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Al Khamsa 2022 Convention Program
by Al_Khamsa
2022 Al Khamsa Convention
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We have a great group of speakers lined up for you this year, to inform you and hold your interest. Check out the schedule for speakers and their topics. Additional speakers and presentations may be pre-recorded for viewing at your leisure. Our auction has an exciting collection of books with popular themes as well as rare books on Arabians. There will be “open chat time” after the sessions, so get your ideas and questions ready.
Registration!
You can register at www.alkhamsa.org. Just click on the Events tab. Registration is $60 per person. Registration is open now!
Raffle!
If you could… would you buy this brand-new horse cooler for $25? You bet, I would too. Al Khamsa will be raffling a Blanket that is Dura Tech, Contour Fit, Polar Fleece Award Cooler. Black/Red. Retails for $142.99. Wicks moisture after bath or workout. Dries horse faster. Made of a black non-piling polar fleece for a plush feel. Does not get as heavy as wool. Four hooks throat to chest, adjustable surcingle and detachable tail cord. Red nylon with gold rope piping. Size Medium: fits 67-74 center of chest to center under tail.
Enter at registration! We are thankful for the donations of Schneider’s & AIM Designs for creating this medium size, Contour Fit horse cooler with the Al Khamsa Inc. logo to use for our 2022 raffle. Each donation of $25 wins you a chance at owning this lovely cooler. Think about it ... a $100 donation will allow you four chances to win, and 100% of your $100 will go to the education and preservation of Al Khamsa Arabian horses.
A win – win in any horse lovers book!
Fantasia and Foal Videos!
The Fantasias are always one of the highlights of our conventions. It gives our supporters a chance to view some of our Al Khamsa horses in action. With the move to the virtual conventions, we lost some aspects of the Fantasia, but gained other advantages too. You no longer have the expense and hassle of hauling your horse to a new location. We now incorporate a fun video of new foals born since the last convention. It allows you to share the video link in your own advertising and this year we will be returning to YouTube for easier sharing and more exposure to your horses. Also, this year we plan to play the Fantasia videos during the breaks to the entire convention audience. If you missed the deadline date of October 14th this year, plan on including your horse in next year’s Fantasia. We all would love to see your horse(s) too. It’s a fun and easy way to show off your companion to your target audience.
Zoom system requirements: Windows, macOS, Linux
System requirements • An internet connection – broadband wired or wireless (3G or 4G/LTE) • Speakers and a microphone – built-in, USB plug-in, or wireless Bluetooth • A webcam or HD webcam – built-in, USB plug-in, or: Supported operating systems • macOS X with macOS X (10.10) or later • Windows 11 (Note: Windows 11 is supported on version 5.9.0 or higher.) • Windows 10 (Note: Devices running Windows 10 must run Windows 10 Home, Pro, or Enterprise. S Mode is not supported.) • Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 Supported tablet and mobile devices • iOS and Android devices • Blackberry devices • Surface PRO 2 or higher, running Windows 8.1 or higher Notes: • Tablet PCs running Windows 10 must run Windows 10 Home, Pro, or Enterprise. S Mode is not supported. • Tablet PCs only support the desktop client. Supported browsers • Windows: Edge 12+, Firefox 27+, Chrome 30+ • macOS: Safari 7+, Firefox 27+, Chrome 30+ • Linux: Firefox 27+, Chrome 30+ (Note: Some features in the web client are not supported on Internet Explorer.) Processor and RAM requirements Minimum Recommended Processor Single-core 1Ghz or higher Dual-core 2Ghz or higher (Intel i3/i5/i7 or AMD equivalent) RAM N/A 4 Gb
