“The Amir’s (Sa’ud Ibn Jiluwi) stables and manager, Qasr-al-Abid in background used as a prison, Saudi Arabia. Artist George Rendel. (Photo by Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)March 01, 1937.” استطبلات الأمير سعود ابن جلوي مع مديرها وخلفه قصر العبيد المُحوّل الى سجن”المصور جورج رِنِدلالصورة ملك الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية البريطانية عبر جيتي إماجزتاريخ الصورة 1 مارس 1937″ The below photo of the same palace has the following caption: “Sijn al-‘Abid or Qasr al-‘Abid, “the prison of the slaves or the fort of the slaves” was located north of the old town of al-Hufuf [in the Eastern Saudi Arabian province of al-Hasa]. It had a moat on the north and western sides as well as six towers. It was torn down in 1975.
Not sure I published this one before. It’s from the collection of Billy Sheets, which he left me.
I have long been a fan of *Al Hamdaniah, the desert-bred mare that was imported to the USA in 1947. This “bloody-shouldered” mare bred by Saudi prince Saud ibn ‘Abdallah ibn Jalawi, governor of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia — was the subject of the first entry on this blog, more than 16 years ago. Joe Ferriss had commented on that thread about mares from her lineage that he had seen and liked at the Otts, noting their clean bone. RJ Cadranell had observed how someone whose “eye” he trusted had told him that a daughter of *Al Hamdaniahs, a mare bred by the Otts and named Blue Star, was one of the best mares he had ever seen. More recently, I wrote about the connections between *Al Hamdamiah, born in 1940, and the 1936 visit of Dr. Ahmed Mabrouk of the Egyptian Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) to the stud of Ibn Jalawi, where he saw a heavily fleabitten grey mare of the Hamdani strain that was likely the mare’s dam. Today, I am excited to announce that Becky Stanfield Burckheart and I are working on putting a close descendant of *Al Hamdaniyah into production. This is Becky’s mare…
He looks better each time I see him, if you can see past the mud and the winter coat. It’s not just his improving condition, but also his reaching maturity stage, at 8 years. He exactly what you would expect from his pedigree, the linebreeding to *Muhaira in particular. I am looking forward to what he produces.
I bought AAS Nelyo last July from Edie Booth as a potential outcross for my horses down the line. He is a ‘Ubayyan, from the line of *Mahraa, a 1943 mare of the horses of Sa’ud ibn ‘Abd Allah Ibn Jalawi Aal Saud, the governor of the oil-rich Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. I think the full strain is ‘Ubayyan al-Suyayfi, a branch of Ubayyan Hunaydees, which is itself among the best of branches of ‘Ubayyan Sharrak, but I can’t prove it yet. AAS Nelyo, who is six years old, is closely linebred to a few of the early horses imported from Saudi Arabia, including close crosses *Taamri (9 crosses), *Rudann (8 crosses), *Munifan (8 crosses), *Munifeh (8 crosses), and Muhaira, his female line (7 crosses). He was being training for endurance racing. He is very different in type, temperament and coat color from anything else I have seen before. He is registered as bay, but he looks to me like he could be a seal brown or a dark shade of chestnut.