Question: Sheykh Obeyd bloodlines

[Silver]

Hey, I've been puzzling this over for a while, but so far I'm still confused: what exactly makes a horse a purebred Sheykh Obeyd? I know that such horses trace all ancestors back to the Sheykh Obeyd Stud, but it's kinda hard trying to decipher the lines, lol

The reason for this is that I'm looking for a pure Sheykh Obeyd mare to cross my stallion Sondal to. Sondal is a purebred Sheykh Obeyd, and from what I know it's an extremely rare line, so I'm not sure how easy it'll be to find a mare of his kind on Sim. But I'll appreciate any advice on how to identify a Sheykh Obeyd. ;D

Thanks!

[Aquarius]

Quite frankly this is not something I am particularly fluent in but here are a few links that may help. My friend Chelsea also has the datasource and Sheykh Obeyd is flagged in that database (you have to pay for it) so if you are trying to find out if a mare is Sheykh Obeyd I may be able to get her to look up the bloodlines and see if she is.

www.sheykhobeyd.org/

www.soegyptianarabians.com/

www.babsonarabians.com/Pasha_Site/Articles/Sheykh_Obeyd_SiiresRevised.htm

www.sheykhobeyd.info/

Google & Yahoo will yield even more results for you but at least it's a start.

[Happy Silver]

Wow, hey thanks soooo much Aquarius!! Those sites have been a tremendous help so far.

It's interesting: Sheykh Obeyds are supposed to be the purest of Arabian horses, but they're also mostly SEAs, and I've heard somewhere that SEAs are not the purest of Arabian lines lol, anyhow, thanks again!! ;D

[Aquarius]

No line is truly the "purest".

[Silver]

**sighs** I suppose you're right. The Arbian as a breed evolved over thousands of years; it's gonna be really hard to even define "pure" any more. But anyhow, thanks! ;D