Dahhmany Bagdady!
I am very happy to have obtained the 2001 stallion Dahhmany Bagdady (two photos of him below, from a few years ago) on a permanent lease from his owner, through the good offices of his breeder Laszlo Kiraly. He arrived in France this past Friday, to Arnault Decroix’s stud farm, together with an older bay mare Laszlo also gave me. More on her later. I will share pictures of both soon.
Dahhmany Badgdady, born in 2001, is the only asil son of the 1977 Sweden-born stallion Wahhabit. He has at least three breeding age sons across Europe, in Hungary, Switzerland and Lithuania. His sire Wahhabit had the distinction of being the only asil son of the 1949 (!) Babolna stallion Siglavy Bagdady VI (photos below). Wahhabit’s dam was a Kuhaylan Krush from the line of the Davenport mare *Werdi.
Notice the resemblance between the grandson Dahhmany Bagdady (first photo on this page) and the grandfather Siglavy Bagdady VI (the photo just above). Siglavy Bagdady VI was the son of Siglavy Bagdady V (b. 1939), also a head stallion at Babolna, out of a daughter of Kuhaylan Haifi I (himself the son the famous desert-bred tallion Kuhaylan Haifi). Two photos SB V photos below, and one of Kuhaylan Haifi I right under them, followed by the iconic photo of Kuhaylan Haifi himself.
Look at that pedigree please. Kuhaylan Haifi (photo above), Kuhaylan Zaid (two photos below, bay) up close, then the original Siglavy Bagdady 1895 (one photo below, grey), the original O’bajan, and Mersuch, Gazlan, Jussuf, Koheilan IV, Koheilan Raschid, Bagdad, Mahmoud Mirza, Aghil Agha, Hadban, etc., etc. It’s dizzying.
The plan is to freeze him. A long shot at this age, but that’s not the first time I take risks like this one. I am crossing my fingers.
Wow! Congratulations! May your endeavor be fruitful!
ALL, ALL of my digits are crossed, and I am knocking on wood! I have so longed for this bloodline to continue. Thank you, the owner, and Lâszlo Kiraly for your efforts. May they be blessed.
Congratulations Edouard!! Jeanne is right. And. Sig Bag 6 was such an important stallion. He is in the tail male of a ton of really impressive Shagyas, as well as a lot of purebreds as well.. Thank the lord for the Cravers preservation of the Kruush(sp) lines in of course- asil form, as well as the asil Kuhaylan Haifis too.
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Bruce Peek
Wow, wow, wow!
As Jeanne said, “all digits crossed!” He is magnificent, not to mention the preservation aspect.
He’s a good-looking horse. The resemblance to Siglavy Bagdady VI is striking. May he freeze well!
Just had a thought– In light of the seize the grey ownership system could you please set up a .’ micro funding,’ plan so that we could contribute to a sort of a crowd funding method for freezing him and getting good bodied asil mares in foal to him?
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Bruce Peek
Tell me more how this would work. I haven’t done it before.
Much like a thoroughbred stallion syndicate. I haven’t done it either- but there have been many many breeding syndicates in the Thoroughbreds over the years formed when a horse is so valuable that very few individuals have the needed cash to pay for them. Secratariat comes to mind as an example. He was a magical blend in some ways combining the fabulous hindquarter angles of Bold Ruler with the distance and sporthorse staying power of Princequillo with a very good coupling, and easy to train good mindedness which seems to carry on down through several generations.
Similarly Dahhmany Bagdady blends in an irreplaceable combination of the Babolna asil breeding of Sig Bag 6 with now getting difficult to find Davenport Kruush horses.. And we see the proof of concept in Dahhmany Bagdadys’ conformation and movement.. According to a local Veterinarian office which does quite a bit of breeding using frozen in most cases you are lucky to get 35% motility from frozen. But i don’t think that alone is a reason not to try to preserve what is essentially the best arabian breeding available outside of the cradle countries.
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Bruce Peek
Congratulations! What a nice ridden (!) stallion. I also keep my fingers crossed for a positive outcome. No wonder it was one of Babolna’s lines (Stamm) to breed and also use for the Shagya Arabians. It split up from Siglavy Bagdady V into Siglavy Bagdady VI (Asil Arabian) and Siglavy Bagdady (Shagya Arabian). Wonderful to study in Dr. Walter Hecker’s book about Babolna and its Arabian horses….:)
So, something like a 501c3- suitable controls and accountability could be written up along with a goals statement about preserving rare asil lines that are getting rarer and rarer these days. I have in mind mostly small contributions from tons of people to help cover the inevitable costs of the expected extensive veterinary procedures..
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Bruce Peek
Fantastic! Congratulations!