2021 Convention Notice / Roster Proposals

from Khamsat V32N1 September 2021

by Al_Khamsa

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Roster Proposals

Al Khamsa Roster Proposal for Gamal El Din (TAH)

submitted by Joe Ferriss on November 1, 2019, up for seccond vote

Gamal El Din was first identified to westerners in the Royal Agricultural Society Stud Book Vol. 1 (1948 English version) on page 58 as the sire of *Saema RAS#50. *Saema was imported to the US in 1950 by Queen Mother Nazli Sabri (mother of King Farouk). *Saema’s dam is Bint Dalal, a 1926 grey mare bred by the RAS. Bint Dalal’s sire and dam, Hamran (BLT) and Dalal Al Zarka (APK), are already Al Khamsa horses. The RAS Stud Book states as follows: “Gamal El Din, a race horse belonging to Ahmed Bey Abu El Fotouh.” No other information was provided about him.

We know Ahmed Bey Abu El Fotouh (aka Ahmed Effendi Abu El Fotouh, or Futuh) as the owner of the Al Khamsa Foundation Horse El Nasser (RAS) when that horse was in Egypt and the provider of El Nasser to the RAS. Ahmed Bey Abu El Fotouh was among the top 20 principal race winning owners in Egypt during the racing season 1939–1940 according to the Egyptian Jockey Club records. He was also a racing steward at both the Heliopolis and Alexandria Racing Clubs in 1945 and hence a prominent and respected figure in the Egyptian racing scene.

It was not until 2011, during the Al Khamsa contacts with remaining Tahawi breeders in Egypt, that an interview was conducted with the very aged Shaikh Tahawi Sa’eid Mejalli al-Tahawi. This interview was conducted by Yasser Ghanim Barakat al-Tahawi and his cousins Yehia Abd al-Sattar al-Tahawi, and Mohammed Mohammed Saoud al-Tahawi. Yasser provided the summary of the meeting posted on December 6, 2011 on Edouard Al Dahdah’s Daughter of the Wind blog. His text appears below:

New information on the Egyptian stallion Gamal El Din

Posted on December 6th, 2011. As part of the working group on the horses of the Tahawi, which Edouard mentioned in a recent post, I wanted to share with you brand new information about the Egyptian stallion Gamal El Din.

The information was obtained when Yehia Abd al-Sattar al-Tahawi, Mohammad Saoud al-Tahawi, and myself, recently recorded a one hour video with one of the very old Tahawi horse breeders, Shaikh Tahawi Sa’eid Mejalli al-Tahawi, who was born around 1904, and is 107 years old today. He still has an amazing memory for his advanced age, and is one of the old Bedouin breeders, and a great horse expert, following his father Shaikh Sa’ied Mejalli al-Tahawi.

In this interview, he shared many exciting details about the old Tahawi horses such as “Dahman Abdullah Saoud” which he saw himself when he was young. “Dahman Abdullah

Saoud” was the sire of the race horse Barakat (also a Dahman, but from another line), among others, and is today represented in modern Egyptian pedigrees through his great-granddaughters Fulla, Futna, and Bint Barakat.

Shaikh Tahawi Sa’eid Mejalli al-Tahawi also spoke about lady Anne Blunt and her frequent visits to the Tahawi clan, and about the horses she bought from them. These horses are referred to by Lady Anne Blunt in her writings as “The First Attempt” at putting together a stud of Arabian horses at Sheykh Obeyd Gardens.

The old Shaikh also spoke about the several Royal Agricultural Society horses that came from the Tahawi clan, and he also confirmed what is already common knowledge, which is that the vast majority of the horses at the race track were also Tahawi horses.

He spoke about the famous Tahawi race horse Soniour, who was also by “Dahman Abdallah Saoud”, and who was hence Barakat’s half-brother. Today, Soniour is represented in the pedigree of the stallion Ibn Ghalabawi. He also talked about Renard Bleu, a son of Barakat with an unmatched racing record. There is a nice photo of Renard Bleu in the book of Ali al-Barazi, a copy of which I have with me.

The surprise came later in the interview when he mentioned that he had known and seen the race horse Gamal El Din, which was owned by Ahmed Abu al-Futuh (Futuh Bey), and he provided full details about him.

It turned out that Gamal El Din was by Barakat out of a Kuhaylah Khallawiyah, and that he was bred by Shaikh Abd al-Hamid Rageh al-Tahawi, who also bred the three Tahawi mares Fulla (Folla), Futna and Bint Barakat, which were sold to Hamdan stables. So Gamal El Din would be a close relative to the mare Futna (Ibn Barakat x a Kuhalyah Khallawiyah), who was from the same strain as him, and from the same Tahawi breeder.

Gamal El Din was used by Egypt’s Royal Agricultural Society in the 1940s. He has seven offspring in the AHA Datasource, one stallion and six mares all born in 1945, of which only one mare *Saema (x Bint Dalal) bred on in modern lines. *Saema was imported by the Queen Mother of Egypt to the USA in 1950, where she was the progenitor of a line of Egyptian horses that is increasingly successful in the show ring today.

