History repeating itself..
… poetically, as Pienaar Du Plessis put it to me. I am soo excited.. a 25 year old (yes!) dream of mine has come true, five generations later..
UPDATE: Less cryptically, Pienaar Du Plessis gave me the opportunity to realize a 25 year old dream of acquiring an asil mare from the Egyptian Kuhaylan Mimreh line. We had been looking for a mare from this line but without show blood, and he found this 21 year old grey beauty, which his family had owned years and years ago, MH Egyptian XTC, a couple hours down the road from his farm in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. She had been the owner’s daughter’s riding horse, and his daughter had gone to college. The mare is a problem breeder and has never had a foal. She is now at Pienaar’s Saruk’s Stud, with Mlolshaan Mutab, her future husband (top photo). The idea is to do embryo transfer at a clinic in George in the Western Cape.
She carries eight diverse lines to Morafic (3x through Ibn Moniet El Nefous, 2x through Ahir, 1x through Shaker El Masri in the tail male, 1x through Inas, 1x through The Egyptian Prince) and otherwise plenty of Nazeer all over the pedigree, but she has also close crosses to early non-Nazeer lines, like Gordonville Ziyadan (Zahir x Barakah), Nabilah (Enzahi x Zamzam) and Sahiby Bint Barakah (Tuwaisaan x Barakah), and a lot of Sameh in the back too (the Sameh blood acts like an antidote to Nazeer overdoses, and redeems many Egyptian lines, in my opinion). She also has a line to the Al Badeia Stud Om El Arab (Alaa El Din x Tifla) and I need to get to the bottom of the pile of rumors on that one, and fast.
The cross between the Bahraini Tuwaisaan stallion and the legendary Kuhaylat al-Mimrah mare Barakah (both of them in the bottom photo) is five generations back in her pedigree, and it is that cross that I would like to repeat today, with the Bahraini Mlolshaan stallion (top photo). This is what makes these risky undertakings so much fun.
Note how the very fine muzzle of Barakah (b. 1942) still shows five generations later.
Wonderful!! Keeping my fingers crossed.
I recognize the beauties in the photo below, but who are we looking at in the more recent photo? 🙂
Oh, whoopie!
All digits crossed for you.
Mlolshaan Mutab and a Kuhaylah Mimrah mare? Fingers crossed!
Hehe, surprise!
Ohhh how lovely! You have all three of the Orpen imports who bred on in that pedigree, Zahir, Nabilah, and Barakah, with Barakah in both halves, and the beautiful Inzam Saklabilah in the tail female of Shari-Silic Akbar, who was himself a very attractive horse. And, of course, the Sahiby breeding that saved Barakah’s asil line in South Africa. What a gorgeous pedigree!
My fingers are crossed for a beautiful foal for you. This is so exciting!
I see that the pedigree on Allbreed has her listed as a chestnut LOL
As for Nazeer, yes, plenty of it, but also not as much as I am used to seeing – only 17x crosses, across 8 different offspring, and with much more variation across the damlines than the sirelines.
But WOW. What a find! Best of luck to you and the people at George, and all digits crossed for a beautiful foal – a tail female Barakah filly by Mlolshaan Mutab sounds very lovely indeed.
Edouard, I so hope this project results in a foal for you! You’ve had such disappointments in trying to get a foal from these elder and sometimes maiden mares you are due for a win! Fingers crossed!
Wow, Edouard. Just wow. Mabrouk and best of luck.
Thank you!! How are you? I miss you.. come visit in Pretoria any time you want..