Kamar Albadeia

Kamar Albadeia, pictured in this Jim Brownfield photo,  was a 1978 grey mare, a daughter of the great Albadeia sire, Kayed, and out of Naeema, a Tifla daughter sired by Fayek, before he was purchased by Martin Loeber for his Plum Grove Farm and known forever to the world as *Ramses Fayek. Tifla, is out of Elwya, a daughter of Zareefa by Sid Abouhom. Tifla was one of Albadeia's post war foundation mares, who established a long running family of horses who are a significant part of the 80 year history of Albadeia. In America, Tifla was equally prolific and is represented by beautiful horses, like the chestnut Nabiel daughter, RA Aneesa and World Champion Hadidi, the son of the charismatic, Hebet Allah. The tail female line through Zareefa traces to Bint el Bahreyn, a mare foaled in 1898, bred by Rais Issa Ibn Khalifah of Bahrain. In 1903, she was one of two horses selected as gifts for Khedive Abbas II, the older brother of Prince Mohamed Aly Tewfik and Egypt's Khedive until 1914. Four years later, in 1907, Lady Anne Blunt had purchased the mare from Khedive Abbas II for her Sheykh Obeyd Stud. Lady Anne Blunt was familiar with both Bahraini mares and considered Bint el Bahreyn the better horse of the two. She bred the mare to her stallion Jamil, a Saqlawi Jedran of Abbas Pasha breeding. In 1910, Bint el Bahreyn foaled a Jamil filly, whom Lady Anne Blunt named Dalal Al Hamra. Lady Anne Blunt was delighted with this filly and had recorded that she had "a beautiful, gazelle-like head". Interestingly, Dalal Al Hamra is the only source to Bint el Bahreyn; there are no other branches to her. Dalal Al Hamra was bred to a desert-bred Abeyyan stallion named Saadoun, whom Lady Anne Blunt had purchased from Shaikh Mishari Ibn Sa'dun of the Muntafiq in 1911. Like Jamil, she brought this stallion to Sheykh Obeyd Stud to use in her program. From the union of Saadoun x Dalal Al Hamra, was born Durra, a 1917 mare, who when bred to Kazmeen, gave the world of straight Egyptian breeding the mare Zareefa, the dam of El Sareei (by Shahloul). Zareefa is the great great grand dam of Kamar AlBadeia. The story of Bint el Bahreyn very powerfully illustrates the rich and vibrant desert heritage of horses like Kamar AlBadeia and reminds me of what Cynthia Culbertson said, “What we can say about the Straight Egyptian Arabian, very reliably, is that they are so close to that desert source…the only way one could get closer is with a desert bred that stayed in the homeland.” Almost half of Zareefa's ancestral elements are desert-bred horses, bred by different tribes of Bedouin people. Like most of the Albadeia mares, Kamar is a pretty mare, close-coupled, with a substantial body. She has a strong topline, powerful shoulders and a muscled, rounded hindquarter. Her neck is set higher on her body, creating a wonderfully flowing, uninterrupted line from her tail, to her poll. Her longer forearms are well-muscled and in proportion to shorter cannon bones. Her face is short in length, broad across the forehead with lustrous black eyes, placed lower in her head. The quality of her skin is excellent, which allows for a dramatic prominence of bone in her face. Overall, she exudes an abundance of Arabian horse type in a pleasing and very balanced look. Kamar Albadeia was a spectacular broodmare for Nasr Marei, producing seventeen foals in her lifetime. Eleven of these foals were female, so she produced a very high percentage of daughters, as compared to sons. She was bred to a variety of stallions, thirteen to be exact. She had multiple foals with Ameer Albadeia and produced a son named Omar in 1989 and two daughters: Rihanat in 1981 and Shahirat in 1982. Shahirat remained in the Albadeia program and produced a daughter named Nawarat by the El Araby son, Emad. Two years later, a son named Lail Albadeia was produced by breeding Shahirat with a son of Emad (out of the Shaarawi daughter, Baheera) named El Walid. Kamar herself would be bred to this stallion, producing a bay daughter named Sodfat Albadeia, who produced 7 foals, before being sold to Ajmal Stud. The combination of Ameer Albadeia with Kamar is tried again, with a slightly different twist, this time using a son named Mansour Albadeia, resulting in a son named Ibn Kamar in 1991 and a daughter, Zomoradat in 1997. Kamar was bred to the EAO stallion, Adl, an Ikhnatoon son out of the Adaweya daughter, Enayah. Kamar produced a daughter named Zaghroudat in 1994, who is part of the Albadeia breeding program, producing 4 daughters and 2 sons, which includes one of the most cherished show mares, Isaad Albadeia, a two time Junior Champion filly of Egypt and the senior champion mare at the 2005 Egyptian National Championships, as well as a Dutch National Champion and one of the top ten mares at the World Championships in Paris. Bred to a variety of outside stallions, Isaad is also producing well for Albadeia, giving birth to 2 daughters: Ghandoura Albadeia by Al Rayyan and Zahda by Laheeb and 1 son by Al Adeed Al Shaqab, Saad. A son named Sonbol, who like Zaghroudat, is sired by Ad, was born from Kamar in 1996. In 2001, Kamar foaled one of her last foals, a filly by the Farid son, Inshallah Albadeia (out of Ibtehag) named Kamarain. In 2014, at the AHO Breeders Championships, this very exquisite filly, a former Junior National Champion filly of Egypt, matured into one of the most beautiful mares and was named a top ten, together with “cousin”, Isaad, at this prestigious show. Kamarain produced a wonderful filly and future broodmare prospect by Magd Albadeia, named Amoora. What an impressive production record for this mare named Kamar Albadeia.