Jyar Meia Lua

Jyar Meia Lua (RFI Maktub x Jiullia El Jamaal),  the proud Arabian stallion come to life, thanks to Gigi Grasso & Arabian Essence

For many people, 2020 couldn't end soon enough. So, maybe it is a bit weird to express surprise, that here we are, almost a full year later, since Arabian Essence TV presented the quarantine video series, Stay at the Farm. So much and so little has happened over this past year, if it makes sense to say it like this.  If there is anything good to come out of the Corona Virus pandemic, Stay at the Farm is one good thing. 

I think I began to really love the show when Ferdinand Huemer of La Movida Arabians was the guest and he presented a young mare named Binta el Jyar and a stallion named Bari el Jyar. Full siblings, the two horses are sired by Jyar Meia Lua and out of the Marwan Al Shaqab daughter, Bali el Marwan.  About Binta el Jyar, Ferdinand said,

"she is very, very close to my ideal. She's huge..huge, super body, fantastic neck, incredible movement." 

At first glance, the horses appear different from each other; one is chestnut, the other is bay but when you study each horse a little more closely,  you will notice the consistency in their breed type, conformation and presence.  They are more similar, than they are different and this article, is about the special stallion, still so young and siring with consistency, across a wide variety of bloodlines.

Jyar Meia Lua, bred by the late Lenita Perroy, is a bright bay stallion, a son of RFI Maktub (Altam Yshmayl x RFI Cyntilation) and out of Jiullia El Jamaal (Ali Jamaal x Jullye El Ludjin). 

In 1971, Breyer Animal Creations, a Reeves International company, released mold #211, the Proud Arabian Stallion, sculpted by Chris Hess. Over the years, this same mold has been used to memorialize legendary Arabian horses like *Witez II and Thee Desperado. 50 years later, the resemblance between the model and Jyar Meia Lua is riveting to me. It makes me wonder about things like artist vision and inspiration, when art and life come together as one.

Jyar Meia Lua carries almost 30% Egyptian blood through the straight Egyptian horses: *Fadl, Hadban Enzahi, Malacha, *Fakher El Din, Ansata Abu Tai, Shaker el Masri, Nabiel and Ruminaja Ali. The common denominator in Jyar Meia Lua's Egyptian bloodlines is Nazeer, as he appears multiple times, anywhere from 50% (as the sire of *Fakher El Din) to 6.25% as a great-grandsire. 

Ibn Rabdan, painted by Mrs. Colmore, from the book written by Prince Mohamed Aly Tewfik, Breeding of Pure Bred Arab Horses 

However, further back in the Egyptian lines, resides a 1917 horse, Ibn Rabdan, whose influence is still relevant to the present, as it is manifested physically through the circular silhouette of Jyar Meia Lua's gloriously balanced body.  Jyar Meia Lua is very similar in phenotype to Ibn Rabdan, with his strong and smooth topline, deep and powerfully muscled shoulders, well-sprung rib cage, balanced hind end and beautifully shaped neck.  In my opinion, this is why Jyar Meia Lua has combined so well with the breeding program of Ariela Arabians in Israel, as the number of lines to Ibn Rabdan, complement those lines also present in the Ariela mares. 

What I also found interesting were the pockets of concentrated blood of a few modern horses like Ali Jamaal (37.5%), Bey Shah (12.5%)  and *El Shaklan (6.25%). In the case of Bey Shah, his dam, Star of Ofir was a *Bask daughter, which complements and intensifies the other *Bask lines in the pedigree through Toi Soldier (a *Bask son) and Coya-B (a *Bask daughter). With *Bask as far out in the pedigree as the 5th and 6th generations, it is impressive to consider the 5-to-6% influence he exerts in the pedigree. One can also point out that the blood of *Bask complements the blood of the Michalow bred mare, Dewajtis, a maternal great-grandaughter of Wielki Szlem (an Ofir son like Witraz, out of Elegantka, a tail female Gazella II) and *Naganka (a Negatiw daughter, who traces also to Gazella II and through her dam, Najada, a Fetysz grandaughter). 

I haven't even touched upon the common ground that exists between some of the Crabbet bloodlines and the horses that were exported from Crabbet and incorporated into the RAS breeding program, as well as the Crabbet blood that includes Skowronek and also found in some of the Polish bloodlines, like Negatiw.

While Jyar Meia Lua's pedigree at first glance, appears to be an outcross pedigree, uniting horses from different breeding programs and countries, on a deeper level, one finds common ground in the ancestral elements of Jyar Meia Lua's pedigree. These long ago horses who are just but a name to some, serve as connections, building bridges amongst the outcross opportunities.