Anchor Hill Hamla

In the late forties, the American breeder, Daniel Gainey, impressed with Henry Babson's Egyptian horses, wanted to incorporate Egyptian lines into his program and so, he  purchased the Egyptian mare *Mamdouha, who was in foal to the stallion Enzahi. The mare *Gamila was the foal that was born and at twelve years old, *Gamila was sold to the Atkinson’s of Anchor Hill Ranch. Bred to Anchor Hill’s straight Babson Egyptian stallion, Hadbah, she produced the extraordinary foundation mare, Anchor Hill Hamla. She was a lovely, old-world type of mare, curvey, substantially built with a strong top line, wide chest and big hips.  She was not exotic or extreme in her look but she possessed chiseled features and a dry, refined face. However, it was through her progeny, that Anchor Hill Hamla would prove to be most influential, as compared to her full sisters: Anchor Hill Bint Gamila, Anchor Hill Hamila and Anchor Hill Hadga. Subsequently owned by Glorieta Ranch and bred to the newer Egyptian blood like *Talal, Ansata Abu Nazeer and *Ansata Ibn Halima, as well as the older Egyptian horses, like the stallion, Char Echo.