Comments on: Lost asil tail females: *Abeyah

By: Edouard

Edouard — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:33:47 +0000

These are excellent horses, who will be the subject of a future entry..

By: Jenny Krieg

Jenny Krieg — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:34:59 +0000

Speaking of rare bloodlines, and horses who could have stepped out of 19th Century engravings…
Last year I had the good fortune to see the 1988 stallion Ajr (Raadin Inshalla x Ascarte), who traces in tail female to the Hernan Ayerza imports to Argentina. I was hugely impressed by his quality. He only has a handful of foals, and I hope he gets the chance to sire a few more.

By: Edouard

Edouard — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:19:16 +0000

Thanks Joe for this testimony on Lothar and the Glass horses. Billy had a lot of such stories. Fortunately, there are success stories too.. the *Nufoud, Milanne, Sirrula, *Samirah, Arabesque, Sahanad, Rabanna, Baba, Ehwat Ansarlah, and indeed all the Craver “second foundation” lines are here to remind us of what we are lucky to still have..

By: Joe Ferriss

Joe Ferriss — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:02:20 +0000

What a great post on Abeyah, Edouard. I really enjoyed this. Though her blood survives in Al Khamsa lines, it is sad that such a celebrated mare did not continue a female line in the U.S. Another case of not knowing what we had until it was gone. I remember Walter Schimanski used to say that to me about Lothar (Fadl x Habba), who was an excellent and important horse and yet needed to attract more Babson mares. He used to say “some day people will think about this after he is gone but it will be too late.” Lothar had no crosses to Bint Serra, Bint Saada, Bint Bint Durra, or Maaroufa and was a good outcross for many of the Babson mares during his lifetime. Thanks to Col. John Fippen and Bruce and Diana Johnson there is a sire line to him, but he should have been given much more of an opportunity within Babson breeding. Important not just by pedigree but in person. He was just like those 19th century engravings of Arabians. This lament for Abeyah is another example this. How wonderful that the Dirks and Billy made the sacrifice to try to preserve Carila. I am on the road now and away from home so I cannot look it up but years ago we engaged R.J. Cadranell to do a feature on Caravan for the Khamsat. Don’t know what issue that appeared in but there is a nice picture of him as an old horse. Another intelligent breeding group of horses that have faded due to the next generations not knowing or appreciating them are the horses bred by Dr. Fred Glass. I think I also engaged R.J. to write about them in a Khamsat. Many years ago I wrote out the Dr. Glass pedigrees and I was amazed at his breeding program which reminded me a bit of Dr. Doyles. A smart breeder now gone.