The Arabians of written record
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 …
by R.J. Cadranell II from The CMK Record Spring 1992 X/I, Copyright 1992 BUSHRA (Azrek x Bozra), the eldest of BASILISK's three granddaughters still represented in pedigrees. (Note that the background of this photo is Randolph Huntington's front porch.)BUKRA (Ahmar x Bozra), a personal favorite of Lady Wentworth, and dam of *BERK and *BATTLA.BEREYDA (Ahmar x Bozra), shown as an old mare, was the …
Copyright 1996 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions Nov/Dec 1996 Used by permission of RJCadranell The stories of *Aziza and *Roda run parallel. They were bred by Prince Mohamed Ali of Egypt, daughters of his mare Negma, and imported to the U.S. by W.R. Brown in 1932. From Brown's Maynesboro Stud they were sold to General Dickinson of Tennessee. Both mares later had foals by *Raffles, and both …
Fortunate Outcross: *Azja IV Copyright 1992 by R.J.CADRANELL (champion research and statistics by Arlene Magid) from Arabian Visions October 1992 Used by permission of RJCadranell Though her most famous son, living legend Azraff, as well as through her other foals, *Azja IV has bred on phenomenally well. *Azja IV has national winners tracing to her through all her progeny. She has countless …
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, …
Copyright © 1998 by Michael Bowling (with particular thanks to Margaret Dickinson Fleming) originally published in Arabian Visions Oct 1998 used by permission (with added photos) After the early 1930s the BINT YAMAMA horses were universally referred to as of the Kehilan Jellabi strain. In later editions of PASB the strain of KAFIFAN was changed to Kehilan. No hint of a connection between Prince …
Copyright © 1998 By Michael Bowling (with particular thanks to Margaret Dickinson Fleming) originally published in Arabian Visions Oct 1998, used by permission (with added photos) Names in 19th-century Egypt do not appear to have been the hard-edged entities we would like them to be; Ali Pasha Sherif himself first comes to our attention, buying horses at the auction put on by the heirs of Abbas …
Breeders can have both in their programs by Michael Bowling, Copyright © 1997 from Arabian Visions magazine Sept/Oct 1997 used by permission of Michael Bowling I sometimes wish we had waited a bit longer in the preservation breeding community and used the terminology which has been developed by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy: ALBC refers to conserving breeds or genetic stocks, while …
Copyright 1990 by MICHAEL BOWLING used by permission of Michael Bowling published in Arabian Visions Oct 1990 (left to right) RIADA, ROSE OF HIND, KIBLA, RISALA and KASIDA at Crabbet in 1913. (Photo from the Brown collection, courtesy Arabian Horse Owners' Foundation.) Those of us who study the historical Arabians are always looking to expand the range of knowledge: for foundation stock there's …