Carrie’s handsome Kuhaylan colt
A preservation program that I watch closely is that of Carrie Slayton’s. Carrie has several nice Kuhaylan Haifi Davenports mares and a few non-Blunt horses, from a group that the late Carol Lyons identified, preserved a dubbed Sharps. Carrie had a handsome chestnut colt from breeding the bay Mohican CF (owned by Ambar Diaz) to her bay mare Aureoles Alnehaya. She named him Algonquin. His color is not a surprise in hindsight given how many close croses he has to both Dharanad and Ceres, not speaking of Tripoli. Link to Facebook post here.
He is precious! That head and tail straight up in the air say so much about his feelings and personality, and make me laugh. Congratulations to Carrie!
In another world, I would have bred Alnehaya’s sister Aureoles Amala to Mohican. The colt makes my heart squeeze — I can’t help but think of Paladin when I look at him, and smile. And what a NICE colt he is! I’ll be watching him closely — he and his 3/4 sibling My Hawkeye, by the same father and out of Amala and Alnehaya’s older sister Aureoles Amirah.
Thank you, Edouard, for the post about Algonquin (known to his friends as Quinn). It is very gratifying to receive recognition and positive comments regarding the results of my “labors of love.” This colt has a somewhat “outcrossed” pedigree within the closed herd of Davenport Arabians and the even closer group of “Core” Kuhaylan Haifis. He also has a pedigree that does not contain the rather well dispersed mare Portia. It’s great when experiments have wonderful results
I nearly failed to mention, Aureoles Alnehaya actually belongs to Betty Ball, her breeder. Betty has generously allowed me to lease Alnehaya since 2020, in order to expand my “Core” Kuhaylan Haifi Davenport breeding. Alnehaya is additionally the mare I am using to attempt to bring more of the color bay back into the “Core” K Haifi group, which has become dominated by grey and chestnut. Her first breeding was to Porte CF (Portico x Recherche), a grey stallion. I bred to Porte for two reasons, 1st: he is an excellent sire, 2nd: even as a grey, at that date he had sired only colored foals out of colored mares. Guess who has his first grey foal from a colored mare? Now we have this terrific chestnut colt with tons of chrome, lol. I know, breed for color and the horse gods will laugh
Carrie, Porte’s son Paladin was going to go grey, too! He was just so generous with grey that year!
That’s right! Grey was the color gene modifier of choice that year.
Give it another short for a bay filly of you can!