Kuhailan Zaid
- Lost and Found
© 2009 Roxanne Rogers
You may ask yourself, "Why
does this woman peer into the past when we
have all these great new racing fads going on?" Firstly,
I don't trust
fads and secondly before communism Polish Arabs could beat the
French
sometimes and there were a lot of great French lines in those
really
fast Polish Arabs that are not only lost to Poland today but also
to
France and vice versa. I was asked by a breeder why I thought
the
running times were not markedly improving with the new French
blood.
Perhaps it's because there is just a small handful of "true
French"
stallions in North America and we don't breed the right mares
to them.
Its my belief that breeding the best Polish to the best French
will
still prove out quite nicely today and I think its very important
to
catalogue the past in order to accomplish any kind of continuity
in a
breeding program. Just breeding winners to winners is the same
formula used for show horses and some of these "fluke"
racehorses are
already breeding out within three generations. So, please humor
me and
read a little further as I explore one of my personal favorite
racing
sire lines, KUHAILAN ZAID. As always I will not be able to list
all
the important horses that I should but I look forward to hearing
from
any and all of you with information as I will keep fleshing things
out
on the website. I will begin with a quote:
"Kuhailan Zaid was a bay, bred in the desert in 1925.
He was purchased
for Babolna by Bogdan Zientarski and Carl Raswan during their
expedition to Arabia in 1931. Skorkowski quotes Zientarski: 'At
last
they bring a stallion of Kuhailan Zaid strain; bay stripe, black
legs
to over the knees, a splendid line of the trunk, a long strongly
expressive neck a dry head, legs somewhat worn out, hoofs in awful
condition, but on the whole with much type, a first class sire
as
created for Babolna...we buy him without any bargain'. His sire
was a
Kuhailan Abu Janub and his dam a Kuhailat al Ziyadah," Britta
Fahlgren.
Thus begins the very important history of one of Poland's greatest
sire lines , from the desert to Hungary, to Poland, the United
States
and finally Canada. This sire line shows up over and over in the
most
successful and uncommon racing stock and proved out extremely
well
with French mares in Poland. The influence of this sire line is
largely overlooked today but I hope to bring it back to the forefront
with this article. Especially in light of the French invasion
since as
we know the best French sires have a goodly shot of Polish blood
and
the smartest French breeders are still looking to incorporate
Polish
as this combination of certain French lines with certain Polish
lines
continues to make the best racehorses and sires such as DORMANE
and
DJELFOR for instance.
In my article, Polish Arabian Sire Lines, 1996, I listed all the
extant sire lines I could research. I found only nine: Line 1
Abu
Argub, Line V Bairactar, Line XV Ibrahim, Line XVI Ilderim, Line
XVII
Koheilan Adjuze Line XVII Kryzyk, Line XX Kuhailan Afas, Line
XXI
Kuhailan Haifi, and Line XXIII Kuhailan Zaid. Of these lines I
wrote
that two of them Abu Argub (remember Rozmaryn) and Kuhailan Zaid
existed only through the distaff side of pedigrees today. I had
yet to
discover *ALGORAB though, the last representative still alive
at the
time in the US. The unfortunate thing is that both Abu Argub and
Kuhailan Zaid were strong racing sire lines while only Koheilan
Adjuze, Kryzyk (almost extinct as I write this) and Kuhailan Haifi
are
the main sire lines for racing still in use today. KUHAILAN ZAID
though, is the line that brought us important race lines today
such as
GRAND, a strong,extremely handsome horse who raced 3 years had
18
starts, 14 wins,1 second and 3 thirds. Never out of the money
this
horse won 8 stakes races including the very difficult Criterium
twice!
Also from this sire line we find the fabulous FORTA (please refer
to
Finish Line, Volume 21, Number 8 for her history) and the ever
present
Genua, a daughter of Grand. Further research turns up, *BRANIBOR
2/11
(5-3-3) Derby +2, Gabor 1/5 (2-1-2) who sired MIR SAID 2/15(8-3-0)D,
Crit.+3 and his time was 2nd only to EQUIFOR's who as a son of
Forta
ties back into the same sire line. Mir Said also sired a Derby
winner,
*ELBRUS 2/12(6-2-2)D+1,"Eleanora's fourth son, the bay *ELBRUS
1965
(by MIR SAID) was also used for breeding in Poland and sired offspring
with outstanding racing abilities". R Pankiewicz. I would
like to add
here that Eleanora represents the French dam line Cherifa. MIR
SAID
is also the sire of *ALGORAB, National Champion racehorse and
sire of
winning get.
