HL INFACTUATION (1993 – 2012)
by Linda White
the titles of 1997 Canadian and U.S. National Top Ten Mare and 1999 U.S. National Top Ten Mare. In 2004, she added another U.S. National Top Ten, this time in Senior Mares 6 and Over. Her first daughter, Major Love Affair, by DS Major Afire, was foaled in 2000. Major Love Affair’s career took off with 2001 U.S. National Top Ten Arabian Breeders Sweepstakes Yearling Filly honors. In 2002, she added the Scottsdale Championship in Mares AAOTH, and the following year was a U.S. National Top Ten Futurity Filly. She was named 2006 U.S. National Reserve Champion Mare AAOTH in a class of 31 contenders. Major Love Affair went on to become 2007 U.S. National Top Ten and 2008 U.S. National Champion Mare 6 and Over. As HL Infactuation had done, her first daughter passed on her mother’s excellence. Major Love Affair’s 2008 grey Magnum Chall HVP colt, El Chall WR, was 2009 U.S. National Reserve Champion Yearling Colt, and in 2011, U.S. National Reserve Champion Futurity Colt and U.S. National Reserve Champion 3-Year-Old Colt. HL Infactuation’s progeny included nine mares and four stallions. In addition to Major Love Affair, these included her 2002 bay daughter, Major Desire GA, and two 2005 sons, Major Elegance GA and Major Precision. Her last three foals, fillies Mi Gabrielle and RD Alotta Ambition, and colt Mi Regalo Di Angelo, were foaled in 2010.
She was an elegant grey mare with great quality and a beautiful expression, representative of her royal ancestry. HL Infactuation was bred by Paul and Ann Emerson, and foaled at their Horseshoe Lake Arabians in Lake Elmo, Minn., on March 20, 1993. Margit and the late Warren Bentley purchased her from the Emersons on her second birthday, March 20, 1995, and her show career began and ended under their ownership. The 1995 Region 10 Champion Mare title topped her earliest outings as a 2-year-old, foreshadowing what would follow. She was named 1996 Canadian National Reserve Champion Futurity Filly and U.S. National Top Ten Filly. A year later, HL Infactuation won her class and was reserve in the mare championship at Scottsdale, and followed with 270AA | A R A BI A N HOR SE T I MES
Her pedigree was a careful blending of Polish and Crabbet bloodlines, featuring crosses to some of the breed’s most influential halter and performance sires: *Bask, *Aladdinn, Safire, Al-Marah Canadius, Gamaar and El Magato. Her sire was LF Fifth Avenue (Laddinns Fire x Rose Fyre, by Safire). HL Infactuation’s dam was Georddanna (*Aladdinn x TJS Georgie Girl, by Al-Marah Canadius). Many were national champions who in turn sired or produced generations of national champions, as did HL Infactuation herself. In September 2006, HL Infactuation was purchased from the Bentley’s by Robert and Sally Poling, who sold her four months later to Michele Pfeifer’s Shellbird, Inc. She was owned by Shellbird at the time of her death. n