Australian Stud Visits November 2000, page 2

Carol Mulder's Australian Stud Visits, November, 2000

By Carol W. Mulder © 2001

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Meadow View Silver Nickel, age 11, with Geoff Brown and her unidentified 2000 foal.
Carol Mulder photo.

Naazim, age 25, with Richard Cerveny.
Carol Mulder photo.

PART 4 - PEDIGREE ANALYSIS

During my 2000 Australian visit to Victoria and southern New South wales, I believe I may have seen a few hundred horses; whatever the total number, for myself I particularly listed some 74 1 liked best; these were 21 males and 53 females.

As is the case everywhere one goes to see Arabian horses, I saw some horses I liked very much, many average ones, and some I did not much like. Included in my personal list of 74 are a few which had faults which might have disqualified them from my list had they not also had such superlative assets that the assets overwhelmed, eclipsed, and transcended the flaws.

It is only coincidence that my list of favorites numbers the same (74) as my 1991 Australian visit list of favorites, about which I wrote in the April/May/June 1993 issue of Crabbet Influence magazine.

There is not enough space in this article to itemize all the horses on my 2000 list of 74, but I have done an overall pedigree analysis of them to see which bloodlines had the most influence.

The pedigrees back to great-grandparents of the 74 listed favorites contain 518 stallion positions. These 518 positions are held by 176 different stallions. Of these 176, the names of 89 appear only once each; that is a little more than half. The names of 82, or somewhat less than half, appear more than once each and 25 of these 82 appear five times or more each. The 25, with the number of times they appeared at the far left, were:

35 X GREYLIGHT (Bright Shadow x Royal Radiance).1959 gray bred by Crabbet in England; to Australia in?utero 1958 by Mrs. A. D. D. Maclean for her Fenwick Stud.
29 X SINDH (*Silver Vanity 22555 x Silfina).1958 chestnut, bred by Crabbet; to Australia 1961 by Fenwick.
20 X RIFFAL (Naufal x Razina).1936 bay bred by Lady Yule, England; to Australia 1947 by Fenwick. Stood 16?0 1/4 hands (average Arabian size 14?1 to 15?1 hands).
16 X BRIGHT SHADOW (Radi x Pale Shadow).1948 chestnut bred by Mrs. P. Mounsey?Heysham. in England; about 1951 purchased by Crabbet; never in Australia.
11 X *SILVER VANITY 22555 (Oran x Silver Gilt). 1950 gray bred by Crabbet; to U.S. in 1962; never in Australia.
13 X SHAFREYN (*Royal Diamond 12906 x Sharfina). 1954 chestnut bred by Crabbet; to Australia 1956 by Mrs. Maclean.
13 X *SILVER MOONLIGHT 53652 (Indian Magic x Silver Fire).1949 gray bred by Crabbet; to Australia 1951 by Mrs. Maclean; to the U. S. 1969.
13 X BAZ (Rakib x Barada 11). 1950 gray bred Fenwick in Australia. 100% Crabbet.
11 X RASHAM (Greylight x Sparkle).1975 gray bred by R. W. Ryan in Australia. 100% Crabbet.
11 X SARDONYX (Greylight x Nejmet Es Subh). 1969 gray bred by Fenwick in Australia.100% Crabbet.
9 X RAKIB (Nax x Rythama). 1934 gray bred by Mrs. G. Bromley in England; to Australia 1938 by H.S. D. Hirst. 100% Crabbet.
9 x RUBERTO (Sindh x Ringlet). 1968 brown bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
8 X FABULOUS (Riffal x Fadoura). 1961 brown bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
7 X JABAL IBN MONIET 84882 (?Ibn Moniet El Nefous 33488 x Roufah 31962). 1972 chestnut bred by J. Stream in U.S.; to Australia by E. Bligh. In Australia this horse's name was changed to Al Karim Jabal Ibn Moniet and the Australian stud book has the wrong person listed as his breeder. Egyptian pedigree.
7 X RISHEEM (Irex x Rishka). 1944 bay bred by Mrs. E. M. Carroll in Ireland; to Australia 1945 by Mrs. R. J. Legoe. 100% Crabbet.
6 X CRYSTAL FIRE (Dargee x Rosinella). 1952 chestnut bred by Mrs. S. Bomford in England; to Australia 1961 by Mrs. and Miss Bligh. 100% Crabbet.
6 X ELECTRIC SILVER (Raktha x Silfina). 1948 gray bred by Crabbet; to Australia 1950 by Fenwick.
6 X MOROCCO (Risheem x Fickle). 1969 gray bred by Mrs. E. Tucker, Australia. 100% Crabbet.
5 X COUNT MANILLA (*Count Dorsaz 14388 x Namilla). 1952 chestnut bred by Miss G. M. Yule in England; to Australia 1957 by Mrs. R. Bligh. 93% Crabbet.
5 X *EL SHAKLAN 268260 (Shaker El Masri x *Estopa 309769). 1975 gray bred by Om El Arab in Germany; to U.S. 1982 by Om El Arab. Egyptian/Spanish.
5 X MUSTAFA (Hadban Enzahi x Masarrah). 1969 gray bred by Marbach Stud in Germany; to Australia by D. E. Kemp. Egyptian/German.
5 X ORAN (Riffal x Astrella). 1940 chestnut bred by Lady Yule in England; owned by Crabbet.15.2 hands.
5 X *ROYAL DIAMOND 12906 (Oran x Grey Royal). 1948 gray bred by Crabbet; to U.S. 1957.
5 X SOMERLED (Baz x Silver Radiance). 1971 gray bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
5 X TAFADIN (Ramadan x Tafileh). 1958 gray bred by G. A. and Mrs. Lewis in Australia. 94% Crabbet.

