Photos of Moira Walker’s rising three-year-old colt Landrace Belisarius (Jamr Al Arab x Jadah Belloftheball, by Invictus Al Krush) having fun in the snow. Belisarius is a Kuhaylan ‘Ajuz from the Nufoud mare line. While his pedigree is predominantly Davenport, he has Doyle blood from his sire’s dam Jadiba, as well as a line to the Reverend Francis Furse Vidal’s Garaveen (Kismet x Kushdil), and through Garaveen to Roger Upton’s imports Yataghan and Haidee. His dam goes back to the mare Tarrla, a daughter of Henry Babson’s stallion Tarff, so bringing in another Sa’udi-bred mare, Turfa, to complement Nufoud. Belisarius also traces to five horses who each have only a handful of living Al Khamsa descendants. These are the three Hamidie Society imports Mannaky, Galfia and Pride, the Davenport import El Bulad, and Nejdran, the last-mentioned a chestnut Saqlawi Ubayri bought in Beirut by Captain W. I. Gaisford, who imported him to England, where he apparently used Nejdran as a polo pony, before selling him to a Harvard student, who imported him to the U.S..
A September 1975 letter by the late Danah Aal Khalifa in response to a photo sent to her by Lee Oellerich identified the chestnut mare *Sawannah, born in 1948, and later imported to the USA, as follows: