Last week also saw the birth of the first foal of my Mayassa Al Arab: a colt by Pulcher Ibn Reshan (ex Anecdote CF). Mayassa is on a breeding lease to Deb Mackie, and the colt hers.
It’s foaling and breeding season and a new crop of foals in on the ground. Belle, who went to Moira Walker in October 2022, had a lovely filly this year by Anecdote CF (aka Pulcher Ibn Reshan). Moira named her Landrace Bellara, in keeping with the B names for this family. The filly, who will be grey, is double Iliad and double Plantagenet, and is the sixth Al Khamsa female from that strain, after her dam, her sister Bassma Al Arab (b. 2021), her other sister Barakah Al Arab (b. 2016), Barakah’s daughter Badia Al Arab (b. 2024), and Ninah Nufoud (b. 2013), a relative at Monica Respet’s.