Two Polish mares descended from Sahara OA

Below are photos of Pomponia (Zagloba x Kadisza) and Salme (Kalif x Fatma). Both trace in the tail female to Juliusz Dzieduszycki’s imported Kuhaylah Moradiyah mare Sahara; Salme is actually the full sister to Pomponia’s dam. Pictures from Stefan Bojanowski’s Sylwetki koni orientalnych i ich hodowców. Pomponia produced three daughters, Bona, Dora, and Zulejma. Bona’s daughter Babolna, and Dora’s daughter Nora, were imported to the United States by J. M. Dickinson in 1935. Another of Dora’s daughters, Krucica, was the dam of Mammona, the Queen of Tersk; the pair made the long trek from Janów Podlaski to Tersk in 1939, when Mammona was a foal at her dam’s side. The eldest of Pomponia’s daughters, Zulejma, foaled in 1914, was by the imported desertbred stallion Kohejlan, also the sire of Gazella II and Mlecha. Among the handful of Polish horses who survived the First World War, Zulejma went to Janów Podlaski as a six-year-old, and produced a series of daughters, among them some of the last asil mares of old Polish breeding, such as Lassa (another of J. M. Dickinson’s imports, and the dam of Latif), Kahira (dam of the Polish racehorse Trypolis), and Dziwa (dam of Ofir). Fatma, the dam…