Among her descendants is the 2001 black stallion HU Sheikh Imaan (Imaann x Niema Nile by Shaik Al Badi), a great-grandson of *Saema in the tail female, and a greatgreat-grand son of Gamal El Din. His lines are increasingly popular today. [Note: HU Sheikh Imaan’s pedigree also includes the ancestor *Ibn Farhan, imported by the Queen Mother, but he is not a part of this proposal as research is ongoing for him.]

Before the new information provided by Shaikh Tahawi Sa’ied Mejalli al-Tahawi surfaced, almost nothing was known about him, other than the mention on page 29 of

the book “RAS History” that “Gamal El Din was a good racehorse, and was owned by Abu El-Fotouh Bey”. Now, thanks to the testimony of the old Tahawi Shaikh, we know the strain of Gamal El Din (K. Khallawi), his sire Barakat (for which we have a hujjah, and about which we already knew a lot), and his breeder Shaikh Abd al-Hamid Rageh al-Tahawi, one of the most respected breeders of Asil Arabians in Egypt.

After an hour of talking, Shaikh Tahawi Sa’ied Mejalli alTahawi became tired, and we stopped the interview. He was also having some difficulty hearing all our questions. So the best thing we could do was to let him tell his own stories and not interrupt him, and this is how the information on Gamal El Din appeared.

Here is a photo [opposite] of the elderly Shaikh, with my cousins Yehia Abd al-Sattar al-Tahawi (in the middle) and Mohammed Mohammed Saoud al-Tahawi on the right.

Best regards, Yasser Ghanim Barakat al-Tahawi

Based on the information provided from the interview with Shaikh Tahawi Sa’ied Mejalli al-Tahawi and combining it with what has been learned from the Tahawi regarding the previous Hamdan Stables Tahawi mares accepted by Al Khamsa, Gamal El Din’s pedigree is as follows:

In summary: This pedigree above is as close as one can get to the previously accepted Tahawi mare Futna; therefore Gamal El Din deserves to be recognized as a Foundation Horse by Al Khamsa because Gamal El Din in *Saema’s pedigree is essentially the same provenance as all the Tahawi horses already accepted by Al Khamsa. ~ Joe Ferriss, November, 2019.

Barakat a Saqlawi Jidran of Ibn Zobeyni Dahman of Abdallah Saud al-Tahawi a Dahmat ‘Amer of Jar Allah ibn Tuwayrish

a Dahmat Shahwan of Mnazi’ Amer al-Tahawi

Gamal El Din, a c1935 Kuhaylan Khallawi bred by Shaikh Abdul Hamid Rageh al-Tahawi

a Kuhaylah Khallawiyah of Abdul Hamid Rageh al-Tahawi

Al Khamsa Roster Proposal for Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal (BHR 1623)

submitted by Edouard Al-Dahdah on November 1, 2020, up for first vote

The Pedigree: 1. The following is a public link to the pedigree of Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal (BHR 1623), based on information from the Bahrain Arabian Horse Studbook and other documents presented in this proposal. https://cloud.smartdraw.com/share.aspx/?pubDocShare=6C65E0AA4DE72E5E9 4EC845C3374D4DE42B

Kuheilaan Aafas Ttaawoos Hamdaany Wadhah Burkhaan Ma’anaghy AlSaghir x Sitah D1 BHRSP*300

Hamdanieh Newaahil Hamdanieh Bint Umm Shaameh Hamdaany 71 x Hamdanieh Umm Shaameh

Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal Kuheilaan Aafas Rakaan Kuheila’t Aladiyat Afeefa Jellaby Nejib Kuheila’t Aladyat Bint Fejri Kuheilaan Aafas Ttaawoos Kuheila’t Aladiyat Raylaanah Kuheila’t Aladiyat Naafleh Jellaby AlSakhir x Kuheilat Aladiyat BHR*576 2. This pedigree forms an integral part of the current proposal for inclusion in the Al Khamsa Roster. All the ancestors in the pedigree of Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal were bred in Bahrain from old Bahraini lines. Most ancestors appear in the pedigrees of other Bahraini horses already accepted into the Al Khamsa Roster, except two horses who are new: the mare Kuhailat Aladiyat 576, which is the tail female ancestor, and the mare Sitah, which appears in the middle of the pedigree (see bold elements in the pedigree above). This proposal provides more detail on these two additional ancestors.

