*Dawlat

*Dawlat (Anter x Shahrzada) as photographed by the late photographer, Johnny Johnston

Anter, when bred to the Nazeer daughter, Shahrzada, produced the chestnut beauty, *Dawlat. Foaled in 1961, she was purchased and imported by Gleannloch Farm in 1965. *Dawlat was a full sister to the mares, Bint el Nil and *Serenity Shahra. She was a maternal sister to *Serenity Sabra (Sameh), and Noosa (Sid Abouhom). Do you know that the name *Dawlat is actually a variation in the spelling of Daulat, an Arabic name meaning wealth and power?  When one considers that *Dawlat produced 15 foals in her lifetime, her name conveys the importance  that we, as enthusiasts pay to the power of the maternal side of the pedigree and in some ways, her name is also like a harbinger of the extraordinary impact that *Dawlat would exert within the world of straight Egyptian horses.

Most of what we know about *Dawlat has been expressed through the accomplishments of her two remarkable sons, her first-born, Dalul (by *Morafic), a 1971 United States National Champion Futurity Colt and the 1977 IAHA Colt and 1980 Racehorse of the year, Asjah Ibn Faleh+ (by *Faleh); however, she also produced 9 daughters and four additional sons.

Kula (*Morafic x *Dawlat)

Four of her nine daughters were sired by *Morafic: Kula in 1969, Il Dara in 1970, Doriah in 1972 and Malikaa in 1973.

Doriah (*Morafic x Dawlat)

*Dawlat also produced a son, as a result of the series of offspring sired by *Morafic, Wazir Ibn Morafic in 1971.

Wazir Ibn Morafic (*Morafic x *Dawlat)

The success of producing a colt like Asjah Ibn Faleh insured another try with *Faleh and she produced twin colts in 1977: Juhneen and Rayneen.  As successful as the crosses were with the stallion, *Morafic, Gleannloch tried to recapture the magic of that cross through the use of his son, Ibn Morafic, which resulted in the mare Rasheeka in 1978. *Dawlat, in what was to be her last year spent at Gleannloch, before being sold to Bentwood Farm, was bred to *Sakr, producing the mare Il Badawiyyah in 1979. One of the more interesting combinations with *Dawlat was to the *Ansata Ibn Halima son, Bay Halima, whose dam, Al Nahr Mona Lisa was an Anter granddaughter. She produced the double Anter mare, AK Daheela by Bay Halima in 1981. She was also bred to Moniet el Sharaf two times, producing a son in 1982 (AK Hamoud) and a daughter, AK Bint Dawlat, the following year. Her final foal, a daughter, was sired by Shaikh al Badi and named AK Sheherezada, in honor of *Dawlat's dam, the Yosreia daughter, Shahrzada.

In her tail female line, *Dawlat traces back to Venus, a chestnut mare foaled in 1890 who became an important broodmare for Khedive Abbas II and long considered to be the root mare of the strain. The Khedive bred Venus to the Ali Pasha Sherif stallion, Saklawi I, to produce the mare Hadba, the dam of Bint Hadba el Saghira, whom you will find in the fifth generation of *Dawlat's pedigree. *Dawlat is Hadbah Enzahiyah by strain. Shahrzada, her dam, represents a rare genetic combination in EAO breeding, as she was a pure-in-the-strain Hadbah, meaning, both her sire and dam are of this strain. When you combine the paternal side of the pedigree with the pure Hadban pedigree of Shahrzada, you end up with a mare like *Dawlat, who was more Hadbah, than she was anything else. Originally, the horses of this strain were recognized as Hadban, because they descended from a mare who had a long, bushy and thick mane, so profuse, that it covered her withers, her shoulders and ran down to her forearms. A substrain of the Kuhaylan strain, the Hadban horses are strong and balanced horses, not extreme in their characteristics and combine well with horses of other strains, as was the case with the Saklawi stallion, Anter, resulting in the beautiful mare we knew as *Dawlat, whom Hansi Heck-Melnyk remembered fondly as "a leggy chestnut with a tremendous neck and shoulder". Many people seem to have also agreed, as *Dawlat was a beloved show mare, earning multiple class A Halter and English Pleasure champion titles, enchanting all with her style, grace and beauty. An important broodmare, a good mother to her foals and a talented competitor, *Dawlat exceeded the expectations of all who knew and loved her.