Saudi Source Arabian Horses
Sources of Bedouin Bloodstock
The horse breeding tribes of the nomadic Bedouin are the common denominator for all the stock at Desert Bred Arabian Stud. More specifically, the horses are broken down into the following ancestral elements:
1. Davenport: The term Davenport applies only to those horses registered as imported from the desert by Homer Davenport in 1906. Most of these individuals were from the Anazah tribal confederation (Ruala, Wuldâ Ali, Amarat, Sabaâa,Fidâan and the Wuld Sulayman of Nejd) while some were taken in ghazus fromother tribes.
2. Dawasir: The Dawasir tribe of Southeast Nejd in 1350 A.D. was a powerful tribe in Yemen raising some of the purest and finest horses which Arabia ever produced,selling, trading and sending them as presents to the Mamelukes of Egypt.
3. Jiluwi: Amir Saâud Ibn Abdullah Ibn Jiluwi (Governor of the Hasa Province of Saudi Arabia) and his family have bred Arabians for centuries. This family's outstanding Arabian horses trace to the Banu Khalid Bedouin. Pure in the strain Abayyans have become the specialty of the Jiluwi family.
4. Khalifa: The Al Khalifa family was originally from a branch of the Anazah confederation. The Al Khalifa have occupied and ruled the island country of Bahrain since1783. Historically the family has maintained many of the old strainsof Arabians, the Dahman in straight desert form and the Kuhaylan Jallabivia Egypt are Khalifa family strains represented in our stock.
5. Sa'ud: The Saâud family, which derived from the Wuld Ali Tribe of the Anazah confederation,now rules the only country in the world bearing a family name, Saudi Arabia. The Royal Family acquired horses from many of the nomadic tribes and became noted for these horses supplying many of the early Pashas of Egypt withbreeding stock. The Hamdani is the favorite strain of the Saâud family.
6. Egypt: As a source, the only Egyptian blood in our stock is from old Egyptian - 1996 imports before 1935 emphasizing stock descended from the Pasha Studs or direct desert sources. There are no desert breds of Wilfred and LadyAnne Blunt in any of our stock, hence they are, to an extent, out-cross to most current Egyptian bloo