The Arabians of written record
by Michael Bowling Copyright 1979 by MICHAEL BOWLING used by permission of Michael Bowling published in Arabian Horse World July 1979 Photos from the Carol Mulder collection (unless otherwise noted) TABLE I: The First Four Generations of Descent from *Leopard 233 Name (Mares In Italics) AHR number color sex year foaled breeder ANAZEH 235 ch c 1890 Randolph Huntington NEJD 236 ch c 1894 Huntington …
by Michael Bowling Copyright 1979 by MICHAEL BOWLING used by permission of Michael Bowling published in Arabian Horse World July 1979 Photos from the Carol Mulder collection (unless otherwise noted) Rafissa 1695 (*Raffles x Ydrissa), Gina Manion up, 1950's. Arthur Ball, president of Ball Jar Company (home canners in the audience will nod wisely at the name), bought the George horses around 1935, …
Rancho San Ignacio: A Look Back Copyright R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions May-June 1997 Used by permission of RJ Cadranell In reviewing Richard Pritzlaff's life with Arabian horses and reading what he has written about them, several themes come out again and again. This simplifies things for a writer: include most of them and the …
by Aaron Dudley Photos from Spide Rathbun Collection from Western Horseman Mar 1952 Two great horses. Jadaan visits the statue of the immortal Seabiscuit at Southern California's famous Santa Anita race track. A special platform was built in the midst of one of Santa Anita's noted pansy beds for this occasion. Probably no horse of modern time -- including the favorite mounts of our current TV and …
by Michael Bowling © 1995 from CMK Record XI/2 Spring '95 (This discussion is based on outline notes for the talk I gave at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Arabian Horse Historians Association. The timeliness of the topic is underscored by a comment from the outgoing AHHA president, Carol Schulz, that at least 90% of the Arabian foals registered in the last several stud books are of generalized …
by Dr. Amin Zaher Photos from the Zaher collection (Western Horseman Jul/Aug '48) The Van Vleet Arabs on their high altitude ranch, not far from Denver, Colorado. While I was in Egypt, I read much about the American-bred Arabs. When I had the opportunity to come to this country to study, it was my honor to be asked by the Egyptian government to make a tour and to inspect these Arabians in America. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …