Shahwan Park Arabians

14/01/2024

Pure Crabbet Sarina SPA by Binley Prince Iqbal (imp UK), strutting her stuff!

01/01/2024

Holy Smoke SPA - 7 day old Arabian Derivative c**t out of Pure Crabbet mare Abbey - Mae SPA by Paint stallion Strait Smokin' Oak of Woodstock Paint Horses. After only producing sabino foals to grey and sabino stallions, this time Abbey [who is a grey/sabino] decides to produce a grey to a Paint! But what a lovely big strapping boy he is, owned by Pam Martin.

01/01/2024

Sassi SPA - Pure Crabbet, bred here at Shahwan Park Arabians and owned by Pam Martin. Sassi SPA is maturing into a beautiful mare. She is out of Sarafina SPA by Roxanne's Arfaja Harlan from Ebjarah Stud.

21/12/2023

New ARRIVAL!
Pure Crabbet filly Sarina SPA by Binley Prince Iqbal (imp UK) out of our Arfaja Sarif mare Sellina SPA.

20/12/2023

Pure Crabbet Stallion - Prince Eligani SPA exported to NZ, by Binley Prince Iqbal [imp UK] out of our great c**t producing Nakeeda daughter, Eveeta. Half -brother to Wellworth Estate Bellissima [ exported to UK], Ellika SPA [exported to NZ], Prince Emani SPA, Eliseo SPA and Ashualli SPA.

13/10/2023

13/10/2023

Bellflower's performance at the recent HOYS in the UK, shared the highest ride mark with the eventual champion. Congratulations to her owner Gen Rees, rider Darren Crowe and breeder Diana Whitome of Coed-Y-Foel Arabian Stud.
Bellflower has an impressive pedigree being by Psalm (his dam Maiad and grandsire Imad both HOTY winners).
Bellflower's dam, Wentworth Estate Bellissima was bred here as was her beautiful dam, Supreme Champion mare Eveeta (by Supreme Champion performance stallion, Fenwick Panache).
Bellflower's great grand-dam, Nakeeda, still lives on here at ShahwanPark Arabians at 30yrs of age.

03/08/2023

Bellflower takes out top honours at the Royal International Horse Show UK. Bellflower's dam, Wentworth Estate Bellissima and grand-dam Eveeta, were both bred by Shahwan Park Arabians, Victoria.
Congratulations to her owner Gen Rees.🏆

31/01/2023

International Women's Day, and a woman with a filly that changed Arabian horse breeding globally forever.

*Rifala (Skowronek x Rissla by Berk), six generations of Crabbet Park breeding, being handled by Baroness Wentworth, Judith (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt x Lady Anne Blunt), photo taken in the early 1920's at a horse show in England, photographer unknown, legacy immeasurable.

We'll start with *Rifala, maybe not as solid in the body as her full sister, Reyna, who was exported to Spain for the Duke of Veragua, but Lady Wentworth's pick of the two and the one she chose to show.

Among her many titles won in Great Britain, *Rifala won the Royal Show Gold Medal as a weanling in 1922, the First Prize at Horsham as a yearling in 1923 and the Sussex County Show Silver Cup the same year. She would re-enter the show world, after a 10 year hiatus and a change in continent, to be named 1933 National Champion Mare at the Nationals held in Nashville, under the ownership of her second owner, the Selby Stud.

What can one say about *Rifala? She founded a dynasty of breeding stallions through her sons; Image (by *Mirage) at the Selby Stud, Rifage (by *Mirage) at the Van Vleet Stud, Phantom (in-bred by her own son Image) at Gainey Arabians in Minnesota and that father/daughter mating that resulted in the "sterile stallion", *Raffles (Skowronek x *Rifala by Skowronek) who was brought back to fertility by Jimmie and Thelma Dean and changed the course of breeding Arabians for several decades here in the US.

*Rifala produced one daughter, Ragala by *Mirage, but her influence is still felt today through hundreds and hundreds of descendants (some not even owned by Dick Hasbrook), and *Rifala's legacy is guaranteed for generations to come.

Now, onto Lady Judith Wentworth. What can one say, other then she has influenced Arabian horse breeding on every continent and virtually in every country that breeds Arabian horses today. There are only two breeding groups, the straight Egyptian group and the Davenports, who are immune from her influence. She brought Skowronek (Ibrahim x Jaskolka by Rymnik) to the Rodania, Dajania, Sobha, Bint Helwa and Makbula mare lines at Crabbet Park. To frame this into a perspective we all can appreciate, there would be no Michalow, Tersk, Yeguada Militar, Janow, and the list goes on and on.

No Cal-Poly, no Lasma, no Varian, no Mulawa, no Haras Mei Lua, no Om El Arab, no Halsdon. In 2022 terms, no Scottsdale Arabian Show Junior, Senior or Yearling Champions would have been crowned that weren't directly influenced by Lady Judith Wentworth.

What can one say about Judith Wentworth that hasn't already been said? She was quirky, brilliant, stubborn, sneaky, impeccable at judging horse flesh and impeccable at making breeding decisions. She was as complicated as she was brilliant. She could have taught at "Master Class" in horse marketing, long before that was even a term.

As a business woman, she would do (and did) whatever necessary to keep the doors open Crabbet Park, through good times and bad. Smart, savvy and sophisticated, few business leaders today could hold a candle to Lady Judith Wentworth. So, on International Women's Day, my hat’s off to your legacy, Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton and the legacy of yours that continues to thrive and prosper today.

Jim Robbins for We LOVE Arabian Horses, celebrating women around the world today and every day and remembering that one special moment I sat at Lady Wentworth's writing desk, a treasured memory to this day.

VISIT 🌿 https://welovearabianhorses.com

11/08/2022

"Saddle Horses bred by our stallions or owned by ShahwanPark Arabians"

01/07/2022

"Pure Crabbet Mares and Fillies"

16/06/2022

Our beautiful Pure Crabbet mare, Sarafina SPA

ShahwanPark Arabians beautiful Pure Crabbet sabino mare, Sarafina SPA. By our lovely Arfaja Sarif out of Crabbet Champion Mare, Meadow View Sara [dec].
See Sarafina at the Australian Crabbet Convention October 2016

21/05/2022

Beautiful Pure Crabbet mare, Alessandra, bred, owned, ridden and adored by Emma Broome.
Alessandra's dam is Wentworth Estate Serenity bred by ShahwanPark Arabians from our matriarch, Nakeeda and by Arfaja Danyon.

07/03/2022

Pure Crabbet stallion, Prince Eligani SPA, bred here at ShahwanPark by Binley Prince Iqbal (imp UK) X Eveeta. He has just won his first ride for the season. A tough 80km ride at Matiere, NZ. with his owner/trainer Sean Trafford.

25/11/2021

Pure Crabbet Prince Iqbal 2yr old grey filly showing her appreciation after she's reunited with her mate after 18months separated.

15/10/2021

The handsome Pure Crabbet boy, Prince Iqbal peeking through the garden!

09/09/2021

Iqbal with his cowhorse hat on today! Enjoying a real job.

05/09/2021

Pure Crabbet mare Boomoori Kismet bred by Dawn Suter of Boomoori Stud and owned by ShahwanPark Arabians.

08/07/2021

Iqbal in his homeland the UK with his dam, Ismala. Now 14yrs on! From this to this!