The nice Facebook page “The Old Bahrain” published these photos. The first photo has this legend: 1950s: Sir Charles Belgrave, Advisor to the ruler of Bahrain, astride his Arabian mare Oleander during his daily inspection of the Bahrain’s Police Camel Corps. The second photo has this legend: Sir Charles Belgrave, the advisor to the ruler of Bahrain, taking one of his frequent morning rides in Manama. Volume 1 of the Amiri Arabian Studbook has the following about Oleander: In 1939 a Saqlawieh mare in foal was brought as a gift from King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud to Shaikh Hamed bin Isa. The foal, a filly , later became the personal mount of Sir Charles Belgrave who named it Oleander for her beautiful pink-chestnut coat. Oleander was mated to Speckled Jellaby II and she had a filly, Saqlawieh bint Oleander. Bint Oleander lived to a ripe old age and she had several offspring by the different stallions standing at stud over the years. Two of her fillies are included in the Amiri Stud. This line is now lost per the website of the Royal Stud.
Below is a photo of the grey mare Sabine, foaled in 1900, who is presumably the daughter of two of M. Portalès’ imports. The picture comes from the article, ‘Les chevaux du midi’, printed in the 27 October 1907 Le Sport universel illustré. Mossoul’s entry in volume 11 of the Stud-Book français (1894) says he was out of a Saqlawiyah, and came from the ‘Anazah. Kadidja’s entry, in the same volume, says she was from the Mawali. Her sire was a Kuhaylan al-Kharass and her dam a Saadat; in Edouard’s post on Georges Tabet’s 1937 Ansaab al-Khayl al-Arabiyah the Sa’dan Tuqan, Sa’dan al-Hassun and Sa’dan al-Najr are all three said to be “with the Mawali”. There are photos of Mossoul and Kadidja in two prior posts on imported stallions and mares at Pompadour.