El Samraa

El Samraa

El Shalyar (*Soufian  x Wafa)

The interesting thing about the 1924 mare, El Samraa, is that we really don't know a lot about her. She was recorded as both a Kuhaylah and a Saqlawiyah in the EAO studbooks. In the Inshass herdbook, her sire is recorded as Hab El Reah (breath of wind) and her dam as Bint El Sheik (pride of her owner) however, both of these names may have resulted from a misunderstanding of Arabic expression, commonly used when speaking about a mare and not necessarily, the real name of her sire and dam. Regardless, El Samraa is a royal mare, having captured the interest of King Fouad, who purchased her in 1931 from Shaikh Umar Abd al-Hafiz of Cairo. She is a relevant mare in Egyptian Arabian horse breeding, as she is the dam of Samira, who produced Sameh, by El Moez and Bint El Samraa, by Mekdam, whose chestnut daughter by Sid Abouhom, *Bint Bint El Samraa was imported to the United States by Douglas Marshall of Gleannloch Farm in 1970. One of the last stallions shown and promoted by Gleannloch Farm was the chestnut *Soufian son, El Shalyar, out of Wafa, *Bint Bint El Samraa's daughter by *Morafic.