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WINGED SAINT
(El Santo x Silver Blue Wings)
100% Crabbet - SCID Clear
SOLD to Dom and Jan at Seren Arabians
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A brief history of Winged Saint by Alexia Ross
The first time I saw Winged Saint I ran the length of the Malvern showground at the 1992 UK Nationals to get a closer look at a spectacular moving chestnut. I had no idea who he was but he turned out to be the 100% Crabbet colt Winged Saint. On closer inspection he was pretty, as well as a great mover, and I was completely hooked. He moves as a true athlete should, lifting his front end and powering through his back so that he tracks up behind and is a picture of balance – so few really move this way. He bucked the trend that year, placing well in a large 2 year old colt class against a collection of already fashionable Egyptian and El Shaklan modern in-hand types. 
Winged Saint was, I believe, the last Arabian to be actively campaigned in the show ring by the Wrights of the Moulton Stud in Norfolk. This supremely important Crabbet breeding programme was founded on the great mare lines of Silent Wings’ daughter Yemama, the rare Nizzam daughter Nishida and the Indian Magic mare Indian Starlight, all of them part of the great Crabbet “N” line family tracing back to Dajania Or.Ar’s daughter Nefisa. The Wrights’ key foundation stallion was the Blue Domino son Ludo, a superlative ridden champion who still underpins so much successful UK endurance breeding. Later a grandson of both Blue Domino and Silent Wings was added, the elegant grey Silver line stallion Silver Blue.
The Moulton Stud bred many great show champions and provided foundation stock for other breeders both at home and abroad. Winged Saint’s own sire was British National Champion El Santo, a son of Ludo and Nishida. Saint’s dam was the ever beautiful Silver Blue Wings. She made a huge impression the one time I saw her in the flesh, again at the UK Nationals, combining her sire’s scope and elegance with the style and movement of Yemama’s Dove family. In the Moulton Stud’s later years she did not get the chance to breed as many foals as her full sister Ivory Wings, dam of WAHO and HOYS champion Imad, but Winged Saint is a worthy successor.
For much of his life Saint has been inaccessible to breeders, running out with a few mares in Norfolk after the senior Wrights died. Nonetheless he has already sired a British National Ridden Show champion, in the form of the Straight Crabbet mare Silver Brocade, the consistent endurance mare Moonshell, and his son Moulton Millennium was exported to Denmark and has already sired some excellent stock of his own.
Winged Saint’s pedigree is quality through and through and he has the type and movement to pass the best of this on. He also inherits that lovely sweet Ludo temperament – this is a horse that is easy to live with. He is the result of a tried and tested Wright formula – use consistent mare families, then double up on Ludo for movement and temperament and add a dash of Silver for smooth strength and elegance. Time and again this formula produced top-class Arabians with the added bonus that generations of informed breeding also results in a genetic consistency that breeds on extremely well in all manner of combinations. Winged Saint is currently the UK’s only Straight Crabbet sire of 100% Moulton Stud breeding so I sincerely hope that we use him while we can.
At the grand old age of 18 years Saint is finally with an enthusiast who hopes to give him the chances at stud he deserves. He looks much the same as he did as a 2 year old and can still show off that movement with very little encouragement. I hope to be visiting again soon!
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