Lady Anne Blunt, the great lady of the desert, revered the Kuhaylan type and collected many of the Abbas Pasha descendants as well as horses of compatible phenotype & lineage. The Kuhaylan stallion Kazmeen and the Kuhaylan mare Bint Rissala went to the Royal Agricultural Society after her passing at Sheykh Obeyd Stud in 1917. Lady Anne had suggested that a permanent “Heirloom” stud be established to preserve the blood of these magnificent horses, but not until the turn of the 21st century, through the efforts of the Fippen family and Joan Schleicher, would “Heirloom” as an entity be formally documented in Heirloom Egyptian Arabian Horses 1840-2000 (San Jose, CA, 2004). The biggest surprise when looking for the Kuhaylan families in this book is that NONE ARE ALIVE TODAY!
Could the Abbas Pasha Kuhaylans have been nothing more than a mirage on the hot desert sand? Happily the answer is "No" & involves looking at the entire pedigree instead of the conventional tail female strain designation.
Richard Pritzlaff was acutely aware of the scarcity of Kuhaylan blood in 1958 when he imported *Rashad Ibn Nazeer, *Bint El Bataa, *Bint Moniet El Nefous, *Bint Nefisa, and *Bint Dahma. The first three horses were by Nazeer with 75% Kuhaylan blood (sire Mansour & dam by Kazmeen). The dams of the first two horses were by Sheikh El Arab (by Mansour), and *Rashad's dam line went to the legendary Kuhaylan mare( Rodania ), whose blood is in virtually every great race horse today,( including *Wiking). *Bint Nefisa and *Bint Dahma are over 45% Kuhaylan with Mansour, his brother Ibn Samhan, Kazmeen, Rabdan, and Mabrouk Manial in their pedigrees. *Ansata Ibn Halima, like *Rashad Ibn Nazeer and *Bint El Bataa, was also line-bred to Mansour.
Looking at Henry Babson’s 1932 Heirloom imports: *Fadl and *Maaroufa were 57% Kuhaylan (Mabrouk Manial, Rabdan, Koheilan El Mossen); *Bint Bint Sabbah was 73% (Mabrouk Manial, Kazmeen, Koheilan El Mossen); *Bint Saada was 88% (Ibn Samhan, Mabrouk Manial, Rabdan, Mashkour), which explains why Babsons with her blood — Serr Maariner, Faddan, and Faarad — were great athletes. *Bint Saada’s brother (Balance) was the greatest race horse in Egyptian history. *Bint Serra I being line-bred to the Blunt’s immortal Queen of Sheba, made her a great outcross for *Fadl.
With Saqlawi and Dahman dam lines and Kuhaylan sire lines, phenotypes of each strain occur. For instance Fa Serr was phenotype Kuhaylan (short-coupled and muscular) and his full brother Fay-El-Dine was phenotype Saqlawi (longer face, body, and legs). Kuhaylan phenotypes have more trusting and easy-going temperaments, whereas the Saqlawi phenotypes are less trusting and tend to be more aggressive. Prince Mohamed Ali would let his dogs out to chase his horses for exercise, but noted that his Saqlawi horses wound up chasing the dogs away instead. Dahman Phenotypes are in between the Kuhaylan & Saqlawi phenotypes.
Because no new Kuhaylan blood is available, the best way to save these precious (live-in-your-tent) horses is to cross the predominately Mansour (Pritzlaff) Kuhaylan phenotype horses with the predominately Mabrouk Manial / Rabdan (Babson), Kuhaylan phenotype horses — precisely what Pritzlaff did when he added the Babson (Faarad) to his breeding program in 1964. Saud El Ameer, RG Al Mone, and Ansata El Salim are good examples of Mansour blood crossed with Babson Kuhaylan blood. Sadly, the Straight Pritzlaff horses are quickly disappearing and number far fewer than the Straight Babsons. Rashad Nefuso RSI (76% Kuhaylan) is the ONLY blue-black Straight Pritzlaff stallion transporting semen in the world today! In an effort to save the great Kuhaylan legacy, Rarest-of-the-Rare Egyptian Arabians is offering, for 2006, a “No Charge” Rashad Nefuso RSI breeding fee to any Heirloom Egyptian mare.
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