I found a booklet simply titled “Stammhengste” (Foundation stallions) and “Stammstuten” (Foundation mares). I guess with a bit of digging one could figure out which stud it belongs to. What I found interesting is the pedigrees listed with measurements, something I for one, rarely see these days. I picked out the asil pedigrees, especially because many appear in Southern African horses. Neferotete I WISH would have appeared in local pedigrees, because I have a soft spot for the Tahawi horses. The measurements listed are for the “Widerrist: Stockmaß:” (Withers: Measurement:), “Brustumfang” (girth circumference) and “Röhrbeinumfang” (cannon bone circumference) in centimetres. Ibrahim is sire to Mahib (imp) out of the Madkour daughter Mahabba. Mahib was imported to South Africa and then Namibia by Helga Aschenborn of Gülilah Stud and her daughter Gisela Uijs who managed the Uijs family’s interest in Nabilah Stud. In his 1989 article “Zurück unter Allahs Sonne” (Back under Allah’s sun) in Arabische Pferde magazine, George Olms tells of Ibrahim export to Kuwait. Sadly Ibrahim did not survive the invasion the following year. Farouk is sire to Shams el Farin (imp) out of Omar el Shaker (imp)’s paternal half-sister Inshraa. Sarwat sired Sasab who is maternal granddam to…
Below is a photograph of the young Morafic son Ahir (out of Deenaa), aged two. The photo, taken by Zelda Welgemoed, and shared by Wilton Burger, was taken at the Sahiby Stud in Tokai. Ahir was bred by Gleannloch, and imported to South Africa by Dr Valérie Noli-Marais, who used him on Sahiby Bint Baraka, the daughter of the Egyptian mare Barakah and the Bahraini stallion Tuwaisan. Ahir and Sahiby Bint Baraka had three foals, two of which were colts – Sahiby Asham and Sahiby Tuwaisan – and one filly, Sahiby Noura. Sahiby Noura was then bred back to her own sire twice, producing one colt, Sahiby Rifki, and the celebrated broodmare, Sahiby Juleemah, from whom all the asil al-Mimrah horses in South Africa descend. Ahir left other asil offspring, besides the Barakah descendants. Dr Noli-Marais also imported the Straight Egyptian mare AK Bint Gamilaa (Ibn Moniet El Nefous x Gamilaa); she produced three colts – Sahiby Al Hasni, Sahiby Al Jiwan, and Sahiby Gamaal El Arab – and one filly – Sahibi Bint Ahir – by him. Subsequently, Mr Maritz imported another Straight Egyptian mare Lar Malika (Al Fattah x Talara), who produced the filly Sidi Morafica by Ahir,…