Some Thoughts on Training and Showing Your Own Halter Horses

Some Thoughts on Training and Showing Your Own Halter Horses Copyright by Rick Synowski 1993 from ARABIAN VISIONS May/Jun '93 used by permission of Rick Synowski I am among the multitude longing to see the return of the days when the majority of handlers in halter classes were owners rather than trainers. That is the way it was when I first started showing halter in 1962. Trainers would …

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Delightful as Companion and to Ride

Delightful as Companion and to Ride  Copyright by Rick Synowski 1995 from ARABIAN VISIONS Sept/Oct '95 used by permission of Rick Synowski "The perfect union between horse and rider" is a state of being for which the true horseperson strives, and achieves momentarily, perhaps. Exhilarating moments difficult to describe unless you have been there. In these moments, described by …

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The Changing Eye

The Changing Eye copyright 1999 by Robert J. Cadranell from Arabian Visions Spring 1999 used by permission of RJCadranell After you've spent a few years with horses, you don't look at them quite the same way as you did when you started. I'll give as an example my experience at about age ten with horses -- these were not Arabians -- from two different farms in the state where I grew up.

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The Banat Nura of Ali Pasha Sherif

Copyright © 1995 R.J. Cadranell II originally published in The CMK Record Spring 1995 XI/2 used by permission BINT NURA GSB a chestnut foaled about 1885 and bred by Ali Pasha Sherif, is widely influential through her sons KAUKAB, DAOUD and MAHRUSS GSB. This mare's great elegance still is reflected in her modern descendants. (NBGS) "Zeyd... offered 100 and 150, whereupon Ali Pasha exclaimed, 'Ho, …

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The South American Arabian Pedigree FAQ

by Robert J. Cadranell with Michael Bowling Originally published in Arabian Visions, January-February 1997 Revised January 2005 Horses in South America were part of the deadlock between the Arabian Horse Registry of America (AHRA) and the World Arabian Horse Association (WAHO). This article answers some frequently asked questions about the South American horses. The AHRA mentioned thousands of …

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A Wrinkle in the Stud Book: Rosa Rugosa 166

Copyright 1991 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions Jan 1991 Used by permission of RJCadranell One of the most puzzling registrations in the first edition (1944) of Volume V of our Arabian Stud Book is 166. This is the number assigned to a bay mare foaled March 27, 1907, and entered in the Stud Book as "*Rosa Rugosa." Her sire was *Imamzada, and her dam was *Rose of Sharon. The Stud Book states …

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Lady Anne Blunt in the London Times

Lady Anne Blunt in the London Times Copyright 1992 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions December 1992 Used by permission of RJCadranell Readers are probably familiar with the name of Lady Anne Blunt, who founded England's Crabbet Arabian Stud with her husband Wilfrid Blunt in 1878. Most articles written about Crabbet focus on the horses with little more than a glimpse of the woman …

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Davenport Arabians

Davenport Arabians Arabian Visions Jul/Aug '96 Copyright © 1996 Used by permission of Arabian Visions The Davenport bloodline is one of the original bloodlines of American Arabian breeding. In 1906, before there was even an Arabian Horse Registry, Homer Davenport realized his boyhood dream of traveling to Arabia and buying Arabians directly from the Bedouin horse breeding …

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The Ever Expanding Crabbet Universe

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 …

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The Crabbet Lawsuit (part II)

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 …

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