ABEYAH M, ARABIAN, 1896
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Al Khamsa Foundation Horse
AHR*39. Foaled in 1896. Strain: Abayyah Sharrakiyah. Per Entry #74 for Abeyah in the Raswan Index: Bred by Ibn Jilad of Al Wadnan of the Sinjara section of the Shammar tribe.
Imported from Arabia to United States of America in 1906 by Homer Davenport - Morris Plains, New Jersey.
Dam of 4 purebred registered Arabian foals.
AHR Historical Information: Author -General J. M. Dickinson. Source - A Catalog of Travelers Rest Arabian Horses. Date - 1947. Considered by Hashem Bey, the Skeykh of all the Anazeh, to have the most rarely beautiful head in the desert. She was distinguished for speed, and though small, was a marvel of stamina and weight carrying ability. She was known to carry 300 pounds a distance of 35 miles over rough ground in 4 hours with the sun registering 135.
Davenport Faqs: The head of this mare was considered by Bedouins the most perfect of the Anezeh. ... with the greatest jibbah or forehead, I ever saw. ... She had been taken in war by the Anezeh, from the Shammar, across the Euphrates, and her pedigree bore the last seal of Sheikh Faris, the great enemy of the Anezeh, who had been dead two years. She was small, not more than fourteen hands two inches high, but I never saw such beautiful hind quarters and back tendons on anything in horse flesh. ... She was considered among the Anezeh as their greatest race mare...
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