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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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 © 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 …