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Anabaa as Damsire
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Re: Anabaa as Damsire
For those who may not know this info about Anabaa:
In the Timeform 1996: Anabaa was a whobbler, a name given to a horse which shows the following symptoms: a slight swaying action of the hind quarters, or stumbling, with worsening of the condition until after 6 to 9 months he cannot trot without rolling from side to side and falling. The cause is onknown, but possibly a spinal cord injury gives rise to these symptoms - seen in yearlings, two year olds and occasionally three year olds. They very rarely come back, but Anabaa did. The horse was affected by a spinal injury and written off by vets as a two year old. How close he came to being put down may or may not have been exaggerated, but the condition was serious enough for his owner Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum to give him away for nothing to the trainer's father Alec Head who hoped that the colt might recover sufficiently to be a teaser. Anabaa however recovered and returned to training in May 1995 and was offered back to Sheikh Maktoum. The story is almost a fairytale.
In the Timeform 1996: Anabaa was a whobbler, a name given to a horse which shows the following symptoms: a slight swaying action of the hind quarters, or stumbling, with worsening of the condition until after 6 to 9 months he cannot trot without rolling from side to side and falling. The cause is onknown, but possibly a spinal cord injury gives rise to these symptoms - seen in yearlings, two year olds and occasionally three year olds. They very rarely come back, but Anabaa did. The horse was affected by a spinal injury and written off by vets as a two year old. How close he came to being put down may or may not have been exaggerated, but the condition was serious enough for his owner Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum to give him away for nothing to the trainer's father Alec Head who hoped that the colt might recover sufficiently to be a teaser. Anabaa however recovered and returned to training in May 1995 and was offered back to Sheikh Maktoum. The story is almost a fairytale.
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