A blog on desert arabian horses, past, present and future
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. … Read more
I wrote about H.R.P. Dickson’s 1949 book “The Arab of the Desert” in an earlier blog entry about the Ubayyan strain of Ibn Jalawi. This entry is about about the horses of the rulers of Bahrain, in the context of Dickson’s mention of specific Arab leader being famous for keeping a certain strain of Arabian … Read more
This morning Jeanne Craver reminded me of this picture of the Bahrani stallion Shawaf (BHRSP3), a stud at the mounted police, of the ancient and precious Shawafan strain. It is in the first volume of the Bahrain studbook.