Month: November 2013
Jamr now a yearling
Jamr (Vice Regent x Jadiba) is growing up nicely, and really looks like his pedigree, a mix of the old Blunt/Doyle look — you can’t beat the classiness of that — and the Davenport/Schilla look. He has his dam’s very deep jaws, and his sire’s pointy ears. His dam’s ears were understated. His eye is … Read more
Welcome, Belle
I am excited to announce that the Kuhaylat al-Ajuz Jadah BelloftheBall a.ka. “Belle” (Invictus Al Krush x Belladonna CHF by Audobon x LD Rubic by Plantagenet) has joined the Al-Dahdah herd. She is a gift from my friend Jeannie Lieb, who delivered her from Boston to Pennsylvania yesterday! I have been wanting a mare from the … Read more
Krush mares
I am offering the two Kuhaylat al-Krush full sisters Bint al-Barra, 22, and Cinnabar Myst, 21, by ASF David out of Mystalla for a good retirement home, or to someone who may wish to continue the preservation work I started with them. I am doing so because I need to make room for new arrivals … Read more
Abbas Pasha’s Stables
An Egyptian horse breeder tells me that the ruins of Abbas Pasha’s stables can be seen on the road from Cairo to Suez. That’s another place worth seeing.. before it is razed.
Geysar Shah 2006 Wadnan Khursan stallion from Iran
Hussain from Iran sent me these pictures of the Arabian stallion Geysar Shah (Nasim x Fadak), a Wadnan Khursan of the strain of Hajj Shahab.
Manial morning
The other morning on my way to work, I stopped at the main gate of the Manial Palace and took a walk in the garden. The palace itself, now a museum, has been closed for seven years, and is scheduled to reopen to the public in a couple months (says the guard at the entrance). … Read more
Bagdad, 1935 stallion in France
Not sure to think of this one: Bagdad, 1935 stallion (Norniz x Bagdalyne by Danbik); he precedes the generalized (and still much uncovered) cross-breeding of Arabians with Anglo-Arabians that plagued France from the 1950s onwards, yet he does not look like your classical Arabian. He does not look like an Anglo-Arabian either; he looks like … Read more
Sabek Ibn Saher, a double representative of the Murana line in Germany
He is by Saher (Ghazal x Sahmet) out of Sandara (Gharib x Sahmet). The Murana line is the dean of the asil Arabian horse tail female lines in the West.
Mahboob Halab, 2007 Shuwayman Sabbah stallion from Syria, in France
He is turning every bit like his dam, a fortress of a mare, which died this summer after inhaling a suspicious chemical gas near Aleppo, but he is more refined than her. I love his high withers. Click on the photo (by Fabienne and Severine Vesco) to enlarge it.
Desert-bred Foundation Horses in Okba’s pedigree
This post builds on the previous one below, about the Tunisian racing stallion Okba (1983-2006). Here is an initial list (in no order) of the desert-bred foundation horses in his pedigree, which I will keep updating as I move on: 1. Dynamite II, ca. 1920 (Hamdani x Tayyara), to Sidi Thabet 2. Tamerlan, a Dahman, … Read more
Turefi Dahman, 1984 stallion from the UAE
Anyone knows what the origin of this picture on allbreedpedigree.com is? It is supposed to represent the 1984 chestnut UAE stallion Turefi Dahman (Dahman Al Asfar 1975 x Turefiya Safra OA 1974), yet the horse in grey. Â The sire on the pedigree is UAE bred from Saudi lines, and the dam (persumably from the strain … Read more
Okba, 1983 Tunisian racehorse in the USA
I am even more disconnected from the racing scene in the USA than I thought. I recently found out that the 1983 Tunisian Jilfan Dhawi racehorse Okba (Koufi x Ahram by Esmet Ali)Â had been imported to the USA where his offspring (out of mares from non-asil race Russian, Polish, US/Kontiki and other racing lines) have … Read more
Tuwaisan, asil 1955 stallion from Bahrain
The photo and info are from the Khamsat magazine, Volume 6, Number 3, July 1989