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The Supremacy of Moniet El Nefous

(RAS 441) Foaled February 11, 1946 - Died 1976  

[Shahloul x Wanisa]

Moniet El Nefous
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Considered to be one of the most significant Arabian mares in the fundamental history of Arabian horse breeding, this Egyptian bred mare, Moniet El Nefous was suitably labeled as “The Queen of the Nile” by erudite breeders.  Her name though is translated as “wish of soul”. 

Moniet El Nefous was quite probably the most brilliant example of Seklawi elegance and quality, produced in the 20th Century.  She was bred at the Royal Agricultural Society in Egypt and sired by the Ibn Rabdan son, Shahloul (RAS 194).  In Egypt Ibn Rabdan (RAS 86) was considered to be one of the finest, good-looking breeding stallions of all time and was a preeminent influential stallion in the breeding programs of the Royal Agricultural Society.  Moniet El Nefous’s dam was the very pretty mare, Wanisa (RAS 358), sired by Sheikh El Arab (RAS 228) and out of Medallela (RAS 260).  Wanisa only produced two offspring in her lifetime, both sired by Shahloul, the other being a stallion, called, Ghanem (RAS 453), who did not produce any offspring. 

Moniet El Nefous and daughters, Mabrouka & Mouna
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Moniet El Nefous had a total of 13 foals in her lifetime, four sired by Sid Abouhom (RAS 285), three sired by the legendary stallion, Nazeer (RAS 247), one by El Sereei (RAS 387), one was by the immortal Morafic (EAO 29), three sired by Alaa El Din (EAO 352) and her last one by Galal (EAO 159).  There are quite a few of them who appear in many of the most famous and modern day Champion Arabian horses’ pedigrees.  Her champion producing get and grand get include horses like…

·                Her daughter, Mabrouka (EAO 12), sired by Sid Abouhom (RAS 285), produced a total of 7 offspring, yet she became acclaimed as she was the dam of the immortal stallion Morafic, sire of numerous National Champion Arabian horses, who appears in more than 80 % of all Egyptian Arabian horses’ pedigrees;

·                Her daughter, Lubna (EAO 17), sired by Sid Abouhom (RAS 285), produced only 4 foals in her lifetime, but she was known to be the dam of the great son of Sameh, Sultann (EAO 52). Sultann was the sire of the two legendary Egyptian stallions, Sakr (Sultann x Enanyat) and Makhsous (Sultann x Nabda).

·                Her daughter, Mouna (EAO 22), also sired by Sid Abouhom (RAS 285), produced 10 foals at the EAO. She was the grand-dam of The Egyptian Prince, considered by many to be one of the best Egyptian stallions ever, through her daughter, Bint Mona.

·                Moniet El Nefous and Nazeer together produced the chestnut mare Bint Moniet El Nefous (EAO 30), who was imported to the USA and owned by Richard Pritzlaff, where she produced 13 foals, mostly sired by Rashad Ibn Nazeer (EAO 349).

·                Her chestnut son, Fahker El Din (EAO 48), also sired by Nazeer (RAS 247), was also imported into the USA but he did not sire a lot of offspring there. It seems that the Americans did not incorporate his blood as much as they should have in their existing breeding programs.

·                Her son, Tuhotmos (EAO 58), sired by El Sereei (RAS 387), was for many years the leading sire of champions at the Egyptian Agricultural Organization in Egypt, and the grand sire of the S.A multiple Champion stallion, *Shah Jahan.  His daughter, Golson also featured in a few of South African Arabian horse’s pedigrees.  He sired a grand total of 423 offspring in his life.

·                Her son, Ibn Moniet El Nefous (EAO 66), sired by her grandson, Morafic (EAO 29), was a very famous Bentwood farms stallion, and he was syndicated in his time for a huge amount of $4’000’000.  He sired 426 offspring and fortunately 3 of them came to South Africa.

·                Her son, Soufian (EAO 546), sired by Alaa El Din (EAO 352) sired a total of only 72 offspring among which a few champion offspring in the USA, like Tiara (Soufian x Nagliah), dam of the Egyptian stallion, *Tallama (El Metrabbi x Tiara) who was imported to South Africa.

·                Her last son, Ameer (EAO 561), sired by Galal (EAO 159), stayed in Egypt and sired a total of 52 offspring there.  He was the sire of the EAO bred mare, Marzouka (EAO 1095), who produced the locally imported Egyptian stallion, *Mefdal..

Ibn Moniet El Nefous
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(Morafic x Moniet El Nefous)

Moniet El Nefous’s descendants in South Africa:

 

Her most famous son, Ibn Moniet El Nefous, sired a total of 426 offspring in his lifetime and names like Fa Moniet, AK El Zahra Moniet, AK Shah Moniet, Moniet El Nafis, etc… are frequently seen in pedigrees of imported and locally produced successful performance horses. 

