Wadd Al Arab
This morning Jeanne Craver shared with some of us this picture of my young Wadd (Triermain CF x Wisteria CF by Triermain CF), who at 5 months old, shows real potential as a stallion, and I wish the best for him. That inbreeding to Triermain really paid off, and I would repeat it if I could. Behind him stands his sister Wadhah (Javera Thadrian x Wisteria CF), who is now 18 months old.
By the way, I have chosen the suffix Al Arab for my (very much virtual for now) stud. So he will be registered as Wadd Al Arab (“Wadd of the Arabs”), and his sister as Wadhah Al Arab. When I was younger, I was really impressed by racehorse names like Shaykh al-Arab, Shatt al-Arab, Wahid al-Arab, and used to think horses with such names were to be reckoned with.
From a purely linguistic perspective, Wadhah really should have been registered as “Wadhat al-Arab”, since a final “t” in Arabic is silent unless followed by a noun in the possessive case (e.g., Kuhaylah Rodaniyah and Kuhaylat Rodan, which translate respectively as “Rodanian Kuhaylah” and “the Kuhaylah of Rodan”; another example is Saqlawiyah on it’s own as opposed to the possessive case as in Saqlawiyat al-Abd).
You should have someone good with a good camera, rather than me in the cold wind uphill from him using a cell phone!
He is so good that it doesn’t matter, even if you were using a polaroid under a snowstorm…
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Nice looking colt you have here. Should mature into a lovely stallion. Congrats..
My first thoughts were what a cutie and he looks like he might have an impish streak that was my first impression. Very Nice!
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Impossible to judge his limbs fully from this photo but…
If he turns out to be as lovely as many of the Davenports I have seen on here and proves himself under saddle then please get him frozen for export!! 🙂
It’s a long time since we had any new Davenport blood in this country (as far as I know).
What better suffix?
Oh, and Edouard, he is only 3.5 months old!
duh! of course, he was born in mid-september. very virtual stud indeed. 🙂
Congratulations also from Germany. He looks very promising and much like his sire!
Matthias
Very nice, Edouard!
What a beauty… how does he look now in 2013?