Monologue CF still looks his same old self at 20. If anything his eyes look even more bulging with age. I like the balance on this horse so much, and I wish he was used more. Wadha is in foal to him. I think I will breed him to Barakah next. Because of his high percentage *Wadduda blood (18.8%) he is being used by other Al Khamsa breeders on their *Wadduda tail female mares through Sahanad.
By far the nicest surprise of yesterday’s visit to see my horses was little Bassma Al Arab, now three months old. She is Belle’s daughter by Jamr Al Arab. She looks absolutely superb, and I hope she lives long enough to fulfill her promise. She is going to be grey. I confess having taken that breeding decision on a hunch, and I caught a lot of flak for it: parents’ conformations don’t match each other, pedigrees don’t match, foal will be small, etc. I tried it in part to test whether Jamr was fertile, after a few unsuccessful attempts with older mares. I also did because I felt the resulting foal could benefit from his broad forehead, his extra-deep jowl, his small muzzle, his very short back (which Belle lacks), his muscular arched neck, and his big “Doyle butt” – essentially a long, hip and a muscular thigh. And Jamr delivered on most of the above, building my confidence in my him as a stallion along the way. He even brought size (!) balance and depth of girth on top of that. Look at the outcome: The head is the same as the dam’s as you can tell from the…
I was pleased to see how my 2016 mare Barakah Al Arab (Wadd Al Arab x Jadah BellOfTheBall) had developed over the past two and a half years. I left her a gangly two year old, and she has filled up since. She certainly has some more growing to do. Wadd improved the shoulder angle and the length of the shoulder, added much needed depth of girth and breadth of ribcage; he left the head pretty much the same as her mother’s, except for adding more distance between the eyes, the ears are as long and prickled as her mother’s. On the other hand, Belle’s beautiful level croup and highly set tail are gone; instead Barakah inherited Wadd’s slightly sloping croup and the short hip which is a legacy his dam Wisteria. When going you don’t notice it as much. I did not pay as much attention to her feet as I should have. Overall, Barakah is an improvement over Belle, without having lost her “desert” look. By the way, I feel breeders needs to be as openly candid about their horses as they can, if they want to improve on them in the long term, especially if they do…
Yesterday I went to see my horses for the first time since the onset of COVID-19 some two and a half years ago. Belle the Kuhaylat al-Ajuz looks good and has had two fillies in the last four years. Both fillies are an improvement over her, in terms of balance and structure. I am going to breed her at least one more time, this time to the Syrian Kuhaylan Da’jani stallion for which I now have semen thanks to Arnault Decroix. I thought she was looking very much like her maternal grandsire Audobon and his dam Audacity in that picture.
The dry, arid climate and terrain of the South Western USA are much closer to that of the steppes of Arabia than the wetter climate and more lush pastures of, say, the mid-Atlantic region or the plains of the Midwest. I have observed that these drier conditions are resulting in Arabian horses that look much closer to the horses raised in Syria and Arabia, and to those raised in Namibia and the drier parts of South Africa. Drier skin, stronger, more solid bone, more visible tendons, and something different in the way the eyes shine that I cannot describe. This observation is a central tenet of the writings of French master breeder Robert Mauvy, based on his empirical observations. I would like to read any scientific papers on the climate and terrain impact on horse phenotypes, if anyone knows of any. The mare below, Roxana Star (Personic LF x Jauhar Al Khala by Sportin Life), a Kuhaylah Hayfiyah of Davenport bloodlines born in 2005, illustrates this observation. She is in the Southwestern USA, with Christine Emmert. Photos by Christine.
WhatsApp and Twitter threads of Gulf countries Arab horse and saluki breeders are spreading the news of the passing of Danah Al Khalifah of natural causes, the day before yesterday. Rest in Peace, noble lady of the horses, you have done so much.
