Barely Surviving Lines: Hamdani Simri from Najd tracing to *Samirah through Koweyt
In 1931, Chicago businessman Albert Harris imported four desert-bred mares from Arabian ruler Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud with help from the Lebanese poet Amin Rihani. The mares were obtained through Mohammad Eid al-Rawwaf, Consul of the Sultanate of Najd and Hijaz in Damascus (this Sultanate would take the name of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the following year, in 1932).
Thee of the four mares left asil descendants here in the USA, and two of these have tail female descendants: *Nufoud and *Samirah. *Nufoud’s descendants, which include some of my favorite horses here in the USA (that is, LD Rubic and Belladonna CHF) were already featured in an entry sometime last year. Let us talk about *Samirah’s here.
Two of her daughters left asil progeny: Koweyt by Alcazar, and Kerasun by *Sunshine, the latter being *Nufoud’s son, imported to the USA in utero. The mare Koweyt produced a daughter, Konight, by the Kuhaylan al-‘Ajuz stallion Kaniht (Katar x Niht). Kaniht in turn produced the mare Amira Moda, by a Kuhaylan al-‘Ajuz from another line: Fa-Turf (*Fadl x *Turfa). According to the Al Khamsa Roster, there are only three asil mares left from this branch of the *Samirah’s family, all in their mid-twenties and none of them of with recorded asil progeny.
There is a little glimmer of hope remaning for the second line to Samirah, through her other daughter Kerasun..
I know where this story is going 🙂 so I’m going to request that you allow me to copy this thread to the rare strains site (with appropriate credit) when you are through talking about this dam line.
btw there is also a horse of this line that is an example of the Datasource not always being accurate even for AK horses. Both parents are AK, but the foal is not.
Anne, please let us know of any problems you find. Al Khamsa marks the horses in DataSource several times a year, rather than letting AHA do it automatically. That means there is a lag time, but we are more in control of the use of our tag.
ok Anne.. I have read your page on *Samirah.. so stay tuned.
Such intriuge, I can’t wait
Samirahs Adlayah was not identified as AK when I was looking for updates. I don’t know when she was actually registered. It could easily have been shortly after the last update.
There were a LOT of horses that were not identified as AK in the older horses. None of them had living AK descendents so I attributed their lack of AK status to that. I followed their descendents to the point that they had been bred to a clearly ‘not AK’ stallion or had no female descendents (since I was researching dam lines).
Tim, I don’t want to spoil the suspence for you 😉
At this point, Al Khamsa Roster horses are marked: those that have living descendants within Al Khamsa. Sara Jones has been working for years to try to complete the database of everything that ever was Al Khamsa eligible. Sara is a dedicated and hard working woman, and she will get it done, but it is an enormous job and so don’t hold your breath!