*Mounwer, an asil stallion from Lebanon, imported to the USA in 1947
Commenting on a recent post, RJ Cadranell mentioned the CMK Record, a publication that replaced the Arabian Visions Magazine.
Below, a scanned article of the CMK Record, Fall 1988 issue, courtesy of Michael Bowling, where he discusses the 1942 asil stallion *Mounwer. *Mounwer was imported to the USA by W. R. Hearst in 1947. He was a Shuayman Sabbah by strain, and was bred by the Khamis family of Rayaq, Lebanon, by Kayane out of Bint al-Berdowni. Check out my entry on Kayane here.
*Mounwer is the paternal half-brother of the mare *Layya, also bred by the Khamis family and imported by Hearst. While *Layya has left (too few) asil descendants, and was accepted by Al Khamsa in 2002, the blood of *Mounwer is now completely lost to asil breeding. (If you have a PC, right-click on your mouse, and download Michael’s article to be able to read it without damaging your eyes. If you have a Mac, I don’t know what to tell you…)
And that’s a photo of *Mounwer, who really looked like he was a lovely horse. More on some of his ancestors later.
Thanks Edouard for posting this. When we were first looking for mares, we almost bought a mare in 1972 who was a Mounwer granddaughter named Mounri Mounaree. I was interested in her because of the close desert breeding and also because of some other Davenport lines. I was still new to Arabians but was very impacted by the Davenport story. She was a nice grey mare owned by a breeder nearby, Dr. John Tarr. We passed on it though because we were still doing a lot of looking and a few years later bought the mare Sirbana (Sirecho x Habbana by Ibn Fadl). When I first got my Blue Catalog in 1974 I was surprised to see that the Hearst horses were not in it. I had a lot to learn though, and many miles to go…
Same for a Mac, Edouard: right click and choose the option!
What a beautiful stallion! So sad that he was lost to asil breeding.
I would love to see that picture of Gazelle…
Isn’t he gorgeous? I can’t believe there were people who were insinuating that the Hearst imports were not true Arabians..
The picture quality is not very good, but still he looks nice. I really like the Shuayman Sabbah strain from what I have seen on your blog.
The mare Shams al-ghurub is another fine example.
I do hope you find out more of the background. Never say never!
The CMK Record did not replace Arabian Visions Magazine. The last Record issue appeared in 1995. The last Arabian Visions was in 2000. The Record was merged into Visions.