Al Khamsa’s Vanishing Lines
PTF News — September 2021 Update by the Al Khamsa Preservation Task Force
Changes! The PTF is working on new classification rules for reporting on scarcity of Foundation Horse line representation. The first rules were prepared 10 years ago (TEN YEARS!), and they no longer fit the situation on the ground. We now know that the new rules must take into account not just new DNA data and new research on the number of Al Khamsa foals born each year, but also Tail Male and Tail Female lines, in order to preserve the DNA that is only passed down directly from sire or dam. Once we have lost a dam line, or a sire line, presence in the center of the pedigree does not guarantee genetic persistence. We now know that while it may be risky but logical to try to breed mares in their early 20s, it is extremely difficult to try breed mares in their late 20s. Stallions might be fertile in their late 20s, but it may take hard work and money to preserve them. We now know just because 50 horses containing a Foundation Horse in their pedigree may be not reported dead, it is a long way from that point to having 10 of those horses with a known owner, and still possibly available for reproduction. If you have something to share with the PTF, either an opinion or piece of data to share on new classifications, or a foal or breeding to report, or a line lost, please contact preservation@alkhamsa.org. Thank you! New Foals! 2021: Maya CC (aged 21) has an August bay filly by Tammens Kismet. å This filly is in the Code Red group tracing to the Tahawi mare Folla (TAH) in tail female. There are 14 breeding age mares left. Tammens Kismet himself is 25. 2021: RC Miss Burgundy (aged 23) had a chestnut filly by Tammens Kismet. This is the first female born since 2010 in the Code Red group tracing to the Tahawi mare Bint Barakat (TAH). Seven mares left. This filly is also by Tammens Kismet. Both fillies reported by Lisa Craig, Maine. å 2021: DB Taamara Shahat has a 3.5 month old filly, AAS Tinnineh (Arabic for Dragon, so you know this is a future war mare!) by AAS Al Sakb+/. Edie Booth, Texas. See photo, page 68. Foals as Plans for the Future! 2022: GTS Al Mas Hura is in foal to Treff-Haven Sabeel — another potential tail-female *Haidee in the making. Crystal Robertson and Kate Rhodes are working on this, Arkansas. 2022: Bint Zahra Al Hadba is in foal to Porte CF for a potential Davenport Core Hadban foal. Carrie Slayton, California. 66
