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| SIRDAR by SHAHZADA from NEJDMIEH. He was Champion Arab Stallion at the 1934 Sydney Royal |
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| SHAHZADA imported 1925, won two 300 mile races, all horses carrying a set weight of 13 stone, (182 lbs) in 1920 and 1922, in 1921 he was second to Belka, a mare whose brother Bender was imported to Australia in 1911, Bender's only progeny to be registered (as partbreds) in the Arab Horse stud book were bred by Les Ellery of Cudglebar Old Colonial Stud. Shahzada was Champion Arab Stallion at Sydney Royal Show 8 successive years. My husband found an old book printed in 1906 titled The Arab Horse by Spencer Borden an American. it was printed in California. (more quote's can be found in the contents page, Early Families of the 1800's) Just to quote some of the intersting pages. Page 67 "of the coveted family of Ras el Fedawi, to which belonged the famous Darley Arabian. It has often been stated that he was a Manekhi Hedruj. Both Major Upton and Lady Anne Blunt say he was Ras el Fedawi. This is one of the subfamilies of Keheilet Ajuz, and the nearest Major Upton was able to secure was the bay mare Kesia. a Keheilet of Nowak, closely akin to the Ras el Fedawi." Kesia bred to Azrak produced Ruth Kesia, Shahzada's dam. So this family descend from a mare "closely akin" to the Darley Arabian! from the same book page 15 "Major Upton," "In itself I cannot help considering the line from the Godolphin Arab or Barb a very poor one, and like that from the Byerly Turk, it really owes what celebrity it may have, and its continuance, to the infusions of blood it has received from the descendants of the Darley Arabian. It is worthy of remark, although not extraordinary, that almost in proportion to the amount of Darley Arabian blood has been the success of the individuals of this line". "By the end of the nineteenth century it was capable of proof by statisticians giving their attention to the subject, such as Mr. Bruce Lowe and Mr W.A Allison who had worked out the famous "Figure System" for the guidance of race horse breeders, that of the winners of the "Classic" English races (Derby, Oaks, and St Leger), since their establishment, covering a period of a hundred years, more than ninety-five percent. Were descendants in the male line from the Darley Arabian, and thoroughly saturated with his blood." So much for the oft repeated need for constant outcrossing to avoid inbreeding. When you remember the Throughbred traces solely to 3 stallions and 25 mares, and as quoted above is "throughly saturated" with the blood of the Darley Arabian. |
| Photographs of Kars,Shahzada and Sirdar. Rafyk on the previous page was by Azrak. Azrak was also the sire of Ruth Kesia, the dam of Shahzada, her dam Kesia is referred to below. |
| Have you seen a horse like these or the horses on the previous page win or place in an Arabian Ring in the past few years? Let alone sashed Champion. The Thoroughbred is not the only breed that has radically changed from the founding stock. Yet these are the horses which created the Australian stockhorse, strangely its ok to have straight TB Stockhorses, but not of known arabian today, despite the fact many stations prefered one or the other depending on their own conditions, not all stations crossbred, but history is being lost. |
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| Ken Miller found this Photo of Kars. Aeneas has 5 crosses to him through his daughter Dahna. Dahna is also his tail female line as Thoroughbred breeders say. |
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| SHAHZADA (imp) 7 times champion at Sydney Royal |
| SHAHZADA'S dam RUTH KESIA |