El Sud El Aaly – 1957 Egyptian stallion in Morocco.
Two rare photos of Egyptian stallion El Sud El Aaly (Nazeer x Lateefa), born in 1957 at the Egyptian Agricultural Organization and gifted to the King Mohamed V of Morocco in 1960. Original post from the Facebook group Straight Egyptian Arabian horses in Morocco through Sheila Cone and Olivier Wibihal. A full brother to Hansi’s Serenity Ibn Nazeer (aka Lateef).
This Horse and Horoun has been in Spain,yeguada Mazarracin(Toledo)for breeding,they let Many golden Cross there,still you can find in Spain this line
Sorry,Haroun
I knew some sons and daughters of both two stallions,I remember specially, El Birzal, Champion in indurance.yeguada Mazarracin not exist any more
Birzal,is his mame,usually many we call him el birzal
The pure spanish arabian stallion Motamid went to Morocco in exchange for breeding
Yeah but his neck appears to be better than Nazeers. Morafic may have had a better neck- can’t tell because of retouched photos- but a horizontal line from his point of hip comes just BELOW the widest point of his neck as it beds to his shoulder unheard of! I recall Hansi saying onetime in an interview that you had to watch out for a low set neck in some of the Nazeers. She certainly did and bred the horses to prove it.
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Bruce Peek
His blood is still alive among some of the Moroccan Asil lines imported back to France but very rare (many have been out crossed to non Asil sadly). It would be a shame to lose his blood for Asil bloodlines, he was so beautiful and correct. Very good performers in Endurance also in France. Beauty, performance but we may loose them anyhow… 🙁
I like him very much, and hope something can be saved in asil breeding in Europe. We are losing too much.
He is indeed very reminiscent of Nasr in one of Raswan’s photos, and of Mahroussa. He gets that look from his paternal grandsire Gamil III, who was 100% Mohamed Ali breeding.
These photo are from the private collection of photos taken by James M. Kline on one of his trips to Egypt. The original prints of snapshots have his handwriting on the back labeling the horse as El Sud El Aaly, however, a miss identification is suspect here as El Sud El Aaly shows as a chestnut in other published information about the stallion.
thanks for providing the true info about the source.
Are we unsure that he wasn’t merely born a chestnut and later greyed? I don’t believe I have a stud book that features El Sud El Aaly to check for myself but I’ll check my collection just to be sure.
Especially since the RAS stud book says Nazeer was a chestnut who greyed. It wouldn’t be surprising for a foal of his to be chestnut and later grey out.
I’ve looked at many Egyptian horses of both private studs as well as during the era of the RAS + early days of the EAO & see horses we know are grey registered as bay, chestnut, and rarely black. On occasion, there are foal photos that corroborate their Egyptian birth colour registration.
Likewise the studbooks of these eras frequently show horses registered as the colour at birth. Though, this is tricky. Some horses are simply grey, some are their birth colour, and some are noted to have both birth colour + later greying as an adult.
As an example: Sanaaa is a bay in Egypt and a grey in the USA. This is true for both American & Egyptian stud books + database entries. Her mother Yashmak was a bay & her father Sid Abouhom was a grey (going off of information looking at his foals I suspect he was heterozygous agouti/extension/grey or Ee/Aa/Gg). There is a famous photo of a young Sanaaa prior to importation being held in-hand by Nasr Marei that shows her in the early stages of greying while also appearing to have points (likely bay).
I don’t have an exact day but by the 1990s/early 2000s we see more unanimous “adult colour” as the registered colour for Egyptian horses in the database.
Was this the horse that Bill and Edna Weeks tried to import? My memory is fuzzy, but wouldn’t that have been cool!
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