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Nazeer - the Stallion of the Century
Some Thoughts to Nazeers Influence and his Sire Line
Nazeer (Mansour X Bint Samiha) 1934
(The first three photos are by the late Dr. Frielinghaus and until now unpublished.)
This stallion has influenced the breeding of Egyptian Arabian horses like no other individual before and after him and also the worldwide Arabian breed- how could this happen? What have been the factors to achieve such a role in the history of the breed?
First it is the genetic potential of Nazeer. His ancestors belong to the best Arabian horses that have ever left the desert. His sire line goes back to Saklawi I, a Saklawi Jedran Ibn Sudan of the Ruala beduins.
Nazeerīs pedigree
Nazeer < Mansour < Gamil Manial < Saklawi II < Saklawi I < Khalil
The maternal line of Nazeerīs mother Bint Samiha, a Hadbah Enzahi by Kazmeen and Samiha, goes back to the mare Venus, bred by the Shammar about 1890. Her granddaughter Bint Hadbah El Saghira is inbred to Saklawi I, who is her grandfather twice. Two additional lines to Saklawi I come through his son Sabbah, father of Om Dalal. This important mare is the mother of the full siblings Samhan and Dalal in Nazeerīs pedigree. So Nazeer has five crosses to Saklawi I.
Through Kazmeen the most influential Mesaoud comes twice. And twice there is a line to the Saklawi mare Bint Roga El Zarka, going back to the Saklawi Jedran Ibn Sudan mare Ghazala, bred by the Ruala, also the root mare of Moniet El Nefous and most of the Egyptian Saklawi mares of note. In my opinion the Saklawi Jedran Ibn Sudan horses of the Ruala dominate Nazeers pedigree.
 
Mansour (Gamil Manial X Nafaa El Saghira) 1921, KMi, Bahtim, the father of Nazeer and Sheikh El Arab.
Mansour (left) and his dam Nafaa El Saghira (DB Manaki Sbayli X Nafaa El Kebira) c.1910, KMi, Prince Youssef Pasha Kemal
Nafaa El Saghira was bred by Prince Youssef Pasha Kemal, by Manaki Sbayli out of Nafaa El Kebira (Rabdan X Donia). About Manaki Sbayli little is known: he was foaled c. 1895 and his dam was a Manakiyah Sbayliyah. His breeder is unknown, we only know through Lady Blunt, that the Tahawwi Beduins brought him from Arabia to Egypt and from them he came to Ahmed Pasha Kemal.
Of another ancestor in Nazeerīs pedigree even less is known: Halabia, a Saklawi Jedran mare, born c. 1880. She belonged to the man Abu Amin Halabi, who brought her to Egypt. Halabi meens from Aleppo or Haleb. Al Khamsa gives as origin: desert bred. For me her name is more connected with her owner Halabi than expressing her origin. Khedive Abbas Pasha Hilmi II covered the mare Halabia with Saklawi I and got the stallion El Halabi, c. 1895, the father of Bint Hadba El Saghira. Lady Anne Blunt records that a full sister to El Halabi came to Sheokh Obeyd to be bred to her stallion Jamil and that her beduim studmaster regarded this mare as unproven. So we have to trust the breeders of those past times, that they had more information about Halabia and knew that she was asil. The fact, that her son was named El Halabi after his breeder, makes me the more sure, that Halabia was of pure beduin breeding.
Bint Samiha, HE, 1925, Bahtim, the dam of Nazeer
 
Samiha, HE, 1918, Bahtim
 
Kazmeen, KJ, 1916, Crabbet Park (Sotamm X Kasima)
 
The two photos above show the two other reasons for Nazeerīs success as sire: the mares that he could cover and the person who discovered him on a breeding depot and recognised his class and used him as senior stallion at El Zahraa: Tibor von Pettkö Szandtner. Nazeer would have been nothing without him and all the lovely mares by Shahloul, Sheikh El Arab, Sid Abouhom, to name the three most important. The mare on the left is Bukra, on the right Moniet El Nefous.
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Saklawi I was a grey stallion of the Saklawi Jedran Ibn Sudan strain.He was bred by the Ruala beduins and born 1886. His father was Khalil, a stallion bred by the Ruala about 1880. His son Saklawi II (c.1900, Khedive Abbas Pasha Hilmi II, photo left) was out of the famous El Dahma.
 
Gamil Manial (Saklawi II X Dalal) 1912, SGIS, Prince Mohamed Ali, shown as a youngster (left) and as aged stallion
Nazeer as a young stallion in racing condition
The following photos show Nazeer as old stallion:
 
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