Hicham, famous part-bred Arabian race horse in Lebanon
I am happy to see a second photo of this horse. It appeared in a July 1968 article on the horses of Lebanon in the French magazines “Plaisirs Equestres”, which Christele Seranne shared on Facebook.
The horse is Hicham, a racehorse born in Iraq, who raced in Lebanon in the ownership of Henri Pharaon. He was a part-bred Arabian, with anywhere from 12.5% to 25% English Thoroughbred blood on the sire side. His dam was said to be a Ma’naqiyah Sbayliyah. He won many, many races, before the Lebanese government chose him to become a breeding stallion. Many breeders sent their asil mares to him, which contributed to the ruin of the Lebanese asil arabian horse breeding program. His get raced well too, and several of them became stud horses too.
Some of his get were exported to the USA, where they were registered in the AHA (and hence by WAHO).
Can his get who were registered in the U.S. be named? You can see the Thoroughbred genes in there causing his downhill build.
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Bruce Peek
Not under the name of Hicham in Datasource, anyway.
Did you try Hisham with an S? Some of the later Hindi imports. Another horse in the North East, you had sent me a screen shot looking for the name Khamis in Datasource.
Checked Hisham. He’s not there, either, unfortunately.
DataSource does have a Hisham entered under LBN*8, but he is grey, so it doesn’t seem to be the same horse. His only foal in DataSource is *Bint Safiya AHR*79733, a 1962 mare.
That is him. The color is a mistake. He stood at the government stud in the Biqaa valley, and was frequently used by the Hindi whose stud was nearby. My father co-owned several of his daughters at the Hindis.
Another of the later Hindi imports has the stallion Sarri in the pedigree. Sarri was the son of Hisham and an asil Saada Tuqan mare by the name of Rabab. Sarri was bred by the Hindis. Rabab had a long breeding career and was a foundation mare for the Hindis. She produced a great racehorse, Arkane, by Karawane (not the *Arkane of the Hearst importation, but the Karawane who sired *El Abiad). She also produced Qabaday and Sarri.
Sorry about that. I assumed that if the horse had one piece of information known about him (besides that it was a stallion), Datasource would not have had it (the color) wrong.