Net Bytes - September/October 2001
compiled by Jean Sorensen

To Greener Pastures
Akhal Teke stallion Kara-Burgut died on Dec 22, 2000 at the age of 14. The black stallion was owned by Dr. Sabine Topfer- Gebert. He was declared "European Elite Sire" in 1998 based on the quality of his offspring.

13 year old Thoroughbred stallion Lord Pleasant (Lord Avie x Unpleasant) had to be humanely destroyed because of colic on June 27, 2001. Lord Pleasant, under Pat Day, won the Promised City Stakes in Oaklawn and in Remington Park won the Budweiser Stakes and two weeks later, the Great West Stakes. He also won many allowance races, and set a track record at Turf Paradise on the turf, then retired to a career at stud. He was owned by fellow hobbyists Myla and Tom Pearce in Colorado.

Quarter Horse stallion Hangten Peppy was euthanized in March 2000 following complications from a severely dislocated hock. He was a champion reining horse. 10 mares are in foal for the 2002 season.

Quarter Horse Naming Traditions
A QH can have a name up to 20 letters, spaces, and in certain cases, numbers.
~No punctuation allowed: includes ' (apostrophe), - (dash), & (ampersand), or. (period).
~No Roman numerals allowed. Arabic numerals are okay in last 3-5 spaces of the name.
~Any combination of 2-4 letters at beginning/ending of name is okay so long as they're not attached to the rest of the name (stable initials only).
~No Roman numerals
~ No sound-alike names
~ No repeat names of TBs
~No vulgarity or suggestive names (what the AQHA considers suggestive is up to speculation...have good taste)
~ No Junior/Senior/Jr/Sr at end of name

Here are some practical examples of unacceptable QH names and how to fix them:

Unacceptable:
Tea 4 Two (numeral in name)
99 Bottles Of Beer (numeral at start of name)
Gogh Man Gogh (sound-alike name)
Leo MCXI (Roman numerals)
IPABRA Impressive (too many letters at front)
Joe's Little Injun (apostrophe)
Fred & Ginger (ampersand)
Secretariat (same as TB name)
I'm Special (apostrophe)
A Special Girl (one letter alone in front)
She's A Spy (apostrophe)
Yellowmeansgoveryveryfast (too long)
Tammy2 (number not separated by space)

Acceptable:
Tea For Two
Bottle Of Beer 99
Go Vincent Gogh*
Leo 1111 (weird, but acceptable)
IPB Impressive
Joes Little Injun
Fred N Ginger*
Tairaterces* (at least it's different)
Ima Special
Aspecial Girl
Sheza Spy
Yellameansgoveryfast (under 20)
Tammy 2

*You have to be careful of sound-alike names, like Guns N Roses, Guns And Roses, Guns Anne Roses, etc. The AQHA gets grumpy if they figure out you have a sound-alike and have been known to demand papers back or at least to rename your horse. Of course, there are always exceptions or things that aren't caught but glaring mistakes won't get through.

There are historical examples that break all the rules. These are all real horses that wouldn't get their names today:
89er Question (starts w/ number)
Mr 89'er (number in start of name)
Wimpy Jr (no juniors)
Joe Reed II (no Roman numerals)
Plaudit (named after his grandsire/great grandsire the TB Plaudit)
A Zure Request (single letter at front of name)
Maddon's Bright Eyes (apostrophe)

Quarter Horse Foaling Crops
Bert: FFC 1936- LFC 1957
Bill Cody: FFC 1947- LFC 1966
Blondie's Dude: FFC 1961-1981 (1402 foals)
Blue Valentine: FFC 1959- LFC 1981
Clabber: FFC 1940- LFC 1948
Driftwood: FFC 1935- LFC 1960
Driftwood Ike: FFC 1957- LFC1981
Impressive: FFC 1973 -LFC 1996
Hollywood Gold: FFC 1944 - LFC 1965
Jesse James: FFC 1946 -48,1951-1970 (143 foals)
Joe Cody: FFC 1955 - LFC 1977
King Fritz: FFC 1959 - 1975
Leo: FFC 1945 - 1967
Leo San: FFC 1952 - 1968
Lucky Blanton: FFC 1940-1961 (196 foals)
Mr San Peppy: FFC 1974 - 1995
Pacific Bailey: FFC 1968-1994 (2,942 foals) # 1 sire for most foals in AQHA HISTORY!
Pat Star Jr.: FFC 1956-1968 (348 foals)
Poco Tivio: FFC 1951 - 1977
Scooter S: FFC 1946 - 1961
Showdown: FFC 1954 - 1975
Skipper Jr.: FFC 1957 -1973 (80 foals)
Skipper W: FFC 1948-1964 (132 foals)
Two Eyed Jack: FFC 1964 -1980 (1,416 foals) Sired 119 AQHA Champions. Leading AQHA Champion Sire in history.

