His full name was Fatis bin Salim al-Hajiri of Beni Hajar tribe of Qahtan. I found five sources on him in English, and there must be more in Arabic. 1/ In Judith Forbis’ “Pearls of Great Price” 1971 AHW article: “…an ancient Arab named Fetyz, whom nobody knows the true age of and who attended Sheikh Isa’s great granfather.” 2/ In Volume 1 of the Amiri Arabian Studbook of Bahrain: “In 1969 old studmaster Fatis realized that in the herd of broodmares in his change there was only one Kuheila’t Umm Zorayr, […] Fatis took her up to the Palace and put her in race training!” “After the death of the old studmaster in charge, from 1942 to 1974, registering each purebred became a necessity” 3/ On the website of the Bahrain Royal Stud: “There was a fourth mare, Hamdanieh Fatis 202 bred at Al Kharj in Saudi Arabia.“ This photo and legend: “Old Fatis on Old Shawaf” are also on this website: Also this photo, riding what looks like the same Shawaf stallion (I really like this horse) 4/ Another, nicer and larger photo in Danah Al Khalifah’s photo book “The Living Treasures of Bahrain” also riding this Shawaf.…