Malabar Hosanna ( Jamboree Tuxedo X Malabar Anastasia )
This sweet girl had a very rough start. After coming down with a severe case of diarrhea at 1 1/2 days old, she spent a week at Iowa State University's Veterinary College infused with fluids and antibiotics. After numerous blood panels, cultures, and other tests eliminated all the usual suspects, they sent her home with more antibiotics. Several days later she had a relapse. After nearly a week of treating her with antibiotics, anti-diarrhea gel, scour medicine, probiotics, yogurt, and milking her mama and hand-feeding her since she had become too weak to eat on her own, we felt we were only prolonging her agony and stopped treating her. But the little girl had much more heart than we gave her credit for, and refused to give up on life. Two days later she was back eating on her own and has grown steadily stronger ever since. Her name became Hosanna to reflect the credit for her survival to the Lord, who brought her through after we gave up on her. After all this, Hosanna is the most people-oriented baby we have ever had. She sees humans and comes trotting up for attention--LOVES those neck rubs and scritches! She has her daddy's pretty face, great shoulder, and height, and a wonderful athletic trot from both her parents. Her pedigree features 39 crosses to black in the first 5 generations with 73.4375% CMK breeding, 26.171875% Babson, and 0.390625% US Remount Polish (a single line to Witez II way back in her pedigree). She is 100% American Foundation breeding (99.609375% Early American Foundation breeding) and straight Malabar. Her bloodlines include Fadl, Roda, Hallany Mistanny, Gayronek, Raffles, Fa-Serr, Prince Ebony, Zarife, Skowronek, Stambul, and Ronek. Hosanna has a Rodania (Blunt) damline, so her strain is Kuhaylah Rudaniyah (Kuhaylah 'Ajuz of Ibn Rudan). She will be retained for the Malabar Preservation program as a Prince Ebony foundation mare, being 40.625% Prince Ebony.