In 1893 as a teenager, Henry Babson worked as a stall cleaner in the “Arabian Village” at the Chicago World’s Fair. Like Homer Davenport, Babson became fascinated with the asil Arabian horses that he encountered there, though it took many years before he was able to travel overseas to obtain quality horses.
Khemosabi, foaled in 1967 and bred by “backyard enthusiasts” Bert Husband, MD, and his wife Ruth, is a double grandson of *Fadl on the dam’s side, and on the sire’s side descends from the Crabbet horses Mesaoud (see last month’s installment for a photo...
Fadjur, foaled in 1952, is a grandson of *Fadl who also carries lines to *Obeyran, *Berk and other Blunt horses. Very handsome and a multi-champion, he is handled in this 1960s-vintage photo by Kathleen Hammer Tone of the Jack Tone Ranch near Stockton,...
Serr Maariner, foaled 1970, was a successful Grand Prix
dressage competitor, here ridden by owner
trainer Gail Hoff-Carmona,
PhD. “Serr” descended in all four lines
from *Fadl.
Ibn Rabdan, foaled in 1917, sire of *Fadl and in his day called a “perfect specimen” of the Arabian horse. Note the conformation, very different from horses bred by the Blunts: relatively heavy body build, long soft back and pasterns, smaller bone and...
Henry Babson aboard the stallion * Fadl, foaled in 1930 and imported from Egypt.