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Famous Ancestors - *Adhem |
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His name could be the answer to this simple question :
Who was, for a long time, the only "black" stallion imported from Egypt to the U.S.A.?
Yes... *Adhem was the first black son of Alaa El Din and the first black Straight Egyptian
horse to come to the United. His name still shines as one of the most
brilliant stars of the bloodlines heavily used in black breeding programs all
around the world.
Alaa El Din |
*Adhem is a Sheykh Obeyd, Straight Egyptian,
Al Khamsa, Blue List eligible and Asil horse. Being by Alaa El Din
out of Zabia by Adham, he was born in Egypt on the 17th of January
1967 and registered in the EAO studbook as number 209. He was bred by
Al Badeia Stud Farm who owned his mother and which is now one of the most
famous Arabian Studs in the world. Actually at the time of his birth it was
still the beginning of this stud farm situated
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"Adhem's pedigree is a very special and rare one, although it contains
some of the most classic Egyptian bloodlines used at the beginning of the 20th century.
First, he's of the Kuhaytan Jellabi strain, a strain that was highly prized even before
Abbas Pasha. Today, it's still one of the most regarded strains, providing modern show
horses of renown like the famous RDM Maar Hala. You can note that *Adhem is pure-in-the
strain Kuhaylan being by the Kuhayian Rodan stallion Alaa El Din out of the Kuhaylah
Jellabiyet mare Zabia (also called Zabeia or Zobeya), he also displayed and bred strong
Kuhaylan type.
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Like all modern descendants of the Kuhaylan Jellabi strain,
his tail female goes back to the famous mare of Abbas Pasha,
Jellabiet Feysul. This line was later bred on by H.H. Prince Mohamed Ali who
was the owner of Bint Yamama (Saklawi I and Yemama by Aziz). He was the well
known breeder of the famous horses exported by W. R. Brown and Henry B. Babson
to the United States in 1932, *Nasr, *Roda, *Aziza, "HH Mohamed Ali's Hamida, *Fadl,
*Maaroufa, *Zarife, *HH Mohamed Ali's Hamama, thanks to the Bint Yemama daughters,
Negma and Aroussa and later her granddaughter Mahroussa.
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Bint Yamama (KDV) with her foal, Hilal |
Negma |
Most of Negma, Aroussa and Mahroussa progeny came to the
United States and only Bint Yamama's granddaughters, Radia,
Bint Aroussa and Zahra remained in Egypt. Bint Aroussa never left
any offspring and Bint Radia's tail female disappeared. This left us
only Zahra to bred on the Kuhaylan Jellabi family
in Egypt and this is "Adhem's rare tail female!
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Zahra in turn, had only one breeding granddaughter Ghazala I, but unlike her ancestors,
Ghazala I was destined to a successful breeding career. She got 5 daughters. One Straight
Egyptian *Bint Gazella by Sid Abouhom was exported to the U.S.A. where she left a prolific
line through her daughter Meshmesha by *Anwwarr. Another Straight Egyptian, Atfa by Morafic,
was also bought by Sayed Marei of Al Badeia Stud and kept in Egypt, however the main part
of her produce was exported like her nephew *Adhem and her only granddaughter remaining in
Egypt, Hind Albadeia, didn't seem to breed on. Among these daughters, three were also Sheykh
Obeyd. One was out of El Belbesi daughter, Bint Ghazala, whose Sheykh Obeyd daughter never
left any progeny, and two were by the black stallion Adham : Ghazira, dead without progeny,
and Zabia, mother of *Adhem.
Actually, it looks like there are no more Kuhaylan Jellabi tail female in Egypt that never
left this country. All of Zabia's offspring was in their turn exported all over the world :
*Adhem and his half sisters *Sabah El Kheir by *Tuhotmos and *Nasra by Morafic went to the
United States and the last, El Aziza by Gassir went to Hungary then later to Germany.
*Nasra was imported by James G. Dawd but is more well known as one of the foundation mare
of Jarrell McCracken for his famous Bentwood Farm.
El Aziza became an good broodmare for the National Hungarian Stud of Babolna.
