Abeyan, Arnab and Abba, ‘Ubayyan Sharrak half-siblings

The horses below are half-brothers and -sister, bred by Count Stroganov, out of the mare Anaze. Anaze was an 1877 ‘Ubayyah Sharrakiyah, sired by a Ma’naqi Ibn Sbayli. Her breeder is not given in her Russian stud book entry, only that Stroganov bought her in Deir on the Euphrates in 1888.

Abeyan (above) was an 1892 stallion, sired by Tamri, a grey Kuhaylan Tamri stallion bred by Mohammed Ibn Rashid, the Emir of Jabal Shammar, and taken by the Anazah in war in 1889. Tamri was gifted to Stroganov by Sheikh Nasr Ibn Abdallah in 1890.

Arnab (above) was an 1893 stallion, sired by Emir-el-Arab, a Kuhaylan Krush from the Wuld Ali. Emir-el-Arab’s sire was an ‘Ubayyan Sharrak from the marbat of Abu Jreyss. Stroganov bought Emir-el-Arab in Damascus, in 1888.

Abba (above) was the younger half-sister of Abeyan. Foaled in 1897, her sire was Sherrak, the stallion that had been gifted to Stroganov along with Tamri in 1890.

Photos sourced from the History of Russia in Photographs.