Daughters of the Wind

The more I am reading through the materials recently posted on the Tahawi website, the more I realize that the people within WAHO and the EAO who have denied registration to the asil Tahawi horses in the 1980s must have a lot on their conscience — nothing less than the destruction of one of the … Read more

Jenny Krieg, referring to a discussion on straightegyptians.com in 2007, tells me that it seemed that the late Lady Anne Lytton apparently told Carol Mulder, who told someone else (who was writing on se.com under the username “BasilisBelka”) that the famously ugly photo of Mrs. Dillon’s imported Arabian stallion El Emir (below) was not of … Read more

The other day I was looking at foundation horses (i.e., original Arabian horses imported to the USA and the UK from the Arabian desert) in the pedigree of my new mare Jadiba, trying to gauge how “comfortable” I felt about the information currently available to us in terms of their ‘asalah’ or authenticity. “Comfort”  is … Read more

This nice picture of the mare Fairfax KH (Atticus x Fair Naomi UF), bred and owned by RJ Cadranell in Washington state is from the DAHC website.

Yesterday, Jeanne Craver sent me this picture of my other mare Wisteria CF, and her 2010 daughter Wadha by Javera Thadrian (his last offspring). Wisteria is in foal to her sire Triermain for a September 2011 foal. Judith Franklin, who was visiting, took the picture.  

The 1988 black Kuhaylah Haifiyah mare Fa Bahim Pharra (Bahim Hisan x ASF Diane, by Dhahran x Dihkenna) is the youngest Al Khamsa tail female descendant of the mare Dihkenna, a mare of especially valuables bloodlines. She is last recorded as being owned by Alma Cizek in 1988, with no progeny. Anyone knows how Mrs. … Read more

Shasinada (Hanad x Shadi by Asil out of Sherah by *Hamrah) was a Hanad daughter (read RJ Cadranell’s article about the legacy of Hanad here) and an asil Saqlawiyat al-‘Abd, whose pedigree primarily (99%) consists of horses imported from the desert by Homer Davenport in 1906, with a touch of Major Upton’s bloodlines. She was … Read more

Click here for pictures of a “cute” horse from Saudi Arabia, aptly called Sabeh, “Panther”.

Those of us preservationists who have a mare or two, and can’t afford to breed them every year, always find it harder to choose stallions when the time comes to breed their mare. They have to live with the consequences of their decisions, and this alone tends to make them more risk averse. Of course, … Read more

I saw this quote on the blog of Ralph Suarez, and it’s from Lady Anne Blunt: “An inborn love of the horse is instinctive, quite unreasoning, and one cannot recall any beginning of what seems to have always been there, together with a craving for perfection in the object of interest.”

Check this good article on the CMK website. It was compiled by W.R. Brown and published in the Arabian Stub Book [volume 2] in 1918.  

A very interesting discussion started from a question of parentage [Note from Edouard cf. the post on Tabab below] leading to the question of who the bedouin horse is. Do the horses of Abbas Pasha and other Egytian notables belong to the authentic, asil Arabian horse or not? Can You call them bedouin horses the … Read more

Tabab, 1921 stallion, was by *Deyr out of the bay Domow, who was out of the chestnut *Wadduda. Who Domow’s sire really was is not easy to figure out. Her registered sire is the Crabbet stallon *Abu Zeyd (Mesaoud x Rose Diamond), a chestnut but the colors don’t match because two chestnuts can’t produce a … Read more

The head of this mare illustrates several features to be found in old style (‘atiq), Bedouin-type Arabian horses in their homeland. I have seen these features in Bedouin-bred Arabian mares time and again. Some of them are commonly found in modern Arabian horses, like good distance between the ear and the eye, others less so: … Read more

The lovely Kuhaylan Hayfi stallion Porte CF (Portico x Recherche by Prince Hal) is now with Ambar Diaz in California, and is looking very good.  Porte CF was owned by Pamela Klein, who gave him to Ambar. He’s pictured here with Michael Bowling.

I really liked the yellow one in the middle, he should have won, but the judges thought the green one looked more ‘extreme’ and ‘exotic’… but it certainly was a tough call. Maybe next year, with green eye-makeup instead of the red..

An old photo of Jadiba taken by her previous owner Annette Pattishall, from Joe Ferriss’ Khamsat article, courtesy of Jeanne Craver.  

I was re-reading the Cravers’ “Annotated Quest” the other day, and came upon this description of *Wadduda by Homer Davenport, which had marked me the first time I read years ago: “The war mare, the present from the Supreme Ruler, was the chestnut. She seemed to be fretting to get out of the only town … Read more

Monika Luft writes: A sensational discovery: Unknown letters of Bogdan Ziętarski and Carl Raswan from their expedition to Arabia! Polskiearaby.com have unearthed documents which cast a new light on the famous horse-buying expedition for the stud of Prince Roman Sanguszko in Gumniska near Tarnów. Several letters, discovered 80 years after being written, bring surprising details … Read more

Not sure if I have linked to this article by Pat Payne on the horses of F.E. Lewis, an early breeder of asil Arabians of Davenport bloodlines in California, and mostly known as the breeder of Antez (Harara x Moliah by Hamrah). It’s posted on the website of the Davenport Arabian Horse Conservancy (DAHC), which … Read more