Five years after Bogdan Zientarski and Carl Raswan’s 1931 horse-buying trip to Arabia, which took them to Bahrain among other places, it was the turn of Dr. Ahmed Mabrouk to make a similar trip for the Royal Agriculture Society. He too visited the stud of the ruler, Sh. Hamad, and had the following to say about it: I was introduced to the Amir, brother of the ruler of El Bahrein, who allowed me to see his horses and those of his brother. All the pedigreed Arab horses are in the possession of the Hamad family. Photographs and descriptions of some of these horses are published in the following pages. I regret to say that these horses, like those of Amir Galawi [Edouard’s note Ibn Jiluwi in al-Ahsaa] are not desert bred, but confined in two stables, one situated near the ruler’s palace and the other at a distance of 60 kilometers from El Manama, the capital of El Bahrein, where the winter palace of the Amir is situated. Regardless of his views on what constitutes a desert-bred horse, Dr. Mabrouk left us photos and brief descriptions of seven mares, two stallions and one colt that caught his eye. He must…
Eugene Geyser of the Nabilah Arabian Stud has recently acquired the Rosina tail female mare Kamarie Bint Yosreia and her daughter Kamarie Marikah, bred by Mel Mutafis. He writes: “We are so grateful and pleased to add these lines to our preservation breeding program. These bloodlines add to our existing Nabilah lines with Nabilah and Baraka dam lines both imported from Egypt during 1945.” In the video below the dark bay is Kamarie Bint Yosreia, and the red bay Marikah. Video courtesy of Eugene Geyser. Rosina was bred by H. V. Musgrave Clark of the Courthouse Stud, and was a product of Blunt Crabbet ancestry combined with two of Musgrave Clark’s desertbred stallions, Nimr and Atesh. Her descendants in southern Africa are the remaining source of both these stallions in asil horses, as well as the Crabbet mares Safarjal (dam of the stallion Sainfoin, who has a racing record in addition to being the sire of Bahram, the 1954 British Supreme Male Champion) and Belka. A 1950 brochure for the Crabbet Arabian Stud recounts Belka’s accomplishments (p. 31): “By the same sire as Champion Nureddin and ‘Crabbet,’ won the English 250 miles race carrying 13 1/2 stone, in 1921, outdistancing…