She was imported in foal to the Al Badeia head stallion Kayed and produced
the grey mare 19 Kayed-1. At Babolna she was bred to the many different
Straight Egyptian stallions: Ghalion, Ibn Galal, etc. Just like her, all
of her offspring went to Germany where she now has an influential Straight
Egyptian family. In Germany, she produced *Chrymont Aasirah who was exported
to the U.S.A. as a yearling.
*Sabah El Kheir is of special note because she's the only tail female within Sheykh Obeyd to
this part of the Kuhaylan Jellabi family that lived in Egypt after the 1932 importations.
She is also an international broodmare with offspring on three different continents.
She was first exported to France where she got two sons by a Polish stallion, one of
them Sahel II was used as a breeding stallion. Sahel II was used a lot by French breeders
on local breeds of horses and ponies. He got 210 produce during his lifetime but only three
of them were Arabian horses. He had several good to excellent offspring competing in jumping,
dressage and cross country events against all breeds, like Orly du Colombie, Quirire, Vendredi,
Bahia Des Graves, Baraka De Tescou, Tirana Du Plaisir, Aurelia Du Quercy, all French Warmbloods
; and also the Anglo-Arabians, Black De Berot and Basra ; and the ponies, Dehli, Daizy Des Lilas,
Dispy, D'Astora and Empereur IV.
Then it's pretty sad however that *Sabah El Kheir's inbred Sheykh Obeyd son
Chara El Tuhotmos died so young. A horse with 75 % of "`Tuhotmos blood is
really precious considering the success of Sheykh Obeyd horses with the
same breeding like the famous E! Mon Moniet (out of Amira Moniet)
and Bint Masarra (out of *Masarra), who are truly corner stones of Sheykh Obeyd breeding.
Later came Arabian Prk Faraz and Bint Sabah, Straight Egyptian siblings,
by *Farazdac. Arabian Prk Faraz was exported to Australia and had a wide
influence on Arabian breeding in that country with 90 Arabian foals, and
most of them coming from the "Arabian Park" breeding program too.
Bint Sabah remained in the U.S.A. and became a prolific broodmare
for David and Mary Ann Kent of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
At that time, *Sabah El Kheir was acquired by Bentwood Farms like her half-sister
*Nasra. There, she produced several good Straight Egyptian offspring, for example,
the gelding Sharral, by TheEgyptianPrince, who attended class A Events or CT Rosina,
by Ansata El Sherif, exported to Brazil. Only one of her daughters is available to
perpetuate her Sheykh Obeyd line, CT Sheria, by the glorious Ansata El Sherif. Several
offspring were then secured for Sheykh Obeyd breeding by devoted Sheykh Obeyd breeders
like David L. Myers of Renaissance Arabians or Janet F. Bazell. A very special mare is
Mijan AmiraSheria, who is by the *Adhem son, Saud El Ameer, thus making her 37.5% Zabia !
CT Sheria and her daughter by Saud El Ameer, Mijan AmiraSheria
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This photo was taken in Egypt
by Judith Forbis when *Adhem
was just two years old. |
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*Adhem's tail male goes back to Sakiawi I through Nazeer like most
Straight Egyptian horses in the world. The sire of *Adhem, Alaa El Din,
had considerable success in the U.S.A. First, he's a maternal brother to
Moftakhar, a famous Sheykh Obeyd, Straight Egyptian stallion. But he's also
the sire of three sire of National winners.
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The Sheykh Obeyd half-brother of
*Adhem, *Soufian (out of Moniet El Nefous) has sired two National winners. The
full brothers *Fateh++ and *Farazdac are also sires of National winners in Native
Costume and at halter. *Faleh++ was himself a successful performance horse. He was
U.S. National Champion in Native Costume in 1971 and 1975, Reserve Champion in 1973
and TOP TEN in 1974 ; U.S. National Champion in Sidesaddle Class in 1974 and 1976 and
TOP TEN in English Pleasure in 1975.
Alaa El Din daughter's were certainly some of the best broodmares in the world.
The unmistakable *Magidaa is the dam of three very well-known National Champions.
