I own the very last Al Khamsa mare alive with a tail female to the 1886 Blunt desert-bred mare Ferida. Her name is CSA Baroness Lady, a.k.a. “Lady”. Lady is now 23 years old, and is available to the right home. Get in touch if you are interested. She is available because I now have four frozen embryos from her for future use, two from the Bahraini stallion Shuwaimaan Al Rais, and two other from the Syrian desert-bred stallion Dahjani Al Arab. Hopefully one of these four embryos is a female that will be able to take the line forward. She is available to the right home at no cost because of her age. She still cycles regularly, though, and her uterus is clean and in good shape. The vets at U Penn recovered seven eggs from a first aspiration last August, of which four matured and were inseminated. Two of these cleaved and developed into embryos which were quickly frozen. The second aspiration also led to ten eggs, of which three matured and of these, two developed into embryos that were also frozen. That’s a great success rate. The Blunt taproot mare Ferida was the matriarch of one of…
Laura Fitz is selling this handsome colt, by Monologue CF out of Mi Blue Angel. He has a rare cross to the Bahraini stallion Mlolshaan Hager Solomon. She told me that he has had quite a bit of ground work. He loads, clips, lunges, round pens…. He was 14.1 the last time she measured him. The last two photos display his sire Monologue’s very board forehead and large eyes.
Very happy to announce my acquisition, a few months ago, of this handsome and truly desert-bred jet black Kuhaylan al-Wati stallion [click link for the pedigree] hailing straight from the Shammar Bedouins. Hopefully, he will make his way to the US at some point in the future. He is currently standing at the stud of Shaykh Hashim Al Jarba [Abu Hmud] in N.E. Syria, where he has been put to good use over the past three years. He’s had some ten foals this year only. His offspring, among them the two fillies below, are very promising,
Just a quick update about the mares. Sidi Bint Maistro will be coming here around the middle of October. Her paddock is already picked out. I’m going to have a hard time letting her go. Assad Princess Surrayah is a different case entirely. After nine years of living on almost nothing, the moment she got here the old girl developed laminitis. With the bum knee, she’ll still stand there, blissfully trusting you, as you have a look at her hooves. I really don’t know if we can expect a foal.
This beautiful photo of the Saqlawi Al-‘Abd stallion Jadaan (Abbeian x Amran) in older age standing by the memorial dedicated to early Hollyoowd star Rudolph Valentino was posted by Andrea Kaiser on Facebook and relayed by the Davenport Arabian Horse Conversancy. Jadaan is represented in a small number of Arabian horses of Davenport lines, especially those from the Krushan strain Fun fact: the term “latin lover” was apparently first coined for Valentino
Jadah BelloftheBall, Kuhaylah ‘Ajuz in foal to Jamr Al Arab Mayassa Al Arab, Kuhaylah Krush, in foal to Anecdote CF Wadha Al Arab, Kuhaylah Hayfiyah, in foal to Shuwaymaan Al Rais [Bahrain] SS Lady Guenevere, Ma’naqiyah Sbayliyah, in foal to Cascade DE
Yesterday, I finally received my own copies of our book “The Arabian Horses of Abbas Pasha – New Discoveries: The 1860 Abbas Pasha Sale List and Other Original Documents” in the mail. It really does look very nice.
Below is a copy of an advert for *Munifan, from volume 5 of Here’s Who In Horses of the Pacific Coast, an annual publication compiled by Betty Jellinek. Published in 1949, volume 5 covered the horse shows of the previous year.