Hamdaany Darak, Hamdani Ibn Ghiyam from Bahrain
Very proud of Darak, one of three Diva sons to come to France. Diva was one of Danah Al Khalifah’s best mares.
A blog on desert arabian horses, past, present and future
A blog on desert arabian horses, past, present and future
Very proud of Darak, one of three Diva sons to come to France. Diva was one of Danah Al Khalifah’s best mares.
I like him. Lovely balance, beautiful neck, an overall attractive horse.
He is not nearly as spectacular as Daneer (his paternal half brother) or Dafuq (his maternal half brother).
Definitely a ,’ conformational fixer.’ You know the Blunts original intention was to use Arabian horses to fix what by the 1870’s were already causing conformational flaws that resulting in soundness issues among Thoroughbreds after less than a century of Weatherbys running an essentially closed stud book. They( the Blunts) reportedly had a family tradition that the vast majority of the claimed ,’ Arabians,’ listed in early pedigrees were indeed asils. Which, according to current genetic studies turned out to not be true- as scientific tests have shown hardly any Arabian genes- or Barb for that matter in modern Thoroughbreds.
Today we have the happy facts of even general list Arabians completely dominating the true soundness tests of modern day endurance riding.. If you examine the pedigrees of the currently fashionable top finishers in endurance riding you find the French racing arabs many of whom have secret close up crosses to Thoroughbreds blended with cmk-polish crosses. Truthfully, these horse are actually Anglo Arabs, as some of the French so called Arabians are as little as 3/8ths Arabian which if you do the math blended with a 95% polish- cmk cross gives a two thirds or so Arabian cross . Surprisingly close to the 66 percent to 85 percent blend revealed by Prince Roman Sangusko to be his breeding pattern in his 1899 letter to the Blunts. As i recall Sangusko referenced the similar breeding pattern of the then already renowned Babolna Shagya arabians in further correspondence with the Blunts- this according to Lyman Doyles website about Skowronek. Doyle explains that the Czarist Russia era Arabian studbook had a provision for appendix arabians which were not Asil and that Skowroneks dam traced to the appendix book.
Food for thought.
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Bruce Peek