As I very belatedly get the paperwork together to register Gwyn and do all the official transfer of ownership stuff (7 years after the fact..) I wanted to share some of the images of Gwyn's ascendents. All Breed Pedigree is pretty fantastic and with some of her lines being from very established studbooks (Percheron and racing Appaloosa, most notably on her dam's side and Friesian on her sire's) I can get back to the 1600s with images of her ancestors.
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| Stonewall Stella ca. 2007 |
I'm going to break this up into at least three posts (maybe four but it depends on what I find on her Sire's side) but we'll start with her dam, Stonewall Stella and Stella's Percheron sire, Gwyn's grandsire on the bottom, Charlie Degas.
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| This is a weird picture but I honestly have scoured the interwebs and haven't found anything better. Everyone uses this photo if they're referencing this sire. |
From the Stonewall Sporthorse
history page:
Charlie Degas was a grand champion Percheron stallion who came to the Stonewall Sporthorse breeding program through an auction after he'd fallen on hard times. Due to this, you can trace the pedigree back centuries. It's
fascinating! Especially since there are very old photos and then eventually just drawings of the horses.
Going back from Charlie Degas to horses with actual pictures, you get Rem Degas, from 1941, who is on the GGGgrand level. He must have been heterozygous for Gray as there is no gray further in the line. He's a hunky beefcake too.
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| Rem Degas (1941 foaled) |
If you follow the top sire line of Charlie Degas, you go to Great x4 grandsire Corlaet.
o/b Bonny Brae Farm Weighed 2,200 lbs when he won Grand Champion Stallion at the 1938 National Percheron Show.
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| Corlaet (1930 foaled) |
And from Corlaet you jump to grandsire Laet with this information:
b/b Col. E.B. White, Virginia, o/b W.H. Butler, OH, Woodside Farms, International Grand Champion Stallion 1921, and sire of champions, died 1940 Woodside Farm, 212 recorded foals. Laet also ends up in Charlie Degas' damsire line as well.
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| Laet foaled 1916 |
Then jumping back even further (as not all of the line has images, sadly) you get Seducteur, again a homozygous gray.
Foaled 1884, b/b M.Peuvret, Dept of Orne, France. D-1905 Brought to US 1888 by W. L. Ellwood, IL.Used by Lakewood Stud, IA A great show horse, and a great sire. Painted by George Ford Morris.
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| Seducteur, foaled 1884 in France. |
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| Brilliant |
Then there's a triple connection to Brilliant, because yay inbreeding!
Foaled 1876.
And then, the earliest I can go back on this line is an Arabian stallion whose allbreed pedigree is in French, foaled 1803, translated to this:
Arabian stallion belonging to the state, in 1812 French Studbook 1838 Volume 1: Gray Persian stallion, born in 1803, coming from the stables of His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, to the Royal Stud of the Pine from 1813 to 1820, to the regional deposit of Langonnet from 1821 to 1823, died in 1823 after riding Journal des Haras 1861: good breeder, highly distinguished and good together. Some beautiful mares in the Merlerault, very few purebred products, so it was difficult to judge this production.
He was Gwyn's Gx20 maternal grandsire. LOL. And also features rather frequently in several of the percheron lines.
What neat stuff have you found in your horses pedigree?
