NEGATIW A Positive Source of Racing Prowess By Tobi Lopez Taylor Skowronek’s male line is known more for transmitting ethereal beauty and floating gaits than for racing speed and stamina. But one of Skowronek’s descendants, his grandson Negatiw, passed on some unexpected racing talent to his offspring that continues to this day.
ish-born Skowronek and out of Nasra, a great producer whose ancestors had been imported from the desert by Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt. The Russian studbook noted that horses of the Naseem line “are as a rule [Saklawi] type, medium height…with good movements and medium racing abilities.”
Negatiw, a grey colt born in 1945 at Tersk Stud, in what was then the Soviet Union, was the result of an outcross. His sire Naseem, bred by England’s Crabbet Stud and sold to Tersk in 1936, was by the Pol-
Negatiw’s dam, Taraszcza (Enwer Bey x Gazella II, by Kohejlan), born and bred at Janow Podlaski State Stud in Poland, was one of several prizes of war taken by the Russians from Poland during World War II. At
Negatiw (Naseem x Taraszcza, by Enwer Bey) was a significant sire of athletes in numerous disciplines, with National winners in English pleasure, Western pleasure, driving, and park. Photo by Dr. Krasnikov.
