“Shawaf with mounted police”

One of my favorite photos from Volume 1 of the Arabian Stud Book of Bahrain is that taken by Danah Al Khalifah of this bay Shawafan/Shawaf stallion. Fortunately, his line carries on in modern Bahraini horses.

The same stallion appears in another photo (below) that appeared in Danah Al Khalifah’s “Living Treasures of Bahrain”, below. The two photos are part of the same series, and must have been taken minutes apart. Shawaf is in the middle of the picture (between the two street lights), preceding the same gray and two bay stallions as in the photo above.