Tag: Maynesboro

*Mirage 790: Lady Wentworth’s Loss Was Roger Selby’s Gain

by Michael Bowling © 1989; used by permission from The CMK Record VIII/3 1989 *MIRAGE at Crabbet in 1923 or '24. Photo courtesy Rosemary Archer. From the 1924 Crabbet Stud Catalogue: "Mirage. Lady Wentworth has also at Crabbet a very fine white stallion imported by King Faisal of Irak from the Denednasha tribe, to whom he paid £500 for the horse through General Haddad Pasha, who identified the …

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Towards an Appreciation of CMK Identity

by Michael Bowling © Copyright 1997 Abu Farwa (Rabiyas x the Crabbet import *Rissletta by Naseem) foaled in 1940, photo 1964. Abu Farwa lived to age 32.Aurab 12488 (Aulani by Rifnas x Rabna by Narzigh) Paine photo, age 20.Ben Rabba++/ 24921 (Aurab x Rollicka by Sarolle) at age 21 with his last owner Jewel Cantrell.HB Octavian 173260 (Mariner x HB Octavia) 1978 grey straight Davenport stallion bred …

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The Arabians of the CMK Heritage

4H quadrille team at Davis, California. The CMK pedigree definition has become increasingly streamlined over the years; we now require 75% CMK founder ancestry, with a CMK sire line and a dam line established in North America by 1950. Our approach differs from that of some preservation or conservation breeding groups in the Arabian community, because we do not have a closed pedigree requirement. …

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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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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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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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*Aziza & *Roda

Copyright 1996 by R.J.CADRANELL from Arabian Visions Nov/Dec 1996 Used by permission of RJCadranell The stories of *Aziza and *Roda run parallel. They were bred by Prince Mohamed Ali of Egypt, daughters of his mare Negma, and imported to the U.S. by W.R. Brown in 1932. From Brown's Maynesboro Stud they were sold to General Dickinson of Tennessee. Both mares later had foals by *Raffles, and both …

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*El Bulad 29: The New Photo

Michael Bowling © 1994 (used by permission) from The CMK Record X/4 Winter 1994 Photos: Record archives, as credited This photograph of a handsome grey Arabian at Hingham Stock Farm has resided for as long as I can remember in an antique cigar box of unidentified prints and negatives in the W.R.Brown collection. On my trip to Tucson for the 1992 Al-Marah Winter Forum I was able to take an extra …

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Antezeyn Skowronek 5321

by Michael Bowling (copyright) originally appeared in the Oct. '76 issue of the Arabian Horse World Antezeyn Skowronek in May 1976 at age 27. He is by Abu Farwa (Rabiyas x *Rissletta by Nasem) and out of SHARIFA (Antez x Ferdith by Ferseyn). Antezeyn Skowronek was foaled 21 April 1949, bred by E. J. Boyer of Puente, California. He was sired by the quite literally unforgettable Abu Farwa 1960, a …

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Davenport Bloodlines in CMK Breeding

by Charles Craver All rights reserved (Copied to this web page by permission of Charles Craver) Letan (*Muson x *Jedah) Foaled 1909. Bred by the Davenport Desert Arabian Stud. Both sire and dam were original imports.Hanad (*Deyr x Sankirah) Foaled 1922. Bred by the Hingham Stock Farm. The most influential Davenport at the Kellogg Ranch.*Wadduda, a famed war mare, imported by Homer Davenport in …

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