Below are photos of Pomponia (Zagloba x Kadisza) and Salme (Kalif x Fatma). Both trace in the tail female to Juliusz Dzieduszycki’s imported Kuhaylah Moradiyah mare Sahara; Salme is actually the full sister to Pomponia’s dam. Pictures from Stefan Bojanowski’s Sylwetki koni orientalnych i ich hodowców. Pomponia produced three daughters, Bona, Dora, and Zulejma. Bona’s daughter Babolna, and Dora’s daughter Nora, were imported to the United States by J. M. Dickinson in 1935. Another of Dora’s daughters, Krucica, was the dam of Mammona, the Queen of Tersk; the pair made the long trek from Janów Podlaski to Tersk in 1939, when Mammona was a foal at her dam’s side. The eldest of Pomponia’s daughters, Zulejma, foaled in 1914, was by the imported desertbred stallion Kohejlan, also the sire of Gazella II and Mlecha. Among the handful of Polish horses who survived the First World War, Zulejma went to Janów Podlaski as a six-year-old, and produced a series of daughters, among them some of the last asil mares of old Polish breeding, such as Lassa (another of J. M. Dickinson’s imports, and the dam of Latif), Kahira (dam of the Polish racehorse Trypolis), and Dziwa (dam of Ofir). Fatma, the dam…
Titian CF, 24 this year, by Riposte CF out of Neroli CF by Regency CF out of Nerissa CF, a Hamdani Simri tracing to Galfia. In Virginia, with Donna Breedbenner. Photo by Michael Bowling. Look at the broad chest, the short pricked ears, and the bone structure on the face.
Very interesting white markings on this 100% Crabbet stallion (with multiple lines to Skowronek and Dargee) and a tail female line to the Kuhaylat al-Krush desert-bred mare Dafina. The VIIIth century CE Arabic horse books (kutub al-khayl) describe such markings at length. There must have been more Arab horses with such markings in the past, before these were bred out, and it’s interesting to see them pop out again in a pedigree like this one. Some eleven years ago, the late Joe Achcar posted the photo below, showing a similarily marked stallion of Syrian and Egyptian bloodlines.