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Jubifix (Witezfix x Jubilee). 17-year-old gelding. Submitted by owner Elizabeth Patton. This gelding, with his refined head, big soft eye, long neck, high withers, deep chest, and long sloping shoulder, is the kind of horse most favored for three-gaited competition (English pleasure and Arabian park). Like his grandsire *Serafix and certain other horses of Crabbet breeding, this horse also has a relatively long back, near-level pelvis, open hind angles and rumphigh conformation. Trainers of three-gaited horses favor this combination as tending to assist high action in front and sharp hock action behind. I knew this horse to be a comfortable, elegant ride and so gentle that both children and very timid riders could enjoy him. Although his pedigree also contains horses going back to Skowronek, Jubifix much more resembles his grandsire *Serafix. Can you pick out the family resemblance in an even more distant ancestor—one of the Crabbet foundation horses— pictured in this installment?