The Arabians of written record
A persisting question in the breed's North American history, since coat color inheritance first came to be widely understood, revolves around the identity and parentage of the mare Domow. Biology and history working together provide a start toward the puzzle's solution. By Michael Bowling and Robert J. Cadranell II, Copyright © 2001. Initially published in CMK Heritage Catalogue IV. Used with …
Copyright © 1998 by Michael Bowling (with particular thanks to Margaret Dickinson Fleming) originally published in Arabian Visions Oct 1998 used by permission (with added photos) After the early 1930s the BINT YAMAMA horses were universally referred to as of the Kehilan Jellabi strain. In later editions of PASB the strain of KAFIFAN was changed to Kehilan. No hint of a connection between Prince …
Copyright © 1998 By Michael Bowling (with particular thanks to Margaret Dickinson Fleming) originally published in Arabian Visions Oct 1998, used by permission (with added photos) Names in 19th-century Egypt do not appear to have been the hard-edged entities we would like them to be; Ali Pasha Sherif himself first comes to our attention, buying horses at the auction put on by the heirs of Abbas …
Breeders can have both in their programs by Michael Bowling, Copyright © 1997 from Arabian Visions magazine Sept/Oct 1997 used by permission of Michael Bowling I sometimes wish we had waited a bit longer in the preservation breeding community and used the terminology which has been developed by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy: ALBC refers to conserving breeds or genetic stocks, while …
by Ann T. Bowling PhD ©1995 from CMK Record, SI/3: page 5/6 Fall, 1995 used by permission of Ann T. Bowling PhD. "Breeders cannot change Mendelian genetics, nor the number of genes involved in traits, nor their linkage relationships. They cannot change the physiological interactions of gene products, but they can hope through selective mating to realize gene combinations that consistently result …
by Ann T. Bowling PhD ©1995 from CMK Record Spring 1995 XI/2 used by permission of Ann Bowling Offspring resemble their parents to varying degrees, but the proportional genetic contribution of each parent is constant: half the genes of an offspring come from the sire and half from the dam. A relatedness coefficient of 50% or 0.5 is assigned to the parent-offspring relationship.
by Michael Bowling © 1995 from CMK Record XI/2 Spring '95 (This discussion is based on outline notes for the talk I gave at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Arabian Horse Historians Association. The timeliness of the topic is underscored by a comment from the outgoing AHHA president, Carol Schulz, that at least 90% of the Arabian foals registered in the last several stud books are of generalized …
CID: The Paradigm Has Shifted COPYRIGHT 1997 By MICHAEL BOWLING from Arabian Visions magazine Sept/Oct 1997 used by permission of Michael Bowling Author's note: This piece illustrates the vitality of a new communications medium, for it grew primarily out of Internet discussions of the subject. Special thanks to Mary Anne Grimmell who planted the seed of "putting into laymen's …
A Look at DNA Testing copyright 1995 by Robert J. Cadranell from Arabian Visions Mar/Apr 1995 used by permission of RJ Cadranell One topic much discussed in Arabian racing circles (and in all horse racing circles) is how to identify …