Crabbet Arabian Horses
By Karlan Downing, M.D. When Lady Wentworth bred the Skowronek daughter, *Rifala, back to her sire in 1925, she could not have begun to imagine the influence that the resulting foal would have on the Arabian breed.
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By Arlene Magid. Lewisfield was a farm with an exceptional breeding program which produced a U.S. National Park Champion, a U.S. Reserve National Champion Stallion, and numerous top ten and regional winners in halter and performance. Although the program was fully active for just a decade…
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By Rick Synowski. In nine decades of Arabian horse breeding in America, the influence of Crabbet mare lines has lost none of its lustre. Crabbet-related mares continue to dominate lists of champion producers all the way to the Nationals. Their success when crossed with stallions of virtually every breeding group is a fact of record, from *Bask to El Hilal.
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By Carl R. Raswan. Previous articles have explained this with examples and photos of undistinguished types of Arabian horses in contrast to well-proportioned, harmoniously-balanced individuals of pure strain types. Besides these unrelated and pure types, we have the related strains.
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From the 1996 Preservation Breeding Symposium booklet. The Davenport bloodline is one of the original bloodlines of American Arabian breeding. In 1906, before there was even an Arabian Horse Registry, Homer Davenport realized his boyhood dream of traveling to Arabia and buying Arabians directly from the Bedouin horse breeding tribes.
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By Carl R. Raswan. Lady Wentworth, daughter of Lady Anne Blunt (to whom we Arabian horse breeders of America owe a lasting gratitude), has written two remarkable books. “Thoroughbred Racing Stock” (on the origin of the Thoroughbred through Arabian blood) and “The Authentic Arabian Horse” just published in London).
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By Lady Wentworth. The horse stock of the world can be roughly divided geographically into (A) “cold” blood (Equs caballus frigidus), which belongs to the North or more exactly Northwestern cold countries, including the strong slow-moving convex headed thick-skinned breeds, and (B) the “hot” blood of the South and East founded on the concave-headed Equus Arabicus, which is the tap root of speed and quality.
Continue ReadingBy Rosemary Archer. As an old pure breed the Arabian is extremely prepotent, and for centuries has been used up-grade, with the result that there is hardly a breed of light horse that does not contain some Arab blood – the most outstanding breed to evolve from Arabian sources is the Thoroughbred.
Continue ReadingSo you’ve been to the show all on your own. Ventured out without a guide. Seen the beautiful horses. Watched the crowd. Cheered the glory of champions.
Continue ReadingBy Michael Bowling *from the 1996 Preservation Breeding Symposium booklet. CMK stands for “Crabbet-Maynesboro-Kellogg” and recognizes three programs which transmitted much of the central stock of what became North America’s historical Arab-breeding tradition. The CMK Record newsletter grew out of the general interest in these horses in 1981, without attempting to define specific pedigree limits […]
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