The arabesque gene is unfortunately going to turn out like the spider gene. Me and a buddy of mine were discussing that a few weeks ago that breeding an arabesque x arabesque would produce no homozygous/super form. I saw the photo you are talking about by Steve Hammond, but in my opinion, I think he just got lucky to produce such clean looking offspring. What I mean by that was obviously they had a lack of speckling and the saddles seemed to be stretched out more than a normal arabesque would've. I have seen the results of other arabesque x arabesque breedings, and the babies looked nothing like Steve Hammonds, they looked like normal arabesques. Steve Hammond just has the bloodline perfected I think. Since he originated the gene, he has a headstart on all of us as far as selective breeding goes, and I think over time it has payed off and he produces some killer arabesques. Similiar to Jeff Ronne with pastels, he produces some incredible babies.

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