Oliver,
I will email Caryn Rogosky (she has been sick with pneumonia BTW), as she knew Fabo and bred one of her mares to him to get the black stallion, WK Fabos Finale (out of the *Fahker El Din daughter, Akira Zarif)
Caryn said the following about the horse in another discussion:
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I use strain information when making my breeding choices...however, while I keep the relative strength of MTDNA in mind, I generally think of a horse within the context of the strain which his phenotype most vividly exhibits. An example of this, within my own breeding, is WK Fabos Finale (Fabo X Akira Zarif). Fabo was a pure Babson Saqlawi Jedran stallion, Akira Zarif is a *Fakher El Din daughter out of Masada Bellesabah...a Dahman Najib. While WK Fabos Finale is a Dahman tail female, he is classic Saqlawi in type to my eye, with a dash of Dahman thrown in for good measure. Indeed, this is what his pedigree would suggest, despite the tail female information. However, we can't forget that genetics are very specific and one cannot make sound strain-based decisions based only on reading a pedigree. You have to know the horses themselves. Full siblings can express completely different strains, and usually reproduce the same way...it all depends on what specific genes they have each inherited from their ancestors. A horse cannot reproduce what has not been transferred to him/her. Akira Zarif is very classic Dahman in phenotype, while her full sister Sabbah Din (who I also owned and bred from) was almost classic Saqlawi in phenotype. Even when bred to the same stallions each of these two full sisters produced more like the strains they, themselves, most strongly reflected.
Ralph
Fabo, How was he bred?
Mar 27 2006, 01:57 PM
Do you know Amelie Blackwell? She took some really nice pictures of this horse when she visited a few years ago. She posted them once in this forum and I tried to find them but maybe they were in the old forum?
)was about 16 hands (163 cm), when he was all snort and blow 
