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 …
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: 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 …
THE BEDOUIN OF ARABIA AND HIS HORSE Excerpts from Upton's Gleanings from the Desert of Arabia compiled by Jeanne Craver used by permission of Jeanne Craver "AL KHAMSA is an organization of people devoted to furthering the survival of the asil* horse of Bedouin Arabia by means of education and research in a social climate which draws the owners and admirers of such horses together in a friendly and …
Voices of the Past: Arabia in The 19th Century -- Excerpted from: THE BOOK OF THE HORSE Edited by Samuel Sidney, London 1875 Buying Arabian Horses from the KHAMSAT Volume 10 Number 1 March 1993 "All the horses offered to us for sale by the Bedouins …
Articles of History: FROM THE PAST: Excerpted from THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE by Hon. Sir James Penn Boucaut The Khamsat Vol 10 Num 4 Nov 93 Edward III. was a great warrior. Captain Thomas Brown, 1830, says in his book that the Turkomans trace all their best horses to Arabian sires. They believe that the race degenerates unless 'refreshed,' and they are therefore most anxious to obtain fine …
Articles of History: Excerpted from: THE ARAB HORSE, CHAPTER VI - SOME LAST WORDS by Spencer Borden, New York, 1906 from The Khamsat Volume Seven Number Four Oct/Dec 1990 No person who reads the …