Rare photo of Julep
This precious photo of Julep (Gulastra x *Aziza by Gamil Manial) popped up on my Facebook feed this morning, posted by Julie Koch, who indicated that it was “a photo Joan Yerkie took of Julep at Cedardell Arabians in the 1960s”. It is dated Aug 1966.
Julep is in at least three horses I have owned and in two I bred and still own. He is one of the treasures of US asil breeding.
His sireline is vanishingly rare, too. Only 1 stallion has been born in the last decade: 2019 bs Sayeed Maha Faturf (WLR Ebony Faturf x Rashahla Maha). The next most recent stallion was born 13 years ago — 2011 ks WLR Ebony Ameer (WLR Ebony Faturf x Bontina). And then the most recent horses after that were born in 2008. There are 6 stallions aged 20 or younger – and I’m not 100% sure if they’re even still alive, let alone intact.
He must have had a nice length of rein when ridden. His back looks good for his age – I imagine the fact that it was short made it stronger and less prone to sagging. It also boggles me that a Mesaoud great-grandson was alive in the mid-1960s, but I suppose Gulastra was foaled when Astraled was quite old.
Why? Look at that pedigree: i owned that mare up until 2015. See how many horses born in 1902, 1904 in the fifth generation. https://alkhamsa.org/akroster/search/horse/14853
Abu Zeyd in the fourth generation.
I think it’s partly because Mesaoud, being foaled in the nineteenth century, belongs in my head to a completely different era than the mid-twentieth century. Mesaoud great-grandsons alive in the 1940s? Not remarkable. The same horses, alive in the 1960s? Inconceivable.
It’s also in part because I think I’m used to a more rapid accumulation of generations in a pedigree. Julep was foaled more than a decade after Mesaoud great-grandson Naseem, and five years after Naseem’s son Raktha. There are other great-grandsons, like Kazmeen and Safarjal, foaled in 1916 and 1915 respectively, and while great-granddaughter Rahab may have been foaled in 1931, Mesaoud appears three times more in her pedigree, twice in the fourth generation and once in the fifth.
I think it’s due to the extremely long career of Gulastra and his sons. I saw a horse, Gulastra’s Splash, at Robbie Pruitts in Oregon, who’s sire was Roh Beta Gulatra. https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/roh+beta+gulastra
Roh Beta was the last son of Gulastra, and OUT of a GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER of Gulastra!!! (emphasis from allbreed). Died in 1988 at the age of 33.
Gulastra’s Splash himself was born in 1988, when his sire was 33. A time capsule. He looked the part.
That is astonishing! A Gulastra grandson foaled in 1988! Went off to find photographs, and Roh Beta Gulastra looks like a horse that could have been bred at Crabbet Park itself.
Oh, wow! I am so delighted to see this! Thank you so much! (My two foundation mares were Julyan daughters, so granddaughters of Julep.)
Jeanne: weren’t your foundation mares both Muniqis’?
How about some pictures??
best
Bruce Peek
I sense an increasing interest in the horses of Jeanne Craver, nee Hussong 🙂
I’m sorry, Bruce. I didn’t see your comment earlier. My two foundation mares were quite different. Fatimah was by Julyan (Julep x Bint Maaroufa) out of Fadaa (Ibn Fadl x Maedae). So she had a pedigree of building blocks. A Davenport, a Babson-Turfa Blue Star, a Blunt, and Egyptian lines. Technically, you could reproduce her. In actuality, considering how rare these particular horses are today, you might not be able to do it anymore. My particular favorite of her daughters was by the Davenport Tripoli. That breeding really worked, but Tripoli died of old age and Fatimah died of colic, and that was that.
My second mare was also a Julyan daughter, but out of Sirrulla (Sirecho x Drissula by Sultan), going back to the Ma’anaghi Sbaili mare Haidee, dam of *Naomi. This was a scarce line even then, and I tried to keep it going, but our farm was really getting pretty crowded, trying to save Davenport bloodlines. Edouard bought my last mare of this line, Dakhala Sahra (Plantagenet x Soiree), and tried ET with her, unsuccessfully.
So both lines to my mares are gone, and that really makes me feel sorry.