South America: Tatar and the manchado coloration
Pardon the silence on my end, life has been busy. I wanted to share a photo of one of the desert bred stallions that found their way to South America (namely, Argentina) in the early 20th century.
Photo courtesy of Miguel Acuña Álvarez
A chestnut with a large blaze and four white legs (edit: I appear to have been mistaken. see comments for further information), Tatar came to Argentina to stand stud at Hernan Ayerza’s farm in 1931. As best as I can understand, his arrival to South America was a coordinated effort, with Hernan enlisting the help of the prolific Carl Raswan.
Carl Raswan went to his friend (his blood brother) Fawaz al-Shaalan, a leader of the Roala people in the southern part of Syria. Per Peter Upton’s publication “Arabians,” Fawaz sold Tatar to Carl Raswan, though it’s unclear to me if he was also the breeder.
Fawaz was also involved in the Hearst importations of 1947, was involved with the Arab League delegation to the United Nations in the wake of the post-WWII developments of Israwl and Palestine, and if I’m not mistaken (someone please correct me if I am!) he was involved in Syrian parliament in the 60s as part of the Bedouin segment that held 7 seats.
Tatar was recently brought up because a Facebook discussion group dedicated to the history of the Arabian shared photos of a mare sired by Tatar: Trabag. Trabag was at one point supposed to go to England as part of Lady Wentworth’s herd, but circumstances prevented this, and instead she remained in South America. She was notable for expressing a unique coloration found primarily in Argentina: the manchado.
Lesli Kathman, the blogger and author of “The Equine Tapestry” recently said in a conversation regarding Trabag that there is (paraphrasing) an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that the manchado color expression is both genetic and truly recessive. If that is the case, for Trabag to show this expression, both her dam as well as her sire, Tatar, would have had to have carried the gene for it.
It does make me wonder anew about the “parti-colored” Arabians we sometimes read about.
Lava Ridge Poteka is (as you pointed out to me) also another of these interestingly marked horses. I feel that if she and Trabag are both manchado, that the pattern is not just recessive, but potentially polygenic, because it crops up so infrequently.
Yes, Lava Ridge Poteka. She has a Davenport sireline, and Davenport throughout her pedigree. Syrian, like Tatar appears to be. Continues to make me wonder.
But the frequency of manchado is so close to nil that I’m inclined to agree that it might be polygenic. Also makes me wonder about how many incidences of this in Arabians have been immediately culled in the past.
Is there a stud book description of Tatar to verify “four white legs”? I only see one stocking in the photo, and interestingly Trabag has only one sock. There’s a Trabag grandson who did have the blaze and four stockings, I wonder if someone mentally switched generations.
I agree, this really can’t be a simple recessive. Another possibility, besides polygenic inheritance, would be the effect of a transposable element (“jumping gene”), though granted I don’t have a candidate locus to suggest, that it might have affected.
Oh, yikes. I’m trying to find where I sourced the markings. It wasn’t a studbook, but now I’m unable to recall where I pulled it from, and my search history is being unhelpful. For the time being, you can probably discount, until I can track down where I saw it.
The upload onto this website really doesn’t do the photo justice. I can email it to you if you like. Both hind legs are white, and I /think/ the fronts are white, but it could also be intense chestnut lightening in the pasterns in combination with the glare. The degree of shadow the offside fore has, though, with the intensity of lightening on the pastern, does make me think white.
He definitely has SOMETHING white – that big blaze of his is impressive.
And oh, could you possibly explain a bit more about the “jumping gene”? Kate and I were talking about it earlier and haven’t the foggiest how that might work.
The male línea of the Krush stallion Najm Yarob remounts to the Keheilan Kidhli stallion of Fawaz Shaalan?
I think that picture of Tatar I sent some time ago to you, I have another that can also be seen that has only one white leg.
In his pedigree it reads: In the name of God misercordious: The undersigned, Matar El Chamekh, Bedouin of the Arabs El Ruala, secretary of sheikhs, declares and acknowledges having sold today, to the friend of the Roala, M. Abdulaziz Razwan El Ruelli, the pureberd horse, chesnut, two years and four months, blaze in the head, circular white legs on the right side (sic), called Tatar El Saklaue El Haidarani, which I have taken as booty in war in the northern regions, getting later for the Arabs that we always see, the data that prove that it is of the purebred:
seglawi chahivi
keheilan ajuz seglawieh chahivieh
kehilan ajuz kehilan ajuz kehilan kruche seglawieh
chahivieh
In faith of which I sign on the Hujje.
Signed: The seller, secretary of Emir Fauaze.
The Chaalane, Matar Chamekh.
WITNESSES: Muhamed Bahaeddine el Churbaji.
Ferid Uanes.
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About Trabag on January 5th, 2018 7:36 pm, I wrote in this blog in the comments of “Wanted: blogger on South American lines” the following about Trabag:
“A summary of what I have read about TRABAG:
Lady Wentworth never bought TRABAG (as many believe), but she tried insistently to change her with another horse of her property, since according to her the dollar was very expensive and there were many prohibitions at that time. She wanted to propose to the governments of each country the deal of blood refresh (in function to save all kinds of taxes). The mare in question was born on October 8, 1946 at Haras El Aduar. Rafael Ayerza describes her as a filly whose hair caught her attention, he warned her like a painted overa to the argentine stud book, because it can be defined that way, being the color spots chesnut on white background. Very pretty lines, with great quality and a lot of arabic type. She was the daughter of the stallion TATAR, an Arab stallion imported from Arabia in 1931 by Hernán Ayerza; and out of ADUA, argentine champion in 1933, born in the Haras. Both parents chesnuts; TATAR, chesnut with a white star, blaze and snip, with the four legs white also; ADUA, also chesnut but more dark chesnut.
