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                                                                        Tarfa, 1999 © de Caprona

          TARFA (FCPR 90459)                                    Gisela Bergman explains in a letter to
                                                                Dominique de Caprona:
          Tarfa, sand brindle, was born August 1998
          out of Kahena (*October 9th, 1992 in                  “... Tarfa was supposed to be herding camels
          Tunisia, red sand with black mask) by Yeha            on the Libyan border ... he was born in June
          (*December 12th, 1996 in Tunisia, brindle)            98, sand-colored with gray, widely spreading
          both from the Bergmanns, born in                      brindle stripes. He gets his name from the

          Ghardimaou. He was exported to the USA                similarity of his fur to the play of light and
          together with Ramla by Dominique de                   shadow under the Tamarisk trees in the
          Caprona in the spring of 1999.                        desert. If he continues to grow as before, he

                                                                will be a giant Sloughi. His father is a gray
          Tarfa was bred four times and had 23 direct           brindle son of SOUFI and KAHENA's gray-
          offspring, some of them known and with                sand-colored full sister DINAH, his mother is

          descendants to this day.
                                                                KAHENA."

          Breedings:
          Sheik el Arab (D) with Aljana Sheik el Arab
          (9, B-litter).


          Shi'Rayan (USA) with Bouthayna Shi'Rayan

          (6, I-litter), Dalal Shi'Rayan (1, K-puppy),
          A'Ssissa Shi'Rayan (7, M-litter)

          There are offspring and descendants in the
          kennels of Sheik el Arab, Schuru-esch-

          Schams, Shi'Rayân, Elegantin, Qalb Elassad,
          Quetshadee, Sabiih al Sahra, Christoso,
          Almahboubin.
                                                                              Tarfa, 1999 © de Caprona
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