Photo of the day
By Edouard
Posted on March 28th, 2008 in Bedouins, Strains, Syria, Tribes
I took this photo of the Asil stallion Khalid (Mahrous x Khalidah) in Aleppo, Syria in the mid-1990s, at the farm of Mustapha al-Jabri. Khalid is a half-brother to the stallion Basil, the subject of an previous post by Joe Ferriss. Both Khalid’s sire and dam are desert breds. Notice the excellent legs and the strong sinews on this horse.
Khalid’s dam, Khalidah, is a Saglawiyah Jadraniyah from the horses of Hulu al-Hulu, the leader (Shaykh) of the ’Adwan Bedouin tribe, and traces to the glorious marbat (tribal stud) of Ibn ‘Amud of the Shammar tribe. His sire is a ‘Ubayyan Suhayli (a branch of ‘Ubayyan Sharrak), also from the Shammar.
According to Mahrus ibn Haddal, who was Shaykh of the al-’Amarat tribe in the 1920s, Ibn ‘Amud obtained his original mare in a ghazu (tribal raid) against the al-Frijah section of the Ruwalah tribe. Ibn Haddal’s testimony is given in Khairi al-’Azzawi’s great book on the tribes of Iraq (in Arabic). Other accounts I have gathered from recent conversations with Bedouins have the Saglawiyah Jadraniyah of the marbat of Ibn ’Amud (or Saglawiyat ‘Ibn ’Amud for short) trace to the ‘Anazah tribe in general, of which the Ruwalah is a part of.
To me Khalid is the quintessential Asil stallion: powerful but graceful, strong but gentle, masculine but refined.
March 29th, 2008 3:00 am
In 1995 I visited the Al Hulu’s,they breed pure-in the-strain Saklawi Jedrani I saw Saklawiat 16/16 in their stud;If my memory is good, in the Syrian SB for the ones who have it,their name is “Al Holo”;
the stud is near the turkish border few miles from the Aleppo-Mosul railway;
March 29th, 2008 3:25 am
Joe, do you have pictures of visit?
March 29th, 2008 12:13 pm
since the visit I move into 2 houses,I do have pictures but I have to look.this tribe is a branch of the powerful Adwan tribe located in Jordan,during the french mandate the syrian branch were always raided by the neighbouring Shammar trying to steal their horses,that’s why a part of them along with their horses migrated to turkey few miles away distant where they still are;their horses due to heavy imbreeding were divided in 2 categories few very nice and a lot of small “shetland” pony sized not at all in my style of Arab horse