DATA Date of birth: 10/01/2000 |
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Maymoon (Salaa El Dine x Madinah Bint Saariyah) is a horse that will take your breath away with his ethereal looks. You see this grey stallion presenting himself in his paddock and it transports you back in time to the bedouin tribes of the desert. This upright stallion has tremendous animation and is always dancing and prancing, so proud and ready to engage either a mare or a crowd. Though still young, the homebred Maymoon has already established his reputation as a dominant sire. He is very consistent in the traits he passes on to his get. All of his foals have free and round movement with good extension. Maymoon transmits a clean troatlatch, a good poll, dark pigment and large eyes. He has a gorgeous head that has only improved with time and his foals show the same beautiful chiseling – pronounced tear bones with large, finely shaped nostrils, a huge jowl with good width between. The icing of the cake is that twentyfive percent of his foals are black as coal and that is why Maymoon is called "the sire of black beauties". "This young stallion has all the chances to become a very elegant sire," wrote famous German breeder Dr. Hans Joachim Nagel in his book "Return and Renaissance" after he had visited Maymoon and his owner in Saudi Arabia. He was quite right!
From one of the most highly esteemed sire lines in Egyptian breeding, Maymoon accurately reflects his breeding. His sire, the late Salaa El Dine (Ansata Halim Shah x Hanan by Alaa El Din) is known as a progenitor of unparallelled type and beauty. In fact, he created a dynasty of his own and was known for siring equally good sons and daughters. Though he never left the Katharinenhof Stud of his owner Dr. Nagel, Salaa El Dine became a sire of significance in the Middle East through his many get exported back to the desert. Salaa El Dine’s sire Ansata Halim Shah (Ansata Ibn Halima x Ansata Rosetta) was a U.S. National Top Ten Futurity Colt and a Reserve Junior World Champion Colt in Paris and later went on to a stellar career as a sire. He was standing at stud in Germany, the USA and Qatar and left significant offspring in each country. Today his name is synonymous with "type" and he belongs to the legends of the breed. Ansata Halim Shah’s sire Ansata Ibn Halima (Nazeer x Halima) certainly needs no introduction. He was the foundation stallion for the world-famous Ansata Arabian Stud of Don and Judith Forbis. Maymoon’s dam, Madinah Bint Saariyah (Imperial Madheen x PLF Saariyah by Shaikh Al Badi) was 1997 Egyptian Event Supreme Champion Mare (by unanimous decision) and recently won her class at the first Al Khalediah International Arabian Horse Show in Saudi Arabia. At the age of fourteen she was the oldest mare of the show but still had not lost her winning look! Madinah Bint Saariyah is the winningest daughter of her famous sire, Imperial Madheen and traces in tail female line to the influential mare Soheir II (Fagir x Tifla by Nazeer) who was imported into the United States by Douglas B. Marshall in 1970. A stellar pedigree and a horse that reflects it! PERSONALITY Maymoon inherited the commanding presence and playful spirit of his sire, Salaa El Dine. No matter if it is a human or another horse, he simply loves the attention. He is intelligent, curious and truly enjoys people.
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