Patrick from Belgium sent me the list of the Tunisian Arabian stallions accredited by the Tunisian government’s Fondation Nationale D’Amelioration de la Race Chevaline (FNARC), which is under the Ministry of Agriculture. He tells me that 30-50% of the stallions are still from the old Tunisian bloodlines (at least on paper), and the rest from the invasive French part-bred “pseudo-Arabian” lines, and now the pseudo-Arabians from the Amer-type Saudi Arabian bloodlines. Patrick likes the first two on the below list, and so do I. http://www.fnarc.nat.tn/etalons2012/TURKI.pdf http://www.fnarc.nat.tn/etalons2012/GABER.pdf http://www.fnarc.nat.tn/etalons2012/HAMZA.pdf http://www.fnarc.nat.tn/etalons2012/HYRAM.pdf http://www.fnarc.nat.tn/etalons2012/KAHLOUN.pdf http://www.fnarc.nat.tn/etalons2012/MOUSSOUL.pdf
Check out this comprehensive and really lovely 1972 interview with Dame Violet Dickson (1896-1991), the wife of H.R.P. Dickson, British Political Resident in Kuwait from 1929-1936. It vividly describe the old way of life in this Eastern Arabian port, with a face to the sea and a face to the desert, and how modernization brought that old way of life to a rapid demise. I am in Kuwait now, and have a terrible case of insomnia.
The beautiful Saqlawiyah Jadraniyah mare Jadera (Jadib x Im Gulnar by Nusi) of Doyle/Crabbet breeding is a close relative of my Jadiba (Dib x Jabinta by Jadib), and does look like her in some ways.
I have written time and again that this horse was one of my all time favorites, judging from pictures only. I own a daughter of his full blood-sister, Dakhala Sahra (Plantagenet x Soiree by Sir), and I am trying to breed her through ET. I hope something good will come out.
Anyone has the new contacts of Pam Baker of Myrtle Beach, SC? Her old email is bouncing back..
Does anyone know anyone who knows anyone who did an update on Miss Ott’s list of Sub-List *Nureddin’s? The task is daunting, and I don’t want to reinvent the wheel. I am curious to see what’s left that is otherwise Al Khamsa eligible.. Just out of curiosity.
Photos by Chris Emmert, taken at the 2007 Al Khamsa Convention in Paso Robles, CA. Polynesia LD, a 1993 bay Saqlawiyah Jidraniyah, is one of the glories of the late Carol Lyons’ “Sharp” program (Al Khamsa Arabians with no Blunt ancestry). As mentioned in the comment thread on his entry, her dam was a granddaughter of Mista-Bin. The gray with her is the Blue Star yearling filly Awasef, a ‘Ubayyan who is tail female to *Muhaira, previously discussed here.
A beautiful photo of the 1962 stallion Fa Knight (Fa Turf x Konight by Kaniht), a grandson of the desert-bred import *Turfa and a great grand-son of the desert-bred import *Samirah.
This is the first time I see a decent picture of this stallion, who is in the pedigree of two mares I have leased. They really have the same body shape as him.
From Fabienne Vesco in France comes this photo of the Jilfan Dhawi stallion Aftan Beni Sakr (Hortal El Din x Tahiz Beni Sakr by Jahir)
This 2005 video by Carol Mingst features some of the nicest Davenport Arabian stallions and mares on the US West Coast, all from Craver Farms: Betty Ball’s Dubloon CF (Lysander x Decibel); Michael Bowling’s glorious Trilogy (Prince Hal x Trill) and also Shiraz CF (Regency CF x Ariadne CF); Diane Lyons’ En Pointe CF (Triermain CF x Pirouette CF), Carrie Cabak’s Nuance CF (Odysseus x Audacity), and Lustre CF (Javera Thadrian x Audacity). It also shows some of Michael Bowling Davenport colts.