Poco Bueno

----Zantanon (Little Joe x Jeanette)
--King P-234 1932 bay
----Jabalina (Strait Horse x Bay mare)
Poco Bueno P-3044 1944-1969 brown
----Old Poco Bueno (Little Joe x VirginiaD)
--Miss Taylor P-2636 1933 bay
----Mare by Hickory Bill

Put Poco Bueno in a cutting arena and he became a blur of lighting-fast speed. He and his sire, King P-234, were destined to become one of the industry's most famous father/son teams.

Halter and Performance Record:
37 Halter Points, 8 Performance Points
Performance ROM, AQHA Champion

Progeny Record:
AQHA Champions: 36
Foal Crops: 24 (1947-1969)
Foals Registered: 405
Halter-Point Earners: 163
Halter Points Earned: 3,522
Performance-Point Earners: 118
Performance Points Earned: 3,617.5
Performance Registers of Merit: 84
Superior Halter Awards: 21
Superior Performance Awards: 13

MORAFIC
Born Feb. 19, 1956 in Egypt, EAO Egyptian. He was sent to the racetrack but was too difficult to control and was sent to the breeding shed in El Zahraa. Douglas and Margaret Marshell searched Egypt for an extremely beautiful horse. They offered to buy Morafic in 1961 but the owners would sell only when he sired enough horses in Egypt. He was sold to them in 1964 and imported to America in1965. He sired 207 purebred foals, 56 in Egypt (11 imported to the US) and151 in North America. 30 won National Awards. Morafic died in March 1974 following colic surgery. His last 2 colts were foaled in 1975.

------Gamil Manial(RAS) 1912 grey
----Mansour (RAS) 1921 grey
------Nafaa El Saghira (RAS)1910 grey
--Nazeer (RAS) 1934 grey
------Kazmeen (RAS) 1916 bay
----Bint Samiha (RAS) 1925 bay
------Samiha (RAS) 1918 chestnut
Morafic EAO #29 1956 grey
------El Dere (RAS) - grey
----Sid Abouhom (RAS) 1936 grey
------Layla (RAS) 1929 chestnut
--Mabrouka (EAO) 1951 chestnut
------Shahloul (RAS) 1931 grey
----Moniet El Nefous (RAS) 1946 chest.
------Wanisa (RAS) 1941 chestnut

Halter & Performance Record:
Class A Park Champ; aged stallion-1966 Scottsdale Show and champion stallion; Houston Livestock Show

Progeny Record:
Purebred Foal Crops: 17
Purebred Foals Registered: 207
U.S./Canadian National Winners: 30
Class A Champions: 58
IAHA Legion of Honor Winners: 4
IAHA Legion of Merit Winners: 11
IAHA Legion of Supreme Winners: 3

Arab Lines
Khemosabi: American. His sire was Amerigo (CMK x Polish). His dam Jurneeka had lines via Fadjur to old Egyptian and old Polish and was born All-American.
Muscat: Russian
Patron: Russian
Pitron: Russian
Bask: Polish
Nazeer: EAO Egyptian. He never left Egypt.
Raseyn: bred at Crabbet and imported to Kellogg's. He was sired by the Polish-born Skowronek but is truly an English horse.
Ferzon: Gainey breeding, linebred Raseyn, and bred by Frank McCoy
Fa-Serr: Babson Egyptian
Fadl: Babson Egyptian
Babson: Babson Egyptians produce some successful reining horses as well as dressage.

Bloody-Shoulder Marks
Bloody marks are a function of flea biting. The horse turns grey and at some point begins to develop fleabites. Some horses start flea biting very early, some are almost white before they begin to appear. Fleabites tend to increase in number and size each year. A bloody mark forms when a concentration of fleabites develops in one area. As the fleabites become larger and more numerous, the "bloody mark" becomes larger and more obvious.

