SGA ARABIANS - SGA Egyptians

Late in 2003 we finally got to take a long anticipated holiday.......to Egypt!

Flying in over Cairo and seeing the pyramids at Gizah from the air is a moment I will long remember. The whole trip was a fabulous experience and a lot of fun leaving us some wonderful memories - memories of the country, the people, the desert - and of course the eternal Nile! There in Upper Egypt where the Nile is held tightly between the surrounding desert - it was truly beautiful and even now one could capture echoes of the past!

While it was only in the last couple of days of our trip that we did something about seeing something of the HORSES of Egypt - we did manage to visit both the significant AL BADEIA stud of Nasr Marei, as well as the state stud EL ZAHRAA in Cairo.

So it was at Al Badeia, in the shadow of the Great pyramids, that we met Nasr Marei and were introduced to some of the foremost members of the Arabian breed in the country. We saw some really lovely, top quality Arabians. One of these - the stallion Farid al Badeia is a horse I will always remember as a true classic example of the breed. Some of the Al Badeia mares were outstanding, and reflected excellent breeding foresight. Their strong bodies with good legs and size were impressive - but these mares also possessed lovely classic heads and real quality!

FARID AL BADEIA - Nasr Marei photo

Later through the courtesy of Nasr we were given a tour of El Zahraa - where once again I was very pleasantly surprised by the depth of quality and type in the stock. I came too El Zahraa expecting to find something quite different to the strong boned, athletic and good sized stock the stud is made up of. We saw some really lovely mares - and equally promising foals on them as well. Once again I was surprised here by the good bone and solid bodies of the stock. The stallions we saw were an interesting and quite varied lot with a great depth of type and strengths, and a broad base of genetic material - which is maintained for the future. It was a fantastic experience seeing so many of those Straight Egyptian bloodlines at the source and how they are being used within the stud.

We flew home from Cairo with some very special memories of a country and a people and their horses - and a renewed interest in those bloodlines! For while our stud is based on the Hanstead / Crabbet bloodlines of the Bostocks stud - it also contains strong Egyptian elements through the imported sires AK JABAL IBN MONIET, IBN ANTAR & FALL FARM DESERT ASAHM. With daughters of these 3 sires playing significant roles in the studs progress and our future generations it was not difficult to explore the prospect of adding more Egyptian blood to our herd.

AND so it was - with these memories of Egypt and the eternal Nile still firmly entrenched in my mind from that trip - and while re-newing the search for suitable Egyptian blood stallions to use over our existing mares - that I unexpectedly came across an extremely well bred straight Egyptian mare for sale named as it happened - PRINCESS OF THE NILE .........it seemed like an omen!

PRINCESS OF THE NILE
(Imperial Maakir* ex The Nile Rose* - by The Minstril)
KUHAYLAH RODANIEH
Tail Female: RODANIA DB

A tall grey (born black) mare - PRINCESS is typical of her Kuhaylan strain. She is well over 15 hands and is a leggy mare with a very deep girth and great lung capacity. She has a good set of legs under her and good sound feet. Her other strengths are a fine light neck with excellent set and length, a good wither and strong back and a good strong hindquarter. She is a quality, refined mare, and possessed of a good head and body. Her bloodlines are some of the most popular in the word today.

		MESSAOUD
	IMPERIAL MADHEEN
		MADINAH
IMPERIAL MAAKIR*
		MONIET EL NAFIS
	IMPERIAL NA-FATIA
		SERENITY FERIAL

		RUMINAJA ALI
	THE MINSTRIL
		BAHILA
THE NILE ROSE*
		RAMSES FAYEK
	BELBOWRIE FAYEKA
		ANHAR EAO

PRINCESS OF THE NILE descends from the successful sire line of NAZEER through his celebrated son MORAFIC - although through the European branch of that family which descends through Morafic's son MADKOUR. In fact Princess has 18 crosses too Nazeer in her pedigree - through some of his most influential sons such as MORAFIC, HADBAN ENZAHI, GALAL, GHAZAL, ALAA EL DIN, and of course the wonderful RAMSES FAYEK - as well as two influential daughters in the mares BINT MAISA EL SAGHIRA and MAMLOUKA. Nazeer comprises over 28% of the blood of Princess of the Nile.

Her sire is the big grey import - IMPERIAL MAAKIR. Tall, athletic and powerful with a huge hindquarter and dynamic ground covering stride - he is possessed of great presence and substance and is not only producing A CLASS halter champions but his older stock are now beginning to exel in endurance competition. He is an outstanding individual and it was through my efforts to send a mare to be bred to this horse that I actually secured Princess. I think he is one of the more significant SE stallion imports into this country in many years.

