*Haleb, Code Red
It just occurred to me, much to my surprise, that we are about to lose any lines to the great *Haleb in Al Khamsa horses.
Follow the genealogy, as you look at his Al Khamsa progeny, here, while noting that anything from his daughter Saleefy does not actually trace to *Haleb, because of the mare switch in California.
From his second daughter Meleky, all that’s left is my 5 year old Mayassa Al Arab, and the 23 year old Nuri Al Krush, which I am in the process of leasing.
From his third and last eligible daughter Rhua, the line to *Haleb flows through Alcazar. Here all that’s left is:
- the handful Hamdani Simri horses, tail female Selma, through Koreish, most of them at the Detweilers in PA, with an older mare in Georgia (Jadah Selma) and another in the midwest (Faserras Star);
- the handful horses tracing to LD Rubic, most of them in PA (two with me, five or six with Monica Respet), the 27 year old Salil Ibn Iliad in South Carolina and his two daughters there with Pam Baker.
- Samiras Adlaya now in Arizona, who is rare in so many ways
- The stallion Le Coquin and his daughter out of Snow Princess LD.
That’s less than fifteen horses, for one of the most famous horses ever imported to America. Of course, there is the Bint Ralf group too, which is likely (but not certainly) tracing to him because of another possible mare switch, but these are not more than 5 horses either. Bottom line: *Haleb is Code Red and urgently so.
Are any of these horses not currently in preservation homes?
I was looking at the Meleky horses, and I had thought that BRW Tatianna was in a preservation home. Did something happen to her? (Also, what is going on with SS Night Breeze?)
BRW Tatianna was indeed in a preservation home last I check, but I don’t know what came out it.
I am unlikely to do much more breeding, which means the Bint Ralf mares ADA Recapitulation and ADA Lionne are available to preservation-minded breeders. There’s also frozen semen from the late Palisades CF.
I was revisiting the Davenport breeding groups, and looking at the Bint Ralf group. It occurred to me that this could also extend to the potentially still extant Ibn Ralf descendants through his two granddaughters that were out of his daughter, Cotton Candy:
2001 gm RV Milagra (Jasur Al Amin x LR Cecilia)
2002 bm Jadah Selma (Paul Maud Dib x LR Jane)
2005 km Jadah Kahmillah (Jadah Sharuuq x LR Jane)
I know they’re not Straight Davenport, and not useful to the Bint Ralf group, but, still Al Khamsa!