at the Al Khamsa-CMK Symposium August 28-30, 2009
RICK SYNOWSKI
Friday night: "Gulastra's Influence on Arabian Breeding in America"
Friday night: "What are CMK (Crabbet Maynesboro, Kellogg) horses?"
Saturday afternoon: Co-announcer with Joe Ferriss for the
"Fantasia of Arabian Horses"
A native of Oregon, a resident of Redmond, and an Arabian horse owner for 47 years, Rick has competed in Halter, English Pleasure, Park, and Sport Horse In Hand. He was a founding member of the Oregon Crabbet Arabian Horse Association, published author of numerous Crabbet/CMK books and articles, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Arabian Horse Owners Foundation. He was the Eastern Crabbet Arabian Horse Society's Benefactor-of-the-Breed Honoree in 2008.
JOE FERRISS
Friday night: "What are Al Khamsa Arabian horses?
Saturday afternoon: Co-announcer with Rick Synowski for the "Fantasia of Arabian Horses"
Married in 1969, Joe's wife Sharon introduced
him to horses, immediately after which they discovered Arabians. They
traveled around the US throughout the 1970s and 1980s seeing and filming
many ancestors of today’s Arabians. He has been a guest speaker on
Arabians since 1980. Joe has served as Al Khamsa President for 3 years
and the Editor/Designer of Al Khamsa's Khamsat Magazine for 15 years.
He has traveled on research trips in Jordan, Syria, the United Arab
Emirates and Bahrain. For over 27 years, Joe has been author of numerous
articles on Arabians in America, Australia, and the Middle East. He continues
to write articles internationally and is working on a forthcoming book
relating his discoveries and adventures with Arabians. Joe and Sharon live in Quincy, Michigan.
EDOUARD ALDAHDAH
Saturday morning:
"Some new findings on the strains and genealogies of desert-bred Arabian horses"
MICHAEL BOWLING
Saturday morning:
"Latest information on genetic diseases of the Arabian horse"
R.J. CADRANELL
Saturday morning: "Architecture of European Studs"
PETER HARRIGAN
Saturday morning: "From Moravia to Arabia:
Alois Musil's Observations on Arabian Horses"
Peter will talk on the remarkable life of the most prolific, wide ranging and accomplished of all explorers of Arabia, a Central European Orientalist and ethnographer who wrote and published over 50 books including seven volumes in the USA. Still largely overlooked and overshadowed, his work provides multi-faceted, first-hand details of Bedouin life in early 20th century Arabia: including valuable insights into the desert bred Arabian horse.
Peter is a regular contributor to "Saudi Aramco World Magazine" and visiting researcher for the Maritime Ethnography of the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea Project (MARES) at the Institute of Islamic and Arab Affairs at Exeter University, UK. He is the publisher of the biography of Lady Anne Blunt and Peter Upton’s The Arab Horse and commissioning editor of Upton’s forthcoming title Out of the Desert which will (controversially) examine the influence of the Arab horse on the light horse and native pony breeds of Britain. Peter divides his time between travel to the Middle East and his home on the Isle of Wight where he is a keen sailor.