Ma’naghi horses are beautiful
This beautiful mare with big, black, femine eyes is Kokhle, the daughter of two desert-bred horses imported from the Syrian desert to the USA in 1906. Her sire, Hamrah is a Saqlawi al-‘Abd, and her dam, Farha, is a Ma’naghiyah Sbayliyah. I know I sound like a broken record, but who said Ma’naghis did not look like classical Arabian horses?
Unfortunately, Kokhle’s tail female no longer survives in asil Arabian horse breeding, but she does have a line in modern pedigrees through her son Kokhleson (by Ashmar), whose son Ralk (x Halloul) sired Ibn Ralf and Bint Ralf.
Indeed
She looks Arabic, but quite large.
Where, Syrian Arabs are often large.
Too bad that there is no Asil female line from her.
Is there evidence that Maneghiyes have Turkmen Horses blood in them?
Teymur.
She really wasn’t a big mare. Reba was a tiny little woman, and the angle makes the mare look even bigger. I am sending Edouard a very bad photo of Kokhle in old age under saddle, with another small woman on her, and you can see that she was probably around 14.3.
Well ther are a number of reasons why the Blunts and Raswan might have thought the Muniqis’ did not look ,’Typy,. Most of them are probably not valid in light of modern understandings of genomes work.
Best wishes Bruce Peek
Did the Blunts jointly think so? Wilfrid may have (e.g., “Wilfrid thinks some of the coarseness we have seen among the Sba’ah horses is attributable to the Managhis”, or something of this sort in LAB diaries, but I don’t recall reading that LAB thought so.
Remember, Jeroboam (Pharaoh x Jerboa), a Ma’naghi Sbayli was one of the first Crabbet bred stallions to be used at stud, and so were Ahmar and Astraled, both grandsons of a Ma’naghi stallion (Queen of Sheba’s sire). Also, the Ferida (another Sbayliyah) line was much appreciated at Crabbet. I wonder how the Sheykh Obeyd Stud would have looked like if Jeroboam had not perished at sea on his way to Egypt..