URFAH M, ARABIAN, 1898
| Color: b
AHR #40
Desert Bred in Syria by Anazeh tribe; Imported to US in 1906 by Homer Davenport
Davenport FAQs: An 1898 bay Saqlawi Al Abd mare of the Shammar, by a Saqlawi Jedran. She was finally taken at gun point when her owner tried to renig on his sales agreement. *Urfah is also tail female ancestress of the Saqlawi Davenports. Davenport wrote: \"This Seglawieh Jedranieh mare, he said, was the finest possessed by the Anezeh. ... Mother and son were as much alike in general character, as two peas. There were the same markings on their white legs, the same general character of hind quarters, and the same very \"racy\" appearance throughout. ... As we departed the mare was a picture. She walked with the grace of a well-bred woman; her tail would gracefully sway from side to side, her ears were ever in motion, and her eyes sparkled. The very sight of her rested us from the long day\'s ride of the day before and then she broke into a gallop and her swinging tassels were soon lost sight of as she disappeared on the horizon. ... look at her two-year-old son. He seemed finer than others we had of the same age. There was an inherited dignity which the rest did not have. ... sired by the great Hamdani-Simri chestnut horse that the Anezeh are so proud of and thus combined the two rare breeds of the desert, the Seglawi-Jedran and the Hamdani Simri. ... her owner mounted the beautiful mother ... I approached her, and true to the Bedouin custom, she refused to let me come near. She bit at me and pretended to kick, and all this while ragged Bedouins were patting her, and patting her; but me she watched like a hawk.\"
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URFAH
b 1898
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