This recent picture of Subanet Jabbar SDA, the Saqlawi stallion of Bev Davison and the sire of my Kinza Al Arab, really shows his style and his action. A horse like I like them.
I am so very proud of this beautiful and fine stallion, one of the very last Tunisian asil in existence. I am also very grateful to Skander Karoui to have given me the opportunity to acquire him. Not a single ounce of French Arabian blood, whether old (Denouste, Duc II, Kriss II, etc.) or new (Dormane, Tidjani, Kesberoy, etc), runs in this veins. Only the old Tunisian and Algerian government bloodlines, as preserved by Gisela Bergmann. He is 21, so in a few years, his bloodlines will belong to the past. The Tunisians has done an impressive job of destroying their old, authentic, highly prized national bloodlines by mixing it with that of French and other “fake Arabian” stallions. Within a couple of generations, all 100% Tunisian blood was gone. The excellent grey stallion in the pasture is Shueyman Fahad (Mahboob Halab x Shueymah Sabbah by Mokhtar x Murad Haouda by Cherif x Hamada), a 2011 Shuwayman stallion bred by JC Rajot and owned by Arnault Decroix. The grey under the tree is Dahhmany Bagdady.
The wonderful Dahhmany Bagdady, one of the last representatives of the old, prepotent Babolna/Weil type of royal Arabian horse. He is 23 years old this year. The famed and storied tail male to Siglavy Bagdady exists through him and his few offspring, a handful of stallions scattered across Europe. I am so proud that he is in my care.