Measurements
I found a booklet simply titled “Stammhengste” (Foundation stallions) and “Stammstuten” (Foundation mares). I guess with a bit of digging one could figure out which stud it belongs to. What I found interesting is the pedigrees listed with measurements, something I for one, rarely see these days. I picked out the asil pedigrees, especially because many appear in Southern African horses. Neferotete I WISH would have appeared in local pedigrees, because I have a soft spot for the Tahawi horses.
The measurements listed are for the “Widerrist: Stockmaß:” (Withers: Measurement:), “Brustumfang” (girth circumference) and “Röhrbeinumfang” (cannon bone circumference) in centimetres.
Ibrahim is sire to Mahib (imp) out of the Madkour daughter Mahabba. Mahib was imported to South Africa and then Namibia by Helga Aschenborn of Gülilah Stud and her daughter Gisela Uijs who managed the Uijs family’s interest in Nabilah Stud.
In his 1989 article “Zurück unter Allahs Sonne” (Back under Allah’s sun) in Arabische Pferde magazine, George Olms tells of Ibrahim export to Kuwait. Sadly Ibrahim did not survive the invasion the following year.
Farouk is sire to Shams el Farin (imp) out of Omar el Shaker (imp)’s paternal half-sister Inshraa.
Sarwat sired Sasab who is maternal granddam to the imported full sisters Sraab, Badeia and Saabana.
As previously mentioned, Inshraa is dam to Shams el Farin (imp).
The three imported full sisters are the result of a mating between a daughter of Sasab (Sarwat x Sabra) namely Bint Sasab and a son of Sasab, Ibn Kheiralla.
My personal favourite, Neferotete. According to the booklet she produced a son by Gharib named Ghanefer, two daughters by Sarwat named Sarnefer and Nefisa and finally a Farouk son named Nassib. In Volume I of the Austrian stud book I found a full sister Ghada (measurements 154-186-19), bred by Ahmed Hamza of Hamza-Stables in Egypt. She was imported by Gustl Eutermoser of Gestüt Schieferegg. Ghada is also listed as *Ghadaa on the AK Roster.
Nefrotete has Straight Egyptian tail female descendants still in Germany – there’s a 2008 granddaughter, Noraia Ghania Bint Ghorab, out of the Machmut daughter Noora, while a more distant tail female descendant Masr El Nahida (from the Shams El Nefisa branch) has produced a couple of daughters, including one born in 2024. There are others as well, mostly via Shams El Nefisa, but these two jumped out at me.
Re the measurements, I am struck by how small the cannon bone circumferences are relative to their heights. 18 cm is 7 inches, 19 cm is just about 7.5 inches. They were probably all doing just fine for the 8 inches of bone for every 1000 lb. Still, they all of them have smaller cannon circumferences than Mesaoud, whose measurements, according to Wilfrid Blunt, were:
Height at withers: 14.2 hh (147 cm)
Girth: 69 inches (175 cm)
Cannon circumference: 7.75 inches (19.5 cm)