The informal working group on the Arabian horses of the Tahawi in Egypt is unearthing new written and oral evidence of the Tahawi horses day after day. Stay tuned for two upcoming stories on the French/Tunisian desert bred stallion Nasr, a Saqlawi Shaifi from the Tahawi, and the US import *Malouma, a Kuhaylah Nawwaqiyah also from Tahawi breeding.
Another one of the nice tail female *Muhaira horses is the asil ‘Ubayyan stallion El Rabih (Al Felluje x Sharifa Abkar by Famaje), bred by Buddy Argo, and owned by Susan Whitman until his death in 2008.
I am a big fan of the asil Arabians that trace to the ‘Ubayyan mare *Muhaira. I believe she is as important an influence as *Turfa in US pedigrees, especially the ones close to the desert. The mare below, Maur Halawa (Arrogaance x Maur Blue Treasure by Arrogaance), bred by Maureen Matheson, is one of these tail female *Muhaira mares, and is very reminiscent of the good desert-bred broodmares that I recall when growing up in Lebanon and Syria.
Jeanne Craver sent me this link with amazing pictures of Egypt in the 1870s.
Since it’s that time of the year, and my work is leaving me a few minutes to breathe, here are photos of another new 2012 arrival, the filly Qoreibet, daughter of the Syrian stallion Hussam al-Shamal and of the Shuwaymat Sabbah mare Qhadidja (Ourki x Quejala by Fawzan), from the breeding program of Adrien Deblaise in France, and traces to Moroccan lines.
Also from Kim Davi’s Krush program comes the mare HH Karisma Krush (Othello LD x Kashmir Krush by Sportin Life), bred by Carol Lyons in 2005… … the 2001 mare HH Sonata Krush (Preseus KF x Sarra Al Krushah by Asar Al Krush) … and the 2009 daughter HH Serafina Krush, by Quantum LD as well as the 2009 stallion HH Tantalus Krush (Quantum LD x Kashmir Krush by Sportin Life) and finally, the new colt’s sister, the 2010 filly Sabella Al Krush (Pulcher Ibn Reshan x HH Nadira Krush), who is also very promising Many of Kim’s horses also trace to Jackson Hensley’s old-established Kuhaylan Krush program.. and some of the exchanges between the two programs are pretty recent.
Kim Davis shared with me these photos of very promising young Kuhaylan al-Krush colt from her “marbat”. He is now about a month old is by her stallion HH Solstice Krush (Brass Band x Sarra Al Krushah) and the mare HH Nadira Krush (RC Janub Krush x Naufali Al Krush).
Also from British Pathé comes this short movie of some of the stallions at the Kellogg Ranch in California; if you can’t find it, type “British Pathé” in Google; click on the site, and search for “Arabian Horses”. RJ Cadranell and Michael Bowling have identified most of the stallions here, too.
Just a dropping a couple of lines to say that I look forward to reading the upcoming Khamsat, which includes — an article on Vanishing Lines (*Al Mashoor and Euphrates, represented by the mare Sarita Bint Raj), — ground-breaking research article by R.J. Cadranell about the Abbas Pasha mare Ghazieh (one of the best articles I have read on Abbas Pasha horses in years, based on original documentation), — a write up by Jeanne Craver of my presentation at last year’s Al Khamsa Convention in Pennsylvania, on a case study of a modern Syrian line (the Shuwayman Sabbah of the Jarba Shammar) and its link to US imports of the 19th and 20th century. — a report by Rosemary Doyle on the WAHO Conference in Qatar. It’s nice to see this small, self-funded publication featuring so many cutting edge topics in one issue. I love the spirit the Khamsat embodies. Homegrown, volonteer based, yet global in it reach and cutting edge in its coverage.
This afternoon, Jeanne Craver some of us this wonderful footage of Crabbet stallions in 1922 (click here) . Nasik and Raseem are featured among others. I have watched four times already. What a delight to see these stallions moving. I really want to know who the second stallion in the circle is, the one with the high tail carriage.