Sparkling Diamond 451616

Gray Mare foaled July 10, 1990
Bred by Janice M Siders, Diablo, California

Sparkling Diamond has been owned by Anne Blount all her life.

Anne put Sparkling Diamond on the track during 1994-1995. Her record was 7 starts (1-3-1-1), earning $4,293. In her last race Sparkling Diamond’s jockey felt her falter with a jolt, then pulled up lame. She had incurred a slab fracture of a knee (since entirely healed). Sparkling Diamond later produced as her first foal 1997 gray gelding Fast Forward Cvr (by Fast Ptrack, of Russian bloodlines) which ran in 2000-2001, starting 16 times (1-3-4-8) and earning $38,086. For more of the racing records of this line, please see the chart in the reference section under “Mescca Sultana.”

As a daughter of Sparkling Sider, Sparkling Diamond is a maternal half-sister to the young stallion Sunrise Splendor, co-owned by Janice Siders and Michelle Lindley. Aur Patriot, sire of Sparkling Diamond, was one of the best and most successful sons of Aurab. A full-brother to Aur Pride, Aur Patriot was himself a race winner and sired winners; he not only had and sired running speed, but he also had a superb trot, which he often passed on. Sparkling Diamond’s pedigree reads like a who’s who of high quality working type Arabian horses of particular merit: Her two grandsires were Aurab and Abu Malacar, and her four great-grandsires were Aulani (who used to win informal Arabian races at some of the early southern California Arabian shows), Nataf, Muhuli, and Sultan Mahtab.

Sparkling Diamond embodies good basic conformation with a strong overlay of Arabian type. She has a nice head, a lovely neck with a clean throat and natural arch, and her neck comes out of her absolutely superb shoulders nicely high, as is ideal. She has good withers and good depth through the heart. Her leg proportion is excellent, her bone, joints, and feet good.

When Betty Finke, one of the foremost writer about Arabian horses in Europe, visited the western United States in 1992 she saw the then 2 year old Sparkling Diamond. She said and later wrote that Sparkling Diamond was the best filly she saw anywhere in her travels that year (Europe, England, and the western United States) and she believed, had Sparkling Diamond been in Europe, the filly might have been able to win the title of European Champion Arabian mare in halter. (However, Sparkling Diamond was destined not for the show ring, but for racing.)

This successful mare was carefully bred to be what she is and to do what she has achieved.

Pedigree for Sparkling Diamond

Sire line: Barq
Family: *Reshan 38

Sire AUR PATRIOT 73134 G 1971	AURAB 12488C 1957	AULANI 1801 c 1940	RIFNAS 924	*NASIK 604
				*RIFLA 601
			FOLLYAT 827	BABYAT 460
				FENZILEH 555
		RABNA 3622 c 1946	NARZIGH 1745	GHAZI 560
				NAFARA 839
			RABKHAL 1402	REHAL 504
				RABK 795
	ALYNA 21497 g 1962	NATAF 4835 g 1948	FARANA 708	*NASIK 604
				*FARASIN 615
			*INCORONATA 1200	SKOWRONEK
				NISREEN
		ALEBA 4276 g 1947	ALYF 1465	RONEK 807
				FATH 583
			BAZIKH 618	*ABU ZEYD 82
				BAZRAH 378
Dam SPARKLING SIDER 325526 c 1985 J. Siders	ABU MALACAR 77670 c 1971	MUHULI 11717 c 1957	ABU FARWA 1960	RABIYAS 1236
				*RISSLETTA 1201
			FOLLYANNA 5193	TERHANI 1640
				FOLLYAT 827
		BINT GHAMIL 9528 c 1954	*GHAMIL 4217	desert bred
				desert bred
			ZULEIKA 1998	NUSI 652
				KANN 1319
	MESCCA SULTANA 153892 c 1977	SULTAN MAHTAB 25132 b 1963	YATEZ 8021	*WITEZ II 3933
				RIWAYAT 2587
			RABNA 3622	NARZIGH 1745
				RABKHAL 1402
		RED HOLLY LOVE 59638 g 1969	COMAR FLEYGAZ 24185	AZRAFF 5596
				RAFLEYGA 9519
			RAFFSHEA 31762	ZINRAFF 13769
				DHAREYSA 2675