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Ambir Dragon 415923

Chestnut Stallion foaled May 2, 1988
Bred by Linda Everett and Anne Blount, Moraga, California

At 16-1 1/2 hands, stick and level measurements, Ambir Dragon is one of the authentically tallest Arabian stallions on record. He was several times measured at that height by Carol Mulder and veterinarians at Arabian race tracks.

The size range average for Arabian horses is 14-1 to 15-1 hands. Ambir Dragon’s sire, Night Dragon, stood 15-2 1/2 hands. His topline grandsire, Ben Rabba, stood 15-1 1/2 hands. There are several horses in Ambir Dragon’s pedigree which stood 15-1 hands. However, his dam, Ambir Enchantress, stood 14-2 1/2 hands. It is believed that a possible reason for Ambir Dragon being so tall is because he has some 22 crosses in his pedigree to the Crabbet stallion Rijm, who stood an authentic 15-3 hands; perhaps this genetic background somehow came together to give Ambir Dragon his height. Going back in Rijm’s pedigree, he may have gotten his height from his high quality topline grandsire, Mahruss I, who stood an authentic 15-2 hands and was bred by Ali Pasha Sherif in Egypt. Ambir Dragon has a full-sister, Cherokee Night, who stands an extraordinary 16 hands. Another full-sister, Night Enchantress, is within the average size range; she is approximately 14-3 hands.

Some people mistakenly believe that larger Arabians are not “together.” Ambir Dragon is a very “together” horse. He knows where every part of him is at every moment. He is well balanced and agile in his movement.

This superb and unusual big horse is liver chestnut, like his sire. His shoulders and withers are undoubtedly among the best ever seen in the Arabian breed. His shoulders are of ideal 45° slope, well laid-back, beautifully long, and they are cleanly and well defined. His high, clean withers blend smoothy and ideally into his short back. Ambir Dragon has good loins, smooth coupling, and excellent hindquarters featuring a correctly square pelvic structure and long hips. He has good depth through the heart. His neck is wonderfully long and light (albeit sometimes a little straight in shape), with a naturally clean throat. His head has a small muzzle and is dry, with clean chiseling. He has nice, small Arabian ears. His bone and joints are exceptionally good, and his leg proportion is excellent. He has well muscled gaskins and forearms. He is a horse of outstanding basic conformation, a horse of substance, and a horse with enough Arabian type and character as an overlay ensure that he shows himself to be an Arabian.

Ambir Dragon is a gentle horse to work around. Under saddle he will be quiet and relaxed , or animated, as his rider wishes. When asked to animate, he looks very typy with his neck arched and with his beautiful Arabian tail carriage.

When Ambir Dragon was racing, videos of his races show him as the only one in the field running with his tail held high, like a flag; he certainly advertised that he was an Arabian.

Ambir Dragon ran in three races in 1995 when he was 7 years old. He placed 2nd in the first one and won the other two; of those two wins, he won the last one despite sustaining an injury during the race that prevented him from ever racing again. For those three races, his earnings were $5,265. Two of his daughters have gone on the track and both have been stakes winners; Mels Ambir started 30 times over 1999-2001 and earned $13,454; Sparkling Spirit started 33 times over 1999-2002 and earned $21,776.

Besides his racing credits, Ambir Dragon in May 2003, at age 15, received a 1st place in a Region 3 sport horse stallions in hand class. In 1994, at age 6 and before he went on the track, Ambir Dragon won, in a Class A Region 1 show at Del Mar, California, an Arabian pleasure hunter class, placed 3rd in another of 23 competitors, and placed 2nd in another of 16 competitors. At this same show he also placed 3rd in a training level 3 dressage class of 10, and 6th in a training level 4 dressage class of 11, as well as standing reserve in a class of green working hunter over fences.

Ambir Dragon was sired by Night Dragon who is also found in this reference section.

Ambir Dragon’s dam was Ambir Enchantress, a mare who was for a few years on the list of leading dams of Arabian race winners. Her history is an interesting story of dedication.

In the later 1960s Linda Everett acquired the aged Arabian stallion Rabian, son of Kellogg-bred El Kumait, the best known Farana son, and Crabbet-bred *Bint. Rabian had only sired 3 foals in his life, the last one foaled in 1956. Linda wanted to have a foal by Rabian so she bought the mare Tezrima from Ben and Florence Fike of Warner Springs, California. The resulting foal, which was Rabian’s last, was Ambir Enchantress, foaled in 1968 when Rabian was 26 years old.

Ambir Enchantress was a very gentle and sweet tempered mare with huge, soft, dark eyes. She was well bred; her four great-grandsires were the great Kellogg-bred Farana, Crabbet-bred Shareer that went to Russia; the great Polish-bred *Witez II, and Baraki, son of Oriental, considered by many (including H. H. Reese, who liked Oriental very much) to have been one of the nicest 100% Davenport stallions of in his day (he was foaled in 1924).

The almost unique and certainly very special Ambir Dragon is owned by Anne Blount and Linda Everett, Oakland, California, but he lives at the Van Gilder Ranch in Wasco, Oregon.

With Permission from the Author, Carol W. Mulder. Copyright © 2006 by Carol W. Mulder

Pedigree for Ambir Dragon

Sire line: Barq
Family: *Wadduda 30

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