The blood mark may be red or black, depending on the color of the fleabites.

A blood mark may appear anywhere on the horse. Blood marks only appear on greys. There's been no study regarding inheritance and it seems to be pretty much random. It may not be genetic at all, just one way that fleabites express.

It is NOT an Arabian phenomenon -- it's a flea-bitten grey phenomenon and can appear on any flea-bitten grey, whether there is Arabian in the background of the breed or not.

The American Stud Book
The American Stud Book started out as a copy of the General Stud Book of England. The GSB was originally formed to register "blood horses" -- which means oriental horses and their descendents. Arabians were registered in the GSB for a very long time. When you look at older pedigrees, if you see the notation GSB on a horse it indicates registry in Great Britain.

The American Stud Book was where Arabians were registered until the Arabian Horse Club of America was formed. For some time, many Arabians were registered in both the American Stud Book and the AHCR (Arabian Horse Club Registry). Eventually, fewer and fewer Arabians were registered in the American Stud Book because they weren't competitive on the track and TB breeders were no longer going back to the desert blood. The American Stud Book stopped registering Arabians and not many Arabian breeders noticed.

The American Stud Book was closed in 1943. According to the Preface of the American Stud Book: "On November 18, 1941 the Stewards of The Jockey Club resolved: "That on and after January 1, 1943, no Arab or Anglo-Arab horses shall be eligible for registration for any purpose whatsoever, with the sole exception that foals of 1943 by such sires and out of such dams now registered with The Jockey Club, may be registered prior to November 1, 1943, but not thereafter."

Arabians weren't included in the bulk of the Stud Book but instead were listed on a single page in the back.

And according to the Rules of Racing at that time: "Only those horses are eligible for registry which authentically trace in all their lines to animals recorded in The American Stud Book or in a recognized Stud Book of another country."

Exporting a Thoroughbred Today
Today an owner exporting a TB from North America to the UK must obtain a Certificate of Exportation and passport within 60 days of exportation. To obtain these, a horse must be DNA- or blood-typed. If typing is required, there are a whole set of rules that must be followed and which can be viewed through the Registry's web site under The Principal Rules and Requirements of The American Stud Book.

The Jockey Club will forward directly to the appropriate foreign Stud Book authority the Certificate of Exportation and any other documents requested by that Stud Book authority.

Saddlebred Trivia
Anacacho Trail, Saddlebred mare by Edna May's King and out of Noana P. (Independence Chief x Majority Cloud) produced her last foal at the age of 34. She lived to 37 years old, dying April 3rd, 1977.

Morgan Trivia
In 1937, Owen Moon, owner of Upwey Farm, purchased several Saddlebreds from John Woods, a Saddlebred breeder, including the Saddlebred Bass' King Peavine.

Under the Morgan Horse Registry Rule II, which allowed a horse of proven Morgan ancestry to be registered, even if not from registered Morgan stock, Bass' King Peavine became Upwey King Peavine. King Peavine "traced to the stalwarts of the American Saddle Horse breed who carried a preponderance of Morgan blood" Peavine 85, Indian Chief and Cabell's Lexington. Upwey King Peavine was also accepted by the American Saddle Horse Breeders Assoc., so he was double registered as both a Morgan and a Saddlebred. He was shown, at different times, as a Saddlebred and as a Morgan.

Upwey King Peavine was bred to Saddlebred mares, Morgan mares, part-Arab mares and even a Suffolk Punch. He wasn't really thought of as a great sire, however, at first. He did throw a colt, named Jefferson, out of a well-bred Morgan mare. A few years after, Jefferson, along with his half-sister, won the Get of Sire class for Upwey King Peavine, beating Goldfield and Mansfield! At the sale held in conjunction, Jefferson was the high selling lot.

After he was sold, Jefferson was renamed Upwey King Benn and went on to become a famous progenitor of the Morgan breed. (from Saddle and Bridle, 6/77, article written by Lynn Weatherman)

Holland's Golden Boy
Holland's Golden Boy, 1986, dark palomino ASB, originally named "Denmark's Golden Playboy", ASHA 86251, a 2-time US World Champion "Golden ASB", in-hand and 5-gaited. Imported to the Netherlands, went to Germany around 1998 and died April 99. He was a very popular stallion, breeding around 200 mares a year.

