Last month, Mayassa Al Arab delivered a nice and lively chestnut filly at Debbie Mackie’s in Illinois. The sire is Firebolt CF, who is Mayassah’s paternal half brother and the only other offspring of Clarion CF. Following an agreement between Debbie and I, Mayassa will be transferred to her after weaning, and the filly, named Madawi Al Arab, will be registed in my name and head to Pennsylvania. I didn’t write about her earlier, because I am becoming increasingly superstitious, having lost two newborn foals in two years, the day after I wrote announcing their birth online. Madawi is apparently very playful and very stubborn, but Mayassa mostly puts up with her antics.
love her hindquarter conformation- and the way her neck is set on to arch ..
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Bruce Peek
I agree with Bruce’s assessment. She very much reminds me of a foal picture I remember seeing of her double grandsire. She’s a lovely girl.
she also looks like the shortlived colt — a son of her dam’s sister — that i was so enthusiastic about some ten or twelve years ago:
https://daughterofthewind.org/my-favorite-colt-of-the-year-is-a-krush/
You truly have a nice collection of rare/endangered lines. Thanks for being so dedicated to preserve them! A lovely pair with interesting colors (born chestnut and then change into bay/liver chestnut?)
yes she should be turning liver chestnut. Her mother was of the same shade of chestnut with lighter flanks when she was born before she turned liver chestnut.
You know, these lines are endangered because they were overlooked for a long time. No one wanted Mayassa’s dam and her dam’s two sisters. I had them picked them up from Canada after their owner/breeder died, and they were about to be wasted.
No one was her granddam. Billy Sheets got her for free from her last owners.
I am really tickled with this filly. She looks a lot like her mom, which I don’t think is a bad thing at all. Reminds me a touch of some of the old school Morgans I used to work with, and I think that speaks in favor of some of that desert type, given that a number of Homer’s Davenport stallions were used to cross onto Morgans.