AAS Nelyo, the new kid on the block
I bought AAS Nelyo last July from Edie Booth as a potential outcross for my horses down the line. He is a ‘Ubayyan, from the line of *Mahraa, a 1943 mare of the horses of Sa’ud ibn ‘Abd Allah Ibn Jalawi Aal Saud, the governor of the oil-rich Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
I think the full strain is ‘Ubayyan al-Suyayfi, a branch of Ubayyan Hunaydees, which is itself among the best of branches of ‘Ubayyan Sharrak, but I can’t prove it yet.
AAS Nelyo, who is six years old, is closely linebred to a few of the early horses imported from Saudi Arabia, including close crosses *Taamri (9 crosses), *Rudann (8 crosses), *Munifan (8 crosses), *Munifeh (8 crosses), and Muhaira, his female line (7 crosses).
He was being training for endurance racing. He is very different in type, temperament and coat color from anything else I have seen before. He is registered as bay, but he looks to me like he could be a seal brown or a dark shade of chestnut.
Oh, he’s the son of Mireyenion TOS, the mare who has the unusual dilute coat! You can always pull hair and get his colour tested, if you like; the Blue Star stallion Ali-Zeus looked chestnut but tested genetically as black (and was also tf to Mahraa via Muhaira; in fact, was a three-quarter sibling or something like that of Mireyenion TOS, same sire, dams full sisters).
That would certainly be interesting to examine. I did see his sire in person summer 2020, and he looked pretty textbook black to me — but I suspect whatever this group of horses has, it would be recessive and possibly require 2 copies of the gene for it to express. Nelyo is definitely mealy mouthed. I /think/ there was a study from a few years back that showed that seal brown is genetically a shade of bay that typically (but not always) tests as EEAa.
Nice eye, longish nostrils which would be hugely distendable as it were so he can drink the wind.
best
Bruce Peek
I very much look forward to this young fellow’s future. His paternal grandsire, DB Shahhat, has an endurance record with several 1st place, top ten, Best Condition finishes and offspring who were successful endurance competitors. Best wishes for his success!
Congratulations!
(Edie breeds fantastic horses.)
Looks to be a seal brown with light roaning?
Very nice! You know I love Muhaira!