Which are the Crabbet horses, and which are the Hanstead horses? These are the Hanstead foals. Hanstead's worldwide influence is out of all proportion to the relatively small number of foals—an average of just over four per year. The six foundation mares appear in all capital letters, with sire and dam noted in italics, then each foundation mare's produce directly underneath. Any daughters with …
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Standard Conformation and Type (1918)
Compiled by W. R. Brown Published in The Arabian Stud Book [vol. 2], 1918 For the information of the public and the guidance of breeders, the following standard of conformation and type has been adopted by the Arabian Horse Club of America for the typical Arabian horse, being the concensus of opinion gathered from many travellers and investigators such as Palgrave, Niebuhr, Burckhart, Lawrence. …
Skowronek’s Pedigree and the Antoniny Stud
by Count Joseph Potocki, The Arabian Horse News, February 1958: “As to SKOWRONEK’s sire, IBRAHIM, he was purchased in 1907 in the following circumstances: “My father, Count Joseph Potocki, Sr., who was at that time searching for a high class Arab stallion, received through his agents information that several Arabian horses had actually been obtained from the desert and were on their way via …
A Tribute to Randolph Huntington
In the Arab horse world... A TRIBUTE to Randolph Huntington by Anna Best Joder from The Arabian Horse News June 1977 (Additional pictures have been added to original article) Randolph Huntington of Oyster Bay, NY was one of the earliest breeders of the Arabian horse in America. In 1888 Huntington imported the chestnut mare Naomi. GENERAL BEALE or ABDUL HAMID II at 21 years of age. He was Leopard's …
The BINT YAMAMA Influence Summarized
(originally published as a sidebar to "What's In A Name?") BINT YAMAMA produced three foals which bred on: the full sisters NEGMA and AROUSSA by DAHMAN AL AZRAK and their three-quarters brother *NASR by DAHMAN's son RABDAN AL AZRAK. It is not certain whether NEGMA was bred by the Khedive Abbas Hilmi or by Prince Mohammed Ali; Lady Anne Blunt records BINT YAMAMA as "expecting a foal" in December …
The Donoghue Arabians
Copyright 1997 by R.J. Cadranell. Originally published in Arabian Visions Jul/Aug 1997, used by permission The Donoghue Arabian Farm has been a mainstay of Arabian horse breeding in and out of Texas. Though not the first Arabian horse nursery in Texas, it was a relatively early establishment. And while Gerald and Louise Donoghue's herd was probably not the largest ever assembled in Texas, it was …
Van Vleet's Arabian Laboratory
by Bob O'Shaughnessy (Western Horseman Mar/Apr'44) High in the Rockies near Boulder, Colorado—8,600 feet up, to be exact—Lynn W. Van Vleet has established a Stock Horse "laboratory" that has drawn the interest and admiration of horse breeders everywhere. Feeling the need for better Stock Horses—horses with the necessary stamina for working the range at high attitudes, Van Vleet …
Excerpted from THE ARAB HORSE, HIS COUNTRY AND PEOPLE
Excerpted from THE ARAB HORSE, HIS COUNTRY AND PEOPLE Chapter II- FOREIGN ESTIMATES OF THE ARABIAN Major General W. Tweedie, 1894 England from the Khamsat Volume Seven Number Two Apr/June 199? "up to this point we have been chiefly occupied with the Arabian Horse in countries where he is regarded as the work and gift of Allah, which neither needs nor admits of improvement. But the time has arrived …
Travels In Arabia the Desert by the Chevalier D'Arvieux (1718)
The Chevalier D'Arvieux's Travels In Arabia the Desert Originally published London, 1718 CHAPTER XI Of the Arab Horses from the KHAMSAT Volume 2 Number 1 January 1985 The Khamsat introduction: This is a most amusing reprint from a very long time ago (1718) in a form of English seldom seen or read in many years. We have reprinted it without modifying any of the phrases or spellings so it …
I would have written sooner, but... Further in the Case of the Blunt-Davenport Correspondence
by R.J. Cadranell Arabian Visions, July/August 1993 used by permission of R.J. Cadranell In the August, 1991 edition of the "Baker Street" column, Debra and Jerald Dirks presented three letters from the correspondence between Homer Davenport and Lady Anne Blunt, both pioneer Arabian horse breeders. Together with her husband Wilfrid Blunt, Lady Anne had founded England's Crabbet Arabian Stud in …