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Into
the Sands of Time A Photo Gallery of
Desert-Bred and CMK Foundation Bloodstock (Stallions)
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Azrek |
Dwarka
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Feysul
| Hadban | Ibrahim | Kars | *Kismet | *Leopard |
Mahruss I | Mahruss II | Maidan | Merzuk
| Pharaoh |
Yataghan
| Zobeyni
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Azrek 
GSB #70
Color: Grey Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1881
Sire: Desert Bred
Dam: Desert Bred
Strain: Seglawi
Jedran
Meaning of Name: Arabic word for a
bluish-grey coat coloration.
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From our Arieana Notebook: A Desert-Bred Stallion and treasured within the CMK Heritage
as one of the original foundation sires for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and
Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Stud in England, Azrek was bred by Sheik Mashlab Ibn Derri
of the of the Resallin Gomussa tribe of the Sebaa Anazeh. Purchased by
The Blunts in March 1887 and shipped to England
the following Spring 1888, Azrek was admired for his action and his prepotent ability to pass it on to
his foals and their foals and for many generations on into the future. Azrek
was described in 1891 by Lady Anne Blunt as: "A magnificent
horse in every way, grand head and neck, powerful shoulder and unrivaled
trotting action...enormous strength of back and quarter...tail set very
high and splendidly carried...the sinew literally like steel to the the
touch. Great speed and impossible to tire. His stock superior to any
other sire yet in the stud." Azrek was sold to South Africa
in 1891 where he was lost to purebred
Arabian horse breeding, but his blood lives on in the horses of Arieana Arabians through his sons
Ahmar and Ben Azrek (see *Nuri Pasha)
and his daughter Rose Diamond (see *Rossana).
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Dwarka 
GSB #216 (GSB Volume XXV)
Color: Bay Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1892 Height: 14.1 1/2
Hands Bone: 7 3/4 Inches
Sire: Desert Bred
Dam: Desert Bred
Strain: Kehilan
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From our Arieana Notebook: Dwarka,
who earned himself the title of "The Marvel", was registered
in the General Stud Book as "chosen especially by a friendly Arab
Sheykh, in the heart of Anazeh country, for Major-General Ralph Broome, who
took him to India in 1897, where he won many races." Sold to Mrs.
Atkinson and imported to England in 1901 where he served as her
sidesaddle field
hunter. Later owned by Captain W.A. McDougall AVD, of the Scaurs,
Jedburgh. In 1916 when Dwarka was 24 years old, Dwarka was either leased or sold to the Prince of
Wales (later King Edward VIII of England) where he stood at stud at his Tor Royal Stud, Devonshire.
Destroyed at Tor Royal in 1921 at age 29, Dwarka's skeleton was
donated to the British Museum. Today at Arieana Arabians the blood of Dwarka
lives on in our
bloodstock through his son *Aldebar.
(Notes on Dwarka derived from "Desertbreds, Writers and
Errors, and Other Things" by Gladys Brown Edwards. Arabian Horse
World, March 1973.)
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Feysul 
GSB #70
Color: Chestnut Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1894
Sire: Ibn Nura (Sottam I x [Bint] Bint Nura)
Dam: El
Argaa [Bint Bint Jellabiet Feysul]
Strain: Kehilan
Jellabi
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From our Arieana Notebook: Treasured within the CMK Heritage
as one of the original foundation sires for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and
Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Park Stud in England, Feysul was bred
by Ali Pasha Sherif, Egypt. Sold at the March 1897 Ali Pasha Sherif sale
(after his death) to Seyyid Mohammed Fathi, from whom W.S. and Lady Anne
Blunt bought him on December 7, 1898 when Feysul was 4 years
old. Used at Sheykh Obeyd Stud until 1904 when he was shipped to
England at the age of 10. Destroyed in 1917 at age 23. Today at Arieana Arabians his blood lives on in our
bloodstock through his sons Ibn Yashmak and
Rasim.
(Notes on Feysul derived from "A Brief History of the Founding of Crabbet
Stud" by Carol W. Mulder. The Arabian Horse Journal, August
1, 1983.)
