Futna

Futna, the dam of *Ansata Bint Sameh, was born in 1943, sired by the great Shahloul (Ibn Rabdan x Bint Radia) and out of the influential mare Farida (Saklawi II x Nadra el Saghira). Farida was the result of breeding an El Dahma son to an El Dahma grand-daughter. As a Farida daughter, Futna was concentrated in the blood of the horse we consider to be the birth mother of the Dahman Shahwan strain. Futna's siblings, sired by different stallions, were also influential horses like Ragia (by Ibn Rabdan), Balance (by Ibn Samhan) and Bint Farida (by Mansour). All of these horses share common ground, by producing horses who have gone on to have a significant impact in the world-wide community of straight Egyptian Arabian horse breeding.