Kamarie Bint Yosreia and Kamarie Marikah, two Rosina-line mares, at Nabilah Arabians

Eugene Geyser of the Nabilah Arabian Stud has recently acquired the Rosina tail female mare Kamarie Bint Yosreia and her daughter Kamarie Marikah, bred by Mel Mutafis. He writes: “We are so grateful and pleased to add these lines to our preservation breeding program. These bloodlines add to our existing Nabilah lines with Nabilah and Baraka dam lines both imported from Egypt during 1945.”

In the video below the dark bay is Kamarie Bint Yosreia, and the red bay Marikah.

Video courtesy of Eugene Geyser.

Rosina was bred by H. V. Musgrave Clark of the Courthouse Stud, and was a product of Blunt Crabbet ancestry combined with two of Musgrave Clark’s desertbred stallions, Nimr and Atesh. Her descendants in southern Africa are the remaining source of both these stallions in asil horses, as well as the Crabbet mares Safarjal (dam of the stallion Sainfoin, who has a racing record in addition to being the sire of Bahram, the 1954 British Supreme Male Champion) and Belka.

A 1950 brochure for the Crabbet Arabian Stud recounts Belka’s accomplishments (p. 31): “By the same sire as Champion Nureddin and ‘Crabbet,’ won the English 250 miles race carrying 13 1/2 stone, in 1921, outdistancing the winner of two 300-mile races by some hours. She beat the same horses in a mile race by some twenty lengths, and 5,000 guineas was refused by her owner, from Mr. S. Hough, owner of Shahzada, the runner-up, a horse of exceptional endurance and soundness and descended (on his dam’s side) from the Crabbet-bred horse Ben Azrek, by Azrek, out of Shemseh.”

The Nabilah Stud has historically focused on Straight Egyptians, and has produced a number of endurance horses. Stallion Nabilah Fayem is the sire of Steyl 403, the winner of the Fauresmith endurance ride in 2023 and 2024; the ride is 206 km long, and is held over three days.