About a year ago, I put together an incomplete list of asil Arabian horses that I saw as crucial to maintain as broad as possible a gene pool here in the USA, and hence needed to be preserved urgently. Here a still incomplete but updated list with the status of the horses concerned, in no particular order: 1. *Mlolshaan Hager Solomon, grey 1986 Mlolshaan stallion imported from Bahrain, and only “desert-bred” horse in the USA at this time: still alive, has one new filly with Jenny Krieg; new breedings planned this year; 2. Sarita Bint Raj, Saqlawiyah Jadraniyah, tail female to Basilisk through Slipper (not through Rabanna), last chance to keep the blood of the desert-bred stallions *Euphrates and *Al-Mashoor within the asil gene pool, and carrying one of the last asil lines to *Mirage: not registered still alive, Jenny Krieg (that preservation machine!) and Rosemary and Terry Doyle are all helping to save her; will likely be registered and bred next year, so good news on this front! 3. Halley, 1985 Hamdaniyah Simriyah, one of the 4 last tail females to *Samirah alive, and incredibly close to the Albert Harris desert imports of the 1920s, and also a Sharp…
…were just here visiting this morning.. We had a good time talking and looking at photos of their horses, and I saw some wonderful black and white mares of the Doyle foundation mare Gulida (Gulastra x Valida) with Rabanna (Rasik x Banna) when she was at Dr. Doyle’s farm for a breeding to Ghadaf (Ribal x Gulnare).