Jens Sannek sent me these three photos of a stallion of his breeding in Europe. The bloodlines lines are absolutely unique in Europe. Ajman (Maamoun Tarik x Bint Aja by Mirath x Aja by El Haml) is a 1996 liver chestnut of the Hamdani Simri strain that traces to the *Halwaaji, a mare of Saud stock imported to the USA. His dam Bint Aja was bred by Lee Oellerich in Canada in 1980 and imported to Europe. Lots of old Saudi blood up close in that pedigree: *Al Hamdaniah, *Turfa, *Muhaira, *Nufoud, *Taamri, *Rudann and *Halwaaji. The sire of Ajman, Maamoon Tarik, carries even unique and interesting bloodlines. He is of predominantly Olms lineage, which means that on top of the EAO and Babson Egyptian blood (Kaisoon, Farag, Negem) he carries additional Saudi lines to *Sunshine, *Nufoud, and *Tairah through mares of Krausnick breeding imported from the USA to Germany, as well as a hint of Davenport through Shiba (Hanad x Schilan). The cherry on the cake of this pedigree tapestry is the line to Gazala, a 1967 desert-bred mare of Shammar breeding imported from Hail, Saudi Arabia to Germany in 1971. Jens, who also bred Ajman’s sister Ajibah by Wahhabit,…
Hopefully this time is the right time. Last time she slipped her foal at five months. She will be taking progesterone until she delivers. I can’t wait for this foal.
شكر وتقدير للاستاذ خالد الرخلاني الذي جهد في ادخال بيانات انساب الخيول العربية السورية على قاعدة www.allbreedpedigree.com
This account recorded in early 2021. It reads like a testimony of the Abbas Pasha Manuscript. My translation: I, Hammad Jaddu’ al-Jaz’ah, of the tribe of Tai, clan of al-Jawwalah, I am the owner of the strain of Saqlawi Dari, the horses of Jaddu’ al-Jaz’ah, in the township of Abu Hujairah, district of al-Qahtaniyah, province of al-Qamishli, governorate of al-Hasakah: Concerning the marbat of Da’jani Kashir, the horses of Khidr al-Ahmad al-Husayn al-Juburi, they came [to Syria] at the end of 1958 or the beginning of 1959. It was the father of Khidr who came [to Syria]; his name was Ahmad al-Ali al-Juburi (of the Jubur); he was the direct son of the daughter of Ahmad al-Taha; his maternal uncle was Ahmad al-Taha. The man came from Iraq, with blood on his hands [Edouard’s note: he had killed two men there]; That’s why he crossed into Syria. There were two mares with him, a red one (bay) and a light grey one, both of the Da’jani Kashir strain, which was the marbat of his maternal uncle Ahmad al-Taha. He settled in Syria, from the beginning of 1959 until his death. To this day, his son Khidr al-Ahmad al-Juburi is…
Yesterday Ginger foaled a little male, who as of this morning was still fighting for his life. He could not stand to nurse on his own, so Bev — bless her heart — has been waking up every two hours to lift him so he could nurse. I hope he pulls off. He is Ginger’s third foal in three years, after my Kinza, now two, and Bev’s Ginger Snap, a yearling. All three are by Bev’s stallion Subanet Jabbar SDA, so tracing to Fay El Dine in tail male and to Rabanna/Basilisk in tail female. When my partner Jana first saw a photo, her first reaction was: “Oh he looks like a little dog!” so I named him Kulayb. It’s Arabic for “little dog”, and it’s an old, old, Arabic Bedouin name. The Ancient Hebrews had it too, as the Biblical Caleb. In ancient pre-Islamic poetry, Kulayb son of Rab’iah was the name of a Bedouin hero from the ancient tribe of Taghlib. He was the brother of Mohalhil.
فرس شقراء كحيلة الخدلية يعود مربطها الى عضيب الوقاع السبيعي ابوها الصقلاوي الجدراني من خيل دريعي الاحدب من عشيرة شمر ابو امها المعنقي السبيلي حصان الشويطي من خيل النجرس من عشيرة العقيدات
صورة للشيخ خالد بن عضيب الوقاع شيخ فخذ المجاهمه من الموايقه من قبيله السبعه من عنزه كان لوالده عضيب الوقاع السبيعي مربط معروف لكحايل الخدليات درج على قبيلة العقيدات في ما بعد
Kim Davis has a new colt by Othello LD out of HH Nadira Krush, in yet another demonstration of the continued vitality of her wonderful breeding program. It looks like he will be black after his sire and grandsire.
