Moniet El Nafis

Moniet El Nafis, a 1976 stallion bred by Bentwood Farm in Waco, Texas, was sired by *Ibn Moniet El Nefous, a *Morafic son and was out of the mare, *Hoyeda, a *Morafic daughter. If you compare and contrast his pedigree against the pedigree of TheEgyptianPrince, you will discover that the 2 horses are more similar, than they are different, as both stallions carry 50% *Morafic blood. Moniet El Nafis' pedigree, like the pedigree of TheEgyptianPrince, is concentrated in the blood of primarily 3 horses: Nazeer, Sid Abouhom and Moniet El Nefous. It's the percentage of influence of Nazeer and Moniet El Nefous that is slightly different between the stallions, with Moniet El Nafis carrying 50% Moniet El Nefous blood and 25% Nazeer; while TheEgyptianPrince has 50% Nazeer blood and 25% Moniet El Nefous. No surprise, because when you review the pedigree of TheEgyptianPrince together with Moniet El Nafis' pedigree, you will notice that Nazeer appears one generation sooner in TheEgyptianPrince, than he does in Moniet El Nafis, as, vice versa, the same can be said of Moniet El Nefous within the pedigree of Nafis! She is one generation closer. Also, both stallions carry the same percentage of Sid Abouhom: 25%. I never saw a photo that conveyed the true beauty of Moniet El Nafis. In person, he was surprisingly different from his photos. He was magnificent, in his smooth, strong and radiantly white body. After all, he was a two time Scottsdale top ten halter stallion! He was very much a Saqlawi horse, with longer legs, longer back, longer neck and a head very much like his father-not a wide head but a little more narrow, with a little more length. His body was impressive, with a wide chest, very powerfully muscled shoulders and a strong, well defined wither. He reminded me of the photos that I have seen of Sid Abouhom. I was not surprised that Nafis turned out to be a consistent sire of racehorses, because I always felt he looked like a racehorse himself. He certainly had the powerful structure for racing. In 1978, Doug Griffith selected him for Imperial Egyptian Stud, where he remained a chief stallion and a king for most of his life, before being sold to South America.