Bahraini studmaster Fatis in English language sources

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.

5/ A September 1975 letter by the late Danah Aal Khalifa in response to a request to identify the mare in a photo sent to her by Lee Oellerich of Canada identified the chestnut mare *Sawannah, born in 1948, and later imported to the USA, as follows:

“The mare Sawannah pictured above was identified by Fatis, the old studmaster of H.H. Shaikh Issa bin Salman Al Khalifa, as a Dahmah, belonging to Shaykh Khalifa bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, (chief of Police). Dahmeh was bred by Shaykh Salman, Ruler of Bahrain at the time, out of one of his mares of the Dahman strain, and sired by one of his stud stallions serving at the time.”