Z. Rozwadowski wrote:
In 1937 the Horse Breeding Department of the Ministry of Agriculture
imported from Babolna (Hungary) two stallions by the desert import
Kuhailan Said in exchange for whom it gave the stallion Koheilan
I
1922. The two horses were: Kuhailan Said 1936 (sire line 23) and
Kuhailan Szerif 1934 (sire line 23). Both served mares over a
brief
period in Poland and got one foal each. Kuhailan Szerif died soon
after, while Kuhailan Said, before getting lost in the 1939 war,
sired
the colt Ali Said, 1940. A third son sired by Kuhailan Said was
the
last foreign horse imported to Gumniska in 1939, just before World
War
II. He was Kuhailan Abu Urkub 1935. He got 24 foals and was lost
in
1945." By 1968 Poland had no further representatives from
this
sireline. "Only two mares tracing back to Kuhailan Zaid,
or.Ar., are
now in the Polish stock of pure Arab brood mares, and their number
is
hardly likely to increase. Horses of this sire line are characterized
by substance and great racing ability", Roman Pankiewicz.
Kuhailan Abu Urkub is best known as the sire of FORTA and GRAND,
sire
of Genua. Interestingly, GRAND, FORTA and *ELBRUS are out of French
(related) mares: GRAND's dam, Sagar 2/7(7-0-0) is out of Djeballa
a
French import and Forta's dam PORTA 3/13(7-1-2)3 is by Nedjari
also
from France. (Please refer to Finish Line, August-Volume 21, number
8
for a listing of all Forta's produce in the "Forta Dynasty").
Prince
Roman Sanguszgo was very adept at making these crosses and I suppose
the State Studs benefited for awhile until many were lost during
the
war and later on the prime directive became making money therefore
emphasis on popular "type" slowly overcame the old breeding
practices
of the aristocracy who simply loved pitting the highest quality
horses
against each other on the track. There is good reason its called
the
"sport of kings". To me, the modern Polish Arab has
become something
more like our domestic breds so preserving as many undiluted lines
from the glory days is my mission. I am very thrilled to see many
private Polish breeders also going back to the old race lines
a case
in point being the export of the SGR VAYU son, MVA Prince Vayu
to FHP
Giewunt SD Z OO. I can only speculate but I assume that the presence
of GRAND on the dam's side may have looked quite attractive especially
with the Kohelian Adjuze sire line.
Fortunately in the U.S. a couple of the importers, such as Tweed
and
Rubin had a good eye for athletes and important individuals from
this
sire line were brought over from Poland. Their signifigance was
not
recognized however, by the masses, and this researcher knows of
no
pure Polish male representatives except through the stallion *ALGORAB.
The stallions were, *ALGORAB 1/7(3-3-3)1, in Poland, *PEMBRUS
1/3(3-0-0)1, *Escudo, *Mako and Dokhailan. When I was growing
up in
the business my parents often commented on the high quality of
these
horses and others such as *Mohacz, Czortan, *ORZEL, *Czubuthan
etc.
For years (before the internet) I thought of this line existing
only
through the distaff side of pedigrees. Later I found a few but
out of
mares that didn't interest me but then I found Wieszczek out of
an
exquisitely bred *Mellon daughter. He was in California but I
could
not surpass the highest bidder's price. I believe he was 3 or
4 years
old at the time and then I lost track of him after that. However,
my
friend Kelly Brown is a pedigree nerd like myself and little did
I
know that she had picked up where I left off. Long story short,
she
ended up with him when he was nineteen. I was so happy that he
had
been found and that Kelly had two really nice mares for him. However
her facilities are a bit tight so she offered him to me after
she got
her mares pregnant, and even though there are a myriad of reasons
I
should have said no, I, of course, said yes. However, only after
I
called my partners Ina Lohmann and Kim Tucker so with a lot of
teamwork we hope to resurrect this dangerously close to extinct
line.
This spring at the age of 22 "Czek" had his first two
live foals on
the ground. Sadly his heir did not make it (nothing genetic) but
Kelly
has a beautiful filly. After breeding 7 mares at my farm Wiesczcek
quietly passed away in his sleep so we are all praying to the
horse
gods for colts. He did race but with blown suspensories and he
still
won one of his two starts.
Following is a list of all the horses I could find from this line
with race records whenever possible to illustrate my points. The
horses are listed chronologically with indented margins to indicate
descending generations. Names of sires who had several get are
capitalized and stakes winners are capitalized and bold face.
The data
I based this information on is from a book that goes by year and
not
families so it may look a little confusing at first but I did
not want
to change the author's format.
