Carol Monkhouse and the quest for the last asil Crabbet lines
I finally got to meet Carol Monkhouse at the Al Khamsa Convention in Oregon. Carol was visiting from the UK, with her husband Terry Lee. She has a couple mares, Maloof Habiba (Maloof Habibi x Maloof Sahara by Subani) and Maloof Hadiya (Parnell x Devlin), and their offspring, which she keeps at the Doyle ranch, in Alfalfa, Oregon.
I had corresponded with Carol some fifteen years ago, after a mutual friend, Tzviah Idan, had introduced us to each other, at at time all three of us happened to be looking at remaining old Blunt lines (i.e., no Skowronek, who is so ubiquitous as to have his own Wikipedia page) around the world. I was delighted to finally meet her in person.
We had identified the 1978 asil stallion Arabesque Azieze (Hansan x Orilla by Oran) in New Zealand (last asil Wadnan al-Khursan stallion in the West, also last asil line to Oran); some asil descendants of the 1950 mare Rozina (Saoud x Ruth II by Bendigo) in South Africa, by the asil Kuhaylan al-Mimrah stallion Gordonville Ziyadan (more on this precious line later, it is still there); the two asil Courthouse Hamdani Simri full sisters Sappho and Sceptre (Bleinheim X Selima by Bahram, more on those twi later as well), and a few very old horses in the UK, of which the 1975 stallion Alfadir (Algolson x Fedora by My Man, non-Skowronek, but still non asil) was one. Nothing concrete came out of this, except the realization that something needed to be done before more bloodlines were lost. Arabesque Azieze was actually the nearest miss, by far. I wrote about him here.
If you know more of these lines, please let us know.
From a UK Crabbet breeder I heard that she exported several Crabbets to Pakistan, including a stallion that she bought from Crabbet as a yearling when the stud was dispersed. Have to look up his name. I guess they all had Skowronek in them, but it is worth to try and find out if there are any left. I can try and find out if she still has an address or anything to go from.
Monique
Horses exported to Pakistan from among those owned or bred at Crabbet after World War II include Silfax (Raktha x Silfina), Dancing Star (Indian Gold x Shades of Night), Dancing Fire (Oran x Shades of Night), and Nerina (Rissalix x Risira). All of these trace to Skowronek. There weren’t very many non-Skowronek horses bred or foaled at Crabbet after 1940. Crown Royal (1945), Ioran (1947), Zol (1947), Extra Special (1947), Grand Royal (1947), Indian Crescent (1948), Royal Exchange (1950), Shamreen (1950), Exceptional (1952), Shar (1953), Incoronetta (1954), Summer Crown (1955).
Stumbled upon this post and decided to take a look. It appears that there may only be one extant asil descendant of Sappho at the moment – Salome Hamdaniya. I believe the breeder of the dam (and thus the tail female damline to Sappho) is http://www.greifvogel.at/elshahin/Home/Home_e.htm
yes Laszlo Kiraly has the last asil mare from that strain in Europe. Saralee Al Shahin
Thank all things good and gracious that she landed in a home that will look to her.
Alrighty, here in Australia, Colonial Lines bascically disinigrated in 1985 pretty sure there was 80 purple Arabians left in Australia, one that comes to mind was Doolee, owned by Zem Zem, I. Order to “ preserve the original type in Australia certain out crosses were passed as acceptable, now this was a hard task, but because of the use of Sala* ( Courthouse) used over the “ Skowronek free Jelbart Horses he was accepted, as Razaz* along with Rakib* as without these outcrosses the original type would be extinguished, Cairo (N.Z) was accepted, along with Riffal*, there has been a lot of contrerversy re why Other certain Wentworth horses were not accepted, for one she was as mad as a cut snake and deliberitary raised height with a number of her Super Horses, as in Indian Gold, Grand Royal ect because she wanted to increase height to be accepted Before Bloodtype ect……Read Weatherbys General Stud books with the Get of Wentworth @ the 20’s and 30’s, plane As the nose on my face, I don’t particularly care one way or another, I have no gain in writing the truth, but as Lyman says Skowronek was dodgy, ha ha but that’s only the tip of the iceberg…….no Arab owner want to admit the piece of paper means shit, the AHSA and WAHO , whatever are making money, they don’t give a shit if it’s half Quarter Horse, Wake Up, there are very very few Mazbut…Pure…whatever left in the world. Recognise this and let’s band together to keep the small cesspool alive…..signing out Tracey Higgins.