Al Ayal "squared"

There are two Al Ayal AA daughters consigned to the Pride of Poland summer sale! With special mares like the Ekstern daughters El Dorotella and Wersa, the Al Maraam granddaughter, Ellissima, and the Zagrobla daughter, Zigi Zana, it is really challenging to choose one horse as "favorite". However, the Al Ayal daughters offer the opportunity to build a breeding program combining the genetic outcross power of 2 different breeding programs utilizing Saqlawi-type horses. The Al Ayal daughters, both foaled in 2021, are bred and owned by Michałów Stud and listed in the summer sale as lot 21, the grey mare named Kampala, out of Kasandra, an Ekstern daughter and lot 5, the bay mare, Driada, out of Dolores, a Kabsztad daughter. 

Al Ayal AA (Al Ayad x The Vision HG) bred and owned by Ariela Arabians

They are paternal siblings, bound in blood by the same sire, Ariela's outstanding Al Ayal (Al Ayad x The Vision HG). However, there's something else, that is, another close connection that both mares share, strengthening their familial relationship. Do you know what that is? 

LAHEEB

He is the sire of Poganin, the sire of Kabsztad, who sired Dolores, the dam of Driada but Laheeb is also the sire of Karolina, the maternal great-grandam of Kampala! Between the weight of influence that Al Ayal exerts in the pedigree (50%) and the percentage of influence that Laheeb carries (6.25%), both mares are just slightly less than 60% Egyptian! 

The Polish Arabian Days website includes beautifully shot video footage of every horse consigned to the sale. And that's where I lost it. I watched Kampala trot the same fence line that her maternal grandsire once trotted.  Yes, a bittersweet experience but grateful that a horse named Ekstern is still, very much alive in this world.  His daughter did that for me, all for the love of a horse...and my heart.