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| THE GUY FAWKES RIVER NATIONAL PARK BRUMBIES Found this press clipping copied below in the Sydney Morning Herald. Fascinating to find that our Federal Government is spending $62,000 to DNA test them to ascertain if they are descended from the same stock that produced our National Icon the Australian Waler who made Australia's war horses world famous for successfully storming the fortress of Beersheba in 1917. Particularly since Aeneas descends from Kars (imp 1885) 32 years before Beersheba. Kars himself was one of the few survivors of the campaign of Kars in Armenia in 1877, "he was a bay stallion standing 15 hands and was ridden by Mahmad Agha, a Kurdish Chief of Irregulars. The battle was faught with such ferocity that only a few men and horses survived the slaughter" He also descends from Rafyk (imp 1891) Dahna (imp 1891) and Magistrate (imp 1888) I've been advised Magistrate stood at stud in Victoria. But Kars stood at Mr DF Mackay's property "Minimbah" near Singleton, in the Hunter Valley and later at the stud of J. D. Cox in the Mudgee district, this stud (it is said) later stood Rafyk, also a bay (imported along with the two bay Kars daughters Dahna and Rose of Jericho by Sir James Boucaut of Quamby Stud South Australia .) None of their Australian born progeny were registered in the Arabian Horse Studbook, all were sold as station horses. Aeneas has 5 crosses to Rafyk and 4 crosses to Kars through Dahna born in England and therefore it was left solely to Dahna's daughter Sherifa (by Rafyk) to preserve the only known bloodlines through her daughter El Zahr imported 10 years after Dahna in 1901 also by Sir James Boucaut.. As you can see by these horses they are typical Waler type. (wonder why? ) These horses have no place in the perception of an Arabian horse today. Except as one lady suggested to be kept as preservation families so people can see what they used to look like. Yet the Blunts "founded a little stud at Crabbet Park to preserve the Arabian not improve it, as it needed no impovement." Their daughter Lady Wentworth from the day she took charge sought to "improve" them from day one as has everyone else. So this is one family of horses known to be descended from a horse used in war and was used at stud in an area where many of our Walers were sourced. Along with Rafyk and Kars daughters. These were the families that founded the Department of Agriculture Studs in Wagga, Hawkesbury Agricultural College and Tocal Agricultual College and supplied station sires and mares for decades. They are also the source of Les Ellery's Arabians, these early bloodlines are now called "Old Colonials" their excellence in the Endurance field is becoming a legend in itself. The majority of successful endurance horses trace to them. I suspect a DNA test on this family of horses would be even more likely to come up posative than the brumbies. They also have another link with the brumbies, the majority of Old Colonials ended up in a can of Pal too. Wagga sent 3 semiloads when the stud closed down. Recently learnt that a Barrington Tops farmer and brumby runner turned loose his Arabian stallion to upgrade the brumbies to improve the quality of their catch. As did many others of the time. Will try and find out the name of the farmer and the stallion.. |
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| RASCHIDA BY KARS. Kars is now on the next page |
| BENDER (IMP 1911) |
| RAFYK (IMP 1891) by Azrek |