Curwen's Bay Barb
| Curwen's Bay Barb | |
| Race: | unknown, probably a Berber |
| Father: | unknown |
| Mother: | unknown |
| Mother, father: | |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | circa 1690 |
| Country: | |
| Colour: | brown |
| Breeder: | probably Mulai Ismail |
| Owner: | Henry Curwen |
Curwen's Bay Barb (circa 1690 - circa 1728) is one of the founding fathers of the English thoroughbred . The brown stallion with a white blaze was imported from France by Henry Curwen in 1698.
origin
The stallion was originally a gift from the Moroccan King Mulai Ismail to the French King Louis XIV . The two countries occasionally had diplomatic relations with one another: they were both united by their hostility to Spain. Mulai Ismail aimed to develop Morocco into a political heavyweight that could negotiate on an equal footing with influential European countries. To force European countries to the negotiating table, he used European prisoners enslaved in Morocco as pledge. Most of these European slaves came from raids by the barbarian corsairs who deliberately attacked merchant ships of European trading powers and sold their prisoners on North African slave markets or handed them over to the sultan. For this reason, European diplomats were repeatedly at the Moroccan court. Mohammad Temim was the Moroccan ambassador to the French court in 1682. In 1689, the French ambassador François Pidou de St. Olon stayed in Morocco for a short time. St. Olon also recorded the care with which the horses were cared for in the stud farm of the Moroccan king, which, according to some European visitors, comprised at least 1,000 horses and, according to Moroccan sources, 12,000 horses. Two slaves each looked after horses that were particularly valued.
Similar to the stallion Godolphin Arabian around 40 years later , the horse aroused little enthusiasm at the French court and was sold. He was one of around 200 stallions from North Africa, the Levant or Turkey who came to England in the six decades after 1650.
Breeding stallion
Henry Curwen used the stallion as a breeding stallion. Mixbury, one of the stallion's first sons, was unusually short but was known for his high level of racing performance. His offspring also include Tantivy, Bröckelst, Bröckelst Betty, Creeping Molly and the stallion Hip, who was also a more influential stallion. The direct sire line from Curwen's Bay Bar is now extinct; Today's stallions go back in a direct line to the Arab stallion Darley Arabian, who was imported from Syria to England in 1704, through sires such as Eclipse , Bleeding Childers and Flying Childers . Darley Arabian was champion of sire horses in England and Ireland due to the racing success of Flying Childers in 1722 . Curwen's Bay Barb was never listed as a champion. At this championship for sire horses, the sum of the winnings of his sons and daughters in the past year is determined for each stallion . Prize money is counted which the sons and daughters have won in flat races in England and Ireland. The difference between Curwen's Bay Barb and Darley Arabian becomes even clearer when one considers how many of the champions can be traced back to a particular stallion. By 2016, 87 stallions from Darley Arabian's stallion line topped the stallion lists in England and Ireland a total of 187 times. At Curwen's Bay Barb, on the other hand, there are only two stallions, the last time the stallion Crab in 1750.
Curwen's Bay Barb, however, has hardly less influence on the breed of the English thoroughbred than Darley Arabian. In modern English thoroughbreds, the following stallions have a weight in the maternal and paternal line: Godolphin Arabian (13.8%), Darley Arabian (6.5%), Curwen's Bay Bar (4.2%) and finally the third of the three so-called Founding fathers of the English thoroughbred Byerley Turk (3.3%).
literature
- Christopher McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian - High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in Twenty-Five Horses . John Murray, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-84854-984-5 .
- Giles Milton: White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves . Hodder & Sloughton, London 2005, ISBN 0-340-89509-8 .
Single receipts
- ^ Breeders of the modern thoroughbred horse . In: Telegraph , September 14, 2017.
- ^ Milton: White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves. P. 37.
- ^ Milton: White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves. P. 132.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 583.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 95% of thoroughbreds linked to one superstud . In: New Scientist , September 6, 2005.
- ↑ a b Champion Sires in Great Britain and Ireland . Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ↑ Imre Bodó, Lawrence Alderson, Bertrand Langlois: Conservation Genetics of Endangered Horse Breeds . Wageningen Academic Pub, 2005.
