SAROYANE (SHAHIL X SAYMOONA)
There are two institutions with the same purpose, which is to breed a pure Arabian blood horse, called ‘al-hail-al’arabia al-asila’ in Arabic, hence the acronym ASIL (pronounced ‘asseel’).The word ASIL means pure, true, noble, and genuine.
The ASIL Club is to the European Arabian what the AL KHAMSA is to North American Arabians. Both try to unite the breeders of the true Arabian horse of desert stock.
Definition of the ASIL pure Arabian horse:
The Asil Arabian is a horse whose pedigree is exclusively based on Bedouin breeding of the Arabian Peninsula, without any crossbreeding with non-Arabian horses at any time. The ASIL horse is required to have the riding qualities and the type characteristics which characterize the desert Arabian horse.
Both parents must be registered in the ‘Asil Club’ (or Al Khamsa) stock list.
Any other horse must:
- be registered or be eligible for registration in a stud book officially approved by the WAHO (World Arabian Horse Organization).
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- trace back directly to the ‘Arabia Deserta’* or correspond in every line of its pedigree with the breeding program of the EAO or of private studs controlled by the EAO (exception made for the REGISTAN, SHARKASI, and IBN GALABAWI horses).
display the type, conformation, and riding qualities of desert-bred Arabians.
-taking their origins from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Syria, Iran, and Egypt.
Al Khamsa breeders are deeply attached to the Bedouin breeding characteristics and breed their horses according these ancient traditions.
The horses acknowledged by the Pyramid Society as ‘Straight Egyptians’ are recognized as ASIL and their registration is not a problem at all.
The ASIL Club endeavors to guard the ‘Arabia Deserta’ pure blood origins of the ASIL horse. It will use no blood but the pure Arabian blood from the roots of the ASIL registered sources.
-The more you can look into the past, the further you will see into the future.
Pure Arabian blood from Egyptian origins
Napoleon, who was beguiled by the beauty and exceptional stamina of the Egyptian Arabian, was its first importer. He liberally provided the national stud farm in Pau with Egyptian horses, and thus launched France’s reputation as ‘excellent Arabian breeders’.
The cult of beauty
Egyptians have always revered beauty and in the 19th century, their princes sometimes even led warrior expeditions in Arabia in order to get the finest specimens of the race. The envoys of Muhammad Ali and then of Abbas Pacha walked relentlessly all over the Arabic Peninsula and paid incredible amounts of money to bring back horses from the most prestigious lineages, such as Hadban, Seglawi, and Dahman.
It should be noted that unlike in Arabia, where breeding is essentially made in the Bedouin way, Egyptian horse-breeding is mostly performed by the ruling families and rich collectors. As a result, the horses are selected according to their performances.
The ‘Egyptian’ Arabian type
It only took a few generations for Egyptian breeders to create and stabilize the ‘Egyptian’ Arabian.
If we look at the pedigrees of today’s international champions in Europe and the USA, we will often find traces of Egyptian blood.
Russian Arabians, very fashionable these days, have blood from the female lineages of Belle, Bonne, Sapine, and Carabine, which were French mares from Egyptian origins
D'El Shaklan, Shaker El Masri andEstopa, he is the German national champion and international champion at Ascot (50% Egyptian).
Gondolier by Palas and Gonagra, was voted 1982 World champion and national champion of Poland (37% of Egyptian).
Maklouf, son of Kilimanjaro and Mabrouka, was 1982 World champion Junior class. He was the first French colt to obtain the title (70% Egyptian).
In Germany, the success of Om El Arab highlights the contribution of the Egyptian blood. It must be admitted that Germans have had the good fortune to host the great Nazeer , who gave them three exceptional sonsHadban Enzahi, Ghazal et Kaisoon. The stud farm at Weil Marbach already had a long-standing Egyptian tradition. Indeed, before World War II, they imported Jasir, born in 1925 at Prince Mohammed Ali’s.
Likewise in the USSR the arrival of the Egyptian stallion Nil Sid Abouhoum et surtout Aswan, Nazeer, raised the Tersk stud farm to a leading position
Poland imported among others the stallion Palas, by Aswan and out of a daughter of Nil.
In France, Fawzanoffered to us by the Egyptian government for reproduction, is the father of 256 offspring, who often show real abilities in various sporting disciplines, particularly in races.
Definition
The word ‘Al Khamsa’ signifies that every lineage and pedigree can be traced from their Bedouin origins up until now. The non-Al Khamsa horses are not necessarily impure, but because of wars or political events, information has been lost and the purity of their Arabian blood cannot be proven. These horses represent 95% of the Arabian horse population in the world.
STOCKS AND TYPES
The best known classification--which is based on a legend concerning the prophet Mahomet--is Al Kahmsa, meaning ‘five’ in Arabic. Since the translation from Arabic to our alphabet can be quite problematic, the name of any given stock can be written in many different ways
The characteristics of these 5 stocks are listed below:
AL DUHAYM (DAHMA, DEHMAN, DUHAYMAN, …: A good type with a short head, a concave nose, a curved neck, a correct top line, and well-defined limbs.
AL SAQLAWIYAT (SAKLAWI, SEGLAWI,) Feminine elegance and grace, a particularly silky mane & tail, a long neck, slender limbs, and leg and facial markings.
AL HADB (HADBAN, HEDBAN, …) Pretty and elegant with a good stamina, big eyes, deep chest and shoulders. A multi-purpose horse which may have light hindquarters.
ALABEYYAT (OBEYYAN, ABEYAN, UBAYYAN...) An elegant show horse with a very high-set tail, a long back, a fine neck and good hindquarters.
AL KUHAYLAT (KOHEILAN, KAHEYLAN, KOHAYLAN, …) A powerful and well-muscled, well balanced horse of a more masculine type, a small head, a wide forehead, a deep chest. A very compact horse.