------Delmar's Colonel Valiant
----Pinetree Denmark
------Lucybob's Sunshine
--Denmark's Pretender (palomino)
------Chief Shannon
----Chief Shannon's Lady Champagne (palo)
------Wall Street Susie
Holland's Golden Boy
------Stonewall's Lil Star (palo)
----Star's Masterpiece in Gold
------Society Empress
--Star's Secret Hope (chestnut)
------Dynasty's Major
----Dynasty's Secrets
------Secrets of Stonewall

He is registered KWPN but never was "approved". He has the "TP" designation but remember, they are all considered the same "breed" - the papers are no different in appearance or anything, it only affects what sort of mares can be bred to him and which division the resulting foal will go into. A "TP" horse can still show in dressage and a "RP" horse can show in carriage driving. There is also a "BP" designation (old type DWB) and of course they allow Arabs and TBs in as well as ASBs and Hackneys in the TP division.

There is another palomino DWB at stud in the USA named Ferdilah. He too is registered but not approved.

Remember that the KWPN is not the only DWB registry and that people are still allowed to call their horses "Dutch Warmbloods" even if they are not KWPN registered or sired by "approved" stallions. We still call Art Deco a DWB even though he was never approved for breeding by them and he is a DWB by birth after all!

2001 ASB Breeders Guide
(also Morgans and TWH available)
$5.00 for a 1-year subscription,
$10.00 for a 3-year subscription.
(Back issues available.)

The Breeder's Guide
P.O. Box 98
Pendleton KY 40055
Phone: (800) 627-5273
www.breedersguide.com

The Suffolk Punch
The Suffolk is always chesnut, traditionally spelled with no "t" after the "s". A few white hairs well mixed with the chesnut on the body and a star, stripe or blaze is allowed. Seven shades of chesnut are recognized: bright, red, golden, yellow, light, dark and dull dark.

The legs are rather short and the impression that the breed gives is that the body is too big for the legs. This shape gives the Suffolk its nickname, 'the Suffolk Punch' and its great strength. The legs are clean with no feather, thus making the working Suffolk an easy animal to care for in the stable.

While the standard for the breed has never included a height, the preferred heights are 16.1hh to 16.2hh for a mare and 17hh to 17.1hh for a stallion.

Temperament, so important in a working animal, is exceptionally good and a long working life and economy of feeding are well known features. Common practice on East Anglian farms was to feed the Suffolks loose in yards.

The North Swedish Horse
The studbook for North Swedish horses includes these colors:
brunblack (bay dun)
musblack (grulla)
rodblack (red dun)
vitblack (white dun)
gulbrun (buckskin)
isabella (palomino)

Cremello Mules and Donkeys
They are not called cremello but IVORY. There is no evidence of the crème dilution to date. Ivory is a recessive gene (like chinchilla in tigers) keeping the markings (golden or cream cross) and pink skin and blue eyes. Breed ivory to ivory and get only ivory. Breed slate gray with a recessive for ivory to ivory - get slate or ivory.

Since there is no recorded creme gene in donkeys, white mules aren't cremello or perlino. Most white mules (having blue eyes and pink skin) are Spotted All White. Those with recorded backgrounds have shown that the majority are spotted mare x spotted jack, producing a "white" mule that is actually one big spot of white. A few other cases seem to show a "crop-out" white mule but in most of those cases, there is no background to research, or one parent was spotted.

Dr. Sponenberg and Leah Patton are working on genetic color inheritance in donkeys and mules. Check out:

www.geocities.com/muleguru and
www.geocities.com/moredonkeys.

Those "white" mules with dark spots on the lip usually have a spotted parent or two spotted parents.

The spotting gene (from the jack) or frosted/spotted white combined with spotted, gray or creme in the mare can produce unusual results. Already noted is the frosted gene (similar to aging gray in the horse) that occurs in the donkey seems strongly linked to the spotted gene in the ass. This makes the animal with both the frosted and spotted gene appear partially frosted at birth, unlike horses who gray out more gradually. This also has an impact on the spotted mule, and frosted spotted white to palomino occasionally produces a "white" mule - probably again a strong pair bond.

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