Video screenshot of AAS Nelyo

I like this fuzzy video screenshot of Nelyo, the 2015 dark bay Ubayyan stallion I got from Edie Booth a couple of years ago. It shows his “style” when moving and his flowing lines, including the arch of the tail “comme un jet d’eau” as the French would say. The lines are such that one wants to grab a pencil and make a sketch. That deep black-bay color is called asda‘ in Arabic (from sada‘ = rust).

He is part of this plan of mine to inject “newer” (ie, 1940s and early 1950s, so mainly the ARAMCO horses) desert blood into my mares from older (ie, 1880s-1900s) American lines, and see where that takes me. The asil Arabian horse is one.

Compare with that even fuzzier photo of Nelyo’s ancestor Jalam Al Ubayyan, another Ubayyan stallion direct from Ibn Jalawi. Jalam’s photo is from Edie’s collection, I think.