This is a neat old clip showing the arrival of Nasrullah at Claiborne in 1950. Love the train and old-school horse van. Nasrullah certainly looks like a handful in the video.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid13320747001?bctid=89522948001
Just found an interesting old 1954 Sports Illustrated article about Nasrullah and Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons as well-
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1128737/1/index.htm
Great clip, thank you. Nasrullah was reputed to be very tough and supposedly cost a couple of grooms their fingers. :eek:
Now that’s pretty goddamn cool.
What a magnificent specimen he was.
That is awesome. I thought it was interesting they used a bit and a lunge line. Today that would absolutely be a lip chain on a regular shank, no way they would let the horse get that far away.
I’m surprised as well by the lunge line. Especially since he was known as being difficult from early on. Doesn’t seem like the handler is fazed by him though…
Wow. Very cool indeed. What a fabulous looking horse. I just love seeing the horses from “back in the day”
How cool is that. I have an 8 year old Oldenburg GOV mare who’s great grandsire is Nasrullah–grandsire is Nashua. What a wonderful animal he was 
Wow, I just loved that clip! How about the old Claiborne van, isn’t that neat? Thanks so much for posting it!
That’s actually not a lunge line, it’s a longer stud shank and has a chain at the end. The still photos I’ve seen of him coming off of the van has the chain run through the rings of the bit and attached back to itself. They still have at least one of those shanks laying around and I’d say it’s less than 25 feet. The reason they used it (from what I was told when I worked there) is that Nashrullah had a bad habit of wanting to come down on you. He was hard to handle, but from what the farm manager told me, he never took any fingers off at the farm (although I’m sure he bit a few).
Thanks for posting that Cammie. Cool video.
Wow. Thanks for posting!:yes:
IIRC, the “finger loss” too place in Europe before he came to Claiborne. Possible that it’s myth, of course.
Even today, many European studs use that type of bridle to handle stallions. If you look at some of the “stallion ads” from the Euro stud farms, they are common. Also, looking at some of the historical photos in the TB Time sStallion Directory, I see several old time US stallions that had once stood in Europe wearing them.
Could very well be he did it before he was imported. Those stud grooms love to embellish and the stories run wild, so it’s always hard to know what is fact or fiction. I do personally know an Irish groom who had his thumb bit off by Woodman, but that’s the only first hand knowledge I have of a missing digit.
I did hear from several of the old timers at Claiborne that DRONE was hands down the nastiest horse that stood there.
I wonder about the finger thing because I think I’ve heard that story about other stallions (including Storm Cat.) Though I haven’t heard anyone really deny the story about Hastings (sire of Fair Play) actually KILLING someone (as in more or less on purpose). But then supposedly he and his dam were both very bad actors.
That is So Cool!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
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Seconded! I love this kind of video history!
Studs wouldn’t be so fantastic if they didn’t have all the myths surrounding them.(eye roll) I’ve seen the longer lead line like that before and love them for a rearing horse since 8 ft runs out rather quickly when horse in hand stands 17 hh or taller. One of the geldings in the H/J barn that was imported came with one of those and it’s right at 12ft long. Owner still uses it on him despite him being a perfect gent that is a tad spooky but a big baby otherwise. He is 17.3 right now and hopefully done growing.
this, exactly
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thanks for sharing!
Thanks, he’s the great-grandsire of my mare, as well!
thats awesome!thanks for sharing the clip,i love watching clips and stuff about the "older generation"horses
Fabulous!!! I love these neat old finds.
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