AKA Pharoah
100% Crabbet
Sire: A BAY KUHAYLAN-AJUZ OF THE QUMUSA SABA
Dam: A BAY SAKLAWIYA JIDRANIYA OF BERGI IBN ED-DERRI
Purchased through Mr JH 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 1878 when Pharaoh was 2yr old
The purchase was made at Beteyen Ibn Mirshids 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 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 Pharaohs 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.