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Ruth Elizabeth " Bazy " Tankersley (née McCormick, formerly Miller; March 7, 1921 – February 5, 2013) was an American breeder of Arabian horses and a newspaper publisher. She was a daughter of U.S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick. Her mother was progressive Republican U.S. Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick, making Tankersley a ...
Douglas B. Marshall (October 21, 1917 – September 27, 2007) [ 1] was an American industrialist and rancher with his wife, Margaret Cullen Marshall (February 25, 1921 – February 16, 1993) [ 2] of Gleannloch Farms Arabian horses. Through importation, breeding and showing of Egyptian Arabian horses, the Marshalls were instrumental in the ...
Known for. Investor, Arabian horse breeder. Henry B. Babson (December 1, 1875 – October, 1970) was an American entrepreneur, investor in phonograph technology, and notable breeder of Arabian horses. He moved to Chicago at the age of 17 at the urging of inventor Leon Douglass. [1] While working at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, better ...
The Arabian or Arab horse (Arabic: الحصان العربي [alħisˤaːn alʕarabijj], DMG al-ḥiṣān al-ʿarabī) is a breed of horse with historic roots on the Arabian Peninsula. With a distinctive head shape and high tail carriage, the Arabian is one of the most easily recognizable horse breeds in the world. It is also one of the oldest ...
Tom and Bill Dorrance. Brothers and horsemen William "Bill" Dorrance (January 19, 1906 – July 20, 1999) and Tom Dorrance (May 11, 1910 – June 11, 2003) are considered among the founders of the modern natural horsemanship movement. Born and raised on an Oregon cattle ranch with a background in the Great Basin "Buckaroo" tradition, they ...
The U.S. Remount Service requested the weight horses carried in 1920 be raised to 245 pounds (111 kg), and required horses to travel for about 60 miles (97 km) a day for five days. Arabians won the highest average points of any breed, and although an Arabian horse did not win first place that year, [ 77 ] Rustem Bey was second. [ 78 ]
A horse bred at Janów. The Janów Podlaski Stud Farm (Polish: Stadnina Koni Janów Podlaski) is the oldest state stud farm in Poland, established in 1817 in Wygoda. The stud farm specializes in breeding Arabian and Anglo-Arabian horses. [2]: 65 It has been an important stud farm for the Arabian horse breed for the last 200 years despite being ...
Carl Raswan. Carl Reinhard Raswan (7 March 1893 – 14 October 1966), born Carl Reinhard Schmidt, was one of the greatest connoisseurs and patrons of the asil Arabian horse. He authored numerous books on Arabian horses and the Bedouin people who raised them. A scholar of Arabian bloodlines, he also published the Raswan Index, an extensive ...