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Hadban
GSB #49
Color: Bay Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1878
Sire: Desert Bred
Dam: Desert
Bred
Strain: Hadban
Enzekhi
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From our Arieana Notebook: A Desert-Bred Stallion and treasured within the CMK Heritage
as one of the original foundation sires for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and
Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Park Stud in England, Hadban was bred
by Jakin Ibn Akil, Sheik of the Daajayni Tribe of Ateybah, a tribe of
western Nejd, from whom he was purchased by Ali Ibn Amyr of Basra, who
took him to Bombay, India, in the autumn of 1883, when he was 5 years of
age. Bought by W.S. Blunt in December of 1883 from Ali Ibn Amyr, at the
Bombay stables of Abdur Rahman Minni, agent, who was one of the main
suppliers of Arab horses for the British Indian market for racers and
polo mounts. Taken to England in 1884, at age 6. Sold in 1885, at age 7,
for 120 gs., to Mr. D. Mackay of New South Wales, Australia, but
thankfully for us at Arieana Arabians his blood lives on today in our
bloodstock through his daughters Nefisa
and *Rose of Sharon.
(Notes on Hadban derived from "A Brief History of the Founding of Crabbet
Stud" by Carol W. Mulder. The Arabian Horse Journal, August
1, 1983.)
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Ibrahim
PASB #407
Color: Grey Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1899
Sire: Heijer (Desert Bred x Desert Bred)
Dam: Lafitte
(Desert Bred x Desert Bred)
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From our Arieana Notebook: A Desert-Bred Stallion and treasured within the CMK Heritage
as the sire of Skowronek. Ibrahim
was described by
the son of Count Potocki as even more striking than this
stallion's famous son Skowronek with a slightly smaller head
and silky white coat, mane and tail "...to the extent as seen in no
other." Ibrahim is believed to
have been born near Damascus in 1899, purchased in Constantinople by an agent of
Count Joseph Potocki, Sr. in 1907, then shipped to Odessa and on from there
to the Count's Antoniny Stud
in Poland in that same year. Ibrahim was lost (actually executed) during the Bolshevik
Massacre of 1917-1918. In addition to his influence through Skowronek,
Ibrahim also appears in the pedigrees of Arieana's Arabians as a
CMK stallion outcross resource in the pedigrees of *Naborr and *Druzba
through his Polish-born son Posjedon,
Polish-born daughter Kalina (dam of Dziewanna) and
Polish-born daughter Elstera (dam of Ikwa).
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Kars 
GSB #23 (Volume XIV)
Color: Bay Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1874
Sire: Desert
Bred
Dam: Desert
Bred
Strain: Seglawi
Jedran
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From our Arieana Notebook: A Desert-Bred Stallion and treasured within the CMK Heritage
as one of the original foundation sires for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and
Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Stud in England, Kars was bred in the Syrian desert by
Ibn Sbeyni of the Mehed Tribe of the Fedaan of the Sebaa Anazeh and sold by
his breeder as a 2-year old to Mahmud Aga, a Kurdish Chief of an
irregular cavalry force raised in the northern desert during the Russian
war. Mahmud Aga rode Kars in 1877, as a 3-year-old, to the war in
Armenia where nearly every other horse perished. Kars was twice
wounded by bullets. During the retreat from Armenia to Aleppo Kars appeared so
close to death that he was abandoned on the road, but he got up and
followed his master. Kars was little more than a skeleton when purchased
by the Blunts in Aleppo in December of 1877 for £69 and then taken to England
in July of 1878 where he was well used as a sire of quality foals and appreciated as
one of the most valuable horses they secured. In 1885 Kars was sold to Mr. D. Mackay of New
South Wales, Australia for 250 gs. Thankfully these Kars traits of stamina,
heart, courage, and devotion still live on in the horses of Arieana Arabians
and come down to us in our pedigrees through his daughters Raschida
and Kushdil (see *Garaveen).
(Notes on Kars derived from "A Brief History of the Founding of Crabbet
Stud" by Carol W. Mulder. The Arabian Horse Journal, August
1, 1983.)
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*Kismet 
AHR #253
Color: Chestnut
(Dark) Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1877
Sire: Desert
Bred
Dam: Desert
Bred
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From our Arieana Notebook: A Desert-Bred Stallion and source for one of our failing CMK Sirelines here
in the United States. Please see *Kismet's
special story page in our Heritage Notebook.
