Pardon the silence on my end, life has been busy. I wanted to share a photo of one of the desert bred stallions that found their way to South America (namely, Argentina) in the early 20th century. A chestnut with a large blaze and four white legs (edit: I appear to have been mistaken. see comments for further information), Tatar came to Argentina to stand stud at Hernan Ayerza’s farm in 1931. As best as I can understand, his arrival to South America was a coordinated effort, with Hernan enlisting the help of the prolific Carl Raswan. Carl Raswan went to his friend (his blood brother) Fawaz al-Shaalan, a leader of the Roala people in the southern part of Syria. Per Peter Upton’s publication “Arabians,” Fawaz sold Tatar to Carl Raswan, though it’s unclear to me if he was also the breeder. Fawaz was also involved in the Hearst importations of 1947, was involved with the Arab League delegation to the United Nations in the wake of the post-WWII developments of Israwl and Palestine, and if I’m not mistaken (someone please correct me if I am!) he was involved in Syrian parliament in the 60s as part of the Bedouin…