Re: Jedi's dam

[lbm@ici.net]

Judy Saunders wrote:
> 
> With all this time to kill waiting for news from Dubai, I thought I might as
> well do a progeny search on Raf Silver Sonnet. Using the Arabian Horse
> Bookshelf CD-ROM, her last registered owner was Melody Moser of Ravenna,
> Ohio in Jan '92. Sonnet was foaled in 1973 so she may or may not be alive today.
> 
> Sonnet produced 8 1st generation progeny of which 2 were mares: Aunt Bee (by
> Hamid Ibn Morafic - foaled 1979) and Nura Passion (by Numi - foaled 1982).
> 
> She produced 5 2nd generation progeny of which 2 were mares:
>         Bint Numi (Aunt Bee X Numi)(1984)
>         HW Adobe (Nura Passion X Tut El Sakkara)
> 
> Bint Numi produced no offspring.
> HW Adobe had one son and one daughter - TC Chi Chi (X Tomanchie - foaled 1996)...

Nura Passion is certainly not too old to be continuing her breeding career,
and Aunt Bee would still be a possibility, although a 21 year old is starting
to stretch it a bit, particularly since her last foal was way back in '84.

Bint Numi would be only 14 years old.  That is far from being too old to start
a breeding career.  (Unless, of course, she is deceased.)

Does Raf Silver Sonnet have any full or half female sibs?  She was foaled way
back in 1974, but she could have been an early foal of a long-lived mare.

And who was Sonnet's dam and does anybody know anything about that tail female line?

Somebody should contact Melody Moser and let her know.  Who knows, maybe old
Sonnet is still alive and deserves at least a good helping of carrots!  And
there is also always the possibility of unregistered offspring.

On the % influence thing, remember that a zygote gets *all* of its mitochondria
from its dam's egg.  The mitochondria contain DNA, hence all mitochondrial DNA
are inherited exclusively along the tail female line.

So what?  Nobody knows, yet.  Maybe nothing.  But the mitochondria are the energy
factories of the cell...

Linda B. Merims
lbm@ici.net
Massachusetts, USA