Jadaan, Carl Raswan and Rudolph Valentino during the filming of th epic picture "The Son of the Sheik,"near Yuma, Arizona, in June, 1926. Jadaan is by a Davenport horse.

IN 1924, I acquired Jadaan, a famous grandson of Wadduda from Peter B. Bradley (old friend and partner of Homer Davenport) and brought the stallion to California. I rode Jadaan for years and also "doubled" on him for Rudolph Valentino as the old and the young chief in the photoplay of the "Son of the Sheik."

ON APRIL 13th, Jadaan will be twenty-six years of age. He is still shown on the Kellogg Ranch near Pomona, California and has often been seen as mount of the Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, and at other fairs in California. Visitors comment on Jadaan's "natural" grace and "conscious" pride to show off and display his beauty and style. It must be in his blood -- he is a Saqlawi (the "Beauty" stain and type).

JADAAN was one of the eleven Arabians of pure Davenport descent (four stallions and seven mares) which I had collected in various states of America and brought to California in 1924. A year later these eleven Davenport Arabians became the foundation stock of the Kellogg Ranch, Pomona.

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