Kuhailat Aladiyat 576: 3. The earliest known source of information on the strain of Kuhailaan Al-Adiyat Hashal BHR*1623 is Judith Forbis’s article “Pearls of Great Price” as it appeared in a 1971 issue of the Arabian Horse World (AHW) magazine, republished in her book Authentic Arabian Bloodstock (1990). 4. Judith Forbis visited the studs of the ruling family of Bahrain in March 1970 and mentioned the following: “Kuheilah Al Adiati is another strain rarely heard of before, but deriving from the Kuheilah family. She came from Saudi Arabia, and was presented to Sheikh Hamad when he was a prince, together with a letter of presentation from the offering Sheikh of Al Ajman: “I send to you this mare which fulfills Al Adiat […] When Sheikh Hamad saw her racing and found her exceedingly swift, he happily declaired: “Truly she is of Al Adiat” (Document 1). 5. The same story recurs in Volume I of the Bahraini stud book (1980) and on the website of the Bahraini Royal Stud [http://www.bahrainroyalstud.com/6.php]: “A Kuheilah mare was presented to Shaikh Hamed bin Isa (1874-1942) while he was still a young man. The sender of the mare, Shaikh of the Ajman tribe, wrote a letter to his friend: “We send you this Kuheilah mare which fulfils the Adiyat”. From the Koran, Sura C (Adiyat, or those that run) […] When Shaikh Hamed saw the mare run in a race and found her exceedingly swift, he happily declared: “Truly she is of the El Adiyat”. A descendant of this mare Kuheilat Aladiyat Naafleh 222 has been a prolific producer of fillies. So this line continues to flourish even today. 6. The strain is evidently a branch of the Kuhaylan family, and appears to have come to Bahrain in the period between 1923 and 1932, the period when Shaykh Hamad bin ‘Isa Aal Khalifah was deputy ruler, (i.e., Crown Prince) before succeeding his father as ruler upon the latter’s death in 1932. 7. The strain clearly received its current name following the episode of the gifting of this specific mare. It would have been known under a different name before this episode. The ‘Ajman Bedouin tribesmen of Eastern Saudi Arabian were famed breeders of several Kuhaylan strains, among which were Kuhaylat Umm Surayyir, Kuhaylat al-Harqah and Kuhaylat al-Jaziah. It is entirely possible that the original gift mare belonged to either one of these three strains, or another Kuhaylan strain of the Ajman. 8. Volume 1 of the Bahrain Studbook goes on to say, “One descendant of this mare remains in Bahrain,” and then lists Kuheilah Adiyati Nr. 222, speckled grey mare foaled 1970, by Jellaby Sakhir Nr. 270 and out of “Kuheilah Adiyati (dead). This is the same 1970 grey mare appearing in Volume II of the Bahrain Studbook as Kuheila’t Aladiyat Naafleh 222, by Jellaby Alsakhir and out of Kuheila’t Aladiyat (576).

Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal, 2011 chestnut stallion, is shown above left with Jamal Abusoud and above right, racing in Bahrain.

9. Kuhaylat al-Aadiyat 576 (no sire, no dam, no color recorded) must have been a grey, because she had a grey filly, the 1970 Kuhaylat al-Aadiyat Naafleh, by the bay Jellaby al-Sakhir. That she had a foal by Jellaby al-Sakhir is an indication that she was part of the broodmare band at the stud of Sakhir in 1969-1970, where Jellaby al-Sakhir was the main breeding stallion, as his name indicates. 10. Judith Forbis took the attached photo (Document 2) of a grey mare at the Sakhir stud in March 1971, with this caption: “A Kuhaylah Al Adiati mare at Sakhir, sired by the Old Speckled Jellabi. One of the few mares of this strain.” It would seem that the mare in the photo is Kuhaylat al-Aadiyat 576. The rarity of the strain in 1970, the grey color of the mare, her having had a 1970 offspring by a stallion stationed at Sakhir, and the Old Speckled Jellabi being the main stallion siring greys at that time all point to this conclusion, which extends the pedigree of Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal one generation further back.

Sitah D1: 11. Also in Volume 1 of the Amiri Arabian Stud of Bahrain, the late Danah Al Khalifah writes 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.” 12. In the same 1971 Arabian Horse World article on the Bahraini horses, Judith Forbis has the following to say about Sitah: “We stopped to see SITAH, her exquisitely refined white desert bred mare of the Hamdaniyah Giam strain. Sired by a Saqlawi Njemi from the Al Rashid family, Sitah was bred at the stud at Tiev, [Edouard’s note: 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 he was a crown prince” (Document 3). 13. An additional source on Sitah is a typewritten letter from Danah Al Khalifah to Jens Sannek where she gives him information on Sitah including a date of birth of 1961 and similar information on her sire and her dam (Document 4). 14. The strain of Saqlawi El Njemy recorded as that of the sire of Sitah is none other than the strain of Saqlawi Nijm al-Subh (Star of the Morning in Arabic), also known today as Saqlawi Marzakani among the northern Shammar. The Northern Shammar are in Syria and Iraq and often sent horses to their Southern Shammar brethren, whose leaders were from the Al Rasheed family. 15. Based on the information above, it would seem that all the antecedents of Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal, including Sitah D1 and Kuhailat Aladiyat 576, were either Bedouin bred or bred by the Royal Arabian Stud of Bahrain from well-ascertained, authenticated and reputable Bedouin lines. I would therefore request that the Board and General Assembly of Al Khamsa, Inc, consider adding Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal to the Roster of Al Khamsa Arabian horses.