Thorayyah, 1946 Tuwayssah mare from Bahrain
Kina Murray kindly shared with me this rare photo of the 1946 Bahraini bay mare *Thorayyah, which was recently posted by a research group on Facebook; she was bred by Sheikh Khalifah Bin Mohamed Al Khalifah, Bahrain, then imported by to the USA John Rogers of California. She was apparently by a Hathfan out a Tuwayssah.
Unfortunately, she left no asil descendants.
Thank you for posting. I had not seen a photo of *Thorayyah before. I now even better understand Edie Booth’s lament that this mare did not have Asil get.
All of the Rogers’ desert bred mares were a real loss to the purist community, but they had a big influence on the Arabian breed as a whole.
Were the Desert mares covered by serafix? Also weren’t they and their get known as especially good movers? The Thorayyah mare above is wonderfully conformed.
best wishes
Bruce Peek
Looks powerful, yet elegant
Thourayyah’s most well known produce was the stallion Meteor by Serafix. Meteor’s daughter Hatties Honey Ku produced Jora Honey Ku (x Joramir), sire of US National Champion mare VP Khalua as well as some racing winners. Hatties Honey Ku is also granddaam of famous racing mare Shawna Dew.
I was at an eventing show this weekend, and the sole Anglo-Arabian in the event was Vermiculus, who upon some quick Googling I was able to determine was by the stallion Serazim. Typical CMK bloodlines there, but I was surprised to see that *Thorayyah was up there in the pedigree, just a few generations back. Truly, a shame that she didn’t breed on in the asil population – many of the Warmblood folks, who might otherwise turn their noses up at Arabians, were quite admiring of the mare, and expressed that they might well have considered including her in their program for the lightening blood and the stamina she could have offered.