A rare photo of Abd al-Jalil al-Naqashbandi, one of the preeminent Sufis of the Euphrates Valley, and the owner of a famous marbat of Kuhaylan al-Nawwaq that is now 110 years old. He is pictured here on one of his Nawwaqiyah mares. He was a partner of Fanghash al-Nawwaq, who was the last member of the Nawwaq family to own horses they gave their name to. A precious photo.
This was Belle, the Kuhaylat al-Ajuz, with my daughter Solenn in 2018. Belle was 16, Solenn 5. I am still on a quest to know who this line of horses originally belonged to, back in 1925. I have clues but no hard facts.
I like this image so much that I will make it a blog header for a few days. I think the beautiful mare on the left is a Kuhaylat al-Mimrah.
This year I will be using for the first time frozen semen from one of the Syrian stallions now in France. I chose Arnault Decroix’s Dahjani Al Arab (same prefix as my horses, by chance). He is a Kuhaylan Da’jaani from the old Syrian desert bloodlines I have known and loved for three decades (sheesh!). He traces directly to the Kuhaylan Da’jaani marbat of Ahmad al-Taha, the Shaykh of the large Juhaysh tribe in Northern Iraq. This is the same breeder as El Nasser’s, the Kuhaylan Da’jani which Egypt’s Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) used in the 1940s. These bloodlines are quite prized for racing in Syria today. Just look at the striking similarity between El Nasser and Dahjani Al Arab, 80 years apart.
A quick snapshot of little Bassma from two weeks ago. She is unfolding slowly. I will be back in the USA in July and will take good pictures. I just love the combination of bloodlines this filly brings. A Saudi tail female to *Nufoud with a cross to *Turfa in the bottom, a female line to *Wadduda on her sire’s side, plenty of Davenport blood all over (11/16), and a dose of Doyle lines (3.5/16) for good measure. So proud to have been able to continue this wonderful *Nufoud line, walking in the footsteps of the late Carol Lyons.
RJ Cadranell took this nice photo of Belladonna CHF several years ago. She was a Kuhaylat al-Ajuz tracing to *Nufoud, and was a favorite mare of mine. I saw her in 2001. She is my Bell’s dam and Barakah and Bassma’s grand-dam
Andre LS (Zachary CF x Aliah LD by HB Adrian), one of Diane Lyon’s Davenport stallions of the Kuhaylan Haifi strain is now California at Michael Bowling’s. Michael is going to take him to a vet clinic for testing. If fertile, he will be bred to one of my mares. He looks good, and is an outcross in the Davenports Core Haifi group.
Bassma Al Arab was born at dawn today. She is by my stallion Jamr Al Arab (Vice Regent CF x Jadiba by Dib), a Saqlawi al-‘Abd, out of “Belle”, Jadah BelloftheBall (Invictus Al Krush x Belladonna CHF by Audobon), a Kuhaylat al-‘Ajuz tracing to the desert-bred mare *Nufoud. She is only the fifth filly alive from that strain. Monica Respet has two, and I now have three. She has really long ears like her dam, a big sloped shoulder like her granddam Jadiba and big joints. It’s an unusual breeding: a half-Blunt stallion on a non-Blunt, mostly Davenport mare, with an old Saudi tail female.
Yesterday, Jana and I spent a lovely afternoon in the company of Pienaar, Pauline and Gerhard Du Plessis at Saruk Arabians outside Albertinia in the Western Cape. We came for lunch on Easter Sunday and spent a lot of time chatting so time flew by. They run a successful endurance racing operation mainly oriented towards a Gulf audience. They have two very impressive sons of Tuwaisaan 406 (he died in 2011), built like tanks, out of old South Africa dam lines. I also saw and took some photos (iPhone 8…) of Mlolshaan Mutaab, who put on a show in his paddock. He reminded up of the Davenport stallion Vice-Regent CF in pictures I have seen. Mutaab is 22 years old but does not look it. He is quite small for a Bahraini horse — Pauline believes he was raised as an orphan — but is well balanced. Round croup, broad chest, hig tail carriage, good shoulder, deep jowls, small expressive ears. He has that big, bulky Mlolshaan head, not unlike Mlolshaan Hager Solomon’s in the USA. When he moves, he looks transformed. I also saw one of his daughters out of a mare of Egyptian lines. Videos in the next…
Jens Sannek recently shared this video screenshot of the Iranian stallion Jallad (Arras x Atlassi) a Wadnan Khursan born 1976, bred by the Equestrian Federation of Iran, exported to Austria to Gus Eutermoser in 1979 and later to Spain.