THE NILE ROSE* Slater photo

MacLean photo - IMPERIAL MAAKIR

The dam of PRINCESS OF THE NILE is the beautiful black imported mare THE NILE ROSE*. A top quality mare of beautiful type this mare has produced some excellent progeny including an outstanding son in Belbowrie Obsidian (full brother to Princess of the Nile) who has been exported to the Middle East where he is producing some excellent stock as well as being campaigned under saddle. The Nile Rose was sired by the USA based SE sire THE MINSTRIL.

THE MINSTRIL

One of the most acclaimed Straight Egyptians of the modern era - THE MINSTRIL has been not only a great individual but also an outstanding sire as well. Internationally the daughters and granddaughters of The Minstril are highly sought after in the breed for their ability to consistently produce beauty and refinement and great quality.

RAMSES FAYEK

Princess of the Nile is a maternal granddaughter of the prolific broodmare BELBOWRIE FAYEKA - Fayeka sired by the Nazeer son Ramses Fayek. A stallion perhaps noted more for his lovely conformation and correctness than exotic type FAYEK is an excellent individual to base a performance orientated breeding program on. His strength of body and excellent shoulder and hindquarter with great substance meant he produced some outstanding inividuals in his breeding career and in particular a wonderful line of broodmares. The combination of his blood with that of The Minstril has proven a judicious mix.

The tail female line of this mare is one we have long admired in the breed - albeit through her CRABBET connection! For Princess of the Nile is a direct tail female descendant of the wonderful mare RODANIA. This line is celebrated in Crabbet breeding as being a successful sire producing strain. The mare BINT RIYALA (bred at Crabbet and named there as RISAMA) - great grand daughter of RODANIA forms her dam line - being one of the mares selected by the RAS from CrabbetPark and imported to Cairo to augment their initial breeding nucleus. The EAO bred mare ANHAR was selected and imported from Cairo too the USA and Australia where she was bred to a variety of SE sires to found a successful line - her progeny continue to produce quality SE stock in a variety of breeding lines.

BINT RIYALA (also RISAMA)

So what did we hope to achieve by bringing Princess of the Nile into our broodmare band? The hope going forward is that we will be producing the type of quality athletic saddle stock that SGA is already known for - but which also happen to be Straight Egyptian.

Princess foaled a delightful black/grey filly to AH RAMSES in 2007 named Nile Nefermoun. She is a very promising blend of both parents and confirms the decision to bring Ramses and his strengths into the program. A strong compact body with a good set of legs and movement make this youngster a prospect for the future. She is growing into a lovely bodied filly with great substance and style. The fact that she combines the blood of 2 parents carrying the strong influence of the famous IMPERIAL STUD reassures us that this cross will continue to prove quality stock with sound conformation.

NILE NEFERZUHRI pend

For 2009 season Princess has foaled a delightful and very welcome black /grey filly to the aged sire Rianda's el Nasra. This little lady shows great promise and is an extremely welcome addition to the stud. Like her older half sister she incorporates a non-Nazeer sire line in her breeding. Princess has been returned to Nasra for a full sibling.

NILE NEFERZUHRI (pending) - 2009 black/grey filly
(Riandas el Nasra ex Princess of the Nile - by Imperial Maakir*)
KUHAYLAH RODANIEH
Tail Female: RODANIA DB

Our lovely second daughter from Princess of the Nile - sired by the grand old stallion Riandas el Nasra we are extremely happy to have her here to represent both sides of her breeding, and particularly to carry the blood of El Nasra forward and continue the great qualities of good movement and sound conformation and good health into future generations. She has an extremely strong body and top line and a really lovely head with a good eye and plenty of breed type.

IBN HAFIZA EAO

ANSATA EL MASRI*

ANSATA BINT MISUNA EAO

RIANDAS EL NASRA

SIR IBN MONIET*

RIANDAS RASLINA

KALICIA

IMPERIAL MADHEEN

IMPERIAL MAAKIR*

IMPERIAL NA-FATIA

PRINCESS OF THE NILE

THE MINSTRIL

THE NILE ROSE*

BELBOWRIE FAYEKA

NILE NEFERMOUN
(Arundel House Ramses ex Princess of the Nile - by Imperial Maakir*)
KUHAYLAH RODANIEH
Tail Female: RODANIA DB

Our lovely daughter from Princess of the Nile and AH Ramses and a promising young amre she is. A very good sized filly she is maturing into a good sized upstanding mare with a deep body and depth of girth and good sound structure. She shows good movement and a very strong compact body. She is a refined stylish youngster - with a lot of her Kuhaylan type in evidence and she is a very welcome addition to the stud. The combination of Ramses over Princess has contributed a more level top line and considerable strength through the coupling.

