*Hamrah
I just noticed something while clicking through Al Khamsa’s online Roster. Of course, it may be a no-brainer to many of you: the stallion *Hamrah, a Saqlawi al-Abd imported by Homer Davenport to the USA in 1906, is the maternal grand-sire of at least five of the most influential Early American Foundation Arabian horses in the USA: Tripoli (dam Poka by *Hamrah); Dhareb and Antez (dam Moliah by *Hamrah); Hanad (dam Sankirah by *Hamrah) and Akil (dam Sedjur by *Hamrah). Wow. What a horse.
And 3 of which are tail-female to the great *Waddudat, and the 4th tail-female to *Urfah. 😀
AW who loves those *Hamrah/Waddudas among today’s Davenports.
Where is the dished
This man has Dynasty
Well, apparently I need to up my Iodine intake. 🙂
That should be 4 out of 5 tail-female to the great *Wadduda, and the remainder (Tripoli) to the mare without price, *Urfah.
Yes, *Hamrah was maternal grandsire of Dhareb, Antez, Hanad, Akil, and Tripoli, but also of Mustakim, Stambul, Oriental, Adounad, Kasar, Salan, Caravan, Najur, Kokhleson, Feyd, and Ralf. (Plus another 20 lesser known early sires.)
If that’s so, then most Arabians in the USA must trace to him at least once. Funny that there is no tail male left.
Dr. Ameen Zaher did a study which found that *Hamrah had the highest relationship to the breed in U.S.A. of any stallion for the period 1907 to 1946.
We ran pedigrees on samples of horses in a few of the stud books back in the 1970s and 1980s, and determined that between 88% and 90% of Arabians in the U.S.A. traced to Davenport blood, which means they probably trace to *Hamrah too (it’s hard to find Davenport ancestry without *Hamrah).
A thin *Hamrah male line was maintained by Betty Baker through Ibn Wazir (foaled 1956) and his son Wazirs Azab (foaled 1971). Wazirs Azab had a son born in 1983 (Azabs Jem) and two more in 1985 (Azabs Jody and Azabs Fancy Man), but the line is believed to be extinct today.
*Hamrah sired 34 fillies but only 19 colts. Only three of his colts sired purebred foals. Jeremah left a daughter, but both Ziki and Kilham founded sire lines, even though the sire lines are extinct today.
The breeding herds sold from Hingham Stock Farm tended to be heavy on *Hamrah daughters and correspondingly light on *Hamrah sons. For example, F.E. Lewis bought six *Hamrah daughters: Hasiker, Tamarinsk, Moliah, Sedjur, Kosair, and Adouba (along with one daughter each of *Obeyran, *Haleb, and *Kusof). The stallions Lewis bought to breed to these mares did not trace to *Hamrah. They were Harara (*Deyr x *Haffia) and Letan (*Muson x *Jedah). This is a logical way to set up a breeding herd. That Lewis ended up with a *Hamrah son at all was by chance, because Ziki (*Hamrah x Samit) was an in utero purchase.
The Clarke mare band was equally heavy on *Hamrah daughters. There were four: Arak, Fasal, Amham, and Sotamm, along with one daughter each of *Gomusa and Letan. The Clarke stallions were *Deyr, Jeremah, Jadaan, Mizuel, and Ben Hur. Of these stallions, Jeremah was a *Hamrah son, and Mizuel was out of a *Hamrah daughter. The others were “non-*Hamrah.”
Jeremah sired one 1927 foal at the Kellogg Ranch, Zoba, out of Hasiker, a breeding planned by Carl Raswan. The Kellogg Ranch leased him out in 1927 and he died four years later, apparently without ever returning to Kellogg’s.
The central part of the Hingham breeding herd, including *Hamrah himself, was sold to the Winants in 1921. But the Winants bred very few foals before selling most of the horses, and although *Hamrah sired a few more fillies, he never sired another colt.
One more thing: Wazir was not the only son of Asil (by Nazeroux by Kilham by *Hamrah) to establish a sire line. Asil’s son Ybarra left a male line that flourished, if briefly, and Asil’s son Khatil sired 10 foals.
I would suggest wording it, he never sired another “registered” colt–we can’t know what was lost to the breed in the Winant period through lack of registration.
Too, we have learned from connections of his last owner that *Hamrah ended his days in Northern California, without his registration’s being transferred, and sired a few half-Arabs from local mares. I was able to scan pictures of two or three of them, one of which was a colt.
As to the registered sire line, Azabs Jody was known to be dead when I was in touch with a friend of Betty Baker’s in the 1990s. The last representative, Azabs Fancy Man, is not known to have died, but he and his owner were of unknown location at that time.
How can we trace Azabs Fancy Man now? Is he registered? if yes, then we can probably make an effort to find more about his last owner’s whereabouts.
Oh, I just realized that there are at least two crosses to Naseem and one more to Saada. Not interested anymore.
In case anyone else is interested, Azabs Fancy Man is registered (AHR 347058), but in 24 years he has never been transferred out of the name of his breeder (Betty J. Baker).
In your quest to follow back to Hanad, just a thought;
What would this line do?
If you look at RA Honor,through his “Douban” line; Hanad is there…although I understand, in one instance there too is Naseem.
I know he is still standing here in NH.