In Arabian horses, strains are traditionally transmitted by the dam. This is how Bedouins did it for about half a millennium, for reasons I discussed elsewhere. Strains, and their transmissions are intimately connected to the concepts of asil/atiq (roughly, authentic) in an Arabian horse. In other words, the daughter of an asil/atiq Hamdaniyah Simriyah and an English Thoroughbred is not a Hamdaniyah Simriyah. She is a hajin, a part-bred, not an Arabian horse. I think there is a universal consensus on that. Now let us assume that this half-Arabian part-bred daughter of the asil/atiq Hamdaniyah Simriyah is bred to an asil/atiq Arabian for one more generation. You still don’t have a Hamdaniyah Simiriyah. You’d still have a hajin, a partbred with 25% Engligh Thoroughbred blood and 75% Arabian blood. One more generation of breeding of this line to an asil/atiq Arabian horse will not get you your Hamdani Simri label back. You’d still have a hajin on your hands, this time with 12.5% Engligh Thoroughbred blood and 87.5% Arabian blood. The consensus on this horse not being an Arabian horse still holds, pretty much across the spectrum of the Arabian horse world. Where the consensus falls apart is on how…
Yesterday Arnault Decroix sent me this photo of his Syrian stallion Dahjani al-Arab, a Kuhaylan Da’jani born in the Syrian Jazirah (Upper Mesopotomia) in 2008. Dahjani al-Arab was part of the same batch of Syrian imports to France in 2009. The lot also included the stallions Mahboub Halep (a Shuwayman Sabbah); Dahess Hassaka (a Kuhaylan Nawwaq); Nimr Shabareq (a Ma’naqi Sbayli); Shahm (a Ubayyan Sharrak, who sadly died soon after the importation and was the best of the lot, in my opinion); and Meliar Halab (a Kuhaylan Krush), as well as the mare Rafikat al-Darb (a Shuwaymah Sabbah). For years I overlooked Dahjani al-Arab on this blog, and highlighted other imports like Mahboub, Dahess and Nimr, because I had some doubts about his Kuhaylan Da’jani tail female. Today, after a decade of follow up, I was able to access first-hand evidence of the authenticity of this strain. I will elaborate further in a next entry. Dahjani al-Arab is and always was, an asil Arabian horse
A photo of the wonderful Syrian-bred Shuwaymah Sabbah stallion Mahboub Halep at Jean Claude Rajot several days ago. To me, this horse exemplifies the desert Arabian horse as he should be. I wish he had opportunities to cover mares from more diverse lineages. As Lady Anne Blunt said of Aziz in his prime: “He looks gorgeous”. Photo by Severine Vesco from social media.
Kuwaiti researcher Yahia al-Kandari edited a treatise on Arab horses by Father Anastas al-Karmali (1866-1947), the Lebanese Carmelite priest and linguist. The treatise “al-Khayl al-‘Irab 3inda al-Arab wa al-A3raab” was published by Bait al-Arab. Interestingly, the title of the book features three difference uses of the term ‘Arab’.
Power and grace in motion at 25 years young. I have a sense this will become a beloved picture.
Photographer Irina Filsinger took this nice photo of the stallion Ibn Ibn Wathnan, one of the handful original horses of the state of Qatar. He was registered in Volume 1 of the Qatari studbook. Thanks to Wilton for posting it on social media, where I picked it up. He looks like the Bahraini royal stud horses and I would not be surprised if he traced to him at least in part
من بنات كروش جهيم المطخان ومن نفس رسنه ومربطه
لاحظوا دقة اذني الفرس وعرض حنكها فهكذا كانت خيل الملوك لاحظوا ايضا اللجام العربي بالاضافة للرشمة من ارشيف مدرسة الاخوة الماريين
Over 5000 of them online. Take the plunge! One of the most significant pictures is this one of Shaykh Sultan Bin Zayid Aal Nahyan, taken in 1948 (pre-oil). He was not yet the ruler of the UAE.
