The ‘Ufaytan of Shammar
Faddan Salim al-‘Ufaytan and his son, from the Hdibah clan of the Northern Shammar. The ‘Ufaytan have owned the Ma’naqi Hudruji strain among the Shammar for some hundred years. They got the strain from the ‘Anazah. The strain originally belonged of the ‘Amarat tribe of the ‘Anazah. I think, but I am not sure, that Hudruj was an ‘Amarat Bedouin.
Horse merchant and connoisseur ‘Abd al-Qadir Hammami once told me that he bought a Ma’naqi Hudruji colt from the ‘Ufaytan for the Beirut racetrack in 1938.
The black Ma’naqi stallion of Dhahir al-‘Ufaytan (Faddan’s paternal uncle) was a major herdsire with the Shammar in the 1970s and 1980s. Most Syrian horses now trace to him. He was the sire of the Kuhaylan Ibn Jlaidan stallion Al-Asda’, of the Shuwaymah Sabbah mare ‘Abirah, and the Da’janiyah mare Nojomieh, among many others. It is now increasingly hard to find a Syrian horse that does not trace to any of these three horses.
Here, with Raddah, a 1980 bay Ma’naqiyah Hudrujiyah. She, like their other horses, was registered in the second wave of the Syrian registration with WAHO in 2001-2. Raddah was my favorite mare at their place. Photo by Edouard Al-Dahdah in 2005.
The back on this horse looks like some of the Hadbans.
Yes. You got a good eye. These are the backs of horses from war strains.
Very serious model ! In the first stud book there is MALEKAH a grey mare managieh Hidrajieh from ibn Ofeitan and which belonged to MR Amien Abd all Ralek in Aleppo; It was the nicest mare I saw in Syria (in the same padock of MARZOUK managy sbeyli abou sayfan) even the ones I saw at Ofeitan breeding. Abd al Ralek told me that Syrian authorities forbade her to leave Syria. Unfortunately she never produced.
Yes, I remember her. The sire of Malekah’s dam was Al Aawar (the Hamdani Simri Ibn Ghurab of Atallah Al-Batto).
Edouard, I don’t suppose you have a photo of her. You and Arnault have made me feel like I would love to know what she looked like.
I do, but she is old and in bad shape. Nothing to showcase here. I can send it to you though.
If you wish, but if you prefer to keep it private to yourself, I understand that!