Garaff's Pedigree

The stallion Garaff appears in Fable Bint Ylla's pedigree many times. He was sired by *Raffles on Woengran, a mare described by many as Roger Selby's matriarch.

Woengran's dam and sire are both descended in the tail-female line from the great war mare *Wadduda. *Wadduda, along with 26 other horses obtained from the Bedouins were imported to the US by Homer Davenport in 1906. *Wadduda was a very special mare, prized by the Bedouin and presented as a gift to Davenport. She was the personal war mount of the Great Anazeh Sheik Hashem Bey. She had been given to a chief of the Anazeh tribe, Akmet Haffez, who in turn gave her to Davenport. She came complete with her own slave.

"You go to the stables and look into the box and see the war mare of Sheik Hashem Bey with spear scars adorning her neck and sides and prayers to Allah from different tribes hanging from silken cords around her neck. She is small, chestnut in color, bone like flint, slender, high carried tail, wide bulging jibbah, and full, prominent eyes. Davenport tells you that never since she was first saddled was that saddle removed until she passed into foreign hands and that she stood ready day and night for the Sheik to leap to her back and ride into battle, on wild foray, or in swift flight. The slave boy caresses her; her peculiar wrinkled nostrils and delicate muzzle quiver and move like a fawn's. You do not see the straw under her feet nor the boards of the stable behind her, but the hot desert, the flowing robes of the Bedouins and the tents of those who worship Allah spread out on the sands before you. " -George Ford Morris, 1907

*Wadduda, whose name means "love", was Seglawi al-Ab'd in strain, by a Dahman stallion. It is said that no photograph survives that does justice to her beauty.

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