www.colorworld-ranch.com/]
Color World Ranch owns the only frame overo TBs, both are stallion and full blooded brothers! One is a loud black overo and the other is a loud bay overo.

Montana Harvest
1992 Buckskin Morgan Stallion Owned by: Terri Parks, Parks Morgans, Carson City, Nevada. 1996 Reserve Grand National Champ Reining. FFC: 1995

------Blackwood Correll
----Triple S Red Major
------Cherrie
--Triple S Red Cedar
------Mar-Lo's Colonel Hamtramck
----Triple S Goldusty
------Lucie
Montana Harvest buckskin, 4 socks, 14.3hh
------Mahan Field
----Tio Lalo
------Palomesa
--Tia Margarita
------Gay Mac
----Gay Berta
------Roberta Ro

Arctic White
Two year old. Arctic White, one of only 12 registered all-white (or extreme sabino) Thoroughbreds, put in his first official workout on Saturday, May 19, 2001, at Emerald Downs in Seattle, WA. The 2-year-old colt breezed 2 furlongs in :26 under apprentice jockey Jennifer Whitaker.

Trainer Howard Belvoir was encouraged with "Casper's" performance, noting that he will stand at stud following his racing career.

Bred in Oregon, Arctic White is by Airdrie Apache out of Tropicanna Anna. He is owned by Darlene Knight, who also owns his sire and dam. Knight has so far bred three all-white horses. She sold the all-white Silver Mystique as a weanling for $85,000 at the 1999 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November select sale. On January 31 of this year, one of Knight's broodmares, The Ranch, foaled a white filly.

Other Racing White Thoroughbreds
Patchen Beauty was a winner. Her dam was unraced. Her grand-dam won 2 of 7 starts. Her great-grand-dam, White Beauty, won 2 of 16. White Beauty's best foal on the track was Vennie Redberry, who won 7 of 69 and over $100,000 and was stakes-placed at 2. A lot of the descendants ended up being bought by Paint breeders, since they were 'spotted'.

Clarence Stewart (1977, white) won 1 race and his white son White Flight also won once but was a gelding.

Grand Espoir Blanc, who won 3 of 16 but he was also a gelding.

Then there's Not Quite White (who is registered as "white" in spite of her name). She never raced but is pretty well bred. Her loud sabino son Airdrie Apache was also unraced but has good bloodlines, and he has sired 3 white foals already.

There are a number of all-white sabinos from the Puchilingui line but they aren't doing much on the track.

Getting Sabino White
Just how do you get a sabino so extreme it's completely white? Well, your best bet may be using someone who has proven that he/she can throw one. Examples are:

You can get a sabino white from a sabino 'white' and a sabino 'solid'. For example: the Arab stallion R Khasper's white filly. For R Khasper's website, go to: www.rlfarm.com.

You can get a sabino white from two sabino solids. Example: the Arab stallion R Khasper

You can get a sabino white from a sabino pinto and a solid. Example: Airdrie Apache's two white offspring.

If you use tobiano, it could express itself as tovero and have solid colored ears.

Triple Crown Pedigrees For 2001
Thoroughbred pedigrees can be found at the Del Mar Pedigree Query site: http://www.dmtc.com/dmtc98/pedigree. Del Mar has recently opened up to all breeds and you can add pedigrees to the database.

Monarchos, Kentucky Derby

----Wavering Monarch 1979 bay
--Maria's Mon 1993 grey
----Carlotta Maria 1984 grey
Monarchos 1998 grey (bay)
----Dixieland Band 1980 bay
--Regal Band 1987 bay
-----Regal Roberta 1980 bay

Point Given, Preakness and Belmont Stakes

----Gulch 1984 bay
--Thunder Gulch 1992 chestnut
----Line Of Thunder 1987 bay
Point Given 1998 chestnut
----Turkoman 1982 bay
--Turko's Turn 1992 chestnut
----Turbo Launch 1985 chestnut

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