Manua, a desertbred ‘Ubayyah Sharrakiyah, in Russia
Manua was bought in Homs by Prince Shcherbatov in 1900, on the second trip that he and Count Stroganov made to Syria, but went to Stroganov’s stud in Russia, rather than Shcherbatov’s. Her sire was a Hadban Enzahi; her dam was from the Sba’ah and sired by a Kuhaylan al-Ajuz horse.
From Abeyan sherrak strain. Bay mare imported. Born in 1891 at Hajji Mohammed Khudur, mugkhtar of Babaa Amur village, near Homsa. Sire bay stallion from Khadban Yenzekkhi strain, born at Gomussa’s Bedouin (of Sebaa Anaze) and was sold by the said Bedouin to Fellakh Ibrahim Aga from Ashaee tribe in northern Syria. Dam – bay mare from Abeyan Sherrak strain, purchased by Hajji Mohammed Khudur in 1882 from Bedouin Uakhadj Ibn-Suan from Moadja tribe (of Sebaa Anaze); its sire was from Kekhaylan Adjus strain. Purchased personally by Prince A.G.Scherbatov in Homsa city in 1900 from Hajji Mohammed Khudur and imported to Russia.
While in Arabia, she foaled twice. 1900 covered by grey stallion from Dagkhman Umm-Amr strain in Homsa. The stallion was born in Bedouin tribe Gomussa (of Sebaa Anaze) and bought from them by Ibn-Faras, who lived in Homsa.
Stud Book of Arabian horses with their pedigrees present in Russia
In Russia, Manua produced a grey filly by Stroganov’s ‘Ubayyan stallion Sharrak. The foal that she was carrying in utero at the time of her import was a bay filly.
Photo from the History of Russia in Photographs.
Beautiful mare, true to type. Baba Amr is of course the suburb of Homs that was totally destroyed during the Syrian civil war. In 1900, it was a village on the fringes of the desert, where peasants and Bedouins interacted symbiotically. No wonder it had good mares.
Oh, that is so horrible to hear. The civil war has really taken a terrible toll on the people of Syria.