KUHAILAN ZAID O A(Original Arab), FAMILY 23 sired:
Baza 1934 (22 Kemir) reclaimed to Hungary 1951
Bojazn 1934 (6Kohelian IV) " " "
Bomba 1935 produced Anarchista 4/38(8-10-5) the sire of *ESTERKA
3/17 (4-2-7)O+1
KUHAILAN ABU URKUB 1935 (22 Kemir) see own heading below
Balia 1936 (25 Kemir) dam of Celia 2/12(4-1-1)
Basn 1937 (23 Mersuch)
Blaga 1937 (11 Siglavy Bagdady) dam of the sire Doktryner 1/7(2-1-1)
who got *Muzulmanin, Gerwazy, *Egreta, Ferezja, Gontyna,
Dyskobol 5/41(5-8-10), Ferrum,
Gawra,*REZONANS 2/13 (6-1-0)4
Bona 1937 (23 Mersuch)
Bulwa 1937 (12 Siglavi Bagdady) see own heading below
Bryla 1939 (24 Kohelian IV)
Gruz 1946 (Bruzda)
Guz 1946 (Branka)
KUHAILAN SAID 1934 (204 Kemir)
ALI SAID 1940 (Najada)
EMIR SAID 1952 (Eleanora) 3/15 (5-3-2)
Rass Said 1952 (Rozeta)
Elizaida 1953 (Eleanora)
Medyk 1953 (Medyna)
Ali Algar 1954 (Alga)
Amparita 1954 (Araukaria)
Magik 1954 (Medyna)
Sangar 1954 (Salwa)
Al Saida 1955 (Alga)
Czesnik 1955 (Carmen)
Esteban 1955 (Eleanora)
Alpaka 1956 (Alga)
Cerekwica 1956 (Cerekiew)
Chimena (Carmen)
Mimika 1956 (Mimonka)
Szarza 1956 (Salwa)
Algorina 1957 (Alga) Alga, dam of *Algonkina who produced
*ALGORAB
Dzemal 1957 (Drezyna)
Czarnohora 1958 (Czantoria)
Czembar 1958 (Cerekiew)
Dracena 1958 (Drezyna)
Kaszuba 1958 (Kaszma)
KUHAILAN ABU URKUB 1935 (22 Kemir) sire of:
Debra 1941 (Udzda)
Derkul 1941 (Olga)
Druid 1941 (Urgence)
Dzerit 1941 (Rabda Khuszaiba)
Egra 1942 (Olga)
Farkas 1943 (Kohejlanka) 2/15(1-6-3)
Farkub 1943 (Olga)
FARUK 1943 (Urgence) 2/9 (9-0-0)D,Crit.+3 exp.1949 to Bulgaria
Ferha 1943 (Udzda) 2/16(2-3-9)
FORTA 1943 (Porta) 2/11 (2-1-7)2 refer to my article "The Forta Dynasty"
Futar 1943 (Rabda Khuszaiba)
Urga II 1943 (Ursa) 1/6(1-2-2)
GABOR 1944 (Kohejlanka) 1/5(2-1-2)
Bryssaga 1950 (Bryla) 2/15(3-3-3)
Ferma 1950 (Ferha)
Kaleb 1950 (Kalja) 4/51(8-11-10)
Kardan 1950 (Karmen II) 3/27 (4-6-3)
Bajdara 1951 (Baza) the dam of BRANIBOR 2/11(5-3-3)D, *Bajdak
2/20 (3-2-2) Park Ch. US
Bojenka 1951 (Bojazn) 1/6(1-0-0) dam of BORYS 3/35(5-14-3)1
MIR SAID
Czarodziejka 1962 (Czaruta) 1/1(0-1-0)
Dorota 1962 (Diara Mokka)
CZARTAWA 1963 (Czaruta) 1/5 (2-1-0) 1
Diamira 1963 (Diara Mokka)
ALGORAB 1965 (Algonkina) 1/7(3-2-1)1 sire of 7 runners
and 5 winners incl:
Wiesczek 1987 (Wieczorynka) 1/2(1-0-0), Bryze
25(5-3-6 ) & Tashs Siberia 12(3-2-0).
