Photo of the Day: Chablis CF (Sir Marchen x Sauterne), asil Hamdaniyah Simriyah in the USA
By Edouard Aldahdah
Posted on December 21st, 2010 in USA
The very feminine Chablis CF (Sir Marchen x Sauterne by Tripoli), a Hamdaniyah Simriyah of Davenport bloodlines bred by Craver Farms in 1981. The strain goes back in tail female to the Bani Sakhr Bedouins, through the mare Schilla.
December 21st, 2010 5:40 pm
Now that is special!
December 21st, 2010 5:46 pm
I think 5 minutes went by and I was still staring at this mare, stunning.
December 21st, 2010 5:47 pm
yes too bad there is not more of that Ibn Hanad blood in davenport horses today.
December 22nd, 2010 5:20 pm
Beautiful mare. Also I recall her sire, Sir Marchen. So noble of a horse, so alive and proud. He was a kind of chestnut color that had a surface gleam to it, the same mirror like gleam that I saw on the surface of the waters of the Dead Sea while in Jordan. Some of the Davenports have this coat quality, a kind of unexpected sheen lightly dusted on the surface of whatever color the horse is. Sir Marchen seemed to me his own kind of horse, not quite like either parent. He was lean with reachy, cat like movements and very fine dry skin and bone. I am glad to have seen him.
December 22nd, 2010 6:06 pm
Joe,
It was the finger he took that made him glow! He was very much alive, a constant expression of movement.
December 22nd, 2010 9:13 pm
My first purebred general list mare had a close line to Ibn Hanad and she was marked just like him. her name was Bonwood Splendor She was a very pretty mare and very intelligent for a horse.
December 22nd, 2010 10:46 pm
I looked her up, Tim, and hers looks like a very special old pedigree. She must have been a nice mare.