ASF Gersom
ASF Gersom (Dhahran x Esperanzo Asal Fanifara, by Fanifeh) was a 1974 bay stallion who headed the Arabian Stud Farms (ASF) stallions battery in its later years. He sired 27 registered Arabians, mostly out of mares tracing to *Turfa, *Muhaira, and *Al Hamdaniah. Himself was a Kuhaylan al-‘AJuz tracing to *Turfa.
Billy Sheets, who owned ASF with his father, once told me that the stallion who sired all these horses, and who was the senior stallion at ASF, was not ASF Gersom, but rather his full brother ASF Jedeciah, a similarly marked bay, born in 1977.
I knew the Sheets, well, and visited their farms both in Canada and later in Ohio. I knew the stallions, specifically Gersom. The problem with Billy’s statement is that most of the Gersom foals were born in Hillsboro OH and Jedeciah was not on that farm. In fact, I don’t remember seeing him at the Canadian farm, either; there was only one bay BLUE STAR stallion, there, and he was easily identifiable from the rest of the stallions from Bill’s other programs.
What he meant is that the horse everyone thought was Gersom was in reality Jedeciah. Gersom he said died as a young foal, and papers were switched for his full brother.