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One or two crosses to Raffles probably doesn't mean much...but if a horse goes back to him many times, then one starts adding up the amount of "Raffles blood" in the horse in question.  Quite a few crosses can mean that the horse has a good percentage of Raffles.  He was pretty prepotent, if I remember correctly.  Of course, one would need to also consider the other horses in the pedigree.  But I am a huge fan of heavily Raffles-bred horses...we just lost our 31 yr old gelding last fall to a freak accident, and he was still going strong.  He was very heavy Raffles (name was HH Rafazon, if anyone is interested in looking him up).  I would have loved to have owned him when he was younger...we didn't get him till he was 23.

 

Dawn Carrie

 

On 3/6/07, Laney Humphrey <laneyhh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Raffles is so far back that many American arabians trace back to him.
I'm not a genealogist but it seems to me that it would be hard to
attribute success to a horse so many generations back.  I'd be very
interested to hear what others who know more about bloodlines have to say.
Laney

Jessica Spoone-Raines wrote:
> I was researching my Morab mares bloodlines today and it seem she has a
> lot of crosses to Raffles. I was just idly curious as to how Raffles
> bred horses do in endurance? If anyone wants to take a look at her
> pedigree its at http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/lm+sterling+dynasty
>
> Jess Spoone-raines


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