Tarff in another picture
A photo of Tarff (*Fadl x *Turfa) I had not seen before — he is in two of my mares. What a good mare *Turfa was, perhaps one of the best ever imported to the US. I second the old saying among US Arabian horse breeders that the more *Turfa in a horse, the better the horse. The same cannot be said of other more recent desert blood, which is precious but needs to be used with care, in my opinion, if one wants to avoid longer back and shorter hips.
On another note, Americans really maintained their stallions very fat in the 1950s.
The exclusion of *Turfa from the Babson group was a huge mistake in my opinion.