Photo of the Day: Ibn El Iat, Kuhaylan stallion, USA
This is Ibn El Iat (El Iat x Marecho by Ibn Sirecho) a 1992 Kuhaylan al-‘Ajuz stallion owned by Elta Cook Ozier in Illinois. His pedigree is special because it consists of three horses only: *Fadl, Sirecho and *Turfa. There used to be many horses with that pedigree pattern a couple decades ago. Ibn El Iat is and his full sister MD Bint Marecho are the only two left, and both are 31.2% *Turfa. While I am not a fan of percentages, I tend to feel that the more *Turfa in a horse of these lines, the better the horse.
Photo from Jeanne Craver.
Lovely, lovely photo! I like this type more than I like the 3 horse Babsons (*Fadl, *Bint Serra and *Bint Bint Sabbah). The *Turfa and Sirecho are a great combination. I think it is very sad that *Turfa was not utilized as she should have been… I am guessing due to the “Straight Egyptian” craze that still goes on.
Are these horses being bred or just fed? He can come live with me. 🙂
For years, our small breeding program was based on the combination of Babson, Turfa and Sirecho. Our foundation mare Sirbana was the first Babson-Sirecho-Turfa mare born in 1959 and we leased the stallion DuFadl (Ibn Fadl x Dualah by Ibn Fadl x Bint Turfara) who was one of those Fadl-Turfa-Sirecho pedigrees. We always liked this combination and are sorry there is not more of it today. They really were the 19th century type of Arabian horses.
I just spent several hours searching for Al Khamsa horses with *Turfa. Gosh! They are not nearly as easy to find as they were 10 years ago. 🙁 And many links to the older breeder’s farms… no longer work. Many of the great Combined Source horses I admired, have not carried on.
Someday, people will woe the day they let them all slip into oblivion. (myself included)
Al khamsa is currently undertaking a last ditch effort to inventory and locate these rare lines with an eye on saving them From extinction
There are some reasons to stay hopeful
Anita Enander and I visited Ibn El Iat when we were in Illinois for an AK convention (don’t ask me the year, I won’t remember. 😀 ) I remember him being a very kind gentleman and a lovely mover.
It’s a shame to see them disappear. They were lovely moving horses and I had this blood in my working cow horses. Only have one left today and she is in her twenties.
Can someone give me contact info for Ibn El Iat’s owner so I can discuss stud service for my mare with the possible lines you are discussing here? Thanks, Wendy from Maine
Her name is Elta Cook