Providentially three direct offspring of his, were imported to South Africa and they were *AK El Bashaar, out of Mayaada, *Bint Fa Saloul, out of Fa Saloul and *AK Bint Gamilaa,  out of Gamilaa.  We are so very privileged to have had these three superb Arabian horses in our Country and all three of the above horses had excellent performance producing qualities. Their descendants are highly appreciated with performance riding and endurance riding horse breeders.   

*AK EL Bashaar
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Bint Fa Saloul
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Even though *AK El Bashaar, and *Bint Fa Saloul did not sire and produce as much offspring as what they should have, their descendants are very sought after in the modern day Egyptian breeding programs here in South Africa.  Their names are apparent in quite a few pedigrees of Arabian horses that does well on the local endurance tracks, especially those offspring of *AK El Bashaar and remarkably the dam’s of these offspring are from an assortment of Arabian bloodlines.

Propitiously one great-grandson of *Bint Fa Saloul is carrying forward her legacy as a very striking and correct built stallion.  He is the 15.2hh Asil Arab stallion, *Bahia El Malik (*Hamasa El Fagr x Azrak Gamilaa), who was bred in Zimbabwe at the Bahia stud of Mr. Ian Smith and son, Adam Smith.  He came to South Africa a few years back and is standing at stud with El Salil Arabians in Belfast, Mpumalanga.  He represents Moniet El Nefous four times in his pedigree.  That is two through Ibn Moniet el Nefous and the other two through the legendary Morafic in his sire lines.

*AK Bint Gamilaa
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Amongst *AK Bint Gamilaa’s offspring there is quite a lot of champions too.  Names like Sahibi Zanzibar, Sahibi Deenaa, Sahibi Bint Ibn Moniet and Sahibi Neera comes to mind and these grand-get of her made their mark in the show ring and riding arena.  Her son, Sahibi Sheikh El Arab, sired by *Raafeek, was one of the few stallions listed by the ex-president of the Endurance Ride association of SA, Dr Paul Van Dam, as one of South Africa’s leading breedings stallions of achievers at our SA National Endurance ride at Fauresmith.  At the ripe old age of 16 years he also was triumphant as the Supreme Champion male Arabian horse of the year 2000.

Another stallion, that made the headlines was Sahibi Gamaal El Arab (*Ahir x *Ak Bint Gamilaa), who became the SA National Champion Stallion in 1988.  The halter judge at the 1988 SA National Championships, Mr. Don Wardle from Temecula, California, USA, commented that Sahibi Gamaal El Arab was a very correct horse, with good legs, wonderful topline, very pleasing head and generally very correctly balanced all over. At the same show he won his class as a Junior Costume Arab horse and in the years to come several other performance riding Championship awards was won by him.

*Gazella Bint Masri
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Furthermore, Moniet El Nefous’s name is seen in a lot of other local Arabian horses’ pedigrees appearing in the first 6 generations of their bloodlines.  Since space does not permit it, I have randomly listed only a few names of other Moniet El Nefous descendants, imported to South Africa, that comes to my mind, and who made a great impact on the breeding scene in South Africa today. 

 

(In this list Moniet El Nefous are seen within the first 6 generations of an individual’s pedigree)

 

Stallions such as; *SAF Firstaar, *Ahir, *Raafeek, *WD Majesty, *Shah Jahan, *Omar El Shaker, *Shams El Farin, *Tallama, *Galeeh, *Malesh, *Kamal, *Hamasa El Fagr, *Niyashin El Shaklan, *Mefdal, *Shazzam, *Maistro, *The Makers Mark, *Athletica, *Silver Shai, *Thee Cyclone, *Aurangzzeb, *Arabest Kalid, *Arabest Nafis, *Arabest Shaam, *Ibn El Imdal, *Nafis, *Magic Dream, *El Nahr HCF, and even *Bey El Jamaal, and mares such as; *Lar Malika, *She, *Bint Golson, *Ghazieh, *Gazella Bint Masri, *AS Bint Nahida, *Arabest Akkhira, *The Vendetta, *Bint Aliala, *Arabest Faizah, *Arabest Fanci, *Alia Kariima, *Arabest Halina, *Arabest Khirida, *Harka, *Tareefs Tiara, *Khalehla, *Tiphlaah, *AS Marida, and also *Bint Bint Portessa, all have Moniet El Nefous in the first 6 generations of their ancestry and most of their offspring are all actively show halter and performance achievers in the show arena and on the endurance track.

*Shazzam
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(G Halim Sharib x Bint AlBahr)

Other newly imported descendants of Moniet El Nefous includes *Georgetown, *Simeon Segev, *Simeon Shumar, Simeon Savannah, *Eloida, *Gevalia DeSha, Baraka Magic Star, Atiq Halib, *Marzoukh, *HM Echo’s Heiress, *Nile Prince SMF, *Joda Al Gazar, *Ansata Ali Sherif, *Ansata Bint Aissha, *El Shakel, *Ansata Nile Princess, *Sonbolah’s Sunrise, *Ansata Tashreef, *Gayla DeSha, *Chai DeSha,  *Nadeem Al Amaar, *GR Safira, *GR Moufeeda, *GR Marjan, FS Emperor, etc…  They still needs to prove themselves as producers of winning achievers in the performance Arena and endurance tracks, but with the correct and wise reproduction of individuals, it is possible to further Moniet El Nefous’ legacy for the subsequent generations of Arabian horses in South Africa.

