The legendary *Naborr (Negatiw x Lagodna by Posejdon) kicks off the Arabian Horse World Blast from the Past series of great historical stallions and mares. Born in 1950 at Tersk Stud in Stavropol, Nabor (as he was known there and later in Poland) was a star from the beginning. With two wins out of eight races on the track and a Reserve National Championship at the All-Union Agricultural Fair in Moscow, coming in second to his sire Negatiw (Naseem x Tarasczca), *Naborr was on his way. He sired nine foals at Tersk before his export to Poland in 1955, but unfortunately, none bred on.

Arriving at Michalow, *Naborr bred the best mares in Poland, with his most magical crosses on daughters and granddaughters of the great Amurath-Sahib. The Nationals winning stallions *Aramus, *Faraon++, *Gwalior++, *Druzba++, and *Werbor++, and the equally celebrated daughters *Dornaba++, *Eskadra++, *Edycja++, *Wirginia, and Annabella, the full sister to *Aramus, were his proof as a sire. Poland retained the lovely full sisters Estebna and Eskapada, as well as Etola, and these mares left a legacy through the International Champions *Elkana++, *Emandoria, El Dorada, *Edykt, and Ekstern.

In the fall of 1962, Dr. Kale and Dr. LaCroix went horse shopping in Poland and Great Britain. On this trip, where *Bask++, *Dornaba++, *Eskadra++, and *Silver Drift were acquired, but at $14,000, *Naborr was way outside of their budgets. Upon their return, they showed the photos to Scottsdale breeder Anne McCormick, the wife of Fowler McCormick (the grandson of John Rockefeller and Cyrus McCormick), and *Naborr was on the boat with *Bask++, *Dornaba++, et al in January 1963.

At McCormick Ranch, the early home of the Scottsdale Show for many years, *Naborr lived the life of a king. From 1963 to 1969, he sired his first 90 of 342 American-born foals, including his two top-winning sons, Desert Sands++ and Riffle, both bred by Anne McCormick. The remainder of the top ten included *Aramus, Kaborr+++, *Dornaba++, Gai Adventure, Fire++/, Itsalancer, *Madrygal++ and The Phoenician+++. With Mrs. McCormick’s passing in 1969, her horses were dispersed at auction on October 15, with *Naborr bringing the record-breaking price of $150,000 to local businessman Tom Chauncey and his wife Deedie, the daughter of long-time breeder Phillip Wrigley.

For the next eight years, *Naborr was the love of Tom and Deedie’s life and was available at stud for the first time. His gift to the Chaunceys was the 1970 stallion Kaborr+++ (x Bint Kholameh by Adibiyez++), the heir apparent to the *Naborr dynasty. Out of a Phillip Wrigley-bred mare, Kaborr+++ went on to be named twice US National Champion Stallion, Canadian National Champion, and World Champion Stallion at the Salon du Cheval. *Naborr passed away on November 9, 1977, at the age of 27, and his legacy lives on through his descendants around the world.