Abdullahhh, like the vast majority of Arabian horses in this country, had never won a dime at the track. Small potatoes compared with what top thoroughbreds go for, to be sure, but thoroughbred investments can be recouped on the track. The record now stands at $3.2 million, which was shelled out for the Russian stallion Abdullahhh in 1984.
As recently as 1968 the top price paid at auction for an Arabian was $25,000.
Madness? What other word can describe the auction of an unborn Arabian foal for $100,000-as happened last February at the annual Scotts-dale (Ariz.) Arabian sales-a creature that might have been born with three left feet and a horn protruding from its forehead? (That would have been a find.) Now $100,000 is not exactly hay, but it's still no more than an oat in the $44,445,300 bucket of transactions that took place over eight heady days at Scottsdale, where, in a series of 10 major sales, 243 Arabians changed hands.
Attractive as the Arabian is, the current state of madness surrounding the breed is founded on bucks rather than beauty.
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