2022 Al Khamsa Convention Schedule
THURSDAY, November 3, 2022
6 pm ET / 5 pm CT / 4 pm MT / 3 pm PT Board of Directors Annual Open Meeting FRIDAY, November 4, 2022
6 pm ET / 5 pm CT / 4 pm MT / 3 pm PT Joe Ferriss: Iconic Al Khamsa horses that Paved the Way Forward Debbie Fuentes: Registration Trends and How to Register Elizabeth Dawsari & Linda Bochansky: What Do We Know About Henry Babson Ninety Years After His 1932 Importation of Egyptian Arabians? Kate Rhodes: Preservation Task Force Report Pre-recorded Instructional — Available on Website Moira Walker: How Do you Know If Your Horse Is Al Khamsa? Diana Cantey: Tips for Taking Better Photos Jeannie Lieb: Navigating the New Website and the New Roster (ZOOM will remain open for one hour afterwards for visiting) SATURDAY, November 5, 2022 (Three Sessions)
Session One 11 am ET / 10 am CT/ 9 am MT / 8 am PT Dr. Samantha Brooks: New Genetic Research on Ancestry Data, with Beth Minnich Mary Gills: Al Khamsa Business meeting Edouard Al-Dahdah: Roster Proposal Second Year Vote for Kuheilaan Al Adiyat Hashal Election for President and Board of Delegates - BREAK - Session Two 2 pm ET/ 1 pm CT / 12 pm MT / 11 am PT Patrick Sullivan: The Meaning of Life is to Find your Gift. The Purpose of Life is to Give it Away Election and Roster Proposal Results Jeanne Craver: Announcement Martha White: Getting your Horse Involved in a Competition to Increase its Value - BREAK Session Three 5:45 pm ET / 4:45 pm CT / 3:45 pm MT / 2:45 pm PT Dr Paul Morris: Practical Breeding Practices Jason Sherman & Holly Reuter: Selling Rare Treasures, Marketing the Al Khamsa Arabian Horse for Preservation and Profit Edouard Al-Dahdah: A Message from Al Khamsa 2022 Al Khamsa Awards Ceremony Announce new board members (ZOOM will remain open for two hours afterwards for visiting) SUNDAY, November 6, 2022
12:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM MT / 9:00 AM PT Open Board of Director Meeting: Election of new officers & committee chairs for 2022–23
2022 Al Khamsa Convention Speakers
Friday Speakers
Pre-Recorded Videos
Saturday Speakers
Session One
Dr. Samantha Brooks Genetic Ancestry in the Arabian Horse: Recent Discoveries and Practical Applications
Saturday Speakers
Session Two
Annual Online Auction!
Al Khamsa is proud to announce that we will be hosting our Annual Auction Online during the convention. The auction is a big fundraiser for our 501(c)(3) non-profit each year and we count on our generous supporters to make it successful.
Please support Al Khamsa’s mission and have fun while bidding on the wonderful items that have been donated for this purpose!
Saturday Speakers
Session Three
Dr. Paul Morris Practical Breeding Practices
Edouard Al-Dahdah A Message from Al Khamsa
Free T- shirt with each Registration!
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Al Khamsa Roster Proposal for Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal (BHR 1623)
submitted by Edouard Al-Dahdah on November 1, 2020, up for second 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://bit.ly/3dwjagS
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). Document 1.
Kuheilaan Aladiyat Hashal, 2011 chestnut stallion, is shown above left 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.
Document 2. Kuhaylat al-Aadiyat 576. Forbis photo.
Document 3, right. Document 4, bottom, far right. Document 5, Sitah D1. Dr. V. Noli Marais photo.
Husaana Arabians welcomes AAA Bint Dalabba+ (Binty)
2004 Straight Babson Egyptian Mare, Ibn Ser Hannah x Delabba Warm thank you to Marilee and Eve Heintzberger for sharing this unicorn! Eve rode her to third level dressage nationally, did 4-H, trail riding, camping and this mare did everything she was ever asked to do. Bred and started by Richard and Cheryl Miller, Binty continues her life at Husaana Arabians and is a real pleasure added to our program. Adding Marilee and Eve also to our farm family is a huge bonus.
