The mysterious beauty from Tunisia

By Edouard Aldahdah

Posted on December 17th, 2008 in Tunisia

It’s been some time I have been telling you this: some really good Arabian horses can come out of the North African government studfarms. This is an unidentified mare at the Tunisian government stud of Sidi Thabet. Photo courtesy of Jean-Claude Rajot and Louis Bauduin, 1988.

11 Responses to “The mysterious beauty from Tunisia”

  1. Jeanne Craver Said:
    December 17th, 2008 3:51 pm

    Lovely. I could see her in our barn!

  2. Edouard Said:
    December 17th, 2008 3:58 pm

    I love that black skin around the muzzle. And she does look like a “Davenport” indeed. It’s not a coincidence since the French brought most of their horses from the same tribes (Fad’aan, Sba’ah, Shammar)and sometimes the same families.

  3. Joksimovic Said:
    December 29th, 2008 2:35 pm

    Hello !
    Please help me.I look for a picture of a mare!
    Name Fekhra 588 Sid Thabet Tunesia born 1956 or 1959
    She was a present to president Tito ( Jugoslavia)
    Who is know something about this mare ?
    Thank you and Best Regards!

  4. Edouard Said:
    December 29th, 2008 3:26 pm

    Do you have the Tunisian studbook?

  5. Joksimovic Said:
    December 29th, 2008 4:29 pm

    NO ! SORRY

  6. Jeanne Craver Said:
    December 29th, 2008 6:09 pm

    Actually, a Davenport mare went to Tunisia. Her name was Subeita, and she was a Lysander daughter out of Culpurnia, born in 1970 and initially exported to Sweden with the dam of Wahhabit, Delicate Air.

    I need to see if she left any progeny in the Tunisian stud book.

  7. Mehdi Said:
    December 30th, 2008 1:04 am

    Hello There,
    Here’s a link to the Tunisian Stud Book, you will be able to go back to the first imports from Syria and other countries from the middle east. They refer to them as Desert Bred

    http://www.fnarc.nat.tn/services.htm

    Thanks

    Mehdi

  8. Edouard Said:
    December 30th, 2008 10:20 am

    Thanks Mehdi.. welcome to the blog

  9. argo Said:
    February 8th, 2011 7:15 am

    Beautiful mare, does anybody know are there still descendants of mare Roumana(1292).

    Becouse mare 588Fekhra(pure blood 1956) is from Sidi Tabet stud, and her dam line is Roumana.

  10. Edouard Said:
    February 8th, 2011 10:31 am

    Yes, argo there are many descendants from the Tunisian Roumana.

  11. argo Said:
    February 17th, 2011 12:24 pm

    Yes that is truth.
    I was not well expressed, can anyone tell some female offspring from Aroussa (except fekhra- fekhra is aroussa daughter).
    Dam line of that horses is Roumana.

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