Khamsin Warrior: February 2010

Sunday, February 28, 2010

KW at Cobbity Lodge

Finally got the pics out of my iphone re last Sunday's visit to Cobbity Lodge. KW had been there a week and is pleasing Racehorse Manager Fiona Mylan no end.

To my eye (and Carolyn's) he has filled out appreciably, especially behind. He has a far more balanced look to him now.

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