The previous post in Arabic was to introduce the daughter of my Khallawiyah mare Bint Rammah, born a couple days ago. The new filly, named Jawharah Al Arab is owned jointly between Yasser Ghanim and I, and is at his small farm in the Sharqiyah province, east of the Nile Delta. Bint Rammah was already in foal to Maward AlPetra, a Dahman stallion from lines to the Nagel’s Katharinenhof Arabians (NK) and Ansata Arabians studs, when I acquired her a few months ago. Video below.
الحمدلله فرسي الخلاوية بنت رماح ولدت مهرة يوم البارحة. المهرة كبيرة الحجم وبصحة جيدة الحمدلله سميناها جوهرة العرب وهي شراكة بيني وبين ياسر غانم وموجودة عنده بمحافظة الشرقية بمصر ز الاب حصان دهمان شهوان من اصول مصرية تغلب على مشجر نسبه خطوط انساتا وناجل اسمه ماورد البتراء كانت الفرس عشار منه لما اشتريتها من صاحبها وهو من الاسرة الطحاوية الام بنت رماح من اصول بدوية بحتة معروفة مثبوتة محفظة من سلالات عرب الطحاوية القديمة غير المسجلة دوليا. ابوها رماح ابن ابن حصان السباق الاسطورة جولدن ارو الذي اكتسح ميادين السباقات في لبنان ومصر في الخمسينات والستينات من القرن الماضي واصبح فيما بعد فحل سفاد في مصر والعراق والمملكة العربية السعودية واذكر اني سالت والدي ذات يوم وانا في مطلع العمر عما اذا كانت هناك خيل سباق عراقية لا ترد بنسبها الى الفحل الهجين المعروف بالطبيب او السوري او “دهمان عامر” الذي ملأت احفاده اسطبلات مربيين وهواة خيل السباق في لبنان وسوريا وأجابني والدي انه ثمة حصان عراقي اشقر مشهور ركض في سباق بيروت كان اسمه جولدن ارو وكان معروف عنه انه لا يعود نسبه الى الطبيب وترسخ اسم جولدن اروهذا في ذهني خلال السنين التي تلت سرد والدي لهذه القصة حتى أتاحت لي ظروف سكني في مصر ان اتعرف على…
صور نادرة للفرس عبيرة الشويمة من تصويري سنة ١٩٩٢ في مزرعة مالكها باسل جدعان ابو فارس بالصبورة ابو عبيرة المعنقي الحدرجي الاصدا حصان ظاهر العفيتان أبو امها الصقلاوي الجدراني الازرق حصان عبد الرزاق النايف من شيوخ طي ابو جدتها عبيان السحيلي الازرق الكبير حصان الشيخ عبد العزيز المسلط درجت جدتها بنت عبيان الشيخ عبد العزيز المسلط من محمد الرحبي الشمري صاحب المربط الى السادة الطفيحيين وكانت دهماء اللون ثم درجت بنتها اي بنت صقلاوي عبد الزراق النايف من الطفيحيين الى شخص من عشيرة الشرابيين اسمه عمر احمد عبيد بالسبعينات وكانت زرقاء وشبا عمر احمد عبيد الشويمة ام عبيرة من معنقي العفيتان وانجبت عبيرة ويعود مربط الرحبي الى الجارالله شيوخ عشيرة البو متيويت من الجحيش القبيلة الزبيدية جنوب جبل سنجار ولعل الجارالله حصلوا بدورهم على هذه الشويمات من ال محمد شيوخ شمر -وهذا تخمين مني والله اعلم (وعبيرة ام الفحل المشهور الخالدي واخت الفحل شويمان صالح العبدالله الحسن (ابو كحيلان البوثة ابو زير الجليدان اما الخالدي ابن عبيرة فهو أيضا توليد عمر احمد عبيد وهناك التباس شديد حول هوية ابيه فيزعم البعض وهم الاغلبية ان اباه كحيلان علي الباشا العواصي الاصدا ويقول البعض الاخر ان اباه صقلاوي جدران من خيل الدندح اما سجل الانساب السوري فيورد الخالدي كابن الفحل برهان هدبان…
