Changing the World, One Horse at a Time

Moniets Regent SA (Bahir Ibn Kazmeen x Ravenwood Teyyah)

Sometime in the late spring, Pam Studebaker posted this photo of her stallion, Moniets Regent SA, whom she affectionately calls "Reggie". I was immediately drawn to the photo, enchanted by an overwhelming expression of kindness that radiated from his large, fully black and soulful eyes. I felt joyful, inspired and encouraged by this most beautiful and generously proportioned stallion, so reminiscent in his look of the beloved *Bint Moniet el Nefous. He is everything that I have ever imagined a straight Egyptian Arabian horse to be, classic and yet, strong-bodied and functional.  I had to find out more about him!

via his tail female line: Moniets Regent SA is Saqlawi by strain: Ravenwood Teyyah->JA Ateyyah Moniet->Muniet Nefous RSI->*Bint Moniet el Nefous->Moniet el Nefous->Wanisa->Medallela->Khafifa->Dalal al Zarka->Om Dalal->Bint Roga al Zarka->Roga el Beda 

via his sire line: Moniets Regent SA traces to Saklawi I: Bahir Ibn Kazmeen->Kazmeen Ibn Shiko->Shiko Ibn Sheikh->*Rashad Ibn Nazeer->Nazeer->Mansour->Gamil Manial->Saklawi II->Saklawi I

 

Ancestor-by-ancestor, within his 5th generation (great-great grandparents), Moniets Regent SA is overwhelmingly a Saqlawi horse. The strain analysis by ancestor points to 50% influence by horses who are Saqlawi by strain, while horses of the Dahman strain contribute 31.25%. The Kuhaylan Rodan strain balances the pedigree at 18.75%. In my opinion, Moniets Regent SA is one of the few straight Egyptian horses who pheotypically match the genotype established in the pedigree.

Denise Hearst, of Arabian Horse World magazine, in a 1987 interview with Richard Pritzlaff, had asked which of the EAO imports had been the most influential. 

"*Bint Moniet el Nefous has been the most important influence in my herd. Her sire Nazeer was the outstanding stallion at the RAS and her dam, Moniet el Nefous was the most famous mare. The most important influence overall should likely be Nazeer, the sire of *Bint Moniet el Nefous, *Bint El Bataa and *Rashad Ibn Nazeer. The influence of Bint Moniet el Nefous can be seen in most of the Pritzlaff Arabians. Chestnut color predominates, although Nazeer was white. Most of the horses have a shorter head than *Bint Moniet el Nefous." 

In studying the pedigree for Moniets Regent SA, a 2015 chestnut stallion, *Bint Moniet el Nefous could not be any more important than Richard said she was in his interview. Foaled in 1957, *Bint Moniet el Nefous appears five times in the pedigree, in the 5th, 6th and 7th generations, her genetic influence is measured at 20%. 

If Richard's answer to Denise can be also taken in a declining order of importance, then *Bint El Bataa, the horse Richard mentions after *Bint Moniet el Nefous (and the dam of Shiko Ibn Sheikh) would be next in importance. The pedigree is very clever, as Shiko Ibn Sheik appears four times: as the paternal grandsire of Bahir Ibn Kazmeen, in addition to siring Umi, who appears three times: as a great-great-grandsire on the paternal side of the pedigree, as well as two times the great grandsire of Ravenwood Teyyah. Every line to Umi not only includes Shiko Ibn Sheikh, it also includes *Bint El Bataa! 

*Rashad Ibn Nazeer, the last horse mentioned by Richard appears multiple times in the pedigree, more times than *Bint Moniet and *Bint El Bataa combined! He is not only the sire of Shiko Ibn Sheik but also the sire of Bint El Sarie, Sonieta, RSI Sara and Monieta, a mare that Richard was especially proud of: 

"Monieta is most like her dam. She has a shorter head than her mother. Monieta has a very affectionate, trusting dispositiion and has produced very fine, correct foals." 

Monieta is the dam of Almoniet RSI, the sire of Sonimoniet RSI, the sire of Ravenwood Teyyah and RG Iris, the dam of Bahir Ibn Kazmeen. 

The "outcross" blood in the pedigree comes through the two *Ansata Ibn Halima sons, paternal siblings who also share common ground in their straight Babson Egyptian dams: Maarqada (Fabah x El Maar) and Allah Atteyah (Ar-Ra'ad x Khamsa). However, "outcross" in this case can be a bit of a  misnomer, as the *Ansata Ibn Halima sons share the Nazeer ancestry with *Bint Moniet el Nefous, *Bint el Bataa and *Rashad Ibn Nazeer, helping to increase the combined Nazeer influence to over 30%! The *Ansata Ibn Halima horses are more closely related with the Pritzlaff program than you may initially think. Consider one of the mares of the 1958 importation: *Bint Dahma. 

"Bint Dahma was a small chestnut pretty mare with long flowing mane. None of her photos quite captured her lovely head which had the more undulating camel like muzzle with large eyese set low and very deep jowls with good width below. She was fine skinned and dry in facial features." - Joe Ferriss, from his article, Remembering Richard Pritzlaff, published in Desert Heritage Magazine

You will find her in Moniets Regent SA's pedigree as the dam of Bint el Sarie and Umi. *Bint Dahma was sired by El Sareei, out of Dahma II, a Futna daughter. Futna, if you will remember, is a Shahloul daughter out of Farida, who is also the dam of Ragia, the dam of Halima. Not to mention that the two Babson dams also share common ancestry through *Fadl, *Bint Bint Sabbah, *Maaroufa and *Bint Serra I. The difference between the dams is the percentage of *Bint Serra I blood, which is at a higher percentage in Allah Atteyah, than it is in Maarqada.  

It is unexpected photos like these (thanks Pam) who suddenly have the power to change a not-so-good day, into a better one, all for the love of a horse. Did I mention that I am partial to chestnut-colored horses?