Month: January 2008

*Al-Hamdaniah

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Let me share with you this picture of  one of my all-time favorite desert-bred Arabian mares. *Al-Hamdaniah, the bloody-shouldered mare, was a present from the governor of the oil-rich al-Hasa province of Saudi Arabia to Admiral Richard Lansing Connolly, who brought her to the USA in 1947.  Superstitious Bedouins believed that the large reddish spots on some horses’ shoulders were the blood … Read more

A tribute to the masters

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A few people come to mind each time I am about to embark on a horse-related endeavor such as this blog.  These are the people without whom true Arabian horse breeding – and our understanding of it – would not be what it is today.  Some of these people I had the honor to meet and get to know well, others I simply heard of or read … Read more

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