Musa al-Sayyid: connecting Blunt to Davenport to Bistany

This is the third time I come across the name of this Damascene horse owner in primary sources about horses exported to the West. He amazingly connects together three Western horse figures: Wilfrid Blunt (concerning Saladin), Homer Davenport (concerning *Simri), and Khalil Bistany (concerning *Al-Mashoor). Check this out:

From Lady Anne’s Journals and Correspondence, October 6, 1911 

 “Fauzan brought to Mutlak who brought it to me the answer from his Damascus friend Said Abu Dahab about the horse (Mr. Learrmouth’s purchase then nearly two years ago). It was bred in the village of Jerud (near Damascus) and bought from [the] Juardly [ie, a man of Jerud] who bred it by Musa el Seyyid, they telling him it was Hamdani — no mention of Simri. That was what had been ascertained. A quite different story to that of the “pure as milk on a dark night” pedigree.”  

From the hujjah of *Al-Mashoor:

And the sire of that horse is the Hamdani Semri of the well-known Musa al-Sayyid Abu Hamdi from the neighborhood of al-Midan Bab Musalla”

From the hujjah of the Davenport import *Simri, purchased in Damascus:

His sire is Kuhaylan al-‘Ajuz, of the horses of Sa’id Agha [hard to read, most probably al-Daquri, if so that would be significant], he passed from him to Musa al-Sayyid of the noted people of al-Midan .

Note the triple connection to the Hamdani Simri strain: Saladin, *Simri and *Al-Mashoor were all said to be from this strain.