Davenport/Doyle crosses at the Doyle Farm
The first crop of Davenport/Doyle crosses has arrived at the Doyle farm. It is absolutely first class. En Pointe CF (Triermain CF x Pirouette CF by Javera Thadrian) produced a superb, very well-balanced filly Chatham DE (second from top), and her daughter Andorra DL (Dubloon CF x En Pointe CF) produced an excellent colt by Tamaam DE (first from top). Photos by Lyman Doyle. Lyman correctly points out that the colt’s head looks more like Doyles, while the filly’s head looks more like Davenports.
I am very excited to see the impressive result of crossing these bloodlines. For many years I have thought that crossing Davenport and Doyle lines, somewhat mirroring pedigrees of some classic CMK breeding, could produce a superior Arabian horse. I applaud the Doyle family for their courage to try this outcross.
Thank you for posting. I was excited to hear this when Rosemary mentioned it in a discussion we had while in Australia for WAHO. It’s great to see the photos.
Thank you! I was wondering how they were growing up! And En Pointe is looking great, as well. Thanks to the Doyle’s and Diane Lyons for doing such an interesting and worthwhile experiment.
The colt appears to be a good mover! All 4 feet off the ground in a moment of suspension absolutely pure timing in his two time footfall at the trot also. And of course the clincher he is marked like Mesaoud.
These two horses are the purest of the pure with known and attested tribal origins. And they exemplify the best of modern breeding theory– Heavily linebred, linebred, linebred- then out-crossed. What is going to make this work is the fact that while they have not been genetically mixed until now both of the breeding groups were developed to show very strong similarities. So theoretically the F2s will have even more prepotency for the desirable traits and will therefore be even more reliably able to pass on their positive attributes. The out crossed linebred strategy was also used by the German sporthorse breeders. For example breeding good jumpers of different breeds together. Even though the resulting progeny several generations down the road have very open pedigrees Because all of their anscestors had good jumping ability their subsequent get even when bred somewhat differently should still show a marked turn of foot in the jumping arena.
The people who originally made this possible- Charles and Jeanne Craver and the Doyles along with Carol and Dianne Lyons and of course Carl Raswan( for laying the groundwork) should all be thanked and acknowledged!
best
Bruce Peek
They are both very lovely youngsters. It will be interesting to watch them grow!
The first horse I rode was a painted walking horse owned by John Doyle in Oxford Alabama and the horse looked just like Misty of Chincoteague which was my first book he was best friends with my grandfather are you familiar with the person who owned the John Doyle farm near Anniston or Oxford Alabama?
Is anyone also combining Doyle with Babson at the moment? I seem to remember old combinations of those lines working well and they are both Old Egyptian plus Blunt by source lines. The Davenport combinations look to be working well; I was just interested to know if Babson /Doyle blends were also being done.
I think Bev Davison at SpiritWind Desert Arabians has Babson/Doyle horses.