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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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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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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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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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The Crabbet Lawsuit (part I)

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 …

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Thoughts on the Evaluation of Historical 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 …

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Basilisk Defended

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 …

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Fortunate Outcross: *Azja IV

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 …

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