5 0 Ye a r s o f A r a b i a n H o r s e W o r l d World’s first Christmas Wish contest gave first place to a five-year-old boy who wrote: “A flat croup is very important in this business. So this year I am asking Santa for a flat croup for my mom.” His PS: “Dad says that he likes Mom’s croup just the way it is.” *Padron made it two for two when he went U.S. National Champion Stallion. Reserve to him was Zarr-Hassan, who a few months earlier was Canadian National Champion Stallion. Kajora (Kaborr x *Edjora) added to the *Naborr-Kaborr laurels when she went National Champion Mare at Louisville.
1983 U.S. National Champion Stallion: Arn-Ett Perlane (Perlezon x Shadylane Jupiter) U.S. National Champion Mare: Bask Calonett (Cal-O-Bask x El-Disar Sonnet) U.S. National Champion Futurity Colt: Top Contender (*AN Malik x Rho-Sabba) U.S. National Champion Futurity Filly: Wind Fashion (Fire Wind x Athabasca Windala) World Champion Senior Stallion: Mizan Taj Halim (Ansata Ibn Halima x HH April Love by Gamaar) World Champion Senior Mare: Fawor (*Probat x Fatma) World Champion Junior Colt: El Masra (Shaker El Masri x Estasha) World Champion Junior Filly: Siwah (Shammar x Sappho) Scottsdale was knee-deep — at least — in mud. Cars may still be buried in the show grounds parking areas. Cloudbursts and mud did not hinder bidders from raising their hands, however. Tom Chauncey paid $1.5 million for Gardenia (*Bask x *Gdynia), and the late George Huck of Olympia Farms nodded for Scarlet Lace (*Bask x Elsinor Muzuleyna) at $1 million. Eleven major sales at Scottsdale sold 325 horses for over $33 million. The Scottsdale bandwagon effect worked for Champion Mare and Supreme Champion NH Love Potion (Back Street x Sha Baska) who, eight months later, was U.S. National Reserve Champion Mare, and for Champion Stallion Arn-Ett Perlane (Perlezon x Shadylane Jupiter), who went U.S. National Champion Stallion. Another predictor worked in 1983: Buckeye Champion Mare Bask Calonett went all the way to Canadian National Reserve Champion Mare and U.S. National Champion Mare. More glory for *Bask in 1983. He was identified as the all-time top-siring stallion of the breed with 1,039 foals. Fadjur (Fadheilan x Bint Sahara) was second with 779, then Azraff with 500. *Bask was also researched as the leading sire of Canadian National Champions, 1958-1982. The first place in number of foals registered in Volumes 40 and 41 of the studbook went to Khemosabi, followed by *Aladdinn and *Muscat. At Denver in late September, the greeting was “Crabbet is out of the closet” at the Worldwide Symposium on Crabbet Breeding. Breeders and boosters of Crabbet bloodlines from around the world rallied for three days of looking at stallions, listening to oral history talks, studying sire lines through living pedigrees, viewing old films (the garden party presentations at Crabbet, Skowronek at Crabbet, the Crabbet centenary, for a few), and a silent sale. To green pastures in 1983: “The Queen of Poland” Bandola (Witraz PASB x Balalajka PASB) at age 35, Fadjur (Fadheilan x Bint Sahara) at age 30. The Real McCoy (Aarief x Fersara) age 23, Kimfa (Mustafa x *Iorana) at age 27, Asil
Top: 1982 Canadian National Reserve Champion Mare and 1984 World Champion Senior Mare *Penalba (Kilimandscharo x *Pionga). Middle: 1983 World Champion Junior Filly VP Kahlua (Jora Honey Ku x Kahlette), featured on the Septemer 1985 cover. Bottom: 1983 U.S. National Champion Park Scarlet Lace (*Bask x Elsinor Muzuleyna), was purchased in 1983 for $1 million.
19 b FIFTY YEARS OF ARABIAN HORSE WORLD