BEBARS AL FARIDA

Bebars Al Farida, a 2012 gray stallion,  is a son of Imperial Baarez (PVA Karim x BB Ora Kalilah) and out of a Royal Colours daughter named Salma. He was shown last week in Menton's 4-6 year old stallion class and while the stallion classes, in my opinion, lacked the depth seen in the mare classes, especially the senior mares, there were three stallions who caught my attention,  and of the three, Bebars Al Farida was my favorite.

When I saw Imperial Baarez for the first time, I had come up behind him and he was facing away from me. I remember the impression that his hind end made upon me. At the time, the word "baroque" was quickly becoming a buzzword in the dressage community, to describe horses with an "old world" look, horses who like Baarez, were rounder, more compact, more densely muscled and better able to perform the collected movements required in the higher levels of the sport.  After watching Bebars Al Farida compete in Menton, I was reminded of this long ago experience, because he, like his sire is substantial of body with an equally impressive hind end. He is very much his father's son in phenotype, despite the tell tale pink on his muzzle, which sort of gives it all away before you have a chance to notice the similarity in body type. And yet, there was something more, something familiar about this horse, like deja vu.

Salma, his dam, is out of a mare named Fay Zina T, a Salaa el Dine daughter out of Zakeyat, by Gad Allah. If you patiently follow the tail female line from Zakeyat to Zakyia to Ozorees to Ghadeer to Thouraya I, eventually arriving at Rayana; I promise you that things will start "falling" into a very familiar and most interesting place. The mare, Rayana by Ezzat, is one of two daughters produced by Rateeba. The other daughter is Rabiaa, sired by Beshier. And here we are, about to "fall" into a place of common ground between two different horses. You will remember that Rabiaa is the dam of Aminaa, an Albadeia-bred mare who produced *Amalaa, by Mowaffac, a *Ramses Fayek son. This big bodied bay mare with the silver colored hairs in her black tail, was purchased by Imperial Egyptian Stud and is the maternal granddam of Imperial Sanama, the dam of Zenubia Al Nasser, who produced Maisa Al Nasser by Sinan Al Rayyan, the Bronze Senior Champion mare in Menton!

Now, to convince the owners of Maisa Al Nasser to breed her to Bebars Al Farida. What a foal that would be.