Tag: Ibn Ghiyam

The late Danah Al Khalifah wrote in Volume 1 of the Amiri Arabian Studbook of Bahrain that “the breeding program at Danah Farm is centered around the foundation mare SITAH, ‘Hamdaniah Feisul’ and her offspring. Sitah’s history is documented from the time she was acquired as a two year old filly in 1964, at the Najd encampment of Emir Abdulla bin Saud. It was stated by the caretaker of the horse herd that Sitah was bred by Crown Prince Feisal bin Abdul Aziz, and was out of a Hamdaniah Ghiam mare of the horses of Al Saud, and by a stud stallion Saqlawy El Njemy from the horses of Al Rasheed.”   Similarly, Judith Forbis wrote in her 1971 Arabian Horse World article (excerpt below) on the Bahraini horses that “We stopped to see SITAH, her [i.e., Danah] exquisitely refined white desert bred mare of the Hamdaniyah Ghiam strain. Sired by a Saqlawi Njemi from the Al Rashid family, Sitah was bred at the stud at Tiev, [Edouard’s note: Tiev = Ta’if, the city where the stud of King Faysal Ibn Abd al-Aziz Aal Saud was located] the long famous Saud stud, by King Feisul of Saudi Arabia, at the time…