Arabian Horses for sale at very reasonable prices to good homes from the county of Kent. These Arabs are all home bred by my stallion O-Tejo AHSB Vol XVIII out of my pure-bred mares. Three fillies are available from yearling to four year old at prices between £650 and £750. Ten minutes from the M25 near the Dartford Crossing.

Aircon Direct of Northfleet, Kent

First of all, my apologies if you have come on to this site expecting to see about the air conditioning for your car - that is my job but these lovely Arabian horses below are the passion that occupy my leisure hours. I have hijacked this site for a while until I have found new homes for some of my lovely babies.

 

For general information about aircon in cars and FAQ’s click on www.airconditioningforcars.co.uk

This website started life quite a few years ago but has been regularly updated so that although covering some of the older and classic cars it also includes information of the newer developments in the air conditioning of cars, vans and trucks of recent years.

The website has grown from a mere 2 or 3 pages of essential information necessary at a time when the vast majority of car owners had no idea of how best to operate their AC nor that it also needed regular servicing. After some years it now runs to about 20 pages of information most of which is I hope interesting and may easily save you money. As time proceeds I expect that further pages may be added on other aspects of automotive AC.

This site attempts to describe what is going on (and maybe going wrong) in straightforward language without jargon so that anyone has a chance of understanding a technical subject without needing a science degree. It also debunks some of the theories by well-meaning but less experienced journalists who have mistakenly written that fuel can always be saved by turning off the airconditioning - sometimes true but frequently not so - read the whole story.

The information here has been seen and recommended by various Car Owner Forums on the web and also by specialist journalists such as Honest John from the Daily Telegraph.

 

For details of our service and the area we cover click on www.ac4cars.co.uk

 

 Arabian Horses for Sale

 

I do not have any youngsters for sale just right now. However a number of events have occurred over the past four years, some joyful and some very sad. This is just an update that will I hope whet your appetite for what might arrive soon.

You may have come to Arabians after seeing some of the superb photos taken by Susan George the actress who has many pure-bred Arabians. Like her horses these are not just very pretty horses, that is simply a lovely bonus, these are highly intelligent, very affectionate horses with natures more akin to a dog than the average horse. Not quite as fast as that super racing machine 'The English Thoroughbred' it is true but every bit an exciting blood horse and as tough as old nails. So tough indeed that in spite of being a compact horse with frugal demands it has tremendous stamina and can carry a full grown man with his heavy weapons all day long - Napoleon Bonaparte would ride nothing else as a war horse. No other breed of horse in the world can compete with the Arabian for endurance.

Keep reading.

 

Update Spring 2012

 

First I lost the remaining sister. She was not as old as her mother had been so that was a disappointment to say the least. She had produced a lovely colt foal in 2008 - much as I like fillies I am always happy to have the occasional boy, they are so different in nature. That birth was the only joyful event so far, I still have him and he is growing into a really nice horse.

In May 2009 I was lucky to buy a middle aged but lovely grey Polish bred mare by Balon with impeccable breeding as a replacement. Some months later she was found stone dead for no apparent reason. I never found out the true reason why she had died but whatever it was it must have been almost instantaneous without any suffering or illness. O-Tejo her husband scarcely moved from the spot where she died for several days. This was a great sadness as she was a real joy to own and ought to have lived for years more.

Again I was incredibly lucky to find another beautifully bred mare with world-class breeding to replace her. This time she is a chestnut but with Russian blood (by the famous Peleng out of Pegaia). So far she looks happily in foal. I can scarcely wait to see what she might produce - I hope that this spring will be the start of more joyful events.

Another pleasing event is that the friend mentioned below under Ibn Montino, now happily recovered from her health problems has now after many years stumbled over this website and has remade contact with me. It is to her profound knowledge of Arabian breeding lines that I owe the pleasure of both the grey Polish mare and also my current chestnut Russian mare.

 

 

 

Previous Update August 2007

 

Mare kept me waiting for weeks. I kept thinking that she was going to foal several weeks ago but she finally decided that she had kept me waiting long enough and dropped a pretty little filly foal as a complete surprise on the morning of August 5th. I had seen her only several hours before, late at night and she had given me no signs this year and then at eight o’clock there it was, standing firm and tall on its spindly legs with lovely curly ears, dry and fed and looking as though it was already three or four hours old. Another filly I am glad to say, very dark bay with just a little white partway around one coronet and a partly white hoof. She is now two weeks old and floats around the paddock following her yearling sister Montpellier (AHSB XXI) with mum trotting in a smaller circle to save energy.

