Bred by Roger A. Selby, Portsmouth, Ohio. Sire of one registered purebred Arabian foal, before gelded; grandsire of fourteen.

From "Skowronek--Magic Progenitor" by Aaron Dudley, published in Western Horseman April '51:

"A Skowronek grandson that has the cowboys going back for a second look is Al-Marah farm's gelding son of Raffles, Arraff.
"In a sensational performance, he took top money in the National Stallion show open Stock Horse class at Waterloo, Iowa, in 1949, cleaned up at a number of local shows through the Midwest, then went on to the big American Royal at Kansas City and came off with third place, showing against the best Quarter Horses in the country.....
"Mrs. Miller takes great pleasure in pointing to THE WESTERN HORSEMAN article which enthusiastically said: 'Arraff showed definite superiority in the Stock Horse contest, but we were particularly impressed with him in the cutting contest...he may be one of those naturals...this grey gelding's efforts were certainly a credit to the breed.'"