The unequalled *Shiaa++ became U.S. TOP TEN Champion mare at halter in 1971 and was
the dam of 2 National Champions. The Sheykh Obeyd mare Luftia was exported to the
National Hungarian Stud of Babolna where she became an important foundation broodmare
and is the dam of the missed *Ibn Galal 1-7 who became U.S. TOP TEN mare in 1984. |
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MAGlDAA 56075
Sired by Alaa El Din and out of the beautiful mare Maysa
Dam of:
1974 National Futurity Champion Stallion
1975 National Futurity Champion Mare 1975 Top Ten Stallion
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| The imported mare *Ramses Ama,l is the dam of the successful Keyaf, who became U.S. National Champion Futurity Stallion in 1978 and Canadian TOP TEN Stallion in 1979. The overshadowed maternal sister to *Sakr+++, *Daad, was also the dam of Nagwa Fouad, a U.S. TOP TEN Futurity Mare. One of the precious Sheykh Obeyd daughters of Alaa El Din stayed in Egypt, Rawayeh, is the dam of one of the most highly regarded Straight Egyptian stallions in the U.S., the mystic *El Mareekh, who became U.S. TOP TEN Stallion before his early death. But the most famous Alaa Et Din daughter is without any doubt Hanan. This mare imported to Germany by the Dr. Hans Nagel became his foundation broodmare and reached the status of one of the most influential mares in the world with an unreal speed. Her sons and daughters were exported all over the world, her bloodlines are used heavily with success on a huge amount of different lines and many of her descendants are top show and producing horses. The best example is the legendary *Jamill, U.S. TOP TEN Stallion in 1983, that was used by the most influential Straight Egyptian breeding program in the world, Ansata Arabian Stud of Don and Judith Forbis.
Looking at "Adhem's pedigree you can easily imagine the great Kuhaylan type he had. In the photos of him you can easily see how muscular and powerful he was. He was unmistakably THE stallion. His silhouette was of prefect balance with rounded outlines. He was truly well built with deep chest, quite broad front-legs positioned very far back from the chest and very muscular especially on the forearm, and a very developed back-hand. He was a compact horse with a wide front-hand and back-hand. His typey horse had just exquisite ears, small and very close together, and pretty large expressive dark eyes. However he didn't had a very long neck. *Adhem was an heterozygous black horse (meaning he could produce every color and less black than an homozygous black), being by the chestnut Alaa El Din, with no white markings. But several of his descendants are homozygous black horses.
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His pedigree features also some Saklawi and Hadban l
ines but almost no Dahman tines which is pretty amazing
when one think about the actual influence El Dahmah and
Bint El Bahreyn lines have on the whole Arabian bred.
His Saklawi lines provided him grace, elegance, beauty and
refinement. It also made him took a little lighter than a
pure Kuhaylan horses. We also know he Ghazieh tine provided
fabulous Endurance and Racing horses as welt as natural Show horses.
His Hadban tines could be one of the reasons he was such a
good and prepotant stallion, as Hadban lines are renown for
producing the most fabulous stallions of the bred.
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You may also note that *Adhem's dam Zabia was a highly linebred mare.
Her sire, Adham was by Ibn Fayda out of Zahra and her dam was by an Ibn
Fayda son out of a Zahra daughter. This make *Adhem also linebred to
this horse with 18.75 % of blood of both Ibn Fayda and Zahra. It's not
hard to imagine the black *Adhem was certainly looking like his black
grandfather Adham, as Adham's ancestors are dominant in *Adhem's pedigree.
It's also very likely that *Adhem was named after him. Adham's father Ibn
Fayda was one of the numerous Ibn Rabdan offspring but he was certainty
looking more like his Saklawi dam line. But we must consider Adham took
maybe more after his dam Zahra. She was by Gamil Manial (Mansour's sire)
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*Adhem was imported as a 3 year old in 1970 by Joseph and
Trucillia L. Enz of Dalton City, Illinois, who owned him
until 1975 when he was sold to Golden Future Arabians of
Temecula, California. He was then registered with number 64913 by the AHRA..
The Enz family bred a number of *Adhem get for their "Aziza"
breeding program . You can also note that they owned and use
a close Straight Egyptian relative to *Adhem, Nazim Pasha
(*Ansata Ibn Halima and *Nasra by *Morafic out of Zabia,
'Adhem's mother). This shows their great trust in the rare and
precious tail female of *Adhem.
