One of my favorite Davenport mares alive. Could have been a mare the Shammar bred. I live that wild bird look. Photo C. Emmert who owns her.
I am digging into older pictures of Jadiba and reminiscing about how grand a broodmare she is. Too bad I came across her in her later days and that she only produced one foal. By the way, there is something special and attractive about the shape, thickness and setting of the tail in these horses of predominantly Blunt bloodlines. The thickness of the muscle around the tail was a feature the Bedouins of Arabian held in high esteem in their horses. See close up below.
It was taken by Ursula Guttman (thanks Betty Finke for the credit), and features the 1925 Saqlawi Jadran son of Mabrouk Manial out of Negma that was sent from Egypt to Germany’s Weil stud. What tail carriage this line has.
This desert bred Kuhaylat al-‘Ajuz from the ‘Anazah in Syria was one of the purest, noblest and best Arabian mares in the world, in my opinion. Now gone, like so much else in this dear place. Photos from the early 1980s in Syria.
Hassan Bey (Ghawi x Ghazil by Abu Zeyd) a full brother to Gulida’s dam.