Haleb (horse)
| Haleb | |
 Haleb |
|
| Race: | Arabian thoroughbred |
| Father: | |
| Mother: | |
| Mother, father: | |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1901 |
| Year of death: | 1909 |
| Country: | Syria (?), USA |
| Colour: | Brown |
| Owner: | Nazim Pasha , Homer Davenport |
| Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
| Greatest victories | |
| Morgan Cup 1907 | |
Haleb , also called Pride of the Desert (* 1901 ; † November 10, 1909 ) was a thoroughbred Arab .
Haleb and 26 other horses were bought by Homer Davenport and brought to the USA. Davenport was equipped with a letter of recommendation from Theodore Roosevelt to the Sultan of Turkey and was financially supported by Boston millionaire Peter Bradley .
So he was able to buy from Haleb Nazim Pasha , the governor of Aleppo and Syria , who had received the animal from the Sheikh of Anezeh in thanks for his liberal camel tax . Allegedly Haleb came from Mesopotamia and was a son of the last mare from the 500 year old Maneghi-Sbeyel tribe, while his father belonged to the Suleyman-Sebba tribe.
Before he shipped it to the USA, Davenport undertook an extensive tour of the Arabian desert on Haleb to get to know the country of origin of the horse. The horse was tearfully bid farewell to the residents. It also met with admiration in its new home, where it arrived on October 7, 1906. The painter George Ford Morris called Haleb the only horse on which he could not see any flaws and named him
"The most perfectly beautiful, symmetrically molded, gracefully active, live spirited (and yet absolutely controlled) thing in horse flesh you ever looked at."
Haleb's descendants included Meleky , Rhua and Saleefy .
run
On June 17, 1907, Haleb won the Justin Morgan Cup in Vermont against 19 Morgans and caused a sensation. Two years later Haleb died of unknown reasons, which led to the suspicion that the horse might have been poisoned.
Whereabouts
Haleb's skull and part of its skeleton were dissected at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, New York , after his death, and then donated to the Smithsonian Institute , where it was cataloged in the Mammalian Division on December 9, 1910.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The date is unclear, several sources give the year 1900, which cannot be true given the year of birth of the animal. Presumably the purchase and transport took place in 1906. According to this source ( Memento from May 26, 2005 on the Internet Archive ), Haleb was a gift to Davenport, not an object of sale.
- ↑ a b c Articles of History: The Davenport Arabian ( Memento from May 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Educational Tour ( Memento of February 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Famous Horses in the Smithsonian Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 12, 2009
- ^ Haleb - Race Horse