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Aziza Serr Anadah, an *Adhem daughter |
Later, Golden Future Arabians used him also extensively
and bred many very good offspring by him. And they were still
recorded as owners of some *Adhem descendants in 2000. A good example
of the horses they bred from him would be Shaitan Aswaad, a bay stallion
out of a Davenport bred mare, who attended many Class A performance Shows
in English Pleasure and Driving. His first son, the black SH Midniteexpress
(out of Inver Bey, a Crabbetl Polish bred mare, owned by Charmaine Sharpe)
attended many Class A performance Shows in Native Costume, Stock Horse, Western
Pleasure and Working Cow. His last son, the grey gelding, Ilektrik Night (out of
the Marvs Candy Kid, a Polish /Crabbet/Babson mare), bred by Ralph G. and Mary S.
Stange, was a real all-around horse as he won at several Class A shows at halter
as well as a Level 1 Dressage Class's. |
| Erenst C. Golden is also the breeder of the grey stallion Gift of Prophecy (out of Farah Zaroussa, a Babsan bred mare) who wan several Class A performance Championships, more especially in Hunter Classes. Gift of Prophecy, later bought by Terry L. Walker, is himself the sire of Aziza Bint Sahana (out of the Aziza bred, Aziza Serr Raymah by Nazim Pasha out of Aziza Serr Anadah by *Adhem). Bint Sahana, bred by Terry Walker and Harold Coder Jr., is so a mare with a very high line-breeding to Zabia, *Adhem's mother. She won many times in a row Region 14 performance Championship or Reserve, as well as various performance Class A shows over the country, in Jumping and Hunter.
Terry L. Walker also bred ZA Nabi Sheitan (Gift of Prophecy & Mitzie tbmaxhue, a Crabbet bred mare), who wan several Class A performance Shows in Western Pleasure. Gift of Prophecy also bred the bay stallion Tajatty (out of Razque Matai, a Polish /Crabbet/Davenport mare, owned by Gertrude Weiget) who won at many Class A Shows and Reserve Championships in Western Pleasure.
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*Adhem is renown for having an exquisite production. His well bred offspring include very pretty geldings, fine broodmares and excellent stallions. He gives level headed offspring. Most of his descendants are doing horses with substance and conformation, yet still beautiful inside and outside. They are able to perform in nearly every class from Racing to Park. Some of them have national results in Jumping, English and Western Pleasure, Costume, Driving, Endurance, Reining and of course Halter. |
| His male descendants are of good quality. They are big, beautiful animals with excellent conformation and well proportioned compact bodies. They have size and power you don't see everyday. And those guys have incredible strong bone too. *Adhem is adding a lovely plenty of hip and top tine. But he adds also a classic but gorgeous perfectly dished head, with huge and kind eyes, and welt set necks. They have excellent tail carriage. Hi s foals inherited his strong shoulder. They all have super correct legs. They are well known for their outstanding disposition. They are very gentle and well-mannered with a bit of a character, yet they are real people lovers. They are spirited and smart animals with a tot of flash. Some of them however are reported to be hot but always with a lot of style. They are always ready-to-please with a quick teaming attitude. When moving they are quick an their feet. Most of them inherited his smooth black color. When they're young they just took from lovely to absolutely stunning. But when they became older you can see how athletic they are. Most of them are suited to become great stallions and show or riding prospects, especially for Trail or Endurance.
During his lifetime *Adhem had only two Sheykh Obeyd produces. Both black stallions and full brothers out of the black Pritzlaff mare Gita RSI (Faraad and Grete by *Rashad Ibn Nazeer) bred by Earl L. and Helen R. Foster who owned the mare. And is it really a surprise for us Sheykh Obeyd breeders that they soon became the most well-known and thought after sons of *Adhem ?
