Kate shared this picture from the 1977 edition of the “Encyclopedia of the Horse”. The legend says “Arаb mares and foаls аtthe stabIes of the Emir in Bahrain on the Persian Gulf.” Neither her nor I had seen it before.
Landrace Belisarius, Jamr’s only son so far, is slowly unfolding into a great stallion prospect for his proud owners Moira Walker and Jeff Vorwald. I cannot stop staring and squinting at his pictures, trying to figure out which parts of him are after his sire, and which ones after his dam. Of course it keeps changing, and he has a long way to go before reaching maturity. The other Jamr offspring is Belisarius’ full sister Bassma Al Arab. Below, for comparison, is his not-so-distant damline relative *Sunshine (O.A. x *Nufoud). They share more than the bay color and the blaze. For further comparison between the three is a closer relative, the 1991 “red bay” stallion Salil Ibn Iliad (Iliad x LD Rubic), photos by breeder and owner Lesley Detweiler. The last photo shows a lot of the elastic-like quality of that family. Or it’s the influence of the Craver Davenport stallion Ibn Alamein, another bay who is Salil’s grandsire and a strong presence in Belisarius’s pedigree.