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 great 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 ahs 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 - great grand daughter of RODANIA forms her dam line - being one of the mares selected by the RAS from Crabbet Park 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.

So what did we hope to acieve 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. 

A repeat mating of Princess to AH Ramses has produced a very good and substantial colt foal in 2008. He is an extremely correct individual with a  lovely set of long straight legs and a powerful body and hindquarter. He is a very  tall and upstanding colt who will make a big horse when grown. He is a flamboyant and stylish mover with a great length of stride and way of moving. His neck is beautifully shaped and set and he has his sire's lovely tipped in ears. A black / grey like his full sister he is a very nice colt who has inherited the best of both his parents.

 

For 2009 season Princess is due to foal to the aged sire Rianda's el Nasra and her foaling is greatly anticipated.

 

 

  

 

 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 youngster she is. A very good sized filly she is maturing into a tall upstanding mare with a  huge 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 Kuhahlan strain type in evidence and she is a very welcome addition to the stud. The combination of Ramses over Princess has contibuted a more level top line and considerable strength through the coupling.

   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.

We anticipate her being mated to the lovely Rianda's el Nasra in the next year or so.

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 by 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.

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.