MOMENTS IN TIME

PERHAPS IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH GETTING OLDER, BUT I FIND THAT OF THE THOUSANDS OF ARABIANS I HAVE SEEN DURING THE PAST 50 YEARS, THE ONES I REMEMBER BEST ARE THOSE I SAW DURING THE FIRST YEARS OF MY INVOLVEMENT WITH THE BREED.

These days, the large numbers of horses I see at the shows each year blend into a homogenous mass from which very few individuals really stand out. I am getting to the point where I frequently have to check whether I have actually seen a horse in the flesh or not, since the horses (as well as their breeding) have become very similar.

But when I think back to the very first Arabian horse