Excerpts from “The Arab in Egypt”, from the 1937 Journal of the Arab Horse Society

The article was written by Fouad Abaza, the Director-General of the Royal Agricultural Society of Egypt and a Governor of the Arab Horse Society of England. It includes a description by Doris Walter of her 1934 visit to Kafr Farouk, as well as a description of T.G.B. Trouncer’s Sidi Salem stud. There are a few studs of pure-bred Arabs, of which we may mention those of:— His Royal Majesty the King. The Royal Agricultural Society. H. E. Mahmoud Attribi Pasha. Said Bey Samaha. Mr. Trouncer. Daira Lotfallah Pasha. Some members of the the El Tahaoui family in the Sharkia Province, and a few other individuals, also own mares obtained from the above-mentioned studs. The mares in the first five studs are nearly all the descendants of Abbas Pasha I famous horses, and all these studs maintain their own stallions. Nearly all the other breeders all over the country depend entirely on the Royal Agricultural Society’s stallions, which are distributed in twenty-five districts in Egypt. The stallions were distributed as follows (p. 107): Doris Walter records her impressions of some of the horses at Kafr Farouk: Prominent among the mares in the paddocks was FARIDA, mother of BALANCE, and all those…