Hadba Enzahi at the Shaykh of the Shammar, 2017
She is perhaps the very last one from that strain left in the desert, and a distant relative to the Davenport Hadbans.
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A blog on desert arabian horses, past, present and future
She is perhaps the very last one from that strain left in the desert, and a distant relative to the Davenport Hadbans.
I know it sounds like wishful thinking but I feel there is some resemblance to the Davenport Hadban Enzahi in the rear quarters/legs of this mare. I am so happy she exists.
That is what I felt too, but I did not write it for the same reason you state — wishful thinking.
So that means that the Hadban Enzahi strain is in danger of dying out in the desert? That shocks me. May this mare produce many daughters to carry on her strain!
They have been rare and precious since the mid-1990s. In the late 1980s there was a good group of broomares with the Shaykh of the Shammar. Many either produced males only or were died. The Shammar Shaykhs are extremely attached to them and do not part with them anymore. They are their personal strain since 1840 at least (per the Abbas Pasha Manuscript, when Sfoug al-Jarba used one of them as a stallion). There is a reference on this site.
I had no idea they were so rare! This mare is very precious, then.
Does the Iraqi branch of the Shammar still has asils?
I couple years agoe that the shammar in Syria & Iraq meanwhile have grown into 2 separate branches that sometimes are even in conflict and that they have two sheiks. At least one with a big stud who was at the time creating an important shammar militia that was even active in the former jebel shammar in current S.A. I assume this is he?
Correct, that’s him. He is allied to the Syrian Kurds int he so called Rojava, gave his daughters in marriage to Massoud Barzani the leader of the Kurds in Iraq and is otherwise the number 2 or 3 in the de facto kurdish government in north eastern syria. That’s why his horses in the photo are in such good shape..
The syrian and iraqi shammars have been separated since the 1920s but with many continuing ties between them. Horses went back and forth.
I have no idea if the Iraqi Shammar still maintain asils. 15 years ago they did.
I think she shares more than hindquarters in my wishful thinking. Her head particularly reminds me of my RL Bilquis – Davenport Hadba Enzai. Uncanny the resemblance. Would be fascinating to know how far back the two tail female lines diverged.
ahe certainly is very beautiful and her coat so fine andthe color extrodinary…very nicemare …such finess and to think there are so few. sad really.