NILE NEFERMOUN

Nefermoun should make a lovely representative of her lines and hopefully a useful saddle mare at some stage in the future. Hopefully she will prove as athletic an individual as her IMPERIAL based breeding might indicate via her lovely grandsires Ibn Safinaz and Imperial Maakir.

Nefermoun has been bred this season to the lovely Rianda's el Nasra as we are very keen to see his genes carried forward and time is against us.

		SEEF EAO
	IBN SAFINAZ EAO/USA
		SAFINAZ EAO
A H RAMSES
		SAR IBN MONIET
	SARS IMAGE*
		AK AMLAH

		IMPERIAL MADHEEN
	IMPERIAL MAAKIR*
		IMPERIAL NA-FATIA
PRINCESS OF THE NILE
		THE MINSTRIL
	THE NILE ROSE*
		BELBOWRIE FAYEKA

Belbowrie MEMORY'S ROSE
(Tarong Shahgar ex The Nile Rose* - by The Minstril)
KUHAYLAH RODANIEH
Tail Female: RODANIA DB

The lovely imported black mare, The Nile Rose, made a very real impression upon me when I first saw her and was a definitive factor in deciding to purchase her tall, grey, Imperial Maakir* daughter. This impression of The Nile Rose is a feeling that is renewed every time I see her. She is an absolutely quality individual and as the dam of our mare Princess of the Nile she figures very prominently in our Egyptian breeding program. As a direct daughter of the mare BELBOWRIE FAYEKA who I had chosen as the mare line to base our straight Egyptian breeding program on she reflects a very immediate link to the strengths and qualities of the EAO breeding program which produced both the sire and dam of Fayeka.

Fayeka is an important mare to us, and to straight Egyptian lines in this country. Her line has consistently produced quality good bodied individuals possessing the necessary strength and soundness plus the quality and style of a good saddle Arabian. It is for this reason that this is the single straight Egyptian female line in our program.

With only three daughters produced to date from The Nile Rose, the opportunity to acquire a second daughter seemed unlikely. Until that is - her lovely young bay daughter - Memory’s Rose, who is sired by a favourite of mine in Tarong Shahgar, became available from Belbowrie Stud. Initially leased, she has been purchased for the stud. Our thanks to Elizabeth Massy-Greeene for her support.

TARONG SHAHGAR is one of the unsung members of a very successful family in this country. He represents the combination of the well known imported black stallion AK SIRHALIMA* (Ansata Ibn Halima ex Sirhabba) and the mare SHAREEFA* (Kaisoon ex Salha) - a mating which also produced the classic type well known mares Tarong Bint Shareefa and Tarong Sharaf. Shahgar even in his advanced years demonstrated great substance and excellent legs with good bone and sound feet. He was a very good moving individual with much to offer the breed and made a lasting impression. He was above all else QUALITY and demonstrated this beautifully. He also offered a chance to access breeding that is almost out of reach these days - being a grandson of two highly esteemed Nazeer sons in Kaisoon and Ansata Ibn Halima. In later life his flamboyant bloodmarkings appeared even more pronounced and extensive. And in his final years he sired some quality straight Egyptian youngsters who may prove to be his best offspring.

B MEMORY'S ROSE

A bright bay, reminiscent of her grand dam Belbowrie Fayeka, Memory combines the ‘older Egyptian’ bloodlines and strengths of her sire Shahgar (Ansata and Babson lines) with the elegant ‘newer Egyptian’ line of the USA based super sire The Minstril – over that solid foundation of EAO breeding that produced Fayeka.

		ANSATA IBN HALIMA
	AL KARIM SIRHALIMA*
		SIRHABBA
TARONG SHAHGAR
		KAISOON
	SHAREEFA*
		SALHA

		RUMINAJA ALI
	THE MINSTRIL
		BAHILA
THE NILE ROSE*
		RAMSES FAYEK EAO
	BELBOWRIE FAYEKA
		ANHAR EAO

A lovely bodied mare, with a good top line and girth - Memory has good legs and feet and terrific action - showing a good free ground covering stride, tracking straight and true. Although only a young mare she is maturing into a good bodied mare with a light, fine neck with lovely throat and refined breedy head.

