Im in need of some help>>

[Belle]

I recently was doing some studying on the Egyptian strains and found one I was unfamiliar with Abeyyan Jurays if ya'll can help me find anything about this strain....

[Aquarius]

Holy moly, someone who actually knows what they are talking about when they say strain !

Ermm...anyways LOL...Abbeyan-aka Abayan, Abbayan Am Jurays, Abbeyan Umm Jurays....etc. Ruminaja Ali (as well as his full brothers Bahjat, Majed, etc) are of this strain. It's one of the rarer ones. Will be back with more later!

[Belle]

lol....yes, I enjoy studying the strains....Im a bit of an odd ducky lol... but I have to do two pedigrees for a couple of mares I bought and when I was looking over what strains I wanted to add to our program I saw that one and I hadn't seen it before.....I have a whole bunch of Al Khamsa strained horses.

[Lindsey]

Ohmahgawd. I am a pedigree & strain fanatic... I can spend hours tracing and reading pedigrees. It's my specialty. ^___^

In fact, Al Khamsa is not a strain. The term "al khamsa" was used to designate the five favored mares of Mohammed. Nowadays, Al Khamsa is defined as any Arabian horse in North America who traces in every line to a horse bred by the Bedouin. For example.. all horses imported by H. Davenport are classified as Al Khamsa. Al Khamsa is completely different than Asil, the Blue Catalog, Pyramid Society, Sheykh Obeyd, and so on.

Strains, however, are those such as Saqlawi Jidran, Kuhaylan Jellabia, Kuhaylan Mimreh, Hadban Enzahi, Abeyyan Om Jurays, and so on. Some breeders prefer to breed horses "pure in strain" (i.e. breeding a Saqlawi Jidran to a Saqlawi Jidran... although there is technically no Arabian horse alive now that is "pure in strain") and others find certain niches that work well together.

Each strain has different characteristics.. back in the early twentieth century, Europeans who lived with the Bedouin tribes actually believed that these were different breeds of horses, but actually, they were all Arabians of different strains. And the strain of an Arabian horse is always determined by the tail female, not the sire!

I probably just repeating stuff you know already... ^.^

Well, anyway... I'm not very familiar with Abeyyan Om Jurays. I do know that it is most commonly distributed through the 1967 mare Hanan and derives from the Inshass Stud (via the mare El Obeya Om Grees). It is also very rare. I'd suggest reading Judith Forbis' book Authentic Arabian Bloodstock.. very insightful and chock full of good information!

[Katie R.]

wowweee i can only hope one day i will have the slightest clue what you all are talking about... lol.. I admire your knowledge!