From our Arieana Notebook: Rijm, translated from the Arabic, means "cairn of stones". Used extensively as a sire at Crabbet before his exportation to Spain in 1910, Rijm was unusually tall for an Arabian, standing 15.3 HH. Rijm's influence as a sire extends throughout many parts of the world, and he must be considered one of the great historic stallions of the breed. Perhaps Lady Anne Blunt herself summarized this stallion best when she wrote in her Journal: "Rijm has come [to Crabbet from Newbuildings]. The horse is splendid and I am only too happy to have got him. He really is magnificent."

Bibliography:
A Century of Crabbet Breeding published by the Crabbet Organisation. 2002.

Mulder, Carol June Woodbridge. Imported Foundation Stock of North American Arabian Horses Volume 2 (Revised Edition). Borden Publishing Company, Los Angeles, California. 1993. p. 194

Pedigree of Rijm GSB #393

From our Arieana Notebook: *Rijma was part of a group of 17 Arabians imported in 1918 from the Crabbet Stud of Wilfrid Blunt by W.R. Brown for his Maynesboro Stud, Berlin, New Hampshire. *Rijma has been described by Carol Mulder as "...beautiful and typy with marked Arabian style and character." Although she was very thin from the near starvation conditions caused by the feed shortages in England during World War I, *Rijma did arrive safely at Maynesboro and was already in foal to Wilfrid Blunt's stallion Ibn Yashmak; the foal colt *Rizvan was born the following Spring on March 27, 1919. Life and conditions were much better for *Rijma with Mr. Brown and she thrived at Maynesboro producing for him five more foals, of which her son Ribal by *Berk and daughter Raad are also of importance to us at Arieana Arabians ~ all for the superb qualities they passed on down to their foals through their succeeding generations. *Rijma's last owner of record was P.H. McManus of Dover, New Hampshire; date of sale: April 6, 1931 when *Rijma was almost 20 years old. *Rijma was reported as dead in the 1937 Arabian Horse Registry's Stud Book.

Sources:
Catalogue:Maynesboro Arabian Stud: Season 1927. Berlin, New Hampshire, U.S.A. 1927.

Mulder, Carol June Woodbridge. Imported Foundation Stock of North American Arabian Horses, Volume 3. Borden Publishing Company, Los Angeles, California. 1995. p. 57-62

Pedigree of *Rijma AHR #346