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Chris Haigh photo   Sharon Myers photo |
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TORRYBURN HALAMA
(AK Jabal Ibn Moniet* ex Sadaf - by Abiram*)
DAHMIEH OM AAMR
A daughter of the last Bostocks import - AK Jabal Ibn Moniet, and out of the supurb Abiram* broodmare - Sadaf, Halama was a very stylish youngster - who as a yearling was Champion Mare at the Newcastle Show. I acquired Halama several years later and she quickly became my favourite saddle mare. She is always a delight to ride and has such a beautiful way of going.
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Her first foal for us was an upstanding chestnut filly by the Count Manilla son - Count Chatain. CHAITAMA (pictured) was a dark chestnut with flaxen mane and tail - and possessed of the 'CHATAIN' action.
Since then Halama has produced an excellent tall bay gelding to our own Abu Jaask - BEY ABU - who like many of the BASKEER x SADAF cross exhibits a really lovely head. (We think due to the IREX blood!) Originally sold to Ningadoo Arabians as an endurance prospect where he was showing much promise - he has recently been sold to the Middle East on the basis of his quality and potential.
Bred too the leased stallion CAMEO THE WIZARD Halama produced a lovely tall grey filly in 2003 who is very like her dam in quality and style and who we think will make an excellent saddle prospect. HALAWA-SGA was to be retained until Halama once again foaled a filly this season by Abu Jaask.
Halama's latest foal produced in 2005, is a tall upstanding chestnut filly who is a beautiful combination of her sire and dam in type and conformation. Foaled several weeks late she was a difficult birth due to her increased size - however she and her dam have recovered well and this filly presents us with a wonderful opportunity for the future. She is just as athletic an individual as her older full sibling BEY ABU exp UAE - and at this early stage is all neck and hindquarter. She will be registered as HAMAASA-SGA.
 HALAMA IN RETIREMENT HAMAASA-SGA 
HALAMA has entered retirement now with a lovely daughter in the stud and is set to enjoy her remaining time with us.
 Photos Chris Haigh 
MERIMINDI BASKABELLE
(Hamil ex Torryburn Rashaqa - by Baskeer)
DAHMIEH OM AAMR
One of the most outstanding mares descended from the BOSTOCKS stud today, is the Champion mare TORRYBURN RASHAQA. Sired by Classic Supreme Exhibet Baskeer ex the lovely matron SADAF - Rashaqa is a glorious doe eyed beauty. A beautiful bay, with outstanding temperament and beauty and lovely conformation she has been an exemplary mare both in the showring, at stud and under saddle. In 1994 she appeared in the ring at the Victorian Classic where she was named Champion Senior Mare and SUPREME EXHIBIT.
TORRYBURN RASHAQA - dam of M. Baskabelle 
In the same year as this showring success Rashaqa also produced what is deemed one of her very best progeny in her lovely brown bay daughter Baskabelle. Baskabelle was sired by the stallion HAMIL - a past AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CHAMPION - Halter and Harness - as well as TOP 10 Ridden all at the same Championships in 1986. Hamil - is an outstanding bay stallion who was well known in the ownership of the Vink's of Tarong Stud. He was however actually bred himself by Torryburn stud and he is also from the family of Nefertiti - his lovely dam Nasula (Sirocco ex Nofret) was a granddaughter of Nefertiti. Nasula was also a half sister to our own foundation mare T. Handama (Ibn Antar* ex Nofret). The sire of Hamil was the celebrated black SE stallion AK Sirhalima* (by Ansata Ibn Halima) who has made such a contribution to breeding in this country.
Also of special interest to us in this mare's breeding is the double cross to that outstanding Crystal Fire* son SIROCCO. Combining those two excellent UK imports and progenitors of outstanding endurance stock Crystal Fire* and SCHERZADE* - Sirocco was an excellent moving horse - a great show horse and an even greater breeding stallion. His line is very valuable in any pedigree. In particular in this pedigree 2 of his best daughters NASULA (ex Nofret) an outstanding producing mare and dam of champions - as well as the lovely FAYDA (ex Nefertiti) claimed by many as the most beautiful mare ever bred by the Bostocks stud.
Baskabelle represents not only her lovely dam - but with her double cross to Nefertiti though the dam line of both parents - fits beautifully into our Nefertiti based breeding program. A mare of beautiful type - with a big soft eye and very pretty exotic face. She is possessed of a long strong hindquarter and a strong deep body with exceptional strength of loin. She is a mare very reminiscent of many of the Peter Upton sketches and we are very glad to have her in our herd where her breeding too Abu Jaask is much anticipated.
JALISA - dam of Desert Sprite 
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TORRYBURN DESERT SPRITE (deceased)
(Fall Farm Desert Asahm* ex Jalisa - by AK Jabal Ibn Moniet*)
DAHMIEH OM AAMR
Desert Sprite was sired by the much under-rated imported son of The Egyptian Prince - FF Desert Asahm. Her dam Jalisa (see picture above) was one of my favourite mares of all time. I had the pleasure to prepare her for racing years ago. She was a lovely big mare with beautiful action, with a long free stride - full of power. A full sister to Torryburn Jaseem and Torryburn Kalila - she was out of that wonderful Bostocks brood mare KASTANA (Crystal Fire* ex NEFERTITI). Desert Sprite inherited the best of both her parents. Like her dam she was a lovely mover and although not as tall a mare - she had a beautiful stride and a lovely topline. Her sire contributed a shorter back and stronger coupling together with sound legs and feet and a shorter more refined head.
 TORRYBURN DESERT SPRITE (Salinas-SGA at foot)
As a broodmare she had limited opportunities at stud - but did produce two excellent youngsters to Baskeer (sire of our own senior stallion) for Torryburn stud prior to coming to us. Bred to Abu Jaask she produced for us a delightful filly with excellent light free action with a great length of stride, a good strong body and lovely neck. This is a mating that draws together multiple lines too the matriarch Nefertiti - as well as compounding the blood of that outstanding cross of AK Jabal Ibn Moniet over the Crystal Fire*/Nefertiti daughter Kastana. This filly SALINAS-SGA will be retained for the stud for the future. She is a beautiful representative of both her sire and dam.
Unfortunately we lost Sprite to a serious case of colic and a twisted gut late in 2005 while heavily in foal to Baromanov. She lives on through her lovely daughter.
SALINAS-SGA and her dam T.Desert Sprite  |
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SALINAS-SGA
(Abu Jaask ex Torryburn Desert Sprite - by Fall Farm Desert Asahm*)
DAHMIEH OM AAMR
The only foal produced for us during her dam's few years with us - this is filly is a delight to handle and have on the farm. She has the most biddable and relaxed temperament of any stock we have bred and is a pleasure to handle. Physically she is a lovely combination of her sire and dam - she is a beautiful bodied filly with a strong back and coupling and good hindquarter. She has a well set neck and a good shoulder and she moves with a light free stride. Good straight legs and sound feet together with a refined head make her a wonderful prospect for the future both under saddle and within the studs broodmare band.
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SALILA - dam of BOSTOCKS FANTISELLE
FANTAISSONCE-SGA