*Gokart

*Gokart (Partner x Gomora) as photographed by Jerry Sparagowski

*Gokart, a 1975 grey stallion, was bred by Janow Podlaski stud. He was a son of the prolific stallion, Partner (Eleuzis x Parma), who sired influential stallions and mares equally, with an amazing consistency. Who can forget *Gokart's paternal sibling, the Dunromin' Arabians' stallion, *Penitent? In terms of Partner's continuing legacy, *Penitent was the sire of Eldon, who sired the 2005 Polish National Champion Stallion, *Piaff (out of Pipi). Sadly, *Piaff, who was foaled in 1997, died earlier this week.

*Gokart's dam was the Comet daughter, Gomora, who was out of Gastronomia (Marabut x Ofirka). In tail female line, she traces to the critically important mare Gazella, one of four desert-bred mares purchased by Count Julius Dzieduszycki for his Jarczowce Stud. Gazella founded one of the most influential families in Poland. In addition to the matriline, *Gokart posesses eleven additional lines to Gazella. What is also interesting is that all of the Jarczowe desert-bred mares like Mlecha, Zulejma and Sahara appear in his pedigree.

*Gokart's sire line traces to the stallion, Ilderim. Like Gazella, there are multiple sources of Ilderim blood, including a repeat of the Ilderim sire line via the stallion Marabut, the sire of *Gokart's maternal granddam. Marabut, a 1942 stallion, is a paternal sibling to Aquinor, the sire of Eleuzis, the sire of Partner. Ilderim, an 1896 stallion, was imported from Istanbul in 1900 by the Slawuta Stud. Saqlawi by strain, he was considered to be the most beautiful stallion purchased by Prince Roman Sanguszko. The Ilderim sire line is noted for producing horses who possess great beauty, type and overall quality like *Gokart. 

*Ansata Ibn Halima (Nazeer x Halima) as photographed by Jerry Sparagowski

As significant as the many lines of Ilderim and Gazella are, *Gokart's sire, Partner, provides the only source of Egyptian blood (12.5%), via his dam, the mare Parma, an Aswan daughter. The phenotype of *Gokart suggests that he carried more Egyptian blood than he actually possessed.  While I am being careful to not discount the impact that the multiple sources of  Ilderim and Gazella made upon *Gokart;  there is something to say about Aswan, who resulted from the cross of Nazeer with a Sheikh el Arab daughter (Yosreia), herself out of an Ibn Rabdan daughter (Hind). *Ansata Ibn Halima, also a Nazeer son and prolific stallion, was also out of a Sheikh el Arab daughter (Halima), who in turn was out of an Ibn Rabdan daughter (Ragia). The power of these 3 horses (Nazeer x Sheikh el Arab x Ibn Rabdan), a "triumvirate" if you will,  consistently proved to be an excellent breeding "formula" at the EAO, yielding some pretty spectacular horses. No surprise that it would exert an impact upon the phenotype of *Gokart, as both he and *Ansata Ibn Halima, also photographed by Jerry Sparagowski, are more similar than they are different, despite the majority of their pedigrees which are populated by horses who are unique to their country of origin. While some may discount the similarity as nothing more than the artistry and talent of the photographer, which is very true; I want to believe that the common ground that exists genetically between these horses is powerfully expressed in their phenotype too.