صور نادرة للفرس طيرة صقلاوية نجمة الصبح (مرزكانية) من خيل المرازيك البريك من شمر طيرة ابوها كحيلان الواطي الازرق الحديدي حصان ذياب السبيه توليد فواز الحاكم الغشم ابو امها عبيان السحيلي الازرق الكبير حصان الشيخ عبد العزيز المسلط ابو جدتها المرزكاني من رسنها من تصويري سنة ١٩٩٢ في مزرعة باسل جدعان ابو فارس بالصبورة اما الفرس التي وراها فهي جليله القدر الدعجانية طيره ام الفحل طاحوس من حصان كرمو الخابورصقلاوي مرزكاني
كحيلان الملولش من خيل البحرين عند بولين وبينار دو بليسيس في جنوب افريقيا Mlolshaan Mutab, from Bahrain, owned by Pienaar and Pauline Du Plessis in South Africa. Photo Kate McLachlan.
I happened upon this Gazetteer of Egypt in the French language from the year 1891 — the “Annuaire egyptien administratif et commercial” on the wonderful website of the French national library. Under the “Conseil Legislatif”, the legislative council, it has “S.E. Aly Pacha Cherif” as the President. See below.
صورة العفريّة العودة فرس الشيخ هاشم حمود ملحم الجربا بنت عبيان الشيخ عبد العزيز المسلط ام الفرس العودة لونها احمر بنت الصقلاوي الجدراني حصان الشيخة عنود الفارس مالكها ابراهيم العلي ام الام لونها اشعل مالكها العفري من عنزة كان مقيم في الرقة وكانت ام الام شراكة بين الشيخ ملحم فارس الجربا والعفري في الخمسينات ثم تم التفاكك عليها حدثني الصديق محمد معصوم العاقوب قال ولدت الفرس سبع أحصنة وتم تسجيلها كرسن نادر في 1998 بجهود كبيرة وولدت آخر مهرة والوحيدة عن عمر 32 من كروش الناعم الأشهب
تواصلت مساء اليوم مع الصديق محمد معصوم العاقوب ودار الحديث حول الفرس العبية السحيلية العود فرس مطر السراي “مطوري” فشاركته هذه الصورة للعود مع فلوها ابن الحمداني الاعور. الصورة من تصويري سنة ١٩٩٤ او ١٩٩٥ بضواحي حلب عند رضوان شبارق ابو ابراهيم وكانت العود آنذاك ملك للشيخ ميزر عجيل العبدالكريم الجربا وهناك التباس عند البعض بخصوص اب واجداد الفرس العود فوجب التوضيح: ابو العود عبيان السحيلي الاشعل حصان عطنان الشاظي الجعيدان من شمر فداغا ابن كحيلان الواطي الازرق الحديدي حصان ذياب السبيه وابو ام العود أيضًا عبيان السحيلي من نفس المربط حصان مسكاوي عطنان الجعيدان والعود توليد مطوري ولعل العود من افضل الافراس التي عرفتها الجزيرة السورية
The Saqlawi Jadran Jawlan Al Kheir, by the Ubayyan Suhayli Taj Al Kheir out of Bushra Al Kheir a Saqlawiyah Jadraniyah, at Basil Jadaan’s studfarm outside Damascus.
السمن من السمون من المنشأ من ضنا عربان من الخرصة من ضنا ماجد من الفدعان وهو صاحب مربط صقلاويات السمنيات )
The palace of Prince Yusuf Kamal in Qina, Upper Egypt. Built in 1908 in the Neo-Mamluk style. Prince Yusuf was the son of Prince Ahmed Kamal but did not share his father’s interest in Arabian horses. His archives survive in a museum in Coptic Cairo.
