Belle’s 2023 foal
I am so taken with Belle’s new colt by Jamr, born a couple months ago at the farm of their new owner Moira Walker. Moira named him Belisarius.
He is a throwback to the USA Arabians of a hundred years ago, those you find in black and white photographs of horse magazines and books. At that time, Arabians were good all around horses, not overly specialized in a single discipline, whether halter, endurance or racing.
Absolutely, he is an all around nice colt! I look forward to watching him mature. Congratulations to Moira!
He is a lovely little fellow, and he moves really well.
You know I am in love with him. And Belle! Note the pedigree on this boy. I am biased in wanting to point out that Davenport stallions sired both his sire Jamr Al Arab and his dam Jadah BelloftheBall.
It will be really fun to compare and contrast him with his full older sister. I’m so glad to have him — Bassma is one of those horses that I’d have happily loaded up into my trailer; loved her temperament. He seems much the same way, and I’m very happy with this 🙂
We bred Belle back this summer to the Davenport stallion Pulcher Ibn Reshan (with Debbie Mackie) for a late spring/early summer 2024 foal. She was checked in foal mid-August with a heartbeat. Hoping for a filly from her this time — wouldn’t it be lovely if Belle and Barakah both had fillies, and grew the group together? 🙂
As Edouard pointed out to me, Pulcher and Wadd Al Arab (Barakah Al Arab’s sire, and Belle’s first foal) are both Triermain CF sons, but they have really different types. I have never seen Pulcher before, but Jeanne Craver tells me he is closer in type to Belle.
It will be interesting to see how this foal turns out. I am head over heels in love with Belisarius, and I really loved his full sister Bassma when I met her in 2021, so fingers crossed.
Wonderful! I’ll cross my fingers, too! Pulcher is just magnificent, from what I’ve seen. There is also something about Belle that reminds me of Basilisk and Lady Anne’s description of her.
Fingers crossed for a filly, Moira