Comments on: Photo of the Day: Tahirah, a ‘Ubayyah Sharrakiyah from Hama, Syria

By: Rosemary Byrnes Doyle

Rosemary Byrnes Doyle — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:50:59 +0000

Edouard, you had a good eye at age 12. A beautiful mare for all the reasons you give. The photo also shows excellent canon bones. No wonder she looks good at 25.

By: Edouard

Edouard — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:34:05 +0000

.. and some of the best blood in Anazeh runs in her veins, she has a handsome son too, and a daughter..

By: Teymur

Teymur — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:25:13 +0000

WOW
What a Beauty Mare……like a desert rose

By: Joe Ferriss

Joe Ferriss — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:29:54 +0000

thanks Edouard for this photo. It was refreshing in 1996 when I was in Syria to see some horses of this strain made famous here mainly via Astraled. Sadly the U.S. got several tail female Queen of Sheba mares but their extended futures in Asil breeding died out soon. Another famous mare of this strain was Homer Davenport’s Abeya is also lost to Asil breeding. Despite the remarkable prolificity of her daughter Haffia’s line the female line to Abeya did not survive in Al Khamsa breeding. There are of course many famous stallions from this line so maybe the fate of Queen of Sheba and Abeya is much like that of Bint Serra, having mainly been preserved through stallions. At least Bint Serra has a surviving female line though rare, and of course it is already lost within the Straight Babson Egyptian breeding that introduced her to us.