My new filly from Kinza

This morning Lyman Doyle broke the good news that Kinza Al Arab had foaled a filly by Bashir Al Dirri at the Doyle farm in Oregon. She will obviously be chestnut like both parents. She is Saqlawi Ibn Dirri to Basilisk on both sides of the pedigree, to Bushra (Azrek x Bozra) on the sire line, and Bukra (Ahmar x Bozra). Also, she carries “Code Red” (heck, code purple) Al Khamsa lines to *Mirage, *Euphrates, and *Al Mashoor one more generation forward, after her sire. Her name will be Karma Al Arab. Karma in Arabic means vine. Here’s a pedigree link while waiting for pictures.

Lady Anne Blunt on the false difference between “Anazah” and “Najd” horses

From Lady Anne Blunt’s “A Pilgrimage to Najd” (1881): “To the present day in the North, the Anazeh distinguish the descendants of the mares brought with them from Nejd as “Nejdi” while they call the descendants of the mares captured from the tribes of the North, “Shimali” or Northerners.” and: “The Anazeh have disappeared from Nejd. They began to move northwards about two hundred years ago, and have ever since continued moving by successive migrations till all have abandoned their original homes. It may ben that the great name which Nejd horses undoubtedly have in the East, was due mainly to these very Anazeh, with whose horses they are now contrasted.” I had noted these two passages in comments on an earlier thread from 2019, but I thought they were worth bringing back.