Subtle as a hoof to the face @double-bridle - Tumblr Blog

annekelleyart

"Then followed

that beautiful season...

Summer --

filled was the air

with a dreamy and magical light;

and the landscape lay

as if new created

in all the freshness

of childhood."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can find more of my work here! 😊👍🏻

#horse art

redhorseofcourse

horsesarecreatures

Smoochies for most excellent selfie taker Amba.

sayhelloanimalfriends

Abel and Hector

annekelleyart

"I am skin, but underneath lives fire and stars and wild!" -Melody Lee

"Wings Full of Stars", for Jufly 🙂🖤✨ Available in my RB shop 🌟

#horse art

equinecrazy

The best ears

horsefigureoftheday

Horse figure of the day: Daum Crystal Mare

saturnvs

starlight

#horse art

acorviart

this is my sticker club reward for july 2025! only available this month, sign up here

#horse art

anonbeadraws

Art Fight Attack 15: Finley and Sable haveing a little dance for @teaweltzer

#horse art

maybelsart

Junicorn catch up

Celestial

#horse art

ainawgsd

On the northwest Belgian coast, there is a little known tradition: shrimp fishing on horseback. The activity consists of what its name describes: fishing shrimp on a horse. In the 15th century, shrimp fishing on horseback was still practised on the North Sea coasts in France, the Netherlands and even the South of England. This activity represented an extra revenue needed for the household. Nowadays there is only one place in which it is still ongoing: Oostduinkerke, a sub-municipality of the municipality of Koksijde.

Keep reading

horsesarecreatures

Crabbet Arabian Stallion WP Ibn Bayang

mylittlehony

Dug through the Australian stud book to find his pedigree; it turns out he's Old English, rather than Crabbet, due to his dam. He has an interesting female line - he goes back to a grey Ma'naqiyah mare Nejdmieh from Saudi Arabia. She was gift from Emir Rashid of Ha'il (unfortunately I don't know which of the Rashidi emirs it was, as there were three of them between 1914 when she was foaled, and 1924, which is the only other date I have for her, when she was exported from England to Australia) to Enver Pasha, a leader of the Young Turk Revolution and an instigator of the Armenian and Greek genocides during and after the First World War. At the end of the war, the Sultan dismissed Enver Pasha, who fled the Ottoman Empire. It seems that Nejdmieh was left behind - Gazder says in The Arab Horse Families of Great Britain that she was "bought from his successors" by a Major Barker, exported to England, where she fell foul of Weatherby's decision to close the General Stud Book to new Arabian imports, and was sold by her then-owner Sidney Hough to Australia.

She left one daughter in England, but that line died out there; it might have survived in the Netherlands, I know I looked into this once, but I can't recall right now, and don't want to trace it. At any rate, she left a line in Australia, through her daughter Nejd Sherifa, by Nuri Sherif.

There's another technically Old English horse who I believe is exclusively found in Australian horses at the back of Ibn Bayang's pedigree, namely Kataf. His dam was mostly Crabbet, but his sire, Outlaw, was apparently a chestnut Kuhaylan Jallabi. He sired two daughters in England, but their line has died out in Arabians; it might still be going in Anglo-Arabians. His son Kataf was exported to Australia in 1935.

There's also the usual complement of Shahzada typical of the older Australian lines, and the Crabbet lines that died out everywhere else but survived in Australia. Going back through Australian Arabian pedigrees is a lot of fun, as I never know whether a name I haven't seen before will lead to a Crabbet or Shahzada through their Australian foals, or one of the uniquely Australian lines, like Magistrate.

Edit: I have just realised I do have an extra date for Nejdmieh, 1918, when Enver Pasha went into exile, which would then mean she was a gift from Sa'ud ibn 'Abdul'aziz Aal Rashid.