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*Leopard 
AHR #233
Color: Grey Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1873
Sire: Desert
Bred
Dam: Desert
Bred
Strain: Seglawi
Jedran
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From our Arieana Notebook: Bred in the desert by Jidan Ibn Mhayd of the Fedaan Anazeh. His breeder
gave him to the Turkish governor of Syria, who in turn gave him to Sultan Abdul Hamid II of
Turkey, ruler of the Ottoman Empire, who then in turn presented him in
1879 as a gift to General Ulysses S. Grant, who then imported him to the
United States. *Leopard was a horse of quality who was renown for
his exceptional ability at the trot, and we treasure *Leopard for his place in our CMK history and in the pedigrees of our Arieana Arabians as the sire of Anazeh, the first purebred foal
ever both born in the United States and registered in our
North American studbook. For further research and detailed information on *Leopard, we
recommend reading *Leopard
and *Linden Tree by Michael Bowling.
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Mahruss
I 
Color: Grey Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 187-
Sire: Wazir
Dam: Bint
Faras Saouda
Strain: Wadman
Hursan
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From our Arieana Notebook: Mahruss I is treasured within the CMK Heritage
as the sire of Mahruss II, an original foundation
sire for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and
Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Stud in England. Bred in Egypt from the
bloodstock of Abbas Pasha by Ali Pasha Sherif, Mahruss I died in
1895 in Cairo. The Blunts purchased two sons of Mahruss I: Mahruss II and Abu Khasheb (later sold to
India), and they described Mahruss I as handsome, smoothly made,
and with good legs. Mahruss I was tall for an Arab standing 15.2.
(Notes derived from Carol June Woodbridge Mulder's Imported
Foundation Stock of North American Arabian Horses, Volume 1. Revised
edition 1993.)
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Mahruss
II 
GSB #235 (Volume 19 )
Color: Chestnut Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1893
Sire: Mahruss
I
Dam: Bint
Nura II
Strain: Dakhman
Nejib
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From our Arieana Notebook: Treasured within the CMK Heritage
as one of the original foundation sires for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and
Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Stud in England, Mahruss II was bred by
Ali Pasha Sherif, Egypt. Purchased from his breeder in January 1896,
when Mahruss II was a 3-year-old, Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt
took him to their Crabbet Stud in England in May of 1897 when he was 4. Mahruss
II was sold to Captain J. Hamilton Leigh in 1900, at the age of 7, where he
proved a good sire for his new owner in Ireland. We at Arieana Arabians
today see
Mahruss II's lasting influence in our bloodstock through
his sons *Ibn Mahruss and *Rijm. (Notes derived from "A Brief History of the Founding of Crabbet
Stud" by Carol W. Mulder. The Arabian Horse Journal, August
1, 1983.)
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Maidan 
GSB #14 (Volume 16)
Color: Chestnut Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1869
Sire: Desert
Bred
Dam: Desert
Bred
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From our Arieana Notebook: A Desert-Bred Stallion and source for one of our CMK Sirelines here
in the United States. Please see Maidan's
special story page in our Heritage Notebook.
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Merzuk 
GSB #2111 (GSB Volume 17)
Color: Chestnut Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1887
Sire: Wazir
Dam: Makbula
El Kebira
Strain: Kehilan
Jellabi
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From our Arieana Notebook: Treasured within the CMK Heritage
as one of the original foundation sires for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and
Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Stud in England, Merzuk was bred by
Ali Pasha Sherif, Egypt. Purchased from his breeder on January 29, 1889
when a 2-year-old. The Blunts took him to England in 1891, at age 4.
Sold in Summer of 1891 for 200 gs., to Sir Henry Lock, Governor of the
Cape, for export to Basutoland, Cape of Good Hope, Africa. Merzuk
died in Africa in 1893, at age 6, a victim of the African horse
sickness. We at Arieana Arabians proudly today see Merzuk's lasting influence in our bloodstock through
his daughter Ridaa. (Notes derived from "A Brief History of the Founding of Crabbet
Stud" by Carol W. Mulder. The Arabian Horse Journal, August
1, 1983.)
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Pharaoh 
GSB #39 (GSB Volume 14)
Color: Bay Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1876
Sire: Bay
Kehilan Ajuz (Desert
Bred)
Dam: Berghi's
Bay Mare (Desert Bred)
Strain: Seglawi
Jedran of Ibn ed Derra
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From our Arieana Notebook: A Desert-Bred Stallion and treasured within the CMK Heritage
as one of the original foundation sires for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's and
Lady Anne Blunt's Crabbet Stud in England, Pharaoh was bred by
Barki Ibn Ed Derri of the Resallin Gomussa of the Sebaa Anazeh.
