General

This what a “very beautiful head” meant in 1895. Let’s keep it that way.

Samantha Mattocks published this feature on our new book “The Arabian Horses of Abbas Pasha” in the British “Arabian Magazine”

Hamidi al-Dham al-Hadi al-Jarba was the supreme leader Shaykh of the Jarba Shammar. Westerners know him mostly for hosting a delegation of breeders to the Shammar in 1996.

Nelyo looked very “old style” Arabian the other day. I love how fine his mouth amd muzzle look. There was too much visual noise in the background, so I converted the picture to black and white.

Kinza arrived at the Doyle farm in Oregon some ten days ago. She will most likely go to Bashir Al-Dirri in the spring, when she will have put more weight on. Bev Davison keeps her dam Ginger, as well as two siblings, a filly and a colt, and has sold another full sister.

Billy Sheets, who with his father and grandfather before him owned Arabian Stud Farms [ASF] told me some twenty years ago that the bay stallion active at ASF under the name ASF Gersom [Dhahran x Esperanzo Asal Fanifara] was not ASF Gersom, who had died young, but his younger full brother, ASF Jedeciah, the 1977 … Read more

Superb photo of Fragrance CF [Regency CF x Anthesis CF] taken by Carol Mingst in 2012.

Jamr, despite being small, is magnificent. In fact, he does not look small at all when moving. Yesterday, I also took these photos of him walking in hand. He is short [13.3 and a half], I am tall [6 feet], so that makes for titled photos where his legs look shorter and his body bigger. I … Read more

Yesterday I went to see my horses up in Pennsylvania, and took a lot of pictures with my smartphone. Smartphone photos are what they are. This is a head snapshot of little Bassma Al Arab [Jamr Al Arab x Jadah BelloftheBall], now one and a half years old. In this picture, her head looks like … Read more

This is Shaman’s dam SS Lady Guenevere, which I have leased from DeWayne Brown a few years ago, until she produces a filly for me. Click on the low res photos to enlarge them.

This past weekend, Belle left with her new owner, Moira Walker, after some nine years in my ownership. She leaves two nice fillies behind. She is in foal to Jamr for a March 2023 foal. She was the sweetest of mares, especially with my children as they were growing up. Here’s to a long line … Read more

I own the very last Al Khamsa mare alive with a tail female to the 1886 Blunt desert-bred mare Ferida. Her name is CSA Baroness Lady, a.k.a. “Lady”. Lady is now 23 years old, and is available to the right home. Get in touch if you are interested. She is available because I now have … Read more

Laura Fitz is selling this handsome colt, by Monologue CF out of Mi Blue Angel. He has a rare cross to the Bahraini stallion Mlolshaan Hager Solomon. She told me that he has had quite a bit of ground work. He loads, clips, lunges, round pens…. He was 14.1 the last time she measured him. The … Read more

Just a quick update about the mares. Sidi Bint Maistro will be coming here around the middle of October. Her paddock is already picked out. I’m going to have a hard time letting her go. Assad Princess Surrayah is a different case entirely. After nine years of living on almost nothing, the moment she got … Read more

Jadah BelloftheBall, Kuhaylah ‘Ajuz in foal to Jamr Al Arab Mayassa Al Arab, Kuhaylah Krush, in foal to Anecdote CF Wadha Al Arab, Kuhaylah Hayfiyah,  in foal to Shuwaymaan Al Rais [Bahrain] SS Lady Guenevere, Ma’naqiyah Sbayliyah, in foal to Cascade DE

Yesterday, I finally received my own copies of our book “The Arabian Horses of Abbas Pasha – New Discoveries: The 1860 Abbas Pasha Sale List and Other Original Documents” in the mail. It really does look very nice.    

Just looking again at this nice 2016 photo of my Kuhaylat al-Ajuz mare “Belle”. It’s the Arabian horse equivalent of that 1950 Edward Hopper painting “Cape Cod Morning” with the woman looking out the window at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.  

Perhaps it’s time to share my latest attempt to keep the gene pool in my horses as broad as possible. It’s also a story of dedication, steadfastness and perseverance by Jessie Heinrick, who made it all happen. The bottom line up front is that some time ago, I acquired sight unseen an 11 year old … Read more

Young Sharif really is a looker. DeWayne Brown who owns his dam Pippa, visited the Doyle farm last weekend and took the pictures. You gotta love the Doyle motor on this Ma’naqi colt. And the black skin around the eyes. Terry Doyle is standing in the background.    

From Severine Vesco comes this beautiful photo of the handsome Syrian stallion Mahboob Halep, with his owner Jean-Claude Rajot in France. He is a Shuwayman Sabbah originally from the Shammar, and a personal favorite of mine. This stallion becomes finer and dryer year after year.

This morning I received this email from the Penn Equine Assisted Reproduction Laboratory (PEARL) at U. Penn’s veterinary school, where I was trying this new ICSI technology on one of my older mares, CSA Baroness Lady. We have 2 cleaved embryos in culture for Baroness Lady x Dahjani Al Arab.  Today is “Day 7” and … Read more

My beautiful Ginger, now owned by Bev Davison, got a pretty, pretty filly for Bev by her stallion Ahsahm. This is Ginger’s third filly in four years. Surely this great broodmatron, now 24, has done more for the Rabanna female line than any other mare of similar lines in the last decades. Photos by the … Read more

DeWayne Brown took these. This young horse has style and substance.  

My beloved Wadha nearly died while foaling, and her foal by Monologue died too. A large bay colt, both hindlegs white, so large that he was stuck at the level of his hips for two and a half hours and died before he could come out. Wadha’s vagina was teared up pretty bad and she … Read more

Lovas Nemzet, Laszlo Kiraly’s 22 years old Hungarian horse magazine is having its annual photo competition. The deadline is July 24, 2022. Everyone is encouraged to apply.  

The last thing I wanted this year is another colt. Still, my appreciation for this latest one is growing at each candid shot Terry Doyle sends me through DeWayne Brown, who owns the dam. Look at that neck, that gaskin and these hocks, at such a young age. Bashir is really a good sire. I … Read more

I finally managed to get a better photo of Assad Princess Surrayah.  Please excuse the candid photo.  She’s  putting  weight on  nicely. Assad Princess Surrayah She will be put out to pasture with Gülilah Sawwan very soon.

I like this little chap. He speaks well for his sire as a breeding stallion. The dam is of course excellent.

Wadha’s foal by Monologue is due this week, and Pippa’s foal by Bashir (“the Dude”) the next. I am hoping for a bay foal in the first case, regardless of gender, and for a filly (chestnut, because no other option) in the second. Both should be nice foals, if delivery goes all. In other news, … Read more

My new book with Kate McLachlan and Moira Walker, “The Arabian Horses of Abbas Pasha” will be published in late-July 2022, capping six years of work. It is based on the (re)discovery and translation of the Abbas Pasha Sale List, an original Arabic document drawn at the close of the auction sale of the famed … Read more

Kate and I started talking about the mare Sidi Bint Maistro a while ago. I finally summoned up the nerve to get my 2 cents together and make an offer for her. Who was the first horse you bought?

This photo from Mirko Ulram at Yeguada Schieferegg this morning. Their third foal and first filly. Both mom and daughter are doing well. sired by Ibn Hamza out of Hassirah

This is considered beautiful by some.    

The other day I was telling Carrie Slayton that I wanted to breed and own very powerful Arabian horses horses, with very deep girths, very round barrels, short backs, long hips, high and extended withers, flamboyant action, lots of spirit, fire in the eyes, dark skin on the face, very fine skin, shiny coats, masculine … Read more

Just about a year ago I wrote about the mare Jezabel , “die Wüstenstute” and her journey from Iran to Europe. Mirko Ulram graciously sent me these photos of her great-granddaughter Jasminah. She is the product of a mating between a grandson and a granddaughter of Jezabel. Mirko confirmed that the pedigree is correct. (AllBreedPedigree … Read more

This document is a milestone, and it took a year to get it this far, in a true collective effort.

… and I did not even celebrate it. Shame on me. The young girl after which this website is named was born on the day it was launched, and is now a teenager (left on the photo).  

This horse is actually Montezuma (Sir x Tara), a Kuhaylan Hayfi of Davenport lines that was mostly used to produce half-Arabs.

First time I see a photo of this mare. She was beautiful. I wish that her type had prevailed in these *Turfa horses. She was 44% *Turfa.