I was always curious about the background of the Bahraini stallion Krushan Speckled (aka Krushan Al Marshoosh, also called Krushan Al Aswad), and his beautiful dam Krush Al Araibi. There is a full article about him and his dam, as well as awesome pictures of both, in the “Pearls of Great Price” series of articles that Judith Forbis wrote for Arabian Horse World in 1971. There are also other nice pictures in Danah Al Khalifah’s Pearls of Great Price photo book. In addition, below is some of what Volume I of the Amiri Arabian Studbook of Bahrain has to say about Krushan and his dam: “The Stud Stallion, Krushan Speckled, was out of the dam Krush El Araibi which was bred by the then Shaikh of Amara, Mohammed El Araibi. He had brought her as a tribute to Shaikh Sulman in the late 1940’s.” I looked up El Araibi online and found his trace. He was a prominent Iraqi tribal leader, the leader of the al-Bu Muhammad tribe, following the death of his father Araibi Pasha (photo below). His tribe, the al-Bu Muhammad, are located in the Amarah district of Southern Iraq, on the Tigris river, just across the border…