Khamsin Warrior: Graham reports-

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Graham reports-

Hi All
At stables today and very pleased with what I saw: a big strapping Tough Guy who looks great and has impressed his trainer with what he is doing on the track every morning.
Gerald is delighted with him and after looking over The Big Fella I can understand why!
Gerald will keep us up to speed when a Trial looms.
Hope you are all well,

Graham

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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