Moth with Major Barbara, another favorite mare and foal picture
Posting the photo of Moth and her daughter Major Barbara that started Jeanne Craver’s long and fruitful relation with Davenport Arabians, as a book end to the photo of Faziza below. Thank you Jeanne.
She is lovely.
This also reminds me of a photo I found of Sheba and her colt El Jafil not that long ago [x] – I think I could stare at photos of Arabian mares watchfully guarding their foals all day long.
Gorgeous!! Easy to fall in love with such a beauty <3
This photo was taken in the Denver, Colorado area, at Smoky Hill Farm, owned by Dr. Fred and Barbara Mimmack, who have been involved with Davenport horses since the early 1960s. They bred their mare Maedae to the Craver Farms foundation stallion Tripoli, producing Maefah and Moth. They kept Maefah and Charles got Moth. Both Maedae daughters were then bred to the Mimmacks’ stallion, Kamil Ibn Salan, producing in this case Major Barbara. This photo, Fred just told me, was taken by his wife Barbara. (The Mimmacks still own two beautiful Davenports, on the same property, although Denver and suburbs have grown out and around it.)
I wonder if I drove past them during my stay in Denver a few months back. I was visiting quite a few horse properties to help someone pick a new farm for their horse as they’d moved into the area, and I was pretty shocked at how many little farms were pocketed in what was otherwise thoroughly encroached suburbia.
How long were the Mimmacks actively breeding for? The Al Khamsa database breeder’s index only has a smattering of horses under their name, from the 70s until 2012 (but I suppose that’s just horses that have contributed to the present gene pool and may continue to perpetuate their lines, at the time present.)
The Mimmacks were always “backyard breeders” and proud of it. Many Davenports (and others, of course) have been preserved that way.