*Ramses Mameluck

*Ramses Mameluck (*Mameluck x *Nayla), as photographed by Lydie

Silver Crest Farm, then in Sacramento, advertised the 1973 stallion, *Ramses Mameluck in the May 1981 issue of Arabian Horse World. He was double Hadban Enzahi (Nazeer x Kamla), as well as triple Farida, tracing to Farida in both tail female lines: stallion and mare, as well as the additional line through Balance (Ibn Samhan x Farida). *Mameluck, a 1969 stallion, bred by Marbach State Stud,was imported by Alex Tubel, then in Janesville, Wisconsin; while *Nayla, in foal to *Mameluck, also bred by Marbach, was imported by Martin Loeber of Plum Grove Farm. Its interesting for me, in light of the previous blog post for *Ramses Fayek, that here, in this stallion, we do realize the triple combination of the Farida line through Halima, however, not via *Ansata Ibn Halima but through his maternal sibling, Moheba, a 1951 mare sired by Sid Abouhom. Yet, something happens in this stallion, that we do not find within the pedigree of *Ramses Fayek. There are 4 lines to the RAS mare, Bint Sabah (Kazmeen x Sabah), 2 of those lines come via Kamla (Sheikh el Arab), one line comes by way of Bukra (Ghazal) and the 4th line comes through Sid Abouhom. I can only imagine crossing this horse with the straight Babson Egyptian mares descending from *Bint Bint Sabbah! While *Ramses Fayek is not part of this pedigree, Nadja, the granddam of *Ramses Mameluck was a maternal sister to Fayza II, the dam of *Ramses Fayek. Again, by adding *Ansata Ibn Halima to the mix, despite the fact that his dam already appears via Moheba, on the paternal side, one wishes to capture the "genetic magic" that resulted in a stallion like El Hilal. 

HMR Satinique (*Ramses Mameluck x HMR Dorzah Talal), bred by Howard Marks and photographed by Lydie

The closest we came to this combination was the black stallion, Haziz Halim, an *Ansata Ibn Halima son out of Serenity Shahrabi, who was bred to HMR Satinique, a *Ramses Mameluck daughter out of a *Talal/Hallany Mistanny mare (with additional lines tracing to Ayerza, Huntington and Hamidie which are not considered straight Egyptian). For me, whether through *Ramses Fayek, whom I preferred or even, *Ramses Mameluck, will remain as one of many "what if..." scenarios that come to mind when I encounter these long ago wonderful horses.