Kinza Al Arab, 2019 Saqlawiyah filly
She is growing by leaps and bounds, and has filled up. I like the dark skin around the muzzle, and the long ears, and the setting of the neck.
I would like to calculate the percentage of Crabbet and Abbas Pasha blood there (Gulida, Ghadaf, Rabanna, Bint Serra, Bint Rissala, Bint Durra, Kazmeen, Nusi, etc). She certainly looks like a Crabbet filly of the old type. I always wanted a filly from the Rabanna line. Here she is.
So happy for you and to see a new generation of tail female Rabanna.
Yes you can see Mesaoud all through her. Not just the coloring and the extremely typey head, but especially in her hind quarters- round and full, like Mesaouds were. To even approach Mesaouds depth of haunch I had to go to a half quarter horse, The problem with that outcross though is that you lose the size of the leg bone, or to put it another way you get a body that is to big for the size of the cannon bone. But your filly looks like she is going to be just dandy! I think you’re right about her neck too, Right now as a nursing filly it’s set a bit over halfway up the shoulder. As she matures her forearm, shoulder, thigh and hip will all lengthen raising the bed of her neck even more..What would you think about the horse she should be bred to down the road? Maybe a stallion with a lot of Hamrah as had fabulous hindquarters too.
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Bruce Peek
She is really lovely, and shows the promise of being a good horse when grown. You are so right about her looking like a classic Crabbet filly as well – she puts me in mind of the Old English and Crabbet foals in the horse books I had as a child.
we saw the same horsebooks as children
LOVE!
Lovely Lovely girl !!
I always admired her dam and she is a fortunate replacement <3
I agree she is a Mesaoud look alike ^^
Outstanding! What a stunning girl.
Bruce, to your question about who to breed her down the road:
I believe, without having the scientific evidence to back up my claim, that color and conformation are somehow transmitted in conjunction.
I would like to go back to the bay Crabbet horses: Nefisa, Queen of Sheba, Ferda, Astraled, Nasik, Farasin, Farana, etc. I believe that breeding chestnut to chestnut within high percentage Crabbet horses will perpetuate the phenotype of the Rodania line and of the Mesaoud horses, while breeding to bay stallion with high percentage Crabbet might reveal more of these bay ancestors, and possibly even the gray ones. Maybe I am saying nonsense, but I would like to try.
So either a bay Pritzlaff horse with lots of Rashad and Rabanna, or a bay Babson with lots of Bint Serra, or this horse if he is still living in a few years
http://roster.alkhamsa.org/pedigrees/S/Sanda_Faabani_SDA042f9.HTML
Interesting idea on color and conformation transmission. Where do you see this?
Hi Lyman: Just oberving (without having the science to back it up) that horses of different colors but of similar bloodlines tend not to look like each other, and tend to look more like their similarly colored ancestors. Think of the full brothers Fa-Serr and Fay El Dine. So I am venturing to think that if you want a Doyle horse that looks like the bay Gulida, breed your chestnuts to a bay of rather similar lines.
Farana would be my ideal! He was of course the bay spade bit horse of the Kellog Sunday shows.. According to Gladys Brown Edwards, who was the ranch secretary at the time, he( farana) was often rode hard and put away wet- yet never took a lame step. He appeared at sunday show after sunday show and never became ring soured at all. Best of all was his strain- Muniqi a rarity… He performed slide stops for years and yet his hocks remained clean and strong, along with dizzying spins and for a finale would back out of the arena at a speed that other horses had to trot to keep up with..
Also the Bay Crabbets are kind of a rarity aren’t they? I would think especially so in asil lines..
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Bruce Peek
IIRC, Betty Finke wrote an interesting article about the influence of the bay Blunt/Crabbet horses in Egyptian lines.
Found a video of Sanda Faabani SDA posted on Youtube in September 2018. The video showed a very healthy, vital stallion in good health and excellent spirits. If the video represents his current condition, there’s a good chance he’ll be around for several years at least.