Bahir, Hamdani Simri stallion in Canada
The other day I was writing about looking for an outstanding stallion for my herd of mares. The next day Lee Oellirich sent this photo of his young Hamdani stallion Bahir (Haziz x Bahiyeh). He is the full brother of this mare. I like the heads with the protruding bones, the nostrils and the ears and the eyes, and I like the high withers.
The breeding of this nice horse is exactly such example of my last post re Skrownek about breeding in general. In order to preserv it this type of breeding is paralysed in a “stagnation of origin” formula stated in Al Kamsa charter ; arabian horses are not for museum purpose. Robert MAUVY called some type of horse in regards of breeding (not especially like BAHIR as we don’t know how it will produce and perhaps excellently or not…depends of the geni-genetic but stallion produced by such kind of breeding) “étalon en bout de lignée” it is necessary to know that he made allusion to the nice MOULOUKI and also other nice stallions of his own breeding!… reason why it is necessary to refresh with middle east arabian stallions. Without such possibility your choice to use BAHIR is the best and personaly I will not hesitate.
I personally agree with you Arnault about the concept of “bout de lignee”. I can translated as “the end of the rope”. In other words, such a horsedisplays all the characteristics of a real desert bred horse, but is too far from the desert to be able to transmit them. This is why, this past year Al Khamsa has moved to accept in its Roster the Bahraini horses outside Bahrain.
Oh, that’s a handsome young horse, and a beautiful colour too.
Edouard: are these horses descended from the Saudi importation of the post ww 2 era? That would explain the particularly nice hindquarters. In fact the way Bahir is posed is remeniscent of the famous picture of Hamra as a 2 year old.
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Bruce Peek
Yes he is from these importations. I felt that his hindquarters were his weaker point: a tad too short, no?
Edouard: Have you had a chance to measure them? Often horses with a nice functional slope
to their hip will appear at first glance as having a shortish length of hip.
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Bruce Peek
I think the angle of the picture doesn’t do fair depiction of him. This hind quarter has very strong coupling with the back, good width between the hips, nice slope and round shape, and very good angle down to the hock. Not the biggest croup but I think this horse can run! And look at the wide flat back!
Couldn’t have said it better myself. His wonderful ,’ spring of rib,’ indicates enormous lung capacity which should further support his ability to cool off and in a distance riders parlance,’ pulse down,’ for the vet check. PLus he’s got hocks the size of freight trains,
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Bruce Peek
Gorgeous ! He is a horse i would like to ride 😉 good pick !