Sid Abouhom - the underestimated stallion

Sid Abouhom 1936

(El Deree X Layla) Dahman Shahwan

(Photo by Dr. Frielinghaus)

Is this still an Arabian stallion?

Yes, of course!

And an important one!

Bilke, a German hippologist, wrote about Sid Abouhom:

"Of the major studs the grey Sid Abouhom was a very strong stallion, very good withers, very good , correct gaits and very large hocks, a maker of foundations, whose get are especially improved in the hocks."

The importance of Sid Abouhom comes through his numerous daughters. If he only had one - the mare Mabrouka out of Moniet el Nefous - his influence would be phenomenal! Only think of two of her get: Morafic and Ansata Bint Mabrouka. What would be the Egyptian breeding without them?

Mabrouka (Sid Abouhom X Moniet El Nefous) Saklawi Jedran 1951

Morafic (Nazeer X Mabrouka) 1956, SJ

But Sid Abouhom had much more beautiful and influential daughters. Just to name a few and their get:

Bint Kateefa  -  Kaisoon and Farag

Fathia  -  Foze and Fawzan

Mouna  -  Bint Mona, Moneera, Maheeba

Lubna  -  Ghalion

Farasha  -  Galal, Farazdac

Kaisoon and Farag were imported to Germany and became important sires. Both became very old, over 30 years. Here are photos of Kaisoon (Nazeer X Bint Kateefa) Koheilan Ajuz Ibn Rodan 1958, that I took in 1980:

 Sid Abouhom

El Deree, the father of Sid Abouhom:

El Deree c.1920, Saklawi Sheifi, bred by Cheder Al Deri, a member of the Baqqara beduins living on the banks of the Chabur/Jibur river in Syria near Deyr Ez Zor.

El Deree was an asil desert bred stallion. Much confusion has been created about his origin as we have different sayings of race horse trainers in Egypt. The Inshass Herd book does not give us any information regarding his breeder, only the strain Saklawi Sheifi. He was raced in Egypt for King Fouad.

According to the German Jens Sannek El Deree ´s origin is with the Baqqara bedouins. He was bred by Cheder al Deri, head of the Al Deri clan. This information was given to Mr. Sannek on a trip to Syria in 1995. The family of Al Deri was famous for their marbat of Saklawi Sheifis. On the other hand Hansi Heck states that she met the man who delivered El Deree to King Fouad when he was a very young man - and still alive in 1998. He gave her these details: The stallion was bred by the el Jibur tribe, Baqqara (near Deyr ElZor). Maybe there was a mistake in translation and el Jibur means the river Chabur and the tribe is the Baqqara  tribe. Hansi Heck´s newest  information can only be doubted. It is from Daham Abd El Aziz Al Meslat an old sheikh of the Jibur tribe, who whitnessed in 2007, that  El Deree was from a pure strain "Siglawee Jedrani" and from the El Jibur tribe and Al Meslat´s grandfather Al Moablat Pasha presented him to the king.

El Deree was a true desert horse and became a successful race horse in Egypt and a sire at Inshass and later at the E.A.O..

The mother of Sid Abouhom was Layla, a chestnut Dahmaniah Shahwaniah by Ibn Rabdan and Bint Sabah, born 1929. So Layla is a half sister to the famous Bukra and Sheikh El Arab.

One of the most important daughters of Sid Abouhom is the mare Moheba. She was the foundation mare of Germany´s most important damline in Egyptian breeding. She only had one daughter, imported in utero: Malacha by El Sareei.

Moheba (Sid Abouhom X Halima) 1951, Dahman Shahwan - the beginning of the M-line in Germany  (photo Dr. Frielinghaus)

Marqueesa (Ansata Amir Zaman X Maareesa) 1991, DS

Marqueesa is an example of a mare descending to Moheba with 7 crosses to Sid Abouhom.