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| The older is Saud El Ameer, a solid black and homozygous for the black color gene. He stands well over 15.2 hands, has a pretty face with huge eyes, super tong neck, smooth body with level top tine and croup and has excellent tail carriage. Best of all, he produces all these wonderful traits to his offspring. He was never shown due to a fracture to his leg in a trailer accident as a yearling. However, he has gone on to make a great difference in the Egyptian and Black breeding industry. He has produced over 150 quality foals, the majority of them being black. He has been listed many times in the Arabian Horse World Magazine's Leading Sire List! He's owned by Hughes Arabians Inc., which is known for producing their quality offspring and is the largest black Arabian breeding farm in North America. |
Saud El Ameer |
| Saud El Ameer was quite a prolific stallion but we cannot avoid to mention some of his most successful offspring. The first I need to tell you about is FA Ameera, a drop dead gorgeous black Sheykh Obeyd mare, out of the incomparable FA Bint Anniq. She was bred very wisely by the long time devoted breeder Marilyn Lang of Fantasia Arabians and was able to attend a Class A Show at Halter. |
Amati Mattlock |
Regna Evans, an *Adhem fan, bred the phenomenal black mare Saud El Milanne, out of the Babson/Crabbet/Davenport mare Bint Milanne. She's a multi-international Champion mare in English Pleasure with Canadian National TOP 10 in 1991, Region 13 Reserve Champion in 1992, Region 11 and Region 14 TOP 5 in Country English Pleasure. One of her sons, Amati Matttock (Arabi Fadh Onyx and Saud El Milanne) is of special note as he's a double *Adhem great-grandson. This stallion was named Class A Reserve Junior Champion at Ha;ter in Florida. He is a very refined horse that shows true Arabian type. He has a beautiful extreme head, tong and nicety set neck, smooth top line. His conformation is truly hard to fault and he's got outstanding disposition. |
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But most of all he inherited from the lovely action
*Adhem horses are known for. Mrs. Evans bred also a real all-around son
of Saud El Ameer with her mare Notous-E, an *Ibn Moniet El Nefous daughter
out of a Babson/Crabbet/Polish mare. This black gelding, SSS Saud El Nefous
raced well in 1985 and 1986. Taking 19 starts, he was placed 7 times and won a
first place, 3 second places and 5 third places. But he also competed in Regional
Shows at Ha;ter. Maxine and Al Frezette bred the balck full brothers Saud El Shataan
and Saud El Faserr, out of the Straight Egyptian Bint Shar Gemla (Serhabbas by Shar
Gemla by Negem), who won many Class A English Pleasure and Native Costume Shows.
They also bred Black Pharoah out of the Dalul daughter Mjzdalul, who won Class A
Shows at Halter as well Most Classic honors. Another black Saud El Ameer
son to note is HV Desert Mirage as he's also an *Adhem great-great grandson
through his tail female to SG Adhanna, Interesting to see, he was shown at
international level at Halter. |
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| Saud El Warsaw and Saud El Zaghloul |
The bay gelding, Stormy Prophet, by Saud El Ameer out of
the Polish/Crabbet mare SJ Wild Fire, bred by Dr. C.J. and Onita M. Gramolini,
is a multi-international Champion in Native Costume and English Pleasure.
Another son of Saud El Ameer who attended Class A Ha;ter Championships is
the grey stallion Jy Halston, bred by Jean Young out of her Ra'adin Inshallah
granddaughter Jinniya Jadir. Danlen Investments Inc. bred the grey mare Saud
El Nefisaa out of the Pure Egyptian mare RDO Royal Nazli (Glorieta Alisudan
and Royal Egyptian by El Hilal), as well as the black mare Suhma Dantita
out of the *Adhem granddaughter Midnight Llara, who both attended Class A
Halter Championships. Leon 0. and Alyene Burke, breeders of the famous black "RDO"
horses also used Saud El Ameer, They obtained the bay Pure Egyptian stallion RDO Zarif
out of their RDO Ghazala (Ansata Et Wazir El Shikos Delaila by Shiko Ibn Sheikh),
who attended Class A performance and Ha;ter Championships. The Polish bred mare
Moonstruckk of Bradford E. and Irene S. Aborn, once owners of Saud El Ameer,
gave them the black stallion Saud El Warsaw, who was named Class A Country English
Pleasure Champion. And last but not (east is the young black stallion Amir El Sadat,
out of the Babson/Brown bred mare CN Sadats Manarka, bred by Sidney and Charlene Dunn
who also competed in a Class A Western Pleasure Championship.