In 2007 Memory foaled a delightful brown/grey colt to Arundel House Ramses - named Nile Memafinaz. He was a very correct colt with good movement and topline, and he has an excellent length of neck and was anticiated to be retained as a possible stud colt. Unfortunately he fractured a leg ina paddock accident and had to be put down.

In 2009 Memory has produced her first filly and the first foal for us by Rianda's el Nasra. And what a gem she is. Elegant, correct, light on her feet and moving very well - she is an extremely welcome addition to the stud program and will represent both her dam's line and her lovely sire in the years ahead.

NILE MEMASRA pending - 2009 bay filly
(Rianda's el Nasra ex Belbowrie Memory's Rose - by Tarong Shahgar)
KUHAYLAH RODANIEH
Tail Female: RODANIA DB

The first daughter from Memorys Rose and what a lovely filly she is. Elegant, correct, quality and a lovely mover as well. This lovely filly shows the strengths of both parents beautifully and is a nice blending of their distinctive type and strengths. She has an exceptional neck and length of rein and will make an elegant and quality individual and future broodmare for the stud.

NILE MEMASRA

IBN HAFIZA EAO

ANSATA EL MASRI*

ANSATA BINT MISUNA EAO

RIANDAS EL NASRA

SIR IBN MONIET*

RIANDAS RASLINA

KALICIA

AL KARIM SIRHALIMA*

TARONG SHAHGAR

SHAREEFA*

BELBOWRIE MEMORYS ROSE

RAMSES FAYEK EAO

THE NILE ROSE*

BELBOWRIE FAYEKA

SHIRAZA
(Sir Ibn Moniet* ex Arabian Park Bint Faraz - by Arabian Prk Faraz*)
SAQLAWIYAH JIDRANIYAH OF IBN SUDAN
Tail Female: ROGA EL BEDA

We are fortunate to have the opportunity to have a lovely chestnut daughter of Sir Ibn Moniet* on loan to us specifically to breed to Riandas el Nasra. This will allow us to breed together, not only two complimentary individuals, but to linebreed (2:3) on the grand old sire Sir Ibn Moniet* - one of the most intensely Moniet el Nefous bred individuals to come to our shores. Sir Ibn Moniet was also an own son of the great Ibn Moniet el Nefous, a great individual and a great sire who as the sire of the horse AK Jabal Ibn Moniet* is already firmly entrenched in our Egyptian related breeding lines. And he brings athletic ability, masculinity and excellent saddle horse conformation and movement to his progeny and desendents.

Sir Ibn Moniet

Shiraza already shows many of the strengths of her sire and with a doubling of the Sir Ibn Moniet blood in the pedigree of any Nasra foals she produces we hope that progeny from this mating will express the strengths of that significant and highly influential family. Shiraza is a big bodied mare with an excellent depth of girth and strong substantial body. She possesses a light fine neck and good wither leading into a lovely strong top line and tail set. While significant early injuries that were almost fatal have disabled her action considerably - she is still able to enjoy a fast gallop around the pastures.

Descended in tail female line from the Roga el Beda tail female line via the Medallela daughter El Bataa - Shiraza shows the strong influence of the Saklawi Jedran strain. This line iscompounded further through the linebred pedigree of her own sire who is also from the same strain. Strongly influenced by her five crosses to the acclaimed Moniet el Nefous in her pedigree. Three times via her daughter Mabrouka and Mabrouka's son Morafic and also via the Moniet el Nefous sons Ibn Moniet el Nefous and Tuhotmos.

A young AP Bint Faraz - Slater photo

Shiraza's own dam Arabian Park Bint Faraz was a pretty and stylish daughter of the imported Farazdac son Arabian Prk Faraz. He has been in influential sire producing horses with athletic ability as well as good conformation and this should come as no surprise since his own sire Farazdac was the sire of 3 USA National Winners as well as 4 USA Top Tens - 3 of those in performance.

FARAZDAC EAO

A beautiful natured mare who has had limited opportunity at stud we look forward to seeing her hoped for foals with Nasra in the future.

MORAFIC EAO

IBN MONIET EL NEFOUS EAO

MONIET EL NEFOUS EAO

SIR IBN MONIET*

MORAFIC EAO

BINT CLEOPATRAA

CLEOPATRAA EAO

FARAZDAC EAO

ARABIAN PRK FARAZ*

SABAH EL KHEIR

A P BINT FARAZ

KAMAL IBN MORAFIC

A P BINT BINT MORAFIC*

RAFTER G CHARISMA*

David Wesley-Wall . SGA ARABIANS . "MURRUMVELDE" . 1521 DOG TRAP ROAD .