Jamila and Mashora, two desert mares from Saudi to Austria

Jens Sannek has been kindly supplying me with a lot of new-to-me information about the horses of Gustl Eutermoser and Ulrike Marcik. He tells me that they were good friends of Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz Al Sa’ud, then governor of the Hail province, and that they imported two desert-bred Saudi mares through him from the National Guard in Riyadh, but that they could not register in Austria because of WAHO rules back then.

Jens tells that one was chestnut and the other grey. He told me that the chestnut mare, Jamila (a Saglawi x a Saglawia), born in 1967, broke her leg in January 1975. The grey mare was Mashora (a Hamdani x a Hamdania), born in 1962, died in 1978. Nothing is apparently left from either mare. He shared with me this photo of Mashora which had appeared in “Asil Araber” Vol. I 1977 Asil Club, Olm Presse Hildesheim New York, page 248. The pedigree from Mashora looks like she could have been an Anazah mare from Syria.