Photos of Mohalhil’s too few offspring
Following an inquiry about photos of descendents of Mohalhil in an earlier post, Jeanne Craver kindly sent me the two pictures below.
The first one of his unique offspring, Prince Faisal, out of the desert-bred Hadbah mare Mahsuda, herself a gift from King Abd al-‘Aziz al-Sa’ud to Charles R. Crane. This photo of a rather fat Prince Faisal was taken at an Arabian horse shown in 1952 by Charles Craver’s father (thanks Charles and Jeanne for the picture!).
Prince Faisal in turn sired a daughter, Jeddah Princess (second photo), out the desert-bred Hamdaniyah mare La Tisa, another gift to Charles Crane from Ibn Sa’ud.
It is such a shame La Tisa and Mahsuda did not leave more offspring. They seem to have been very beautiful mares even by today’s altered (do you like that euphemism?) standards of what an Arabian horse ought to look like. La Tisa was featured in an earlier post on this blog (click here).
we well recognize in Prince Faizal although he was unfortunately too fat on this photo, backgrounds of Mohalhil and Bango…
If the world was just, Prince Faisal should have been made a major contribution to Arabian breeding in the USA.
Prince Faisal is in what Joyce Gregorian Hampshire called “1950s show shape.”
Good old US vintage stuff..
Does anyone have a photo of the Saudi mare imported to the US by Louis Payne, named *HAMRA JOHARA??
We recently purchased the racing stallion LINE DANCER (Burning Sand X Sas Lou Tyrosa) who is from this damline and is quite inbred to this mare. He is almost 25% *Hamra Johara in blood.