Whenever a Morgan thinks Morgan, they just think mighty. 
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No longer.
I had a Hadban Enzahi stallion Hannes (Oberlin x Waddarlah) and Halvah (HB Octavian (?) x Baclava) a third generation Kuhaylan Haifi mare. The usual tragedies (Hannes died) and my MS getting much worse very rapidly after a car wreck ended my dreams. Hannes was a Tripoli grandson on his sire line.
Which horses do you own?
I adore the pure Davenports, I just wish they were not so inbred. Did you realize that every pure Davenport living is 25% *Hamrah 28 (DB x *Urfah 40 (sp?)? I did the pedigree research way, way back in the 1970s when I did the inbreeding coefficients on around 2/3 of the Davenports listed in the Al Khamsa pedigree index.
Alas I no longer own horses. My MS got too bad for me to take care of them.
Which Davenports do you own?
You would have loved Morgan Spicy!Mare this morning, then. It was in the 50s and she was feeling good. I walked her over to someone’s house to meet a woman with Alzheimer’s for some pony time. Miss Mare was not perfect, but she calmed down a lot in this woman’s presence.
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At present, I have Belight CF (Trilogy ex Adrienne CF), Hamdani
and her son, Minglewood Blues (Brigade CF ex Belight CF).
Estimated Prophet (Brigade CF ex ML Kaystyna) is my half-Davenport gelding.
I’m in the process of acquiring a mare , Laavender Royale EAF (Vice Regent CF ex Laarisa EAF ), Hamdani.
I had a Davenport mare Scotia UF, whom I lost in a barn fire, and her daughter, Queen of Argyll, who was sold to a distance rider in NH.
Also had a non-Fasal mare, Bint Abinoam UF, who is buried out back. She was 31 when she went into a slow decline.
I am jealous, you had a non-Fasal mare. The best Davenport mare I saw was non-Fasal (sorry, I can’t remember her name, maybe it was Dixie? an El Alamein daughter, I wanted to buy her SO BAD (perfectly balanced conformation) but I was nowhere rich enough.)
I remember my first trip to Craver Farm. He was taking us to the barn and there was a horse on the way that looked almost identical to my angel from Heaven, the Anglo-Arab Hat Tricks, except in a pure Arab package. I had NEVER seen an Arabian that looked like him until that day. All the way home I was muttering “I can now try to breed little Hat Tricks’s!”
Did not work out, of course, but it was a marvelous equine insanity to go through!
After some research and talking to the guy who once owned him, Hat Trick’s sire might have been Ibn Ralf, he was in the right area at the right time. Hat Tricks was my angel from heaven.
I fell for the Davenports immediately, I had finally found Arabians that looked like and lived up to the reputations of the Desert Arabians. Even dyed in the wool QH fanatics liked my Davenports, not because they looked like QHs, but because the Davenports have SUBSTANCE while having Arabian characteristics. There were no “flippy headed balls of fluff” at the Davenport studs!
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Minglewood Blues at his first show.
First class–he won.
Paul Santos up.
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