Finally a Ma’naqiyah filly
After four years of trying, SS Lady Guenevere (“Guen”) gratified me with a filly yesterday, born at the Doyles’ ranch in Oregon. The filly’s sire is Cascade DE, a young Doyle stallion.
I have been leasing Guen and her daughter Pippa by Chatham DE from DeWayne Brown in the hope for a filly. She is the first filly following three colts from both mares: Shaykh Al Arab (Tamaam DE x Pippa), Shaman Al Arab (Tamaam DE x Guen) and Sharif Al Arab (Bashir Al Dirri x Pippa).
I hope she goes on to produce many fillies from that precious (to me) Ma’naqi Sbayli strain.
Congratulations! What good news to have a filly at last!
Congratulations!!! I was just wondering about this impending foal yesterday! I am very happy for you and the addition of a new female to the strain.
Woohoo!! Many blessings on her little head.
Thank you ladies. You know what it means.
Congratulations!!!she is lovely!!!
Thank you Jose Manuel. I hope she lives and produces. I have been trying so far with that strain, acquiring or leasing seven mares before getting this filly.
Yes she is lovely !! And huge congratulations Edouard! And, yay for genetic diversity too. Are there Muniqi stallions that are asil that don’t have tons of Blunt in them- say a Muniqi sharp, that you could breed to down the road?
best
Bruce Peek
Thank you, Bruce. I am quite thrilled over her.
In the USA, the Haidee branch of that strain to which this filly belongs stayed relatively Blunt-free for many generations. In fact the matriarch of the strain as far as Al Khamsa is concerned, Drissula, was a non-Blunt mare.
Jeanne Craver bred horses from that strain that were Blunt free save a line to Julyan (so Gulastra and Bint Serra there) and i had a mare from her breeding.
Wonderful news, Edouard. Have you picked a name for her yet, or are you still pondering this?
I think I have a name but I am not 100% sure yet. It will start with SH like the others.
Sounds really good Edouard! With all of the Doyle in there too you should have the ability to go in most any directions you wished given that the Doyles are so rare, The other nice thing about your new filly is that she shows really nice triangles, both front and back so she should be a great mover!.
best Bruce Peek
I was just looking at the damline for this filly earlier today, and it’s really quite threatened here in the US. Right now it’s technically doing okay because there are 30+ mares that carry it, but only 14 of them are aged twenty or younger this year, and only 9 of them are in breeding homes. If more people don’t breed these mares, the line’s going to plummet.
Kudos, Edouard!
Yes, it’s a neglected line, and I thought it would be gone within the next 10 years unless someone did something about it. Then we’d be looking for aged mares to rescue across the country.