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In Cairo now 25 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
I just arrived in Cairo Egypt with the family for a three year stint. Still busy settling. Sorry for the prolonged absence on the blog, and for not returning phone calls and emails from friends and ot...
Complete set of Khamsat 9 Aug 2013 | 02:07 pm
Darlene Summers and I purchased a complete set of the Khamsat magazine. Darlene will scan them for the Al Khamsa archives project, and I will get the hard copies. I have been wanting a complete set fo...
Who owns who? 6 Aug 2013 | 09:32 pm
I find this photo of Walter Schimanski and his beloved stallion Fabo very touching, and emblematic of the friendship between man and horse. The horse clearly looks proud to walk next to his owner. Fa...
Question on *Werdi 30 Jul 2013 | 12:18 am
Does anyone know how the mare *Werdi made her way to Davenport in 1906? There is no mention of her in his “Quest”, and her original documentation (hujjah) points towards the central Syrian city of Ha...
Abu Talib, 1933 Kuhaylan Rodan stallion in the USA 25 Jul 2013 | 07:35 pm
Abu-Talib (Ameer Ali x Rayim) is a Kuhaylan al-Rodan stallion from the Fred Glass program in Oklahoma. I had never a photo before. His dam is 100% old Crabbet with crosses to all the greats: Abu Zeyd,...
More pictures of Mayyassah and a request for feedback 24 Jul 2013 | 02:54 am
Mayyassah Al Arab is by Clarion CF out of Cinnabar Myst and is the youngest foal of the Al-Dahdah preservation program of old American asil lines. She has lines to Hanad from his son Mainad and his da...
New son of Syrian stallion Mahboob Halab in France 13 Jul 2013 | 11:56 pm
Fayrouz Beni Sakr (Mahboob Halab x Safiyah Beni Sakr by Hortal El Din) is a young and promising son of the Syrian stallion Mahboob Halab, now in France. Bred and owned by Fabienne Vesco.
Labwah Al Shaykhah now a young mare 13 Jul 2013 | 11:19 pm
Another filly — now a mare — I have been following on this blog for some time is Jenny Krieg’s Labwah Al Shaykhah (DB Khrush x HS Marayah) now 4 years old.. Many more pictures here. I have to keep rem...
Gorgeous Suri Al Sahra, 2013 Hadba Enzahi filly 13 Jul 2013 | 09:26 pm
How I love this young Davenport filly of the Hadban Enzahi strain, born a couple months ago at Jeannie Lieb’s from her rescue mare RL Bilquis (DDA Rasan x RL Boomerette by DDA Ihsan) and sired by RL T...
On Lady Anne’s visit to Saud al-Tahawi in 1887 11 Jul 2013 | 03:28 am
In Lady Anne Blunt’s Journals and Correspondence, the nice journal entry on February 20th, 1887 on the visit to Saud al-Tahawi, the reference to: “Fourthly, a Kehileh Taytanyeh [?] fleabitten” is of c...
