This post builds on the previous one below, about the Tunisian racing stallion Okba (1983-2006). Here is an initial list (in no order) of the desert-bred foundation horses in his pedigree, which I will keep updating as I move on: 1. Dynamite II, ca. 1920 (Hamdani x Tayyara), to Sidi Thabet 2. Tamerlan, a Dahman, to Sidi Thabet, imp. 1910 3. Goutta, to Tiaret, born 1884, imp 1889 4. Cheboub, a Hadban Enzahi born in 1872, to Tiaret 5. Zerga, to Tiaret, born in 1873 sire “Seglawi Regibi”, dam “Chouémé” (Shuwaymah) 6. Ibech, bred by the Sba’ah Bedouins, to Sidi Thabet, born 1891, i,p. 1896 7. Assacoulai, sire of Ould Assacoulai who was born in 1878 at Sidi Thabet 8. Anazaouia, dam of Ould Assacoulai 9. Harami, to Pompadour, imp. 1872-76 10. Dolma Batche, a Jilfa, to Pompadour “from Constantinople”, born in 1869, imp. 1876, chestnut. 11. Khamil, born 1894 imp. to Tiaret in 1898 (with Aziz and Salamie) 12. Ramses II, “from Syria”, sire “Kehelan El-Boulad”; dam “Hamdanie”, to Pompadour in the 1880s 13. Samaria, a Kuhaylah Ajuz, from Khalid Bey al-Assaad, in Taybeh, Lebanon, bought for 8,000 francs, to Pompadour in 1887 by M. de Gaanay, to Sidi…