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D Khair (BS Raeed x Magic Mon Amour)

I was looking through the Jadem Arabians Stallions Guide, which is a beautiful publication by the way, as published by Tutto Arabi this past week. The Jadem facility is impressive, as are the many services offered to the prospective breeder. There are 17 stallions presented in the Guide, including the spectacular Emerald J (QR Marc x Emandoria). However, it was the 13th stallion in the book that was an unexpected but joyful surprise for me: D Khair (BS Raeed x Magic Mon Amour), owned by Alhmoud Stud. Do you know that he's a maternal sibling of the black beauty, Magic Magnifique?

D Khair's dam, Magic Mon Amour (Windsprees Mirage x Al Amyra) is a double granddaughter of Thee Desperado, through Windsprees Mirage (her sire) and BJ Thee Mustafa (the sire of Al Amrya, her dam). In addition to Thee Desperado,  she has several lines to other Egyptian horses like *Ansata Ibn Halima & *Ibn Moniet el Nefous (via Raisuli El Pharo), the Pritzlaff-bred stallion, Rasmoniet RSI (*Rashad Ibn Nazeer x *Bint Moniet el Nefous), as well as three lines to Aswan, through the Russian horses: Nega, Kilimandscharo and Nevada. She also has an additional line to TheEgyptianPrince (through HH El Amir, the sire of Miraabbi), a line to Gulastra (*Astraled x Gulnare) plus a total of 5 lines to the Babson import, *Maaroufa, in addition to *Maaroufa's full sibling, *Fadl, plus the other Babson imports like *Bint Bint Sabbah (FaSaab) and *Bint Serra I, through her sons, Fay-El-Dine and Fa-Serr. The percentage of her pedigree which traces to Egyptian breeding is high, almost 60%!

Bred by Fontanella Magic Arabians in Italy, Magic Mon Amour, foaled in 2004, has been crossed with a wide variety of stallions, producing extraordinary results, consistently.  Think of the stallions, Magic Mon Ami by FS Bengali and the full siblings, Magic Magnifique and Magic Suleiman, both sired by True Colours. Eventually, this amazing mare went to Dubai Stud, where the outcross opportunities were even larger, enabling her to produce horses like the Menton champion, D Shireen by Kahil Al Shaqab, D Gezaila by Gazal Al Shaqab, D Shahira by Frasera Mashar, in addition to D Khair, whose sire is by the Monogramm son, Debowiec and out of the Magnum Psyche daughter, JJ Mona Lisa. What I also found interesting is the dominance of the bay color in her progeny. I found very few horses that are not bay, maybe one or two. However, that should not be a surprise, as the first 3 generations of Magic Mon Amour's pedigree is populated by horses of color, mostly bay and a few black horses and chestnuts. You will find a few greys in the fifth generation, namely Ruminaja Ali and TheEgyptianPrince. If you believe that coat color indicates genetic influence, this is the only reason that I mention this observation, as to why a mare without a concentrated or predictable concentration of genetic influence would prove to be a dominating influence, when mated with stallions who have equally dominated our world of Arabian Horse breeding with their unique influences. I have no doubt in my mind that one day, in the very near future, we will recognize her as one of the elite broodmares of our breed, if we don't feel like that already. I am overwhelmed with wonder and respect for this beautiful mare and her outstanding production record. Truly, there is some truth to the Magic prefix in her name.