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Destinee). After having produced several Anglo-
Arabian foals in France, Kola was imported to the
U.S. in 1922 by W. R. Brown and became an important
foundation mare for his Maynesboro Stud. She is still
found in modern pedigrees through her son Kolastra
and several daughters.
The only photo we have of Latif shows a stallion that
does not look very typey, with a long, but heavy and
underslung neck, a big shoulder, a slightly dipped
back, a long, sloping croup, and straight hocks. Some
of these features still characterize French racing
Arabians today.
OF ALL SIRE LINES, NONE HAS BEEN MORE VERSATILE THAN THAT
OF LATIF: IT HAS PRODUCED OUTSTANDING RACEHORSES, TOP
ENDURANCE HORSES, EXCEPTIONAL DRESSAGE HORSES, AND THE
MOST EXOTIC OF INTERNATIONAL SHOW CHAMPIONS.
SIRE LINE–LATIF DB
A FRENCH-RUSSIAN DYNASTY
by Betty Finke
n 1909, a commission from France traveled
to Egypt and purchased 24 desertbred
Arabian stallions at the racetrack in
Alexandria. 17 of these stallions were sent to
the French-run stud farms in Algeria; the
remaining seven were taken to France and used in the
state studs.
One of those seven horses was the bay stallion
Latif, bred by the Fedaan Anazeh from two Hamdani
Simri parents. He was the only stallion of the 1909
importation to establish a hugely successful sire line
that is still going strong today.
Latif also had an early significance for Arabian
breeding in the U.S. through his daughter Kola (x Latif DB, imported to France from Egypt in 1909.
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