Saud EI Ameer's offspring were exported all over the world : the black Straight Egyptian stallion (out of Akid Keatia by Ruminaia Ali and Aid Hanalei by AK Elzahra Moniet), bred by Bradford L. and Irene S- Aborn, was exported to Chile, as well as the black stallion Azuat Cabir of RA Nightwind (a *Bask./Hallany Mistanny bred mare), imported inutero, and the black full sister of the following stallion Beau Phantom, Saud El Shareefa ; the black Straight Egyptian stallion, Beau Phantom (out of SA Sedona by RG Gabriel and Tarong Sheena by AK Sirhatima), bred by Dr. Hugh and Alexandra Hodsman, was exported to the Netherlands, as well as the black Straight Egyptian stallion, Abbu Ben Adhern (out of SES Dafina by Fa Daalim and Ra'adin Khebira by Ansata lbn Sudan), bred by Joan Rogers~ the Straight Egyptian bay stallion Abou El Gethou SQR~ (out of Raasha by At Fattah and Rasheeka by Ibn Morafic), was imported back to Egypt by Omar Sakr inutero ; the Straight Egyptian bay stallion EH Bakit (out of EH Bahigah by At Nowasy and Bint Bint Basima by El Hitat GASB), bred by Erich Hagentocher, came to Austria and last but not least the bay Straight Egyptian stallion Say Amen (out of Eskada Adriana US by Hatim El Nefous and Anaroufa by *Ibn Moniet El Nefous) was imported inutero to Sweden.
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Khe Adm |
The second is Khe Adhm,
who is recorded to be the sweetest and most willing horse you'll ever find.
He's renown for having a great deal of influence on the disposition. On
the Khe Adhm's kids, the really good, sensible disposition seems to be a
common thread and they are also nice fluid moving horses with a big stride.
They are real "using" horses as they try very hard to please and their love
for affection for humans are unmatched.
Khe Adhm has several Sheykh Obeyd replacement sons. One of the youngest,
Khe El Din was recently classed 2nd in a Show event.
The long time Sheykh Obeyd breeder Stephanie White of Brandywine Arabians is
speaking about Saud El Ameer's little brother Khe Adhm: "I always admired *Adhem
and his son Khe Adhm who is also out of Gita RSI. I have been in the horse
business since 1973 and I have loved these horses. I saw a photograph of
*Adhem in one of the magazine and for many years I have admired his most lovely
son, Khe Adm, owned by John and Jean Clark of Clark Arabians, Thayer, Missouri, U.S.A."
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for producing typey and tall children, with long necks and excellent legs...
Trotting level, everyone I have seen. Short heads, big expressive eye and wonderful
dispositions, I have three Khe Adhm foals, all 3 years of age now and are over 15 hands
and are typey! All three have deep heart girths, laid back shoulders and long hips. The
short coupling is nice also. These horses are future performance horses with tremendous
action. I believe they will excel in dressage and other disciplines as they are very
upright horses. We have great plans for our two Khe Adhm sons and this one daughter.
We are using the black son, Khesir BWA, who is out of Sirenasellen BWA, an SF Khala
Zahra granddaughter. |
Khe Adm |
Khesir BWA and his dam, Sirenasellen BWA |
We feel confident we will
see *Adhem qualities passed on to our foals next year. We have crossed Khesir
BWA with daughters of Amir Seralim BWA, Ansata Abu Nazeer, and some outside
mares of *Serafix/Bask breeding, Our Khe Adhm daughter has been bred to Amir
Seralim BWA. We expect the long necks, the willing disposition, the type and height.
The short heads and expressive eyes. .. and of course, the short couplings. But then, that is what we have bred for with good legs. All of our mares move well and the Khe Adhm's sons will expound on those qualities. The elusive black color is a bonus in our herd however, some Khe Adhm children have already done well in Racing, Driving, Endurance, etc." |
Khe Adm |
Khe Adh Amir |
John and Jean Clark bred several
very good offsprings by Khe Adhm. One of them is Khe Adh Amir out of the Straight
Egyptian, Princess Taminaa (TheEgyptianPrince & AK TaIdinaa by
Talatsori) who had his first racing season in 1999. In 5 races,
he was placed twice and won a first place and 2 third places. At the
same time, his full brother Khe Hassan attended Class A Show in Native Costume
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Another son of *Adhem
to note is Alaa Amid, a grey stallion bred by Barbara Jean Cisset,
out of the Babson/ Brown / Davenport bred mare Fadania.
