The strain of Koheilan Rodan

Part One: Origin and Crabbet Park

Zefifa, Sherifa, Hagar, Dahma and Rodania (at the right) in Crabbet Park in 1882

The horses of today belonging to the strain Koheilan Ajuz Ibn Rodan or Koheilan Rodan have their origin in one mare, Rodania, bought by the Blunts from the Ruala tribe. According to the Abbas Pasha Manuscript the Koheilan Rodan horses are from old times. From the Beni Khaled they had passed to the Shammar and later to Funaykh of al Shaalan of the Ruala. Funaykh gave one mare to Rodan, a relative of Shaalan. But Rodan sold the mare to al Sab´a (Sebaa, S´baa) . In a battle between the Bishr ( Fedaan, Sebaa and Amarat) and the Ruala many horses were catured by the Ruallas, among them two Koheila mares of Rodan.

Rodania was a chestnut mare foaled 1869She was bred by Ibn Rodan and captured from Sotamm Ibn Shaalan, Sheikh of the Ruala in 1880, by Tais Ibn Sarhan of the Gomussa (Sebaa), who sold her to Mr. Blunt. An old and celebrated mare, formerly the property of Beneyeh Ibn Shaalan, and a cause of feud between him and his kinsman Sotamm. The Blunts had heared of her two years before they first saw her. Tais Ibn Sharhan was riding her and told them when asked: "Oh, that is Beneyeh Ibn Shaalan´s mare.

Rodania was the only mare at Crabbet Park with ill temper. "She strikes with her forefeet and kicks too. Her strange temper may possibly be the result of having been knocked about and especially the severe firing she had undergone before we bought her." Today the damline of Rodania is the largest  in number worldwide.

Rose of Sharon (Hadban X Rodania)

 Ridaa (Merzuk X Rose of Sharon) 1892

  Risala (Mesaoud X Ridaa) 1900

Bint Rissala (Razieh), left, (Ibn Yashmak X Risala) 1920, foundation mare for the RAS in Egypt, and her half sister Rissla (right) by Berk, one of the most influential mares of Crabbet Park: In England and worldwide through the stallion Rissalix, in Spain through her daughter Reyna by Skowronek, in the United States through her daughter Rifala (dam of Raffles) and her granddaughter Rissletta by Naseem.

Riyala (Astraled Ridaa) 1905 is the dam of Bint Riyala (Risama) 1920 by Nadir, exported to Egypt and foundation mare for the RAS.

Rustem 1908 and his full sister Rim, full siblings to Riyala. Rustem was sold to Egypt and influential through Bint Rustem and Mekdam. Note the difference between Rustem (who goes after his sire Astraled) and his two full sisters.

                   Lady Wentworth with, from left: Risala, Ajam, Kibla, Riyala and Rim

        Rasim (Feysul X Risala) 1906. Rasim was sold to Baron Bicker in Poland. He is out of the same mother as Bint Rissala 1920. His pedigree is "Straight Egyptian",  his sire Feysul is from Ali Pasha Sherif stock. Feysul gave also Ibn Yashmak who sired Bint Rissala.

      Pedigree of Rasim painted by Lady Wentworth

      Hadban 1878, sire of Rose of Sharon. He was a Hadban Enzahi of the Oteybeh tribe. Purchased at Bombay from Ali Ibn Amr of Bussora who bought him from Jakin Ibn Aghil Sheikh of the Daajini tribe of Oteybeh and brought him to India. Hadban had only two daughters at Crabbet; Rose of Sharon and Nefisa .

           Merzuk (Wazir X Makbula El Kebira) 1887, a Koheilan Jellabi of Ali Pasha Sherif, sire of Ridaa

              Ibn Yashmak (Feysul X Yashmak) 1902, Koheilan Jellabi, of pure Ali Pasha Sherif origin, sire of Bint Rissala

             Nadir (Mesaoud X Nefisa) 1901, Koheilan Dajaniah, grandson of Hadban, sire of Bint Riyala (Risama). Bint Riyala was sold to Egypt (no photo of this mare to be found).

            Mares at Crabbet Park, left to right: Riyala, Rythma, Nasra and Rissla