The Crabbet Arabian Stud was founded in 1878 by Lady Anne and Wilfrid Blunt with the arrival of the first six horses to be imported from the desert following the first major journey originally conceived to find the blood of the Darley Arabian an exceptional Arabian stallion who was to become a major contributor to the English thoroughbred some 150 years earlier

The Crabbet Arabian Stud was established on 2 July 1878 when the first Arabian horses brought to England by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt arrived at Crabbet Park their estate in Sussex Six months earlier while staying in Aleppo Wilfrid and Lady Anne had made a plan to import some of the best Arabian horses to England and breed

For over a decade Covey ran the stud and continued the Crabbet traditions In 1970 Covey learned that a new motorway was going right through Crabbet Park and within a couple years the remainder of the Crabbet horses were sold Today over 90 of all Arabian horses carry lines to Blunt or Crabbet bred horses Richelle Elchuk

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But Crabbet Park was the first Arabian stud that was not established by kings or princes and its influence is arguably greater Crabbet Park is the only foundation stud whose influence you will find literally everywhere in the world and that includes Poland and Marbach which still continues King Wilhelms breeding programme

The Crabbet Arabian Stud also known as the Crabbet Park Stud was an English horse breeding farm that ran from 1878 to 1972 Its founder owners husband and wife team Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt decided while travelling in the Middle East to import some of the best Arabian horses to England and breed them there

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Lady Wentworths firm hand is on the helm from 1920 to her death in 1957 when Cecil Covey inherits The Crabbet Stud continues until 1971 but the reduction of stock necessitated by 80 death duties completes the transformation begun in the earliest years and accentuated during the Wentworth phase of Crabbet breeding into a world community

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Promoting the use and preservation of Crabbet Arabian bloodlines around the world since 1994 Crabbet Arabian Stud was an Arabian breeding stud located in England founded by Wilfrid Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt July in 1878 On the Blunts early trips to the desert they obtained horses from Bedouin tribes Sheykhs and other desert sources

The influence of Crabbet Stud has been enormous and continues to exist in the 21st century in most of the Arabian horse breeding countries of the world particularly in the West Revised by author in September 2007 the original first appeared in the AprilMayJune 1992 issue of Crabbet Influence magazine

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continued to breed the Crabbet Arabians until 1971 when a freeway was to cut through the property and the horses had to be sold Crabbet Influence Nearly every modern breeding tradition has been enhanced by contributions from Crabbet and a robust Crabbet heritage maintains its own identity

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Crabbet Heritage is a nonprofit resource for everyone interested in the Crabbet Arabian and the many studs around the world that were founded on horses from the world famous stud founded by Lady Anne and Wilfrid Blunt

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