The Arabians of written record
Revised January 1998 Copyright by R.J.Cadranell Used by permission of RJ Cadranell Digging For Gold In The Raswan Index Most Arabian horses descend to greater or lesser extent from the Arabian horse collection of Ali Pasha Sherif (d. 1897) of Egypt. Writers treat this collection of horses with awe and respect. The best of the horses still stand as examples of classic Arabians. Crabbet Stud …
Why Young Stallions Run Away to Join the circus... Arabians at the Big Apple Circus Copyright 1993 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions Sept/Oct 1993 Used by permission of RJCadranell Katja Schumann cannot imagine a …
It has been said that folks who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. Preservation breeders love to make a study of history and then have great fun getting together to repeat it. 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition, Portland,OR. *Nejdran is the horse in the photo. Homer Davenport is standing on the porch. 1994 Northwest CMK Symposium. Aly Binis is the horse being admired by Charles Craver …
Copyright by Michael Bowling used by permission "Strain" is defined courtesy of Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls as follows: "1. Line of descent or the individuals collectively in that line; race; stock; also, a variety, especially when artificial and but slightly differentiated. "2. Inborn or hereditary disposition; natural tendency; trace; an element or admixture; as, to have an heroic strain in …
Copyright 1990 by Michael Bowling, used by permission Originally published in Arabian Visions March/April 1990 Minor Pedigree Lines From Imported Blunt Mares Hagar, a dark bay without markings and with a "strange, wild head," distinguished herself as a riding mare on the Blunts' first desert journey: she was not considered a first-class mare at Crabbet but came to have first-class descent. Her …
Copyright 1990 by Michael Bowling, used by permission Originally published in Arabian Visions March/April 1990 Full Steam Ahead: 1899-1906 The 1898 Crabbet foal crop, which had jumped by 10 over that of 1897, marked a new peak in numbers and initiated an era of sustained production. The smallest foal crops at Crabbet would now hover around the pre-1898 record high of 14. In this period the new Ali …
Copyright 1990 by Michael Bowling, used by permission Originally published in Arabian Visions March/April 1990 "The great tales... never end... But the people in them come, and go when when their part's ended." -- J.R.R.Tolkien We see the names of such Crabbet founder animals as Azrek, Mesaoud and Skowronek so often at the backs of extended pedigrees, it is difficult to appreciate the expanse of …
Articles of History: ARABIAN BLOOD FOR STAMINA Keene Richards' Own Account of His Two Desert Expeditions and His Arabian Importations. Edited by Thornton Chard With illustrations and notes collected by him from The Horse Jan/Feb '35 Part I Part II (Concluded frm preceding issue) NO WRITTEN PEDIGREES IN THE DESERT Then, Mr. Richards explains that in the desert no written pedigrees are kept of the …
Articles of History: Keene Richards' Arabian Importations Conclusion By Thornton Chard from The Horse Jan/Feb '35 Part I Part II Speed says: …
Articles of History: Keene Richards' Arabian Importations By Thornton Chard from The Horse Nov/Dec 1934 Part I Part II "After God, the horses" Thus Cunninghame Graham, in his "Horses of the Conquest," interprets the chroniclers of the Cortez Mexican conquest as to the victorious part played by the horses. (1) And if you will afford yourself the entertainment of reading his book you will be …