He won Region 2 Championship in Dressage in 1988. But I also
need to mention the chestnut gelding Ameer of Fire, bred by Corinne
Andrews out of her Crabbet/Brown mare Tailormade Lazam, who attended Class
A Shows in Dressage.
*Adhem's female descendants are strikingly beautiful, graceful, strong, elegant and
impressive girls, as most of them are very tall. These are just real powerhouses!
They are also well built with good legs as well as good bodies with smooth top line.
Thus they have a conformation hard to fault. But they are just as balanced, huge
and powerful as their male siblings. They also have good bone. They show excellent
and fast motion with floating gaits. These girls have stunning beautiful classic heads
and lovely well-set necks. They have lots of charisma with bold attitude and lots
of class but also wonderful dispositions. They are real sweethearts but sometimes
rather shy with people. However they are always easy to work with. It's hard not to
feet breathtaking when looking at them for the first time. They seem to be outstanding for breeding,
especially in black breeding program, but also for Show, or for
Endurance as Key are very atheltic. The black smooth color is very common too.
One of the most successful daughter of *Adhem is Adhemsindianmagic, bred by Regna Evans,
out of the Babson/Crabbet/Polish mare Indian Magic GG. She run 23 races during the 1986 and
1987 seasons, was placed 10 times and won two first places, six second places and a third place.
The main part of her progeny was as or even more successful than their mother for racing.
The first daughter Regna Evans bred from her, SSS First Lady, by Sur President-E, run during
the same seasons as her mother. She took 22 starts, was placed six times and won seven
first places, two second places and two third places. Adhemsindianmagic was then bought by
Gayle Sanders and Gregg. They bred SSS First Lady's half -sister by Sunny Acres Batal,
SSS Indian Fancy, who run five races during the 1988 season. She was placed twice and won two
third places. And they also bred the grey stallion Tantrum y Kishstar who run 53 races from
1992 to 1999, He was placed 12 times and won 14 first places, 14 second places and five third
places.
Then Stacie Lynn and Patrick Roy Smart acquired Adhemsindiarimagic. She was bred to
Jamals Rebel producing the chestnut stallion Jambi Indiarimagic, who run two races in 1996.
Joseph R. and Irene P. Silva were the last to bred from Adhemsindianmagic and they obtained
the bay mare Flowjo out of PH Magnum. She run 20 races during the 1998 and 1999 seasons,
was placed twice and won one first place, four second places and six third places.
On another scale, a different Adhem daughter. DW Tahreefa, out of a Babson/Crabbet mare DU Abi
owned by Dolores Reppel, won a Native Costume Class A Show. Her son by *GG Samir bred by Rancho
De Alegre won himself several Class A Show in Western Pleasure and at Halter.
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Knight Fright |
Donna M. Groseclose's account of her interest in the *Adhem bloodlines: "I became interested in the *Adhem line because of an outstanding stallion located approximately 120 miles from my home. Knight Fright (Amir) is a son of Amir El Adhem and a grandson of *Adhem.
Thus far in our breeding program we have used only his service. My decision
to use him was based on his athleticism, refinement, typey-ness, show record,
people loving temperament and kind, wiling personality. He most definitely passes
on all of these qualities onto his foals, as I have two.
The first video I ever saw of Amir included him being ridded and handles by young
children, this with only a halter and lead rope. The first time I saw him in person,
he allowed me to do whatever I wanted with him. He is an international sire, with
offspring in Belgium and other countries. Amir is an homozygous black, 12.5+ hands high,
of a Egyptian/Crabbet cross. He currently has championships and reserves in Halter, Saddle
seat, Dressage and Sport Horse in Hand. Amir is trained
and is owned by Donna Kraft of Black Knight Arabians in Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA |
We could talk about many more *Adhem offspring but this is already enough proof of this Sheykh Obeyd stallion's incredible quality !
Amelie Blackwell, 2003
*Adhem Descendants
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| Zou Zou Marou
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