Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Skrownek

> Back when I was extremely bored hanging out at my old
> job I was doing some pedigree look up on Beau's
> ancestors.  He has Skorownek way back there in his
> pedigree.  I looked good old Skowrenek up and looked at
> his picture.  I was extremely shocked at how much Beau
> resembles him, from dippy long loined back, his coloring
> and facial expression.  Isn't he a foundation sire of
> the Crabbet stud?

Well, Skowronek certainly had his faults, but I've never heard him described
quite that way!  <g>  Many accused him of being a dumpy pony.  Must have
been a really odd picture you saw of him, because I know I've seen several,
and he looks like a round, short-backed, overly pretty little bitty horse.
As to being the "foundation" sire of Crabbet--no, not by a long shot.  Lady
Wentworth loved him dearly, apparently, but Crabbet was founded long before
Skowronek came on the scene, by the Blunts, and Lady Wentworth more or less
inherited it (lots of odd family "doings" there, but that's the nutshell
version).  Crabbet had many prominent stallions, among them Mesaoud (sire of
*Astraled, who in turn sired Gulastra), Harb, and several others.  Much as
Lady Wentworth liked Skowronek, to the end of her days she always maintained
a non-Skowronek breeding group as well.

> If this is the case, the gene pool of long loined dippy
> backs that bred away from the desertbred was producing
> get way, way back at the Crabbet stud. Not isolated to
> the modern show Arabian.

Certainly those traits came from the original gene pool--they didn't just
materialize out of thin air.  However, those traits used to be considered
serious faults, and now they win ribbons.  Big difference in emphasis.

Heidi


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