Am’um al-Ufaytan, 1997 Ma’naqi Hadraji stallion
I saw ‘Am’um (Kuhaylan al-Buthah x Raddah) in 2005 and snapped this photo. His sire is a Kuhaylan al-‘Ajuz from the very old marbat of ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Jlaidan (or Kuhaylan Jlaidani). His dam is Raddah, a 1977 Ma’naqiyah Hadrajiyah of Faddan Ibn ‘Ufaytan.
The sire of Raddah is the black Ma’naqi Hadraji of Mudhi al-Sabah al-Shihaan al-‘Ufaytan, Faddan’s cousin. The sire of her dam is the chestnut Kuhaylan al-‘Ajuz of Bardan Ibn Jlaidan. The Jlaidan and ‘Ufaytan are all cousins. They only use each other’s stallions, and seldom introduce outside horses to their closed breeding programs.
This stallion met an untimely death. In my opinion, he was one of the best desert-bred stallions I had seen among the Shammar and Tai Bedouin tribes.
Look at the prickled ears, the broad forehead, the low-set large eyes, the long neck, the long withers, the sloping shoulders, the strong back. And he was starving like most Bedouin horses I saw that year.
I really do like his withers – they run a good distance into his back. He has a lovely expression as well, bright and interested.
What was happening in 2005, that so many of the Bedouin horses were starving? Was it linked to the end of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, or was it something completely unrelated?
It is mostly related to droughts and climate change, but more recently to war of course.
From the wear patterns on his hooves it is evident that he uses his hindquarters well- the back hooves are more worn down that the front. Also even in his thin body condition he is still better than a three circle horse. Oddly enough when horses are thin they tend to look as though they have shorter hips. They look more and more ,’three circle,’ the more weight they put on. And he certainly does have gobs and gobs of neck length. I’ll bet he was a gorgeous mover. Edouard did you get a chance to ride him or see him move?
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Bruce Peek
On syrian stud-book up to volum number 7 I only found on this lattest one AM-MOOM n°2379: https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/am-oom
Not that is not him, he is #3260. Aamaom Ofaitan or something like that.
Arnault in your online pedigree for this other Am-moom you need to be aware that there were two different Ma’naqi Hadraji stallions of the Ufaytan. A bay stallion sire of Al-Asda and others, which belonged to Zahir al-Ufaytan and a black one, which belonged to his cousin Mudhi al-Shihan al-Ufaytan, sire of the black Krush mare called Al-Dahma. Not the same horse, but related, and belonging to two cousins living in the same village.
Here good pedigree is for aama-om ufaitan except other orthobraph of the name…
https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/aama-om+ufaitan
Thank you.
Kuhaylan al-Buthah is the son of Shuwayman Salih al-Abdallah, who is by Al-Aawar out of the dam of ‘Abirah (dam of Khaldi). The dam of Abirah is grey by the Saqlawi Jadran of Farhan al-Nayif out of a black Shuwaymah, daughter of the Ubayyan Suhayli of ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Maslat.
The dam of K. al-Buthah is either Sabhat Bardhan or the dam of Sabhat Bardan. Sabhat Bardan is dark bay, by the black Manaqi of Zahir Ufaytan out of a black mare by same black Manaqi of Z. Ufaytan, out of a chestnut mare by the chestnut K. Ibn Jlaidan of Bardan ibn Jlaidan.