O. Mishma I (born 1951; Rapture x Mlecha).
Like W. L. Van Vleet’s Big Horn Ranch in Colorado, S. Watts Smyth’s Cross-U-Bar Ranch in Big Horn, Wyoming, also produced champion-quality purebred and half-Arabians. Like many other Arabian ranch horses of the 1940s through the 1970s, Mishma I was a working cowhorse who took weekends off to win championships at horse shows. With a tail-female line tracing to old Polish lines, Mishma’s pedigree represents about the best blend with *Raffles blood that this author has seen.