Full sister of Bint al-Barra above, Cinnabar Myst (ASF David x Mystalla) was bred to Clarion CF (Regency x Chinoiserie) last week. Also on lease from Trish Stockhecke.
And this is Bint al-Barra (ASF David x Mystalla), the Kuhaylat al-Krush which I leased from Trish Stockhecke of Canada.Photo by the same talented photogpapher.
Here is the Kuhaylat al-‘Ajuz mare Jadah BelloftheBall (Invictus Al Krush x Belladonna CHF), tail female to *Nufoud who is currently at Craver Farms to be bred to Triermain CF and who belongs to Jeannie Lieb.
I am especially pleased with how my little Wadd is turning out; the father-to-daughter inbreeding on Triermain was a gamble, and it paid off. I was worried about him turning out “too pretty”, as in “feminine”, but he’s looking just fine, so far. Those of you who have been following this blog for some time know that I really dislike feminine stallions whatever their strain, and ‘refined’ (naa’im) is by no means an adjective any Bedouin would ever use on a stallion to praise him. A true Arabian horse is not a poodle nor a china doll. A true Arabian stallion — and only Bedouins set the standard for what ‘true’ means here, at least that’s the truth I choose to abide by — MUST exude and even ooze masculinity, but can be gentle and kind at the same time, although he does not have to. A true Arabian stallion is a ‘lord of the desert’ — ‘un Seigneur’ as Robert Mauvy would put it; he rules over all the living beings within his sight, including us humans; he “occupies a territory”, in the zoological meaning of the phrase, like lions or wolves; the air in that territory is electrified by his presence; he inspires awe and respect; you don’t pet him, you…
and here’s Wadd (Triermain x Wisteria by Triermain) who is 9 months old and who looks a lot like the rest of the family, especially his older brother Tantris, now dead, by Javera Thadrian.
Yesterday Anita Westfall (photographer emeritus) was at Craver Farms and she took thousands of pictures. Anita is not a professional photographer, she does it just for fun, yet her name will come down in the breed’s hirtory as the creator of some of the Arabian breed’s most iconic shots, including these of Prince Hal (Tripoli x Dharebah), Brimstone (Dharantez x Tyrebah), Monsoon (Tripoli x Ceres), Tybalt (Tripoli x Asara) and Javera Thadrian (Thane x HB Diandra) — click on the links. Photos of Anita are known to have converted dozens of people, young and old to the Arabian horse cause. Anyway, Anita took some photos of my horses there, including the young Wadhah and Wadd, and the stallion Monologue, the latter jointly owned with Darlene Summers. Here’s Monologue’s:
I am in Cairo for work, for the next few days, coming from Tunis. Very interesting time, horse wise and politics wise. I can’t say the same about the traffic though. I will never get used to it.