Photo of the Day: Monologue CF, Hamdani Simri stallion in Virginia

The gorgeous Monologue CF (Rispote CF x Soliloquy CF by Regency CF), a Hamdani Simri stallion tracing to the Hamidie Hippodrome Society mare Galfia. He was bred by Craver Farms, and now stands at stud at Pamela Klein’s in Virgina. Some of you thought he looked like the Syrian mare Hijab, featured below. Huge eyes, like his three-times great-grandsire Ibn Alamein, whom I saw at age 32.

Photo of the Day: Letan (b. 1909), Hamdani ibn Ghurab, USA and Mobarak (b. 1987), Hamdani Ibn Ghurab, Syria

A nice photo of a son of two desert-bred imports. Letan is by *Muson, a Kuhalyan al-Musinn of the Ruwalah, out of *Jedah, a Hamdaniyah Simriyah of the marbat of Ibn Ghurab. Both *Muson and *Jedah were imported from Northern Arabia by Homer Davenport in 1906.  My Wisteria has 25 crosses to him, and her daughter Wadhah 37 crosses. Now compare him with another Hamdani Ibn Ghurab, Mobarak born some 80 years later, at the stud of Abd al-‘Iyadah al-Dar’an Ibn Ghurab of the Shammar Bedouins, and notice the similar body structures: