CSA Baroness Lady available to the right home

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 four frozen embryos from her for future use, two from the Bahraini stallion Shuwaimaan Al Rais, and two other from the Syrian desert-bred stallion Dahjani Al Arab. Hopefully one of these four embryos is a female that will be able to take the line forward.

She is available to the right home at no cost because of her age. She still cycles regularly, though, and her uterus is clean and in good shape. The vets at U Penn recovered seven eggs from a first aspiration last August, of which four matured and were inseminated. Two of these cleaved and developed into embryos which were quickly frozen. The second aspiration also led to ten eggs, of which three matured and of these, two developed into embryos that were also frozen. That’s a great success rate.

The Blunt taproot mare Ferida was the matriarch of one of the most successful families at Crabbet Stud. Wilfrid Blunt thought the offspring of her main daughter Feluka, by Mesaoud, were “first rate”. That success continued on the USA West Coast, where several of her descendants went. Many of the early “greats” of the Arabian horse breed were tail female Ferida: Sikin, Farana, Ferdisia, Ferdilan, and so many others.

By the 1990s, only two programs carried the female line forward within Al Khamsa: Iona Ristine’s, which was mostly around producing blacks, and Carol Stone’s, which was a dedicated Ma’naqi preservation program — and a good one at that. Iona Ristine’s horses are now lost, and Carol’s Stone’s CSA horses were dispersed in the early 2010s. There were five younger mares from that line at some point, but four were lost because of a series of blunders and bad luck. Only Lady remained. I acquired her from someone who had obtained her from Carol Stone, and I bred one very showy male foal from her by Monologue CF. I gave him to the person I keep my horses with but she gelded him. I then gave Lady to a nice lady in Michigan, who tried breeding her a few times but was not successful. Then I got her back, because her biological clock was ticking and the damline was at serious risk of being lost. I now keep her in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania.

She is available with a breeding to either one of my three stallions: Monologue CF, a bay Davenport; Jamr Al Arab, a liver chestnut Davenport/Doyle; or AAS Nelyo, a dark bay Blue Star stallion.

If no interest, I will just retire her from breeding.