Rare Kuhaylah mare find in France
Severine Vesco and Amelie Blackwell, wearing their treasure hunter hats, found this gem of a mare somewhere in rural Southern France.
Lannilis, the mare, is a 20 year old Kuhaylah Nawwaqiyah, of Tunisian, Algerian, and old, pure French bloodlines. She had a career as a trail riding horse, and is now being used to produce endurance Arabians and Araloosas.
This mare traces to one of the lesser known Algerian (Tiaret) tail females, that of the mare Mzeirib, a 1891 desert-bred Kuhaylah Nawwaqiyah from the Shammar. The French imported Mzeirib to Algeria in 1898. The line went to the state stud of Tunisia at some point in the 1920s, then to private hands in France in the 1970s. In France it bred on with crosses to pure Arabian stallions of old Tunisian lines, including some of Robert Mauvy’s breeding. It is the same female line as that of the Tunisian stallion Omran that went to that zoo in Germany.
The short back, the deep girth, the high withers, the long hip on this mare are somehow reminiscent of early Crabbet Blunt horses.
How fantastic! She looks a lovely mare, and the foal is adorable. I do like the length of her hip – I bet she had a good turn of foot on the trail.
Wonderful! But more wonderful would be if she can be obtained for the asil community in France!!!
So very much hoping for Al Nawwakiyat replacements in the future <3
How remarkable. I really do like her a lot. Are any of her endurance Arabian get asil, or is that a future project for French preservationists?
How about the foal at foot… Is he perchance Asil?.. Think how much this mares contribution to the overly refined modern day western arabs could improve them..
What about forming a syndicate folks.. Just something to ponder..
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Bruce Peek
Now, she has no asil offspring. But her owner didn’t know his mare was asil, and didn’t know what is an asil arabian horse. She was inseminated by an asil stallion the last few days
Very good news…
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Bruce Peek
Severine, fabulous! Fingers crossed that she checks into foal with flying colors!
What Moira said! Hoping for the best.