To:
Al Khamsa, Inc.'s Supporters
From: Al Khamsa Board of Directors
Subject: Notice of Roster
Proposal for Vote at 2008 Convention
The Al Khamsa bylaws state that a proposal to add horses
to the Al Khamsa Roster requires that the motion be made to the President
by November 1 of the year prior to the first vote, by November 10 to the
full Board, and 30-60 days prior to the annual meeting to those who will
attend and vote at the annual meeting. This notice is meant to fulfill
the third requirement, before the October 24–26, 2008 annual meeting
and convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Board will vote whether or not to approve the proposal and send it
on to those present and voting at the annual meeting. If the proposal
passes both of these steps, it will be voted on for a second time at the
2009 annual meeting. This is a difficult process, and it is meant to be
difficult in order to protect the Al Khamsa Roster.
This is an unusual Roster Proposal, in that there are very likely none
of these horses present in otherwise eligible pedigrees in North America
at the current time. There is a precedent.
In 1986, Al Khamsa approved a proposal that, for the record, contained
horses that had been included in the Blue Catalog or were otherwise
well documented but were lost in North America by the time Al Khamsa began
in 1975. Thus the Rogers imports from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the Raswan/Zietarski
imports to Poland and Hungary in 1931, the Davenport import *Euphrates
and the Blunt import Meshura (BLT) were all officially given Al Khamsa
status. Since 1986, some imports and new additions voted to the Roster
have brought some of these horses back into representation in modern Al
Khamsa pedigrees.
The Database Committee, under the leadership of Sara Jones, is working
to identify and catalog everything that ever was an Al Khamsa horse, and
was then lost. It is a vast job, but when completed, will enable the serious
researcher to identify the Al Khamsa percentage in a given modern Arabian
horse, something that is not possible now.
Jeanne Craver has moved that the following Babolna-bred horses be approved
as ancestors of Al Khamsa horses:
3 Siglavy Bagdady VI
*238 Kuhaylan Zaid 8
*240 Koheilan VIII-5
*Sigleilan
There are otherwise eligible descendants from 3 Siglavy Bagdady VI or
her parents in Europe, in combination with Al Khamsa lines. The three
imports to the USA are gone, and are identified "for the honor of
the thing."
An international group of people is helping with the assembly of documentation,
and without their assistance, this would not be possible. A list of all
Foundation Horses and their descendants that connect the Foundation Horses
to the more modern horses can be found at the following link: http://alkhamsa.org/site/BabolnaRosterProposal.pdf.
If you have any questions, please contact Jeanne Craver at mowarda@aol.com.
Thank you!
You
can contact the Board directly at Board@alkhamsa.org.
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