*Wadduda blood today
By Edouard Aldahdah
Posted on May 17th, 2011 in USA
I have now officially become infatuated with the desert-bred mare *Wadduda. I am reading and re-reading everything I can find about the mare and her famous descendants (Hanad, Antez, Jadaan, Caravan, Dhareb, Bint Sahara, Bint Sedjur, etc) squinting at fuzzy old photographs, and obsessively making notecards like I used to do know when I was ten. The pedigree geek in me in up big time, and I love it.
Below is a photo of the 2003 asil Kuhaylan Haifi stallion Twickenham (Regency x Kiddleywink by Regency) (look at that smart friendly face) and these short prickled ears. Twickenham is one of three stallions still pensioned at Craver Farms, along with his sire (and grandsire) Regency, now aged 30, and the grey Triermain. While not a tail female descendant, Twickenham carries the highest percentage of *Wadduda blood in asil breeding: 19.5%, on par with his sire.
May 18th, 2011 6:59 am
In 1970 when I got my hands on Homer Davenport’s book My Quest of the Arab Horse, I was fascinated by his description of Wadduda when he first rode her into the desert. The way he described her behavior, her keen instincts and her super ability to sense what the rider could only guess was a defining moment for me. Shortly afterward when i went riding my wife’s chestnut half Arab mare into new territory, I now understood the “Arab horse” in her. Her sire, El Quwadi was 50% Davenport with 3 crosses to Wadduda coming from both sides of his pedigree. She would stop at times and scan the horizon with her eyes and ears and evaluate her surroundings before moving on into new territory, just like Wadduda. She did it in a way that you knew she was in command of her fate regardless of the rider. Up to that point I had never known a horse like that. Somehow that became a defining moment for me that told me I would be involved with Arabian horses for the rest of my life.
May 18th, 2011 10:07 pm
Neat story, Joe!
May 19th, 2011 12:49 pm
There are other non Tripoli with the same percent of 19.5.
However, there is one mare with more……….Jen Beauty.
A ’98 mare. Thanks to Fred………….
Perhaps Jeanne knows of others? Our mare Revie has 19.5.
She is extreme! Charles knew what he was doing!
Jackson
May 19th, 2011 3:11 pm
Jen Beauty is 16.5% which is still a lot. The maximum is 19.5%, Regency offspring out of Regency daughters or full sisters.
May 20th, 2011 9:07 am
Not to sure where I got the idea that Jen Beauty was higher? Stand corrected!
Jackson