A very nice colt from the Bint Kareema line in Belgium
This colt which Belgian breeder Patrick Vermuyten recently bought really caught my eye. He is from the Bint Kareema line, hence an Ubayyan by strain.
Bint Kareema‘s (Rasheed BLNT x Kareema) is in my view one of the Arabian breed’s most underrated lines. Despite its very small numbers (mostly in Europe), it has consistently produced first class, well conformed, stlylish horses over the past fourty to fifty years mostly in Europe (e.g., Kauber Platte’s Hakeel Ibn Kaisoon). Unlike other damlines that become “worn out” over the generations — my friend Jean-Claude Rajot refers to these as “fin de lignée” — this line seems to be only getting better with time, if this colt is any indication.
As an aside, Bint Kareema is one of the very few Straight Egyptian lines not yet accepted by Al Khamsa, due to missing information about the antecedents of the her dam Kareema, by a “Dahman” out of an “Obeya”. I have my own educated guess, which I wrote about some ten years ago.
Today, an mtDNA comparison between this line and an Ubayyan Sharrak tail female line from the Tahawi,e extinct in asil form, but still represented in the general equine population, should help prove this hypothesis. I look forward to the results.
So will the Mtdna test show which mare lines she specifically comes from ?
Best
Bruce Peek
Not quite. It will show which line she is related to. It’s a fine difference. mtDNA shows association, not origin. If two lines have the same mtDNA it means they are the same, but not necessarily that one is a branch of the other. It may well be that both come from a third, much older line in pre-historic lines before strains existed.
J’attends aussi ces résultats avec grande impatience, afin de pouvoir mettre ma jument à la production avec le bon étalon.
Ce poulain est fort joli.
À très bientôt
Bonjour Jean-François,
Alors pourquoi pas sailir votre jument d’un étalon de la même lignée maternelle quand KP Aleem sera d’age? Rien plus facile. Vous êtes situés ou avec vos chevaux?
Bien à vous
Patrick.
Patrick, je viens tout juste de voir votre message.
Du coup j’ai étudié le pedigree de KP Aleem qui est fort intéressant.
Effectivement cela pourrait être une bonne chose que d’utiliser votre poulain une fois qu’il sera devenu étalon.
Ma jument ne sera pas trop âgée à ce moment là.
Ça laisse encore quelques années à attendre mais l’élevage est un travail de patience.
Bonne fêtes de fin d’année.
À bientôt
Merci pour votre proposition
Oh I see, so theoretically the filly could back to the ,’Eve,’ of arabian horses- or more likely her close descendants- grandaughters neices etc.?
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Bruce Peek
yes