WINNERS OF THE ENDURANCE RIDE. 1st. Halcyon, Arabian mare, H. H. Reid, rider. (Note: she was technically 3/4 Arabian and 1/4 Thoroughbred) 3rd. Yaquis, Arabian stallion, Lieut. R. M. Parker. (asil) 4th. Rodan, Arabian stallion, ridden by K. Malcolm Grinnell. (asil) Halcyon’s win is somewhat remarkable. Per the article: “Halcyon cast a shoe about 2.30 o’clock in the morning. A smith was aroused from his bed at the next town and the mare was shod by the light of an automobile that came along.” The second place horse was a Morgan horse. Unsurprisingly enough, these photos and the article accompanying were found in The Vermonter: The State Magazine, Volumes 16-19, edited by Charles Spooner Forbes, Charles R. Cummings, published September 1913. Photos of the individual horses can be seen below: HALCYON (Hail x Heiress / Maidan) YAQUIS (Garaveen x *Nejdme) RODAN (Harb x Rose of Sharon) source
The level of detail in Lady Anne Blunt’s Journals on mares of the Kuhaylan Mimreh strain belonging to members of the Egyptian royal family makes it possible to reconstitute a family tree of that strain that actually looks rather different from the one in stud books and genealogical lists (Cf. Pearson). Going through references to mares of the Mimreh strain in the Journals is tedious, but I find the effort to be worth it in the end. The first reference to that family of horses occurs under the Journal entry of April 11, 1891, except that the strain is misspelt Kehileh en Nimr instead of Mimreh, the probable result of a hearing error, as I wrote here. Lastly the Kehileh en Nimr of ibn Kayshish, a dark bay or brown mare with blaze. Age 12 years. Her name Fereyha.” The second reference is much later, on March 10th 1907, shortly after Ahmed Pasha’s death, in the context of a visit with the stud managers. Lady Anne lists 5 mares from this strain: (7) Chestnut Ke. Mimre, beautiful head ‘Ghazala’ at end of nose. Sire? 7 years (7a) Chestnut Ke. Mim 5 1/2 — dam? — blaze (Sire Dahman) [Edouard note:…