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Copyright 1997 by R.J. CADRANELL from Arabian Visions Sept/Oct 1997 Used by permission of RJ Cadranell 221b Baker Street: "We met next day and inspected the rooms at 221b Baker Street and at once entered into possession." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet Fifteen or more years ago I acquired a reprint of the 1917 catalog of England's Crabbet Arabian Stud. The catalog for the 1917 …
221b Baker Street: Lady Wentworth in the London Times Copyright 1993 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions Mar/Apr 1993 Used by permission of RJ Cadranell Founded in 1878 by Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt, from 1920 to 1957 the Crabbet Arabian Stud was under the firm hand of their daughter Judith Blunt-Lytton, also known as Lady Wentworth. Lady Wentworth added the stallion Skowronek to the stud, …
Copyright 1990 by R.J. CADRANELL from Arabian Visions March 1990 Used by permission of RJ Cadranell Judith Blunt was five years old when the first Arabians arrived at Crabbet Park in 1878. By the time she died in 1957, she had spent 79 years with the breed, and the Crabbet Stud had owned or bred more than a thousand horses. Her position was unique. Modern Arabian horse breeding in the …
Copyright 1997 by R.J. CADRANELL from Arabian Visions Mar/Apr 1997 Used by permission of RJ Cadranell Next to Crabbet, no English stud has been as important as Hanstead. Hanstead's worldwide influence is particularly remarkable in light of the relatively short time it was in operation—not even 35 years of breeding—and the relatively small number of foals produced. There were barely 125, while …
The GSB Arabians © 1996 by Robert J. Cadranell Reprinted from the March-April 1996 issue of Arabian Visions Look at the bottom of most pre-printed Arabian horse pedigree forms and you will likely find explanations of some standard abbreviations. For example, DB stands for Desert Bred, while PASB stands for Polish Arabian Stud Book, and GSB stands for the General Stud Book. What on earth is a …
An Abbreviated History And Description of the Breeding Program by Robert J. Cadranell II revised and copyrighted 1998 by RJ Cadranell II used by permission of RJ Cadranell II Countless times writers have referred to the Crabbet Arabian Stud as the most influential privately owned Arabian stud in the world, and rightly so. The story of the Crabbet Stud and its visionary though eccentric founders, …
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 …
Why Young Stallions Run Away to Join the circus... Arabians at the Big Apple Circus Copyright 1993 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions Sept/Oct 1993 Used by permission of RJCadranell Katja Schumann cannot imagine a …
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 …