Danah Al Khalifa’s obituary by the Bahrain Kennel Club

It is with our deepest sadness that we inform you of the death of our beloved the founder of Bahrain Kennel club Mrs. Dana Sehested Preetzman on the 5th of July 2021.

Mrs. Dana Sehested is the widow of the late His Excellency Sheikh Isa bin Abdullah bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The late descendant of the Danish royal family was educated in Sweden and briefly attended the Stockholm Military Equestrian School there at a young age. After she studied in college in the USA, she met and married to the late Sheikh Isa whilst he completed his degree at University of Southern California in 1955. Dana was appointed the manager of the Bahrain Royal Equestrian Stables to maintain the Royal Bahraini horses. Dana was instrumental in registering horses with the World Organization for Arabian Horses (WAHO) and issued the first Stud Book which invited them to register horses in the kingdom. In 1974 she was Royally tasked with forming the FCI recognized Bahrain Kennel Club to register pure bred canines and she collaborated on the Saluki Book. She wrote two books Living treasures of Bahrain and the Arabian Saluki.

She died peacefully of natural causes in Jasra village and her body was buried in the Haniniya cemetery in Riffa.