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Mishma Too (Na Marid x Na Thelos). 15-year-old gelding. Submitted by owner Janet Dreiling. Carrying on a regional tradition up through the 1980s, the Cross-U-Bar Ranch in Wyoming produced many purebred and half-bred Arabians specifically for use as working cowhorses. This substantial, strong, and smoothly conformed gelding carried his owner to many ribbons in endurance competition. Good-minded, intelligent and brave, he was long lived and always sound. Not surprisingly, his five-generation pedigree contains 12 crosses to the great stallion Mesaoud. It also contains in total six crosses to two great foundation broodmares— can you name them? Be sure also to study the look-alike photo of Mishma Too’s eponymous grandsire.