Allanglos,
I am VERY excited to see that you breed the *Serafix lines! I may have to speak with you when I’m ready to start looking for a horse again!
Your horses are stunning!
I had almost the match to him last year by Bugatti Hilltop… very blond mane and tail… alas… this year the blond is growing out… 
[QUOTE=Kerole;6383100]
Allanglos - Qredit is a lovely lovely horse and your mare looks beautiful. I’ll bet you a dollar that foal will be hell pretty with tons of bling 
I forever seem to be whining about never getting exciting coloured foals, and madly coveting everyone elses, but then my starting proposition is nothing like that bay mare of yours![/QUOTE]
I anticipate a lot of white on the foal, but stranger things have happened. You just never know with breeding. Her colt last year looks just like her, complete with belly white. His sire is Jones Hall so the colt is an Anglo Arabian.
Thanks for the compliment on my mare. Her bloodlines are in Australia, which is closer to you than here:) Her sire is by Ben Rabba and her dam is by *El Paso. There is Aurab (sire of Ben Rabba) in Australia.
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I had almost the match to him last year by Bugatti Hilltop… very blond mane and tail… alas… this year the blond is growing out… :-([/QUOTE]
Have any photos him him and his dam?
[QUOTE=Eye in the Sky;6383237]
Allanglos,
I am VERY excited to see that you breed the *Serafix lines! I may have to speak with you when I’m ready to start looking for a horse again!
Your horses are stunning![/QUOTE]
Thanks! I just sold another mare that has multiple lines to *Serafix. She was the one I bred to Quaterback without success, but she had a stunning colt by a SWB stallion named Brio this spring. She is a big bodied, big boned mare and measures 15.2H. She is also Trakehner approved.
Here they are:
Here’s a few more of the colt. I just love him. He lives in GA.
Allanglos - that is a very powerful and athletic mare! And her Brio colt is superb. Will he go liver do you think?
You certainly have some lovely creatures.
Interesting to hear you have Aussie Arabian lines. As I’m sure you already know, the Aussies have been breeding Arabian Warmbloods for many decades now and are producing an end product that far exceeds the sum of the original parts. Very very nice, quality show horses that move well. If I was wanting to breed a pure show horse, this is where I would start.
I don’t know yet if the colt will go liver yet or not. It is too early still to know. (His sire is bay).
I actually don’t have Australian lines. They have ours. The Aurab line has been exported to many places, including Australia, South Africa and Europe.
However, there is a stallion in Australia that I am trying to get frozen semen from. He was too young this year so probaby next year. He is 100% Crabbet and I hope to breed him to my purebred mare, Gold N Dove.
Here is the stallion as a yearling and then 2 pics of my mare:
So
Much
Drool
Jesus! Bling-a-ling-a-ding-dong!!
JB said it perfectly.
It seems you may be a very good person to ask - any tips/tricks/secrets to making the white bits very white? Anything you use to help the pale mane/tail?
Oh please, oh please, tell me you have a good tip/trick/secret for this! The worst part about having a chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail is that people expect it to be white when it’s not really white to begin with. Getting this guy ready for shows just about kills me.
[QUOTE=Kerole;6385012]
Jesus! Bling-a-ling-a-ding-dong!!
JB said it perfectly.
It seems you may be a very good person to ask - any tips/tricks/secrets to making the white bits very white? Anything you use to help the pale mane/tail?[/QUOTE]
The hard part is keeping the white tails, white. I have a lot of them at my farm with these nearly palomino purebred Arabians, plus two true palomino Anglo Arabians. Since my horses are out 24/7, they get dirty. So here is what I do:
First I goop on that hand cleaner from Walmart in the white tub. I think it is called Goop? I saturate a dry tail with it and let it work for 20 minutes.
Second, I rinse then soap it up with Clairol Shimmer Lights (or named close to that) shampoo made for grey/blonde hair. I order it online. Lather it up and let it work for about 5 minutes. Then rinse clean.
Last, I spray heavily with “Wow”, a whitener available from Jeffers. I brush the whitener in to make sure every hair gets coated. Leave on. The longer the tail is wet, the better it works so I try to not let the sun dry out the tail too quick.
Even if I am not showing, I try to keep up with this at least once a month. That way their white tails stay their true color, white:)
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Oh please, oh please, tell me you have a good tip/trick/secret for this! The worst part about having a chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail is that people expect it to be white when it’s not really white to begin with. Getting this guy ready for shows just about kills me.[/QUOTE]
Actually, mine look like they really are white. Yours seems pretty white to me, too.
I also have a pony that looks like yours.
Here she is (and her half arab filly):
That was fantastic, thank you. I will be trying it this weekend for our show.
Good looking pony! She does look a lot like him, with more chrome.
Thanks allanglos! Finally some new ideas for getting white tails white! I’ve never heard of using Goop and I’ve also never heard of Wow! Great tips. I’ll have to try them on my Haffie mare’s pee stained tail. :S
In my previous life showing longhaired cats, we used Goop before starting the bath proper – it really cut the grease.
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In my previous life showing longhaired cats, we used Goop before starting the bath proper – it really cut the grease.[/QUOTE] Does it work well on stains or just grease & dirt?
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Does it work well on stains or just grease & dirt?[/QUOTE]
Cats have different staining problems than horses, since they’re usually not confined to their own litterbox 
Short answer is, I really don’t know. The breeds with real staining problems are Persians and related breeds (Himalayan, Exotic Shorthair), which I didn’t breed. The preventative I have heard used is keeping the under-eye area smeared with cold cream so the discharge can’t cling to the hair.
Hmmmm… Well I’ll try it anyway, it can’t hurt. My Haffie mare’s tail has been washed and put in a tail bag but that doesn’t get rid of the orange stains from her peeing on her tail. Worse case senerio, eventually it will grow out.
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Does it work well on stains or just grease & dirt?[/QUOTE]
Oh yes, it works on stains. But be sure you buy the Goop in the white tub and not the orange tub. Also, that brand of shampoo I use is by far the best. Much better than Quik Silver.
If I get a chance next week, I’ll show a before and after of the Pony’s tail as I haven’t done hers in awhile and its due.
