New filly this morning!
This morning Barakah delivered a strong, healthy filly by Monologue CF. Mother and baby are doing well. I feel so blessed, and I pray things continue to go well. The vet is coming this afternoon for an IgG blood test and plasma transfusion.
This filly is special because she is the first third-generation foal from my breeding, after her dam Barakah Al Arab (b. 2016) and her maternal grandsire Wadd Al Arab (b. 2011). Wadd was the son of my first mare in the USA, Wisteria CF.
She is also the outcome of a sustained effort to preserve the rare female line to *Nufoud, Albert Harris’ imported desert-bred mare. This effort is one of the many bright spots in the preservation campaign Al Khamsa launched in 2010, around the AK Preservation Task Force. This filly is the the third one I have bred from that strain in eight years. I also retain her dam and her dam’s half-sister.
*Nufoud was named after the Great Nafud sand desert of Central Arabia, so it’s only fitting that her eighth-generation descendant in the female line be named Badiah. Badiah in Arabic means both “nomads” as a collective (a synonym for bedu, the Bedouin, in the same root), and the “place of the nomads”, i.e, the desert. Badiah Al Arab, welcome to this world.
I see that “Badia” keeps the B-naming scheme in the damline, too 🙂
You KNOW I’m so excited about this. Huge congratulations! And welcome to the world, little Badia Al Arab.
I am going Crabbet style with one letter for each dam line. I know you are as excited as a I am. Thank you. Hoping for a filly your side too.
Wonderful news! A much needed *Nufoud tf filly and the great accomplishment of a 3rd generation Al Arab foal. Congratulations!
Thank you! You are perhaps one of the few people in the world to appreciate the value of a Sharp pedigree in the same way as I do. Carol Lyons has been on my mind all day, as I was telling Jeanne.
Congratulations! It is a beautiful and fitting name.
Revisiting this, and the *Nufoud damline:
5 living mares
2002 GM Jadah BellOfTheBall (Invictus Al Krush x Belladonna CHF)
2013 BM Niinah Nufoud (AEP Kamar x AB Dafinah)
2016 GM Barakah Al Arab (Wadd Al Arab x Jadah BellOfTheBall)
2021 GM Bassma Al Arab (Jamr Al Arab x Jadah BellOfTheBall)
2024 _M Badiah Al Arab (Monologue CF x Barakah Al Arab)
2 living stallions, to my knowledge
2006 CS AB Razeel (HHA Manabi x LD Rubic)
2023 BS Landrace Belisarius (Jamr Al Arab x Jadah BellOfTheBall)
She will turn grey.. unfortunately. Sue found three grey hairs under the eye.
Also AEP Kamar at Monica’s is from this strain. The rest are I think gone.
Oh, shoot, I did overlook AEP Kamar. (Sorry, Monica!) Thank you. I know the Frosch stallions were either gelded or are missing, likewise Jadah Abu Nufoud; he’s presumed deceased from what I remember.
Congratulations! Do you have any pictures of her yet?
only very poor ones
Congratulations on this fabulous new life in a wonderful family! Can’t wait to meet her!!
Thank you!!
Brilliant news! I am so happy for you!