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A couple of times a year a horse shows up and makes me think that maybe I should give up this whole "riding thing" and just go do halter horses. Well, this is the fellow currently making me swoon. His ad doesn't say a lot but this boy was 2016 EE Champion Egyptian Related Stallion, and I remember he was quite a looker. He's by Anaza El Farid, which means he's a paternal brother to *Gazal Al Shaqab. I'm wondering if someone is going to pick up one of those great Addis steals with him. *Sigh* I don't need another horse, I don't need a stallion (though if he goes cheap as I think I could just geld him the minute he looked at me cross eyed)...And after my ride on Friday I'm reminded that I *certainly* don't need a huntseat/western horse as I think my mount is going to start bucking if he drops his head down LOL  Hope somebody bids him up high enough that I don't wind up crying LOL

The (mostly) Saddlebred Barn Owner jokingly asked if I wanted to partner on him after showing her a video of him being ridden.  “Western is a lot of fun,” she says. I reply if I wanted to do Western I’d just steal one of my favorite SBs of hers that she’s been planning to try Western for a bit now.  And she laughed, “Yes, but you’d have more fun with your Arab!”  If he wasn’t all the way over in TX we would likely go check him out just for the thrill of it.

#arabian horse #why can't I be rich right now

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Amir Al Shaqab 2007 Grey#arabian #stallion (Gazal Al Shaqab x Amira Madrona)

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I have no personal experience, but I hear things like sleeping, making plans to go to a show, or your favorite vet going on a weekend trip work wonders for this...

Dark internet, what suggestions have you for summoning a baby horse from a mare’s uterus?

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Emir Saud’s visit to Emir Abdullah in Amman. Emir Abdullah on horse-back with mounted attendants, c. 1935 Aug. 17 ~American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept.

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JERUAN

(Nureddin II x Rose of Persia)

1920 Chestnut Stallion

Pedigree

Bred by Arthur J. Powdrill, he was a mixture of Crabbet and non-Crabbet Old English breeding, his dam being the mare Rose of Persia, bred the Honorable (Captain) George Savile. His second dam was the bay mare Zimrud, bred by the Honorable Miss Dillon and later owned by George Savile. Her dam, Zem Zem, was out of the esteemed Hagar, and by a stallion whose asil status is an incredibly thorny issue among Al Khamsa breeders, namely because of the only known photo of him is one showing that of a rather (by our modern standards?) ugly animal, the stallion El Emir. There is also a recently-uncovered painting of El Emir, which does show a much more (again, by our modern standards?) comely Arabian, so the controversy remains murky.

I’ve posted on El Emir once before, but to rehash – he can be found in the 1885 Vol. 15 edition of the General Stud Book: formerly named Sanad, sire ‘a grey Kohel Cheyti horse—his dam a bay Managhieh Ibn Sbeyli’, bred by Dehemedi Elzoba Ibn Amoud, exported to Algiers c. November 1877, sold to the horse dealer Charles Masne, then Don Carlos y Waetgin y Arango, then John Legard, then Miss Dillon.’

And then, from Peter Upton’s “The Arab Horse”:His strain is “Managhi Ibn Sbeyel”, his dam being “a bay Managhieh Ibn Sbeyeli”; his sire “a grey Kohel Cheyti”, which Peter Upton interprets as K. Sueyti (or Suwayti). His height was 14 h 2 ½. His breeder is recorded as (spelling matters here): Dehmedi Azoba Ibn Amoud, which Upton renders as “Sheikh El Hamoud of the Al Zoba tribe, allies of the Shammar”.

A good primer on the controversy might indeed be an older DOTW blog post, El Emir photo. A salient quote in the thread from Edouard Al-Dahdah: “The point I am personally trying to make, and which has already been made in the past by several other people, is that if horses were being evaluated on the basis of their pedigrees rather than their looks, then El Emir would be in the AK Roster, and horses like Mameluke, Maidan, and probably even Kismet, Dwarka and Nedjran would be out. There is far more information about him than all the others put together, and the information actually makes sense. Whether the information should be believed is another issue.” 

As for the supposed origin of the photo in question, there is an 1895 edition of Samuel Sydney’s book The Book of the Horse on Google books, found in chapter 1. I was able to find an earlier edition, published in 1880, that does not show this infamous photo - for whatever that’s worth.

El Emir may or may not be asil. But he’s got a better record of origin than Maidan, who is also in Jeruan’s pedigree and who has been accepted by Al Khamsa. 

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Falconry in Algeria: A council of war.

Copyright M.  Emil Frechon.

Source: Country Life Illustrated, Volume 9. Hudson & Kearns, 1901 [x]

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So I had to return a book to the library today and I came straight from the horse farm. I went to the front desk because it was an item on loan from another library and I wasn’t sure if it had to be checked in differently. The librarian said no, it could get returned in the normal slot but she could take it and check it in right away.

It was only when I got back to the car that I realized I had walked into the library covered in dirt from head to toe and handed back a book about grave robbing.

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Celebrate by transferring your horses’ hair from their bodies on to your clothes, face, mouth, lungs… 🌞🌱🌿🌼🌸

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Picture postcard, “A Bedouin and his pride”

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Arabische Pferde /Chevaux arabes - Abbildungen saemmtlicher Pferde-Racen. Nach dem Leben gezeichnet, lithographirt und herausgegeben von Rudolph Kuntz mit naturhistorischer Beschreibung von E. d'Alton

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He change 😭

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Capone has the sweetest eyes 🐴

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Sometime I wonder if people aren’t already on board with, “Breed horses specifically for undesirable traits that make them difficult to train and handle.”

Me: in conclusion, get rid of roads, undomesticate all horses, and reintroduce chimpanzees to the American Midwest.

Guy interviewing me for a position with the US Fish and Wildlife Service: Could you……………..elaborate on that?

Me: How could I possibly be any clearer

Him: first if all you just walked in and started your sentence with “in conclusion,”

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Map of Native American etymologies for “horse”. There were no horses in the Americas before the colonists arrived. Native Americans quickly developed new words for this strange animal, often associating them with dogs, their one other domestic animal before contact with Europe.

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Horses of the H.R.H Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Khalifa Stud

Taken Feburary 13 2017, by Doyle Arabians (probably Lyman.)

Shawaf Baarah M406

Shuwaimaan Mishwaar M401

Shuwaimaan Saary M587

(also) Shuwaimaan Saary M587