Andre LS (Zachary CF x Aliah LD by HB Adrian), one of Diane Lyon’s Davenport stallions of the Kuhaylan Haifi strain is now California at Michael Bowling’s. Michael is going to take him to a vet clinic for testing. If fertile, he will be bred to one of my mares. He looks good, and is an outcross in the Davenports Core Haifi group.
Bassma Al Arab was born at dawn today. She is by my stallion Jamr Al Arab (Vice Regent CF x Jadiba by Dib), a Saqlawi al-‘Abd, out of “Belle”, Jadah BelloftheBall (Invictus Al Krush x Belladonna CHF by Audobon), a Kuhaylat al-‘Ajuz tracing to the desert-bred mare *Nufoud. She is only the fifth filly alive from that strain. Monica Respet has two, and I now have three. She has really long ears like her dam, a big sloped shoulder like her granddam Jadiba and big joints. It’s an unusual breeding: a half-Blunt stallion on a non-Blunt, mostly Davenport mare, with an old Saudi tail female.
Yesterday, Jana and I spent a lovely afternoon in the company of Pienaar, Pauline and Gerhard Du Plessis at Saruk Arabians outside Albertinia in the Western Cape. We came for lunch on Easter Sunday and spent a lot of time chatting so time flew by. They run a successful endurance racing operation mainly oriented towards a Gulf audience. They have two very impressive sons of Tuwaisaan 406 (he died in 2011), built like tanks, out of old South Africa dam lines. I also saw and took some photos (iPhone 8…) of Mlolshaan Mutaab, who put on a show in his paddock. He reminded up of the Davenport stallion Vice-Regent CF in pictures I have seen. Mutaab is 22 years old but does not look it. He is quite small for a Bahraini horse — Pauline believes he was raised as an orphan — but is well balanced. Round croup, broad chest, hig tail carriage, good shoulder, deep jowls, small expressive ears. He has that big, bulky Mlolshaan head, not unlike Mlolshaan Hager Solomon’s in the USA. When he moves, he looks transformed. I also saw one of his daughters out of a mare of Egyptian lines. Videos in the next…