Piotr Grzywnowicz posted these two gorgeous photos of the desert-bred stallion Kuhailan Haifi on his Facebook page. What an intelligent look in his eyes. I wish the beautiful halter has survived.
وقد سمعت القصة نفسها عن لسان تاجر الخيل والخبيرالحلبي عبد القادر الحمامي رحمه الله سنة ١٩٩٣
الفحل “الاشهب” المعروف بكروش الناعم ابن حمداني الدعبو ابن دهمان عامرمن خيل عجيل الياور مواليد عام 1988 توليد اسعد سليمان الحسن قرية عكرشة صاحب ام كروش وملك عبود عواد المضحي قرية الناعم امه كروش البيضا لونها ادهم مالكها اسعد سليمان الحسن ابوها المعنقي الحدرجي حصان ظاهر العفيتان لونه أصدأ وامها كروش صاحبها سليمان الحسن ابوها كروش وامها كروش من مربط مطلق عبد الكريم اللهبا من قرية الباردة
كروش البيضا سلالة عريقة ترجع كحيلة العاجوز . اشتُهرتْ في نجد عند الدويش شيخ قبيلة مطير وعند ابن رشيد حاكم حائل انذاك وتحظى هذه السلالة بتقدير عالي عند البدو وقيل فيها الكثير من الأشعار. أمّا تاريخ هذه السلالة في نجد وشبه جزيرة العرب فهو معلوم وما يَهمّنا هو كروش في الجزيرة السورية ذكر الشيخ هاشم حمود الجربا أنّه بعد اعدام صفوگ الجربا 1847 م وابنه عبدالكريم صفوگ الجربا 1871 زمن الدولة العثمانية فرّت عمشة الحسين زوجة صفوگ بابنائها واحفادها وكانوا صغاراً أكبرهم فارس الصفوگ وقضوا بضعة سنين في حائل بضيافة ابن رشيد وعند عودتهم الى الجزيرة السورية أهداه ابن رشيد فرس من رسن كحيلة كروش البيضا وهذه الفرس أنسلت وتكاثرت عند ابناء فارس واحفاده وبالأخص عند علي العبدالرزاق ومنه انتقلت الى العبدالمحسن والعبدالكريم لأنه لم يكن له ذريّة من الذكورأمّا خيل العبدالمحسن أو ما يُعرف بكروشات العبدالمحسن فقام عليهن عيادة الگُرطة بعد انتقالهم من الريف الى المدينة وفي تسجيل منظمة الواهو تم قبول الخيل باسم عيادة الگُرطة وفي عام 1982 تُوفّي النوري الجربا وفي مجلس العزاء لمحَ جدوع السعدي مُهرة كروش دهماء فطلبها من راكان النوري فأعطاها إيّاه وبعد عِدّة سنوات أرسل راكان النوري الى جدوع السعدي فأخذَ مُهرة وبيعت ثلاث افراس إلى الداخل الأولى لقبها العرجة ذائعة الصيت وهي…
The source is a British handbook on the Turkish army from 1916. Note “Liva”, Egyptian Lewa, Major-General.