Rafael Ayerza communicated all this by letter to Lady Wentworth, telling her that in her book The Authentic Arabian Horse, on page 88, she wrote than she had not seen a painted Koheyland (spotted). Attached he sent pictures and the pedigree. He added that his mother ADUA was chesnut like all her ascendants, and on the maternal side she has blood from Crabbet Park through the stallion AJMAN (imported by his uncle Félix Buxareo to Uruguay). TRABAG was very nice and win a first prize that year with a jury from France.
On September 24, 1949 she responded that she has been very interested in TRABAG photography because the famous prehistoric hair of the Stables of the Kings of Yemen are reproduced. I had not seen it until now and I would like to buy a daughter. It would interest you to know that AMIDA, daughter of AJRAMIEH, has produced a lot of animals with very beautiful white spots in golden chesnut with white tail and mane; White spots on the belly appear on my horses like NESMA and SHAREER, but never like those of TRABAG; I have always maintained that this hair was original of the Arab thoroughbred, the same as the palomino so famous in races.
After that there was a long epistolary exchange but the change never materialized.
It is interesting to see the horses in common that existed in both places:
1.- El Aduar: TRABAG (ADUA x TATAR), ADUA (AHOROSA x ALJ), AHOROSA (SABAAH x AJMAN), AJMAN (AJRAMIEH x FEYSUL APS), AJRAMIEH (ASFURA x MESAOUD).
2.- Crabbet Park: AMIBA (AJRAMIEH x IBN YASHMAK), AJRAMIEH (ASFURA x MESAOUD).”
Here as to TRABAG definition of color there is an error, in Argentina it is said MANCHADO to any combination of two colors like overo, tobiano, tovero or appalllosa, it is not a color pattern that is given in Argentina only, it is an Argentine word. Trabag was clearly overa, that is his color pattern.
Was Tatar really small or his handler really big?
Ah, Miguel, in your post re: Lady Wentworth, that’s where I picked up the description of Tatar as having four white legs.
As for manchado as a color terminology, I believe that the word was borrowed by equine color researchers. That’s very interesting!
Edouard – he appears proportionate and not pony-like in the slightest; perhaps the handler is standing closer to the camera than Tatar? Or the handler could be very large. Stranger things have happened.
Yes Moira, now that I look again at the two photos I realize that Tatar has all four white legs.
It seems to me Edouard that the handler was big since in the second photo that Tatar appears mounted by another person he looks bigger, or will the rider be small?…I will keep investigating…
Re: transposable elements. Do you mind being referred to Wikipedia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposable_element
Still not seeing the four white legs, but it sounds as though the rest of you are looking at different versions of the image[s].
how interesting..the pink skin has won on that mare pictured..but what a fine mare she is..it may have been a more prevalent coat pattern-but simply bred away from-simply as pink skin being considered weak by those using horses frequently..maybe wrong about the pink skin on this mares partial white coat-may never know but i highly suspect it was.
Thank you, Michael! The Wikipedia article was just fine – I had read very superficially about maize genetics, so when I saw the bit about maize the lightbulb went off. Like you, I only see one white stocking, and, in another photo of Tatar being ridden, a white sock on the off hind. If there’s white on the front feet, I confess I can’t see it myself.
If people would care to share, I would love to have digital copies of the photos of Tatar, and his hujjah, to go along with the rest of the material on Ayerza collected for Al Khamsa, Inc. And all such material on Ayerza, actually, for the Arabian Horse Archives. It is important to get everything on record about the Arabian horse that we can, because it is so easy for information to get lost!
Sorry! My email is mowarda @ gmail.com
What I find significant about white markings patterns like Trabag and Poteka, and other more recent horses, is that they are different from the standard markings patterns (with the exception of some that admittedly resemble splash white–would be interesting to know whether any of those were deaf). To reflect the results of introgression they really would more likely be the same old tobiano, frame overo, etc seen in other populations.
And off topic, but speaking of corn genetics, Barbara McClintock is one of the inspired and inspiring figures in the history of science or really of human thought.
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-a-feeling-for-the-organism/#gsc.tab=0
Michael and JMHALL, you can not appreciate the four white legs of Tatar because the two photos, from the book Arab Horses of the haras “El Aduar” written by Guillermo Bond and published in 1946, the first I took a photo with the phone and I sent it by WhatsApp to Moira so it is a not very good copy, and the second photo where it is mounted was sent to Moira just last night and is not published.
In the original photos it is also difficult to see the white spots, those of the front legs are on its coronets, not much more, that of the left rear leg we all see it, and that of the right leg is smaller but not as visible because it is a bit dirty with mud apparently.
Did Trabag have any particoloured offspring? Maybe she was a somatic mutation?
In the hujjah that Miguel shared, Abdulaziz Razwan El Ruelli is none other but Carl Raswan
Moira how do you know that Fawaz was involved in the Hearst importations (just asking, I was not aware he was)
Edouard, Mark Potts wrote an article about the Hearst expedition that was published in Arabian Horse World in April of 2016. Your article is published in the same edition immediately following his, regarding the actual horses of the Hearst expedition. There’s a digital copy that can be read on Issuu. (click here for link.)
Astrid, Trabag had (to my recollection) 10 foals, but none inherited her color.
@Moira: ok, so that’s where you got it from. In the end, Fawaz Shaalan did not have anything to do with the actual horses imported. Henri Pharaon stole the show at the last minute, and sold the horses to Preston Dyer.
Very unusual mask face also in Warface ( Dynamis x Gdazzle)