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It is not possible to pin all the French lack of
refinement on this one horse, who was in fact
perfectly capable of siring typey offspring, given
the right mares.
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capable of siring typey offspring,
given the right mares.
There is certainly nothing wrong
with Manganate’s pedigree, which
traces in all lines to original desert
imports to France. This would only
leave the theory that Saint
Laurent was not actually
Manganate’s sire, and that he
was sired by – well, that would be
the question. Something that was
not an Arabian, presumably, and
the theory does have its
adherents. But there is no proof;
on the other hand, there are
certain indications that
Manganate’s official pedigree is
probably right. For one thing, his
official sire, Saint Laurent, doesn’t
look much like an Arabian himself;
nor, to be truthful, do any of the
stallions of this line right back to
Latif, who unquestionably was an
Arabian. Additionally, Manganate
not only descended from
Denouste and Latif in tail male
line, but was inbred to it; he
is possibly the most controversial
sire in Arabian breeding:
Manganate, foaled in 1972 out of
Mandragore. Manganate, the
great French racehorse sire,
actually only raced four times
himself, but he won three of those
races. In 1976 he went to Pau as
a national sire and stood there for
20 years until his death in 1996.
Some 50 sons were used for
breeding, and no one who breeds
Arabian racehorses today can get
past him.
Looking at photographs of this
stallion, it is immediately obvious
why many people have problems
with him and even maintain that
with his type (or rather, lack of) he
could not have been a purebred
Arabian. However, this is true of
most of the French racing sires,
including those that are not
descended from Manganate. It is
not possible to pin all the French
lack of refinement on this one
horse, who was in fact perfectly
LEFT: Manganate 1972 (Saint
Laurent x Mandragore), the most
successful French racing sire and
subject of an ongoing controversy.
RIGHT: Djelfor 1984 (Manganate x
Djebella II), one of the two most
influential Manganate sons to
date.
carried a total of four close
crosses to Denouste. And he
certainly displays the most
prominent characteristics of
these ancestors, including the
long neck, the big shoulder, the
long, sloping croup, and the
coarse head. Incidentally, it is
easy to find equally coarse heads
among the 19th century desert
imports and among early Blunt
horses, whose purity is not in
question. Manganate also
appeared to have inherited Latif’s
straight hocks, which led him to
develop slack hind pasterns in his
old age.
Whether you like him or not,
Manganate is definitely a key sire
in Arabian racehorse breeding.
His most prominent sons were
foaled in 1984, the chestnut
Djelfor (x Djebella II) and the bay
Dormane (x Mandore). Both of
them have sons and grandsons
all over the world, especially in the
Emirates. Both were excellent
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sharon
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