 

As I keep my Arabs purely as a hobby, I have to occasionally let one or two of the youngsters go to new homes. Montpellier is now perhaps in the frame as is her grey elder sister and a bay half-sister.

 

Grey 4 year old filly 2003         Sold                currently about rose grey but almost certainly going completely grey in a couple of years

Bay  3 year old filly 2004          Sold                almost certainly to mature smaller than the one above and the one below

Dark Brown yearling 2006        Sold                still dark brown but just could turn into a grey sometime in the future as many of her sisters have done.

 

All three fillies by O-Tejo   AHSB Vol XVIII  (Obeyda / Rezah’s Nadine) out of a pair of full sisters by Ibn Montino (AHSB XIII) out of Jael (AHSB XI).

 

 

 

A bit of History

This section was written some ago but if you care to read to the end it all makes a bit of sense.

 

My membership of the Arab Horse Society goes back over 40 years when I acquired my foundation mare Jael by Kossak out of Ghazal (AHSB Vol XI). She was a good old-fashioned type looking like the photos of the mares imported by the Blunts, which is not surprising as some of her antecedents were very early in our society’s history - only three generations back from Jael are horses born before the First World War and in only five generations we are back to the 19th century and the desert bred horses like Mesoud.

Jael traces on her root dam's side to Gulnare (4 generations back) and is a Seglawieh Jedranieh.

 

Jael has rarely been seen in a show-ring as I have little interest in the show scene. The only time I wanted to show her and her previous foal off at the Arab Horse Summer Show, the youngster was seen by a family from Switzerland who then purchased him (Silver Spurs) from me and turned him into a champion.

 

I retained three of Jael's daughters, all full-sisters by Ibn Montino.

 

Jael's abbreviated pedigree is here and followed a few lines down the page is the pedigree of  Ibn Montino.

 

                                                / Rosh              Joseph/Roxana

                                                            Rushti               |

                                                                                    \ Rufeiya           Aluf/Ranya II

                                    Kossak

                                                                                    / Witraz            Ofir/Makta

                        Karramba         |                                       

                                                                                    \ Karmen II      Koheilan I/Kasyda

Jael

                                                                                    / Naseem          Skowronek/Nasra

                                                            Jaleel                |

                                                                                    \ Jawi Jawi        Rijm/Jiwa

Ghazal

                                                                                    / Bazleyd          Abu Zeyd/Bazrah

                                                            Gara                 |

                                                                                    \ Gharifet          Rizvan/Gulnare

 

 

 

I bought Ibn Montino as a yearling and kept him for the rest of his life (he had to be put down at 18). Jael loved him dearly and produced mostly fillies by him and never really recovered from his loss.

He was bred by Audrey Paul (a former President of the Arab Horse Society).

An impressive grey horse with a very powerful trot, he was seen by a very knowledgeable Arabian lover who was knocked out by his presence, appalled that he was never shown and asked me to allow her to show him at the AHS summer show. She spent a couple of weeks or so working hard to prepare him for the showing world (we both knew that this was insufficient but it was all the time she could spare) and we took him to the Summer Show. The judge that year had a completely individual taste and didn't like him (or many of the other fancied horses) but the public reaction to Ibn Montino was very positive with good appreciative applause. My new-found friend was not discouraged by the lack of success but unfortunately she later had a serious medical problem the following year which prevented a further attempt.

 

 

                                                                                                / Morafic                      Nacer/Mabriuka

                                                            Ibn Moniet el Nefous    |

                                                                                                \ Moniet el Nefous        Shaloul/Wanisa

                                    Al Nahr Montino

                                                                                                / Neyseyn                     Ferseyn/Moneyna

                                                            Al Nahr Neyomi           |

                                                                                                \ Fadjurlita                    Fadjur/Suralita

 

            Ibn Montino

                                                                                                / Raktha                       Naseem/Razina

                                                            General Grant               |

                                                                                                \ Samsie                       Radi/Naxina

                                    Careelia

                                                                                                / Indian Magic              Raktha/Indian Crown

                                                            Comforts Caravel         |                

                                                                                                \ Extra Special              Oran/Sharfina

 

 

From Jael and Ibn Montino I have retained three full-sisters - born in 1981, 1985 and 1988 and in AHSB VOLS XIV, XVI and XVII. These are all greys as are all his foals, regardless of the mare's colour.

