Strain: Hamdaniyah Simriyah
Also known as SOBHA (APS) (see references)
Al Khamsa: A Pre-Registration Horse. Ancestral Elements Egypt I: 100%
The Pyramid Society - Straight Egyptian
Sheykh Obeyd Foundation

Bred by Mahmud Bey - Ghezireh, Egypt from Abbas Pasha stock
3-5-1891 purchased from her breeder by Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt and imported later that year to their Crabbet Arabian Stud - Sussex, England
Lady Anne wrote, "she was delightful as a companion and to ride"
Dam of 6 grey purebred Arabian foals:
2 unregistered (1887 and 1890)
4 registered (1885, 1894, 1896 and 1897)
1899 sold to Colonel Alexandre de Salanovich, a representative of the Russian government stud at Derkoul

References:

• Al Khamsa.org: SOBHA (APS)
• Arabianhorses.org/datasource: SOBHA
• Rashaka.at: SOBHA
• Shagya.ch: SOBHA
• 1969 Book - The Raswan Index Volume II: SOBHA #9954, page 741
• 3-1986 Arabian Horse Times Magazine: SOBHA: The Source by Arlene Magid
• 1988 Book - The Arabian Horse Families of Egypt Volume II 1879-1978 by Colin Pearson with Kees Mol: SOBHA; S4, page xxvi; M10, page xxxiii
• 1991 Book - The Arabian Horse Families of Poland 1790-1987 by Britta Fahlgren: SOBHA; S41/1; M16/1
• 8-2003 Arabian Horse World Magazine: Heritage Horse SOBHA
• 2018 Book - Centenary compiled and edited by Anne Brown: SOBHA