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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 ...
She is recorded as the breeder of over 2,800 registered Arabian foals in her lifetime, [4] [10] making her possibly the largest Arabian horse breeder in the world. [21] [28] At 19, [29] she purchased her first Arabian horse, a mare named Curfa, [c] using money from the sale of another horse she had ridden while at boarding school in Virginia. [3]
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 ...
Hildreth Burton Smith. Children. 5, including Frances H. Townes (nee Brown) William Robinson "W. R. " Brown (January 17, 1875 – August 4, 1955) was an American corporate officer of the Brown Company of Berlin, New Hampshire. He was also an influential Arabian horse breeder, the founder and owner of the Maynesboro Stud, and an authority on ...
Crabbet Arabian Stud. The Crabbet Arabian Stud, also known as the Crabbet Park Stud, was an English horse breeding farm that ran from 1878 to 1972. Its founder owners, husband and wife team Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt, decided while travelling in the Middle East to import some of the best Arabian horses to England and breed them there.
Sheila Varian (August 8, 1937 – March 6, 2016 [2]) was an American breeder of Arabian horses who lived and worked at the Varian Arabians Ranch near Arroyo Grande, California. She grew up with a strong interest in horses, and was mentored in horsemanship by Mary "Sid" Spencer, a local rancher and Morgan horse breeder who also introduced Varian ...
The Darley Arabian (c. 1700 –1730) was one of three dominant foundation sires of modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock. The other two founders were the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerley Turk. This bay Arabian horse was bought in Aleppo, Syria, by Thomas Darley in 1704 and shipped to Aldby Park in England, as a present for his brother.
Honours. Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland (1738, 1745, 1747) The Godolphin Arabian (c. 1724 –1753), also known as the Godolphin Barb, was an Arabian horse who was one of three stallions that founded the modern Thoroughbred (the others were the Darley Arabian and the Byerley Turk). He was named after his best-known owner, Francis ...