The Arabians of written record
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 …