On the beauty of straight profiles
By Edouard Aldahdah
Posted on July 30th, 2009 in USA
It looks like some of you are enjoying the occasional digression from pedigree and geneology stuff. Yesterday, Anita Westfall sent me two nice pictures of some of her horses:
This picture is of her very pretty Miss Attitude (by Lorenzo CF x Dawn’s Attitude SF, also by Lorenzo CF), a Kuhaylat al-Hayf of the line imported to the USA by Homer Davenport. It shows both the ‘human eye’ with the white, and the long eyelashes!
The other photo - also from Anita, who by the way takes really, really nice pictures, including that legendaary picture of Prince Hal - shows Miss Attitude (front) together with Anita’s other Kuhaylat al-Hauf mare, Bit O’Ruth (Lorenzo CF x LD Genisis LD byPlantagenet, back). The one in the back has a slightly dished profile, while the one in the front has a straight profile, but will all the features of a classic arabian head: small muzzle; large, open nostrils, delicately shaped lower lip, dry face with the veins showing; clean, arched throat; deep, well-drawn, cicular jowl, and above all, large, feminine eyes. A delight of a mare.
July 30th, 2009 3:43 pm
Really nice pictures!Wow
July 30th, 2009 3:52 pm
Yes! compare with the photo of this Syrian desert mare of the Kuhaylan ibn Mizher strain (branch of Krush)
http://daughterofthewind.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/mizher1.jpg
July 30th, 2009 10:26 pm
Very nice faces.
The mare Bit O’Ruth (Lorenzo CF x LD Genisis) is not listed in the Al Khamsa 2008 Digital Roster. Is she listed under different name?
July 30th, 2009 11:23 pm
Registration is pending….
July 31st, 2009 10:56 am
Let’s not forget to mention the beautiful shape and setting of the ears, especially notice the graceful shape of Miss Attitude’s ears. Ears can be a very important part of classic desert beauty of Arabian horses, somewhat longer in mares and somewhat shorter in stallions. Photos of Brimstone and Lysander show the ideal Arabian horse ear shape and set for stallions, I think.
August 4th, 2009 8:07 am
Edouard: Will we ever get to a point where breeders will take the best of the Davenports and breed with the best of the Egyptians, the Bahrainis, the Tahawys, the Turfas, the Sirechos….to breed more completely authentic horses? I dream of this day and all the beautiful horses!
August 4th, 2009 8:57 am
That’s my dream too: http://daughterofthewind.org/i-have-a-dream/
August 4th, 2009 2:39 pm
Amen.
August 7th, 2009 12:39 pm
I wonder what would have happened if the Bedouin tribes practiced straight breeding.
Like straight Shammar Arabian horse or straight Ruwala Arabian horse.
How many years the Arabian horse would have survived.
The Davenport stallion *HALEB covered mares from the south to the north.
August 7th, 2009 5:17 pm
And we are vicariously very proud of *Haleb’s popularity farther down into the peninsula! Thanks for bringing that up, Bassam.