PJ Altshuler and Marwan Abu Suud received this precious gift from the Bahrain Royal Stud. He is currently the only Bahraini stallion alive in the USA. I s The earliest known source of information on the strain of Kuhailaan Al-Adiyat Hashal is Judith Forbis’s article “Pearls of Great Price” as it appeared in a 1971 issue of the Arabian Horse World (AHW) magazine, republished in her book “Authentic Arabian Bloodstock” (1990). Judith Forbis visited the studs of the ruling family of Bahrain in March 1970 and mentioned the following: “Kuheilah Al Adiati is another strain rarely heard of before, but deriving from the Kuheilah family. She came from Saudi Arabia, and was presented to Sheikh Hamad when he was a prince, together with a letter of presentation from the offering Sheikh of Al Ajman: “I send to you this mare which fulfills Al Adiat […] When Sheikh Hamad saw her racing and found her exceedingly swift, he happily declaired: “Truly she is of Al Adiat” The strain is evidently a branch of the Kuhaylan family, and appears to have come to Bahrain in the period between 1923 and 1932, the period when Shaykh Hamad bin ‘Isa Aal Khalifah was deputy…
حدثنا محمد معصوم العاقوب من شيوخ حرب طي قال الربدا كحيلة عجوز والربداء من أسماء النعامة وتميّزت بهذا الاسم لأنها طَرحتْ ذَكر النعام والنعامة معروفة بسرعته في عام 1810-1815 للميلاد غزتْ قبيلة اعنزا باشات الاكراد مرتين في منطقة قورانشار شمالي بلدة رأس العين السورية في المرّة الأولى استطاع الباشا صد اعنزا وكان اسمه عَبْدي الكَلَشْ وغَنِمَ من اعنزا مجموعة من الخيل والابل وأسير يُقال له في لهجة البدو (( گضيب)) في هذه الاثناء كانت قبيلة حرب في هذه المنطقة لأنها وفيرة بالماء والمرعى وتربط شيخهم جميل الدرويش علاقات قوية مع الاكراد ويلقّبونه جَمّو حسب لهجتهم كان جميل يُحسن الى الاسير الاعنزي ويعامله معاملة جيدة فقال له خُذ تلك المهرة فإن الاكراد لا يعرفون قيمتها فأرسل الشيخ أبنه الصغير خليوي لطلبها من الباشا فأعطاها له وأخبرهم الاعنزي بأنّ هذه المهرة ربدا خشيبي من خيل ابن هذال وأنها من أرفع الخيل عندهم ومنذ ذلك الحين والخيل الربد مع حرب الى يومنا هذا شاركتهم كُل تفاصيل حياتهم وانتقلت معهم الى منطقة القامشلي بعد حدوث خلاف مع الباشا ودخلت حرب ضمن حلف طي في منطقة القامشلي وكان لها مواقف كثيرة معهم لا يتسع المجال لذكرها فأعزوها كثيراً واذكر أنّ عمي عبدالرزاق يحدثني عن فرسهم الربدا بأنهم كانوا في الربيع في بيت الشعر تأتي الفرس…
طيرة ترد للمرازيق مباشرةً ابوها كحيلان الواطي الازرق الحديدي ملك دياب السبيه الشمري وولادة حاكم الحصيني الغشم الشمري، مبارك حمداني سمري توليد عبد العيادة الدرعان ابن غراب فيصير صايل اخو طاحوس Sayil, a Saqlawi Marzaqani of the breeding of Basil Jadaan, by Mubarak out of Tairah. Tairah traces directly to the horses of the Maraziq; her sire was the iron grey Kuhaylan al-Wati (b. ca. 1970) of Diab Sbeih of the Shammar, gifted to him by Hakim al-Ghishm also of the Shammar. Mubarak (b. 1987) was a Hamdani Simri of the breeding of ‘Abd al-Iyadah al-Dar’aan Ibn Ghurab. This makes Sayil the brother of Tahus, a major desert stallion registered in the second wave of the Syrian Studbook, Volume VII.
الصورة تقديم ابو فارس باسل جدعان
To the left, the late Wegdan (Dani) El Berbary. In the middle, my father, General Salim Al-Dahdah. To the right, Basil Jadaan. Lower right, Rosemary Doyle. Photo by the late Hansi Heck-Melnyk, in Karsten Scherling’s archives.
She really does look good and I am very pleased with her. Yasser tells me she has really fine skin and many of the personality traits of the desert horses. She may be barren this year. If so, we will try a breeding to one of the Bahraini stallions at the EAO, either the Jallabi or the other one.
Yasser Ghanem took that screenshot from the virtual AK Convention yesterday. It’s nice to see all the friendly faces on the same screen: Yasser, and Jeanne and Basil and Monica and Moira and Jeannie and Edie and Bev and Kim and PJ and Joe and Rosemary and Kate and all the others.
اتوجه بالشكر والتقدير الى الصديق باسل جدعان على سعيه باستضافتي في الحلقة السابعة من برنامج مساء الخيل الذي بمحاورة الدكتور محمد مشموم وتقديم السيد سعيد سامي
الفحل فواز كحيلان كروش من عيد وست الكل ملك صالح خدام السروجي الصورة في مزرعته من تصويري سنة ١٩٩٢