Khamsin Warrior: Unique win but more to come

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Unique win but more to come

After a third placing at his first start, 3yo gelding Unique Spirit (Invincible Spirit/Unique Bird by Bluebird) scored his first win at Morphettville (SA) today in the 1000m 3yo Maiden Plate.

His dam is bred similarly to Coquette, the dam of Khamsin Warrior, being by Bluebird, yet another successful sire bred on the Northern Dancer/Sir Ivor cross.

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About the Name

"Khamsin" is Arabic for "fifty" and is the name given to the hot, strong, violent winds that sweep across the Sahara Desert from Libya and Egypt for about 50 days each year.

In 'Khamsin' by Clinton Scollard he says about the wind,

'It blasted the buds on the almond bough,
And shrivelled the fruit on the orange tree'
'The tiny fledgling died in the nest;
The sick babe gasped at the mother's breast.
Then a rumour rose and swelled and spread
From a tremulous whisper, faint and vague,
Till it burst in a terrible cry of dread,
The plague, the plague, the plague.
Oh the wind, Khamsin,
The scourge from the desert, blew in'

There is also a "Maserati Khamsin" Italian sports car