Brysk 1965 (Bryzeida)
Canaris 1965 (Carissima) 1/8(2-2-0)
ELBRUS
Alabama 1971 (Algoa)
Bankong 1971 (Bandola)
Parnas 1971 (Parma)
PEMBRUS 1971 (Pemba)1/3(3-0-0)1
Rubel 1971 (Rus)
Bok 1972 (Bokata)
Marker 1972 (Morena)
Parol 1972 (Parma)
Pierog 1972 (Pierzga)
Salbella 1972 (Saletra)
Tiwiria 1972 (Tiwiriada)
Bokart 1973 (Bokata)
Boks 1974 (Bokata)
Campala 1974 (Cerisola)
Oran 1974 (Orla)
Harem 1965(Harfa)
Igor 1965 (Iglica)
Kreta 1965 (Kreolka)
Mowa 1965 (Morwa)
Cyruta 1966 (Cyneraria)
Czarka 1966 (Czarowna)
Elmira 1966 (Elka)
Gondar 1966 (Gomora)
Kredyt 1966 (Kreolka)
Panama 1966 (Pandora)
KUHAILAN ABU URKUB (cont'd)
Giaur 1944 (Porta) 2/15 (2-2-8)
Gombra 1944 (Ambra)
GRACZ 1944 (Trophee) 3/22(10-2-4)1
GRAND 1944 (Sagar) 3/18 (14-1-3) Crit. 2x+8
AWILOR 1951 (Angara) 3/22(6-3-4)2
Epigrama 1951 (Epizoda)
Andaluzia 1959 (Antwerpia)
Brokat 1959 (Bint Canaria)
Czadra 1959 (Cosmosa) 2/8 (3-2-2)
Massina 1959 (Mokdiara) imp. by Rubin
Nomen 1959 (Noma) 1/4(2-1-0)
Alladyn 1960 (Antwerpia) 4/24(9-7-1)
Fornarina 1960 (Fortunka) 2/11(2-2-3)
Genua 1960 (Gwara) exp. to US in 1963
GRANAT 1960 (Gazella) 4/27 (12-7-7)
Crit.+4
Mahmed 1960 (Manilla) 3/20 (3-5-3)
MOKAN
1960 (Mokdiara) 6/66 (8-6-1)2
Marunka
1977 (Maciejka)
Mgielka
1977 (Murhejka)
Macierzanka
1978 (Maciejka)
Mewa 1978
(Murhejka)
Murkana
1979 (Murhejka)Debsk-USA H Burger, and yes, as in "Murkana
Mike"
Maczek 1980
(Miszka)
Miecznik 1980
(Murhejka)
Mieta 1981
(Murhejka)
Mokdar 1981
(Miszka)
Newada 1960 (Noma) 2/6(1-4-1)
Walet 1960 (Werbena) 4/36(5-13-5)
Abukir 1961 (Antwerpia)
KORD 1961 (Cosmosa)
Abisynia
1967 (Arizona)
DYGRESJA
1967 (Dyska) 2/9(4-1-2)O
Dzemma 1967
(Dzedda)
Escudo 1967
(Eskapada) imp.by Allen
Mako 1967
(Mafia) imp. by Clay/Struck
Pardwa 1967
(Porfira) exp. by Mekeel
Zbroja 1967 (Zlota
Iwa)
Rewir 1967
(Rega)
Fryz 1968
(Fregata)
Darmocha
1961 (Darda)
Dessa 1961 (Dyska) 1/7(2-3-0)
Dziryt
1961 (Daribba) 1/3(1-1-1)
Gabaryt
1961 (Granula)
GALICJA
1961 (Galopada) 2/9(4-1-2)2 imp. by Clay/Struck
Gandawa
1961 (Gazella)
Mandragora
1961 (Mokdiara)
Mantyla
1961 (Manilla) 1/7(2-2-0) dam of *MELLON 3/24(8-10-2)4 leading
sire
of racehorses in Poland 1980-83
and the US. He is still in the top 5 broodmare
sire standings several years after
his death.
Marzanna
1961 (Madiara) 4/26(6-8-6) imp.1967 Clay/Struck
Aida
1962 (Antwerpia)
Dobosz
1962 (Daribba)
Driada
1962 (Dyska) 3/15(6-2-3)
Gol
1962 (Galopada) 3/22(6-1-6)
Gryzelda
II 1962 (Gazella)
Malaga
1962 (Manilla)
Gruzja 1944 (Arnes) 2/17(3-4-10)
Guerra 1944(Szeikha)
Gyatra 1944 (Udza)
Gyurka 1944 (Arosa)
Lubart 1944 (Lida)
Arian 1945 (Arja)
Mlech Smilowski 1945 (Larissa)
Salwa 1945 (Sabda)
Since this research is mainly about the sireline I will not go
into a
lot of detail about the mares, however Genua needs more scrutiny
as
she, like Forta, has also founded her own racing dynasty here
in the
US and Canada. Joe Cassel of Cassa Cassel and Marvin Singleton
of Five
Mile Ranch amongst many others believed strongly in Grand and
Genua. I
have had many conversations with them about this special magic
ingredient called Genua, that was the real "key to Polish
race
breeding". It was a little bit like preaching to the choir
but it was
a great pleasure to speak with these two learned gentlemen about
bloodlines. I love to exchange ideas. It was and still is my belief
that Genua's genius comes from Grand through Kuhailan Abu Urkub
combined with the great French mare Sagar-who incidentally is
lost to
the French. I did own *Falat, Forta's last son so I thought I
had that
base well covered but now it is fun to layer these lines as I
have
been able to lately with Korsarz (*Krezus x Genua), and now Wiesczek.
