10/09/2021
Remembering Mrs. T... A Series
By 1957, Al-Marah was the largest Arabian horse farm in the United States. In that year, Lady Wentworth, owner of the Crabbet Arabian Stud, died and a number of horses were made available for sale. Bazy bought 32 horses, the largest importation of Crabbet bloodstock to the United States in history. Lady Gladys Yule of the Hanstead Stud died within a few weeks of Lady Wentworth, and more top-quality Arabians bred in the UK were put on the market. Bazy purchased 14 Hanstead horses, the largest group from that estate sold to a single buyer. The arrival of the English horses was, in Bazy's view, an opportunity to preserve the core bloodlines tracing back to the horses originally gathered by Abbas Pasha. She was prepared to do just that.
(Pictured: SILVER VANITY (Oran x Silver Gilt, by Indian Gold) grey stallion bred by Crabbet; imported to the US 1962 by Bazy Tankersley & Charles Prange.)