The 518 mare positions in the pedigrees, to great?grandparents, of the 74 animals I liked best are occupied by 259 different mares. Of these, 159 appear only one time each, while 100 appear more than 2 times each. of those 100, 19 mare names appear 5 or more times each:

20 X ROYAL RADIANCE (*Royal Diamond 12906 x Silver Gilt). 1955 gray bred by Crabbet in England; to Australia 1959 by Mrs. A. D. D. Maclean for her Fenwick Stud.
16 X SILFINA (Indian Gold x Sharfina). 1944 chestnut bred by Crabbet. An unusually large mare ? she stood 15?2 hands.
10 X PERFECTION (Sindh x Helawi). 1963 brown bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
10 X RINGLET (Riffal x Ruheym). 1962 brown bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
10 X RUHEYM (Rakib x Rualla). 1946 gray bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
10 X SPARKLE (Shafreyn x Starflower). 1966 chestnut bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
8 X NEJMET ES SUBH (Rakib x Nasifa). 1948 gray bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
7 X FADOURA (Fayrial x Badoura). 1950 gray bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
7 X SEFRA (Rossfennick x Fickle). 1962 gray bred by Mrs. E. F. Tucker and B. W. Hinkley in Australia. 100% Crabbet.
7 X SILVER RADIANCE (Electric Silver x Royal Radiance). 1960 gray bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
6 X FICKLE (Riffal x Fadoura). 1956 gray bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
6 X NICKEL (*Silver Moonlight 53652 x Nisib). 1959 gray bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
5 X ELDOURA (Electric Silver x Badoura). 1952 gray bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
5 X HELAWI (Rakib x Carlina). 1949 bay bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
5 X PERIDOT (Greylight x Perfection). 1969 bay bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
5 X ROSE PEARL (*Silver Moonlight 53652 x Rosinella). 1958 gray bred by Fenwick. 100% Crabbet.
5 X SHARFINA (Rytham x Sharima). 1937 chestnut bred by Crabbet. Never in Australia.
5 X SILVER DOURA (*Silver Moonlight 53652 x Eldoura). 1964 gray bred by R. A. and V. M. Gresinger in Australia. 100% Crabbet.
5 X WELLWORTH LEILANI (Morocco x Sefra). 1974 gray bred by Mrs. E. F. Tucker in Australia. 100% Crabbet.

The three most exciting Arabians I saw on this 2000 trip were: the stallion MEADOW VIEW KARNAK because of his superlative Arabian style, type, and breed character combined with pleasing substance, bone, joints, and feet; the stallion ROXBOROUGH BANDOLEER because of the Arabian beauty and excellence of his cleanly cut head, neck, and entire forehand, again combined with good bone, joints, feet, and substance; and the colt TORRYBURN GINDARI because of his fabulous and superior trot that absolutely took my breath away.

I was also particularly impressed with the father-son stallions SILVER SOMERIO and ARFAJA DANYON both displaying particular merit; of added interest to me was the fact that they are son and grandson of Somerled which was one of my favorites in Australia during my 1991 visit; in fact, Somerled remains one of the best Arabian stallions I have ever seen in my life, anywhere (Somerled was still, in 2000, alive in New South Wales at age 29, but was no longer breeding).

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