Planned and unplanned breedings 2018

This season I am planning a larger number of breedings than any year before, in part because many mares are not getting younger, and in part to avoid a situation like last year where too few attempts lead to no offspring in 2017. Years without foals are sad. In the event of five pregnancies, then… well, we’ll see.

First, DA Ginger Moon (‘Ginger’), who is 20 this year, will be bred to Bev Davison’s Subanet Jabbar SDA (Summer Sonnet SDA x Bint Bint Subani). Ginger is a Doyle-Pritzlaff Egyptian tail female Rabanna, Jabbar is a Doyle-Babson tail female Gulida, so they should match, with plenty of Abbas Pasha lines all over the resulting foal’s pedigree.

Pictures of Jabbar in the Idaho mountains follow. Thank goodness for horses like him, bold movers with high withers, extravagant tail carriage, short backs, naturally arched necks, expressive eyes (not the inflated ‘parrot eye’ of show creatures) and a flawless pedigree.

In other news today, my Haykal jumped two fences and bred my two years old Barakah. That was not in the books for this year.