Purchased through Mr. J.H. Skene, British Counsul at Aleppo, from Neddi Ibn Ed Derri, head of the Ibn Ed
Derri family of the Resallin by Wilfrid S. Blunt in October of 1878 when
Pharaoh was 2. The purchase was made at Beteyen Ibn Mirshid's
camp near Palmyra; the price was £275, £125 in gold, the rest being the value of a mare given.
Pharaoh was taken to
England in 1879 at age 3. On July 2, 1882, when he was 6, Pharaoh was
sold at the first Crabbet auction to Count Potocki who paid 525 gs. for
him (the top price of the sale at which 11 Arabians were sold) and took
him to his Antoniny Stud in Poland. Three years later, in 1885, when
Pharoah was 9, Count Potocki sold him to Russia where he became chief
sire of the Imperial State Stud at Derkoul. We thankfully today see
Pharaoh's lasting influence in the horses of Arieana Arabians through
his daughter Bozra and her daughters *Bushra
(see *Ibn Mahruss) and Bukra
as well as his son Jeroboam. (Notes derived from "A Brief History of the Founding of Crabbet
Stud" by Carol W. Mulder. The Arabian Horse Journal, August
1, 1983.)
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Yataghan
GSB #2102
Color: Chestnut Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1870
Sire: Desert Bred
Dam: Desert Bred
Strain: Kehilan Jurayban
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From our Arieana Notebook: Yataghan, bred in the desert by Sheik Sulejman Ibn Mershid of the
Gomussa tribe of the Sebaa Anazeh, was purchased in the desert by J.H. Skeene, British
Consul at Aleppo, Syria for the honourable Albert G. Sandeman of England.
Yataghan was imported into England in 1876 at age 6 and taken
with several other imported purebred Arabians to Sandeman's leased estate at
Brightwell Park, Oxfordshire. Yataghan, named after the formidable Turkish double
curved saber, was one of the first animals to be registered in the then
new pure Arab section of the General Stud Book of England, predating the
Blunt's. Yataghan
is treasured within the CMK Heritage as the sire of *Naomi.
(Notes derived from Carol June Woodbridge Mulder's Imported
Foundation Stock of North American Arabian Horses, Volume 2. Revised
edition, 1993).
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Zobeyni
Egypt #233
Color: Grey Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1844
Sire: Barq (Desert Bred x Desert Bred)
Dam: Sununah
(Shur x Awdah al Shakra)
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From our Arieana Notebook: Considered an
"Original Arab" Stallion for a Sheykh Obeyd (Blunt in Egypt)
Sireline. Zobeyni was a Foundation Horse for the stud of Abbas Pasha
I, Viceroy of Egypt 1848-1854, and purchased by Abbas Pasha I sometime prior to
1846. Zobeyni was of the Seqlawi Jedran strain
bred by Barraq Ibn Sbeyni of the Mehed tribe of the Fedaan Anazeh and is treasured as the sireline source for many horses in
the pedigrees of Arieana's Arabians including the numerous descendants of the incomparable Mesaoud
and his (nearly) full-sister in blood Bint Helwa. We also
treasure the many-branching influences mid-pedigree of Zobeyni's son Wazir
and daughter Bint Nura I.
(NB: The painting used above was originally published as "A Stallion of Abbas
Pasha" and believed to be modeled after Zobeyni.) For more
information on the life and influence of Zobeyni, please refer to Carol June Woodbridge Mulder's Imported
Foundation Stock of North American Arabian Horses, Volume 1, p. 236,
Revised edition, 1993.
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To see
for yourself how the influence of these CMK Foundation Stallions still
lives on in the prized and cherished horses of Arieana
Arabians, please contact us. Visitors are always welcome;
appointments are appreciated.
Suzi Morris
ARIEANA ARABIANS
28952 Via Hacienda
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675-5546
Phone: 949-248-1260
e-mail: arieana@fea.net
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© 2003-2012. Website designed and maintained by Suzi Morris.
All rights reserved. This page originally created for Arieana's Heritage Notebook
on October 17, 2004. Updated with new information and current as of August
30, 2012.
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