Bint Moniet El Nefous
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Moniet El Nefous’s global descendants

 

There was a few descendants of Moniet El Nefous that do not feature as regurlarly in local pedigrees as they should have.  They are Bint Moniet El Nefous, Fakher El Din and Manaya.  Since these horses were under utilized in the breeding programs where they resides, very few descendants of them exists today.

As previously stated, Bint Moniet El Nefous was owned by Richard Pritzlaff (owner of Rancho San Ignacio in Sapello, New Mexico), where she produced foals mostly sired by Rashad Ibn Nazeer, who did not stand at public stud, limiting the chances of getting these bloodlines into the main stream of Egyptian Arabian horse breeders, thus only a few exist for next generations to breed from.

Moniet El Sharaf
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(Ibn Moniet El Nefous x Bint Bint Moniet)

In addition to that there are Arabian breeders that were and are confident that Rashad Ibn Nazeer had ruined the unique type of Bint Moniet El Nefous in their resulting offspring, since his foals were not as pretty as their dam.  However, in the "golden eighties" Bentwood Farm's principal mare Bint Bint Moniet (Rashad Ibn Nazeer x Bint Moniet El Nefous) astound the breed with her son Moniet El Sharaf's (Ibn Moniet El Nefous x Bint Bint Moniet) record syndication for $10,000,000 in 1996.

 

Then no Arabian horse in the world was worth that amount of money, but at that time the Arabian horse industry was at a very high pinnacle and at the age of 14 he has sired over 500 foals. Some of his offspring have been Champions in the show ring and have sold for record prices at public auction. His daughters are among the most in demand Egyptian broodmares. Moniet El Sharaf is one of the finest Egyptian Arabian Stallions in the world today. His good looks and charisma (inherited from his sire) was something to behold, with every move he made he exhibited his aristocratic heritage. He loved to show off in front of visitors, encompass a grandiose appearance, with his magnificent hovering trot, the halt during which he scrutinized his audience, his tail steadily rising up over his back, and a succession of snorts. He was a star, and very few stars could wow an audience the way he could.

Although Moniet El Sharaf never left a son equivalent or surpassing him but some of his daughters became reliable broodmares. In Europe, his main influence is felt through the extremely beautiful mares AK Shariha (x AK Tashiha by Farazdac) and Maarshafa (x Bint Bint Maarena), the latter was recently exported to Qatar.

After the Bentwood dispersal sale, Moniet El Sharaf descended into oblivion. He passed away at the end of 1999. His full sister, the grey AK Ghazala traveled to France and produced numerous exceptionally high-quality foals (especially those sired by Imperial Imdal).

Another stallion, Richard Pritzlaff was satisfied with was Bint Bint Moniet's full-brother, Alcibaides(AHR 32556), a very influential sire born in 1965. He sired some of Rancho San Ignacio's best broodmares and then helped to put Norton and Millie Grow's Rafter G Arabians on the map. Many of his sons and daughters went on to become shining stars in the show ring and in the breeding barns. "Alcibiades was probably one of the nicest horses that ever came off Richard's ranch," said Millie Norton. "Very proper and a very beautiful animal. We saw a number of his foals there and they had the level croups and extreme type in the head - the jibbah, good dish, that sort of thing - that their sire had. And always good legs. Good legs are a priority with us. We knew we couldn't take a horse with bad legs into the mountains, and we won't sacrifice good legs for type, or the other way around either." Alcibiades inherited his sire's radiant action and his athletic body (with the added bonus of Bint Moniet's sophistication). Many considered him as Rashad's only proper son.

The 1971 son Rasmoniet RSI (AHR 74102) was the most renowned of all the Bint Moniet El Nefous’s sons and had the advantage of siring a total of 170 foals in four different countries - United States, Canada, England, and Australia.

RAS Moniet RSI
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(Rashad Ibn Nazeer x Bint Moniet El Nefous)

With all of Moniet El Nefous’ offspring she influenced the Arabian breed internationally, and with her special charm she drew every visitor in.  She had a very comfortable and productive life and 6 years after she gave birth to her last foal she died at the admirable ripe old age of thirty years old.

 

Reference List

  • Pedigrees, research and some of the pictures obtained from Wijost Horse Computer program,
  • International Info obtained from Arabian Horse World magazine, issue, May 1984 and,
  • Local info and some pictures obtained from the South African Arabian horse Society’s magazine, SARAB.

 

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Research in these info-letters were done by Elzet Swart on Wijost Horse Computer Program.