A blog on desert arabian horses, past, present and future
The Polish author Stefan Bojanowski writes in his 1906 book, Sylwetki koni orientalnych i ich hodowców, that in 1864 Sultan Abdülaziz purchased 92 horses from the Białacerkiew estates of the Branicki family, and incorporated them into his stud (p. 73): Bez przesady powiedzieć można, że obok „sanguszkowskich“ koni — konie „białocerkiewskie“ wychowywane na bujnych stepach … Read more
The photos of the two stallions below come from the article, ‘L’Opinion des Arabes sur le cheval’, printed in the 3 March 1900 issue of Le Sport universel illustré. Kapa-Kaifa [sic] (above) was a 1894 bay Kuhaylan ‘Ajuz stallion, purchased in Kaila, Syria. I am not certain that the name of the horse, nor the … Read more
صورة أنشرها لأول مرة للفرس هلة كحيلة خلاوية وهي مواليد 1983 تعتبر هذه الفرس من أعتق خيل سوريا وأفضلها تراكيبًا هلة فرس الشيخ محمد الفرحان المحمد العبد الرحمن الطائي وآلت منه الى المرحوم مصطفى الجابري (أبو إحسان) كبير مربيي حلب وتباركت عند أبو إحسان ثم باعها على أحمد الفهيم من دولة الإمارات حوالي عام 1994 … Read more
من أرشيفي اليكم صورتان للفرس طيرة صقلاوية نجمة الصبح (مرزقانية) من خيل المرازيق من البريك من شمر ولدت طيرة في أواخر السبعينيات عند عويّد الرمضان العواد المرزقاني في قرية التويمين بادية الحسكة ثم درجت على صهره صباح مناوخ العثمان من عشيرة اللهيب أيضًا قرية التويمين ويكون صباح العثمان خال الاخ تامر العويّد (أبو ليث) ثم … Read more
He is not done growing yet, and at five years old, is starting to show his full potential. Thanks to allbreedpedigree.com’s linebreeding feature, I counted, amazingly: 373 crosses to Mesaoud 270 crosses to Bint Helwa 222 crosses to Saklawi I 217 crosses to Rose of Sharon 129 crosses to Gulnare all this within the first … Read more
Bint Mayadah (b. 2000) was bred by Laszlo and Eva Kiraly of Hungary and later acquired by Steffi Weirich of Germany. She went back to Laszlo as a middle aged mare, and produced several foals for him. Laszlo gifted her to me as an older mare in 2024, and I gave her to Steffi later … Read more
Karma Al Arab, who is Kinza’s yearling filly by Bashir Al Dirri, left to became a broodmare for Denis and Irmi Atam of Washington state. She is a great ambassador for my breeding program, both pedigree and conformation wise.
The photos below come from a serialised article, ‘L’Opinion des Arabes sur le cheval’, in Le Sport Universel Illustré no. 190, 10 March 1900. The dapple grey above is a 5 year old stallion, whose sire was from the region around Urfa. The mare below, photographed by Captain Defrance, is also five, and is herself … Read more