Following up on last week’s installment in this series on Straight Egyptian Sire Lines, we present Joe Ferriss’ write up on Straight Egyptian Dam Lines. As you review this article you’ll see the different body types and structure within representatives of the different dam lines. We need them all!
Each is precious and within each lie the seeds of greatness just waiting to be brought forth and given expression. Great breeders, past and present, have studied and found the patterns woven within pedigrees and herd books. Sometimes what the resulting foal will become is readily apparent. Perhaps more frequently, it takes a keen eye and a great deal of patience to see it. They are like diamonds in the rough.
Consider some of the great Straight Egyptian mares that you know. From which family or branch of a family did they descend? What combinations of bloodlines and phenotypic greatness made them who they were?
U.S. National Champion Mare, Serenity Sonbolah (Sameh x Bint Om El Saad) was of the Risala branch of the Rodania family.
U.S. National Champion Mare, Fa Halima (Ansata Ibn Halima x Sabrah) was of the Bint Bint Sabbah branch of the El Dahma family.
Arabian World Cup Junior Mare Supreme Champion, Fanaticaa (Al Raheb AA x Faleenah El Masr) was of the Maaroufa branch of the Ghazieh family.
U.S. National Top Ten Mares, Lancer’s Asmara (Seef x Hebah), Fawkia (Sameh x Mamlouka), Romanaa II (Sameh x Nazeera), all of the Riyala branch of the Rodania Family
U.S. National Champion Futurity Mare, Il Muna (Morafic x Bint Mona) and Egyptian Event Europe Reserve Champion, Ansata Mouna, of the Moniet El Nefous branch of the Roga El Beda family.
U.S. National Champion Futurity Mare, Hebet Allah (Morafic x Soheir II) of the Tifla branch of the Bint El Bahrein family.
U.S. Reserve National Champion Mare, Bint Bint Hanaa (Morafic x Bint Hanaa) of the Bint Hanaa branch of the Hind (Inshass) family.
U.S. Reserve National Champion Mare, Nahlah (Morafic x Mohga) of the Yosreia branch of the Venus family.
World Champion Mare, AK Fanniya (Ansata Ibn Halima x Narimaan) and World Top Ten Mare – A Little Passion (Ansata Nile Pasha x Bint El Sanaa) both of the Deenaa branch of the El Dahma family.
World Top Ten Mare, Ansata Nefer Isis (Prince Fa Moniet x Ansata Nefertiti) of the Ansata Bint Bukra branch of the El Dahma family.
World Bronze Champion Mare, Badawieh AA (Laheeb x Bahiha) of the Falima branch of the El Dahma family.
World Reserve Champion Mare, Bint Saida Al Nasser (Imperial Mahzeer x Saida) of the Bint Samiha branch of the Venus family.
And the list goes on. Have a favorite Straight Egyptian mare? Through which mare line does she descend? Need help identifying it? Let us know. We’ll be glad to help you out. Whether through the sire or dam line, how important is preservation for the future of the horse? What’s one of the rarer dam lines you’ve encountered? Example: while attending the farm tours during The Pyramid Society of Morocco’s Arabian Horse Breeder’s Forum, attendees were able to see the magnificent aged stallion of the Mabrouka Inshass line, Authentic Khazim. Definitely not something you see every day, and it was so instructional to look at him and see the many dam lines represented in the weaving of the tapestry of his ancestry: The El Dahma influence through Farida and Bukra; the Venus influence through several lines to Yosreia; several lines to Moniet El Nefous influence through her daughter, Mouna; a splash of Rodania through Ameena (granddam of Sakr and dam of Omnia); and one line to the Kuhaylan Krush mare, El Kahila and in tail female to Mabrouka (Inshass) through Rakia. What a serendipitous surprise that was for all of us! We all wish them the very best in having him breed forward for years to come and reward them for the interest they’ve taken in preserving the heritage he carries.
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