I just realized that a good deal of the content on the “Daughter of the Wind” blog has been “hijacked” by another blogger who has posted it on his blog, “Banu Sanhadja Arabs” (here). I have chosen to take it as an additional proof to the success of “Daughter of the Wind”, six months into its launch, and will wish the “hijacker” good luck with his endeavor. Just wanted to let the readers of “Daughter of Wind” know that I am not associated in any way with the author of this other blog, who writes under the pseudonym of Abu Uwais al-Maghribi, even if my name appears on it. [Sept 2 Update: The posts “borrowed” from “Daughter of the Wind” have been removed from the blog “Banu Sanhadja Arabs”. Thank you, Abu Uwais]
Check out what is perhaps the most comprehensive article written about the Hungarian Stud of Babolna, its history, and its Asil Arabian horses, in the past and the present. Thanks to Tzviah Idan for allowing me to reproduce it here! Pictures of Babolna Asil Arabians taken by Tzviah are coming soon..
Believe it or not, this extremely pretty and typey mare is an Asil Arabian from Tunisia. Hadia, a Kuhaylah al-‘Ajuz, by Kefil out of Rafiaa, by Bango) was bred at Sidi Thabet in 1958, and is the dam of many successful racehorses. She is one of the few greys Sidi Thabet retained for breeding. She has one (remote) line to the stallion Ibn Fayda I (Ibn Rabdan x Lady Anne Blunt’s Feyda), a gift from Prince Kemal Eddin Hussain of Egypt to the government of Tunisia.