 

My current stallion is O-Tejo (1994) by Obeyda (AHSB XVII) out of Rezah's Nadine (AHSB XV). I bought him as a foal from his breeder in conjunction with a friend who has other Arabians, with the intention of racing him (look at his breeding!), but without the push from my friend, after I took over sole ownership of O-T, I found that with my growing business I had neither sufficient time nor enough spare cash to get him trained and raced. He is now middle aged so will never see a racecourse, but he is a lovely lad and we get along famously. He is so gentle and loving that many other horse owners have trouble believing that he is a stallion. To his children he is strict but never cruel. We once lost a mare who had a 9 week old filly foal. He immediately took over this tiny foal who ate from her dad's manger, drank from the water tank immediately after him and before her elder siblings and generally enjoyed the huge prestige he endowed on her tiny frame. She was never going to be bullied by bigger cousins - she was daddy's girl.

He lives with his wives and children in a small natural herd in my paddock. As a result the children are polite in horse society

O-T is a rich bay with just a small star and is a kitten to handle. As you have probably guessed by now - I haven't shown him even though he is a big handsome boy, but I get enormous pleasure from looking at him and I know that many of the people walking or driving past his paddock do as well. One of my neighbours admits to wasting hours watching O-T and his family when he is supposed to be working. If he hears the stallion thundering up the hill he drops whatever he is doing and watches whatever is taking the stallions interest.

 

                                                                        Gharib                          Anter/Souhair

                                                Nijamin (DE)

                                                                        Nedjari                         Hadban Enzahi/Nadja

 

                        Obeyda

                                                                        TheEgyptianPrince     Morafic/Bint Mona

                                                AK Amiri Fayrouz (US)

                                                                        Maather                       Tuhotmos/Fayrooz

 

O-Tejo

                                                                        The Shah (imp)             Fabah/Bint Fada

                                                Prince Rezah

                                                                        Crystal Clear                Bright Shadow/Indian Trinket

                        Rezah's Nadine

                                                                        The Shah(imp)              Fabah/Bint Fada

                                                Silver Rial

                                                                        Fretted Silver                Silver Drift/Raggussa

 

 

So the youngstock, all by O-Tejo out of the full-sisters above, available for new homes are as follows:-

 

1.      Bay 4yo filly                born 26th April 1998                     Sold

2.      Grey 4yo filly               born 18th August 1998                  Sold

3.      Grey 3yo filly               born 17th April 1999                     Sold  

4.      Bay 3yo colt                born 2nd August 1999                   Sold

5.      Grey 2yo colt              born 26th March 2000                  Sold

6.      Grey 2yo colt              born 23rd April 2000                     Sold

 

 

These prices reflect the need to see these youngsters installed in good new homes and not the quality of the stock. If you have a good environment for them finding the money should not be too much of a problem

May I say a word to any professional breeder out there who may be reading this and is perturbed at the prices undercutting that which is economic to a professional. Potential purchasers coming to your stud will find youngstock beautifully groomed and presented, possibly with show successes and almost certainly sufficiently trained to show. This is not the case with these, it will take a knowledgeable person to recognise the quality and potential and there is much work to be done to get them up to the standard of your own youngsters.

 

Update – February 2004

 

All the text prior to this point was written a couple of years ago and all of the horses above have settled happily into new homes together with another colt and filly that were born in 2001. Unfortunately the eldest of my three mares has since died, a little unexpectedly and at an age of only 19, leaving her two sisters to propagate her bloodline.

Currently I have two nice two fillies born in 2002 and a colt and a filly born on the same day of 2003. I suppose that I shall shortly have to consider finding new homes for these.

