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The Ever Expanding Crabbet Universe Copyright 1991 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions March 1991 Used by permission of RJ Cadranell Words are defined in one of two ways: the first is by long-standing and widely accepted dictionary definitions. The second is according to how a word is actually used in the living language. As a word's new meaning gains wider and wider acceptance in first …
221b Baker Street: The Crabbet Lawsuit (part II) As reported in The London Times ANNOTATED BY R.J.CADRANELL Copyright 1991 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions July 1991 Used by permission of RJCadranell Last month this column presented the first three articles the London Times printed about the Crabbet Stud lawsuit. Those anxious to read the rest of the articles are invited to skip ahead …
221b Baker Street: The Crabbet Lawsuit As reported in The London Times ANNOTATED BY R.J.CADRANELL Copyright 1991 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions June 1991 Used by permission of RJCadranell Most books and articles about the Crabbet Stud mention the famous lawsuit fought over the horses after Lady Anne Blunt died. Her husband and daughter each had claims to the horses. The material …
by R.J. Cadranell copyright 1995 from "Scholar's Corner" in CMK Record, XI/3: page 8 & 24 (Preface: This paper [originally written to be read at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Arabian Horse Historians Association] is confined to commentary on Western writers, since this author is not familiar enough with Eastern writers to include them.) One problem facing writers interested in Arabian horse …
Excerpted from: POINTS OF THE HORSE Chapter XXXII, Asiatic and North African Horses by Captain M. Horace Hayes, London, 1897 From The Khamsat Vol 5, Num 4, Oct. 1988 We learn from General Tweedie that although Arabs pay great attention to preserving purity of blood in their horses, they have no written pedigrees of their animals, because they are illiterate. They apply the general term, …
From the Desert, From the Green: The Imported Arabians of Lewis Payne Copyright by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions March 1992 Used by permission of RJ Cadranell Of the Americans who imported Arabians from Crabbet, the name of Payne may not be as familiar as Brown, Kellogg, Selby, or Tankersley. Yet Lewis Payne probably spent more time making his selections, and became better acquainted with the …
by Michael Bowling from Arabian Horse World July 1979 copyright by MICHAEL BOWLING used by permission of Michael Bowling first published in the Arabian Horse World July 1979 *Leopard*Linden Tree Engravings of *Leopard and *Linden Tree from Randolph Huntington's 1885 book, General Grant's Arabian Stallions"Wonderful Arabian Horses Presented to General Grant by the Sultan of Turkey"—note that this …
by Joseph N. White, Arabian Horse World 1981. When we talk about the "greatness" of something, we are usually referring to its impact over a number of years. In this sense of the word, "greatness" aptly defines the influence the old Ben Hur Farms of Portland, Indiana, has had on Arabian breeding in this country. Mr. Herbert Tormohlen, owner of Ben Hur Farms, Portland, Indiana, at his turkey farm …
by Charles Craver All rights reserved (Copied to this web page by permission of Charles Craver) Letan (*Muson x *Jedah) Foaled 1909. Bred by the Davenport Desert Arabian Stud. Both sire and dam were original imports.Hanad (*Deyr x Sankirah) Foaled 1922. Bred by the Hingham Stock Farm. The most influential Davenport at the Kellogg Ranch.*Wadduda, a famed war mare, imported by Homer Davenport in …
by George H. Conn, D.V.M. (Western Horseman Apr '49) Leopard, the Arabian stallion imported into the United States in 1879 as a gift to Gen. U.S.Grant. (Bottom of image: "The Arabian Stallion presented to Gen. U.S.Grant by the sultan of Turkey. Foaled in 1873 height 15 hands; now owned by Gen. L. Colby, Beatrice, Nebr.") < Linden Tree, a Barb-Arabian sent to U.S. Grant in 1879 RANDOLPH HUNTINGTON …