Gorgeous Regatta CF
The 1990 Hamdani Simri stallion Regatta CF (MV Reflection x Frill by Adrian) is one of my favorite Davenport stallions alive today. Regatta is, together with Marge Smith’s Pal-Ara Sensation (MV Reflection x Nectar CF by Salutation) and Fred Mimmack’s Militaire CF (Salutation x Vivacity by Tripoli) one of the very asil tail male stallions to the great Antez, through Kamil Ibn Salan (Salan x Schada by Sanad) and his son Salutation (x Maefah).
This photo of Regatta in his prime bears a strong resemblance to photos of both Tripoli and Tripoli’s son Monsoon (x Ceres). The photo appeared in a recent Khamsat magazine article which Philip Bienvenu wrote about Kamil Ibn Salan’s descendants. Thanks to Jeanne Craver for sending it to me.
I would love to breed a mare to him.
I just looked on data source and it shows just 1 progeny. Lexington CF its hard for me to believe a horse that looks like that has not been utilized more. Whats up with that?
I second Ambar. At the time he was around at Craver farms, there were many other senior stallions from that group: Regency of course, but also Trilogy, Lydian, Riposte, Jamboree, etc. He was (and still is) a favorite of Jeanne’s, and has had little opportunity to breed on where is now. His owners are very interested in seeing him leave progeny.
Another thing: he was also the best mover in the farm at the time of my first visit there.
I would say that at the time, Charles was concentrating on using Regency CF to develop that branch of the Schilla group, and ideas always seem to outstrip available space when it comes to horse breeding —
There is a video of this stallion on YouTube, along with the other stallions standing at Craver’s in 1999. I am not sure if the follwoing link will work, but will give it a try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HxyGPiqm14&list=LLEaCmR25H_AL_x6LM1lCJ_w&index=3
I agree with everyone about this horse. He is a beauty.
Ralph
It still does, I just watched five or six times a few minutes ago.. Ralph, we missed you at the AK convention..
One of the problems with Davenport breeding at Craver Farms was that there always seemed to be more promising young stallions coming on than could be comfortably fit into the breeding schedule. Add to this that Regatta CF was only three years old when the Illinois River flooded and destroyed the original farm. After that, a new farm was purchased, and the breeding program did continue for approximately another 10 years, but the new farm could not accomodate as many horses, and with the farm owners getting older, the program was really in a state of slow dispersal during those years. As stated above, Regatta CF competed for mares with Trilogy, Regency CF, Lydian, and others. The deciding factor was never which was the best horse, but which horse was the best match for the particular mare.
What Charles Craver said to me about Regatta CF at the time was that, due to space limitations after the flood and in the years leading up to it, he had not done as well as he could have in preserving the visible influence of Tripoli, but that Regatta CF was a horse that could be used to do that. Regatta CF does have the distinction of being the last horse of his dam line placed into service at Craver Farms, and his son Lexington CF was a promising colt.
I would also note that, due to decreased demand for Arabians following the 1986 tax law changes, I can think of many, many first class Arabian horses now age 12 or more with either no or almost no progeny.
Why 12 or more?
Because that is the age at which I consider Arabian horses to be entering middle age.
Regatta was always one of my favorite stallions. Charles and Jeanne Craver can both tell you the for me how beautiful a horse is depends more on my emotional connection than actual physical attributes. From year to year I would always ask Charles who that georgous chestnut was and he would look at me and tell me that it was the same horse I asked about the last year. I finally had to come up with a saying to help me to remember his name, “We gotta remember Regatta!”