Wieszczek is line-bred himself to Kuhailan Zaid so with his
linebreeding my program has become very intense toward Kuhailan
Zaid
which is fine with me as I have always loved this line ever since
I
saw the picture of GRAND in GBE's "A Photographic History
of the
Polish Arabian". This book was published in 1978 and we were
the lucky
recipients of three volumes since GBE and Mom had been back and
forth
on the phone so much while Ms. Edwards was doing her research
so we
got ours in about 1980 and it became my breeding bible. I love
this
book and hope to see it reprinted one day.
OK, back to Genua, now that I've finished plugging an out of print
book.
Its not a complete picture but there are some very impressive
names
below:
*GENUA (by Grand) 1960 unraced, dam of 15 foals incl.,
FMR Grand Jubilee (by *Orzel) '84unraced,
dam of 3, 2 to race, 2 winners:
FMR Jubilee(by Cassel's Roszlem
$13,285.2/14(2-1-2) &
FMR Grand Jete (by Pierrot)
1/5(3-1-0)1 sire of 9 starters,
6 winners incl.
LE FROMAGE with an astonishing 90 starts and 21 wins and
17 seconds including
the K-Cuch Jedan Stakes last fall
Brusally Zbruenu sire of CASSELS
BRUCZEST 2/10(4-1-1)D+1,
Cassels Bruboj+ 3/29(7-3-4),
Cassels Brubolt 1/17(4-4-1), Chlosta Home
6/81(11-14-16), Deste Onismus
(2/16(5-3-0) etc.
Brusally Czestua unraced dam of
CASSELS ROSZLEM
13(6-3-0)1incl.TR and the
sire of 11 runners and 8 winners incl: FMR
HADASSAH 29(14-6-4)Oaks +
9-6 Darley Horse of the Year 2x.
and Cassel's Genua (x Br.
Czestua x Genua) the dam of SAMSHEIK 29(13-6-4)4-8 TR and 3(1-1-1)
in UK,
Sprint Champion sold for $600,000,
GENUINE RULER 3(1-0-1)1 and GENUINE
MONARCH 15 (6-3-2)4-5.
Brusally Zbrenua, dam of SGR VAYU
42(7-6-8)2-5
Brusally Zbrena the grandam of SAMBRENA
22(3-4-6)2-2 & CR Valentino 20(3-4-3).
Not only are there a lot of good, "classic" horses from
this line
there are a lot of sound ones as well. I count 41 horses from
the
above listed race records as having 10 or more lifetime starts
and
several over 20 including Le Fromage with 90 and Chlosta Home
with 81.
The French horses do not lack speed or classic (route) ability
but
they do lack soundness.
With this article it was my intent to bring the basic principles
of
race breeding back to the fore. I cannot claim to be an expert
on
anything, but Tesio has been an influence on me as well as the
Polish
aristocrats who bred such fabulous race horses, especially Prince
Roman
Sanguszko. These principals apply just as clearly today as
they did in
the past and I hope this friendly nudge will encourage everyone
to
keep raising the bar with their purebred Arabian race horses.
I think
the best Arabians have always been and always will be the racing
Arabians. Good luck to all.
Bibliography:
The Arabian Horse Families of Poland 1790-1987, Britta Fahlgren
50 Years of Breeding Pure Blood Arabian Horses in Poland in their
genealogical charts 1918-1968, Z. Rozwadoski
The Breeding of Pure Blood Arabian Horses in their Genealogical
Charts
1969-1972, Z. Rozwadoski
The Breeding of Pure Blood Arabian Horses in their Genealogical
Charts
1973-1974, Z. Rozwadoski
The Breeding of Pure Blood Arabian Horses in their Genealogical
Charts
1975-1978, R. Pankiewicz
A Photographic History of the Polish Arabian, Gladys Brown Edwards
The Polish Arabian Horse in North America 1937-1991, Neil Wood
The Finish Line Magazine and all the info from Bobbi!
Tanglewood
Breeders of Polish and French Arabian Horses and Thoroughbred
Racehorses
RR1
New Noway, Alberta
Canada T0B 3L0
Tel (780) 352-6413
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Roxanne Rogers, all rights reserved.
