It
is not possible to speak of a mare like Om el Saad, without
acknowledging a desert-bred mare named Rodania, a Kuhaylah Rodaniyah,
bred by the Ruala tribe of the Anazeh Bedouins. Rodania was captured by
Tais Ibn Sharban of the Saba'ah tribe, from Sheikh Sattam Ibn Shalan in
1880. Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt eventually purchased the mare from
Tais Ibn Sharban and imported Rodania to their Crabbet Park Stud in
England, circa 1881. Rodania’s daughter, Rose of Sharon, by the desert-bred
stallion, Hadban was bred to the Ali Pasha Sherif stallion, Merzuk and
produced a mare named Ridaa. In straight Egyptian breeding, the blood of
Rodania is found through the daughters of Ridaa: Risala by Mesaoud or
Riyala by *Astraled. It is through Risala’s daughter by Ibn Yasmak, Bint
Risala, that paved the way for a mare like Om el Saad to be born and
underscore the significance that the Blunts would ultimately have upon
modern Arabian Horse breeding, forever. Om el Saad, like her dam, was a
taller, bigger-bodied, grey colored mare by Shahloul and out of the
equally tall Bint Rissala daughter, Yashmak II (by Sheikh el Arab).
Yashmak was an incredible producer of horses like Rahma, Rashida, *Sanaa
and of course, the Pritzlaff foundation stallion, *Rashad Ibn Nazeer.
Perhaps the strength of Om el Saad’s body conveyed the strength that she
would have genetically, within the world of straight Egyptian breeding.
With the Rodania foundation in her dam line, one cannot be surprised by
the success of Om el Saad as a broodmare. If Om el Saad had only
produced Bint Om el Saad, by the stallion, Nazeer, her place in history
would remain as bright as it is today but she also produced daughters
like Rafica (by Nazeer) and Kaydahom (by Azmi). While Bint Om el Saad
was not as conformationally strong as her dam; when bred to the Inshass
stallion, Sameh, she out produced herself and gave the world a great
gift in the form of a chestnut mare named *Serenity Sonbolah, the 1971
United States National Champion Mare.
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