 

Further update - April 2005

 

Well – I put off selling the youngsters in spring last year, then we became so busy with our aircon work that there was no time to even think of finding new homes for these. Now the winter is past and we are getting just a little time to draw breath again before the summer rush for airconditioning and I have to admit that some of these horses would do better in a nice new home where they can get much more individual attention than they do now. I know that it will be a wrench leaving mother, sister, brother, father, aunt and cousin but we all have to grow up and leave home some day. So now we have three youngsters all identically bred to those above:-

 

1.        Bay 3yo filly                 born 2002                                Sold

2.        Grey 3yo filly                born 2002                                Sold

3.        Grey 2yo colt               born 2003                                Sold

 

 

 

Update December 2006                                           

                                              

 

Unfortunately I have now lost the second of the three sisters I retained, leaving only the elder sister who happens to have been by far the biggest of the three and who naturally produces the largest foals.

Last year we had 4 youngsters that needed rehoming and 3 of those found good new homes. The colt, although from the smaller sister has grown really well and is a big strong lad in his new home.

 

Now there are 3 that may be available although I have some doubts whether I will really let this years foal go yet. Although she is eating really well and could easily be weaned, I love having babies of this age around.

 

 

1. Grey 4yo filly born 2003                                                                  Sold

2. Bay  3yo filly born 2004                                                                  Sold

3. Dark Brown filly foal (possibly to turn grey)  born May 9th 2006      Sold

 

 

We are located in the county of Kent about 8 minutes from BlueWater Shopping Centre, just 2 miles off the main London to Dover road the A2. We are 10 minutes from the M25, or 12 minutes from the Dartford Tunnel or 25 minutes from London's Blackwall Tunnel or 55 minutes from Dover – all good class road, mostly two, three or four lane motorway and dual carriageway.

 

Home phone -             UK (44)  (0)1474  83 29 41

 

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John Orford

Postscript 

 

Many years ago, maybe 45 or so, I found the remains of an old book in some rubbish. Although badly damaged, part of the cover and some pages were missing, some pages scribbled on by a child, but as it was about horses I asked if I might take it. It was written by a vet probably in the mid 1890's but certainly before the death of Queen Victoria (1901). Much of the information in it was taken from a lifetime with horses possibly going back to the 1850's when horses were the most important method of transport in most of the world. Leaving aside all the horses used to pull anything from Hansom cabs to Omnibusses, from State Landaus to heavy wagons there were still many breeds and types of horse which were used for riding. Any young man who could afford the purchase and upkeep of a horse would have to have the smartest and flashiest horse in exactly the same way that the modern late teenager needs the fastest hot hatch with massive stereo speakers to maintain his street-cred. As there was much military in Victorian times and the horse was required for almost every officer to ride, very serious decisions had to made on the horse to carry him into conflict. If your horse today is not quite of top quality you may miss the red rosette and come second. Coming second in Victorian military service could easily mean a painful death and an unmarked grave many miles from England's green and pleasant land. So it was that horses were chosen very, very carefully as illustrated by the following first hand account of a Lieutenant Welstead who had obviously chosen his horse well.

 

"On my return from Obri to Suweit, contrary to the wish of the Bedouins, who had received intelligence that the Wahabees were lurking around, I left the village where we had halted, alone with my gun, in search of game. Scarcely had I rode three miles from the walls, when suddenly turning an angle of the rocks, I found myself within a few yards of a group of about a dozen horsemen, who lay on the ground, basking listlessly in the sun. To turn my horse's head away was the work scarcely of an instant; but hardly had I done so, when the whole party were also in their saddles, in full cry after me. Several balls whizzed past my head, which Sayyid acknowledged by bounding forward like an antelope: he was accustomed to these matters, and their desire to possess him unharmed alone prevented my pursuers from bringing him down. As we approached the little town, I looked behind me; a sheik, better mounted than his followers, was in advance, his dress and long hair streaming behind him, while he poised his long spear on high, apparently in doubt whether he was sufficiently within range to pierce me. My good stars decided that he was not; for reining up his horse he rejoined his party, whilst I gained the walls in safety! The day before Sayyid came into my hands he had been presented to the Imaum by a Nedji sheik. Reared in domesticity, and accustomed to share the tent of some Arab family, he possessed, in an extraordinary degree, all the gentleness and docility, as well as the fleetness, which distinguish the pure breed of Arabia.".

 

Wow!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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