Faddan Salim al-‘Ufaytan and his son, from the Hdibah clan of the Northern Shammar. The ‘Ufaytan have owned the Ma’naqi Hudruji strain among the Shammar for some hundred years. They got the strain from the ‘Anazah. The strain originally belonged of the ‘Amarat tribe of the ‘Anazah. I think, but I am not sure, that Hudruj was an ‘Amarat Bedouin. Horse merchant and connoisseur ‘Abd al-Qadir Hammami once told me that he bought a Ma’naqi Hudruji colt from the ‘Ufaytan for the Beirut racetrack in 1938. The black Ma’naqi stallion of Dhahir al-‘Ufaytan (Faddan’s paternal uncle) was a major herdsire with the Shammar in the 1970s and 1980s. Most Syrian horses now trace to him. He was the sire of the Kuhaylan Ibn Jlaidan stallion Al-Asda’, of the Shuwaymah Sabbah mare ‘Abirah, and the Da’janiyah mare Nojomieh, among many others. It is now increasingly hard to find a Syrian horse that does not trace to any of these three horses. Here, with Raddah, a 1980 bay Ma’naqiyah Hudrujiyah. She, like their other horses, was registered in the second wave of the Syrian registration with WAHO in 2001-2. Raddah was my favorite mare at their place. Photo by Edouard Al-Dahdah in…
And now a picture of Wadd Al Arab, out of Oregon, from owner Jessie Heinrick. He has never looked so good.
Roxana Star, a very distinguished Kuhaylah Hayifyah of Davenport bloodlines, is the daughter of the timeless Jauhar El Khala by Personic LF. A Christine Emmert photo.
It is that time of the year in the USA, where the weather is nice, the grass green, and the cameras out. Kim Davis, who has a talent for taking good photos, recently took these of the 2011 bay Krushan stallion Inaam Al Krush (Monologue CF x HH Noura Krush). At ten years old, he is in his prime. Monologue has another Krush offspring of Davenport lines on the way, from Laura Fitz’s mare HH Karisma Krush.