When Aakefaa was presented to us, her owner Claire Phifer said, "Aakefaa doesn't take to strangers."  But after she had trotted around the arena a few times, Aakefaa walked up to me, put her nose in the crook of my neck and breathed my scent in and out. She rested her head there for a few minutes and Claire said, "Well! I guess she has chosen you!"  I hadn't gone there to buy Aakefaa, but couldn't possibly walk away without her after once having met her.

Aakefaa was my most classic-looking desert Arabian and the finest of the Nafa'a mares.  These horses are too long away from their desert origins and the sudden rise in temperatures and prolonged absence of moisture in the air and soil combined to pull moisture from her system resulting in the formation of a massive impaction that we just could not resolve.