Welcome
to
Blue Pyramid Egyptians,
a small breeding program dedicated to the
conservation of
the rare strain of horses listed as Kuhaylan with no substrains. This
endangered bloodline of Egyptian Arabian horses traces through the dam
line to the mare Nafa'a. Nafa'a, bred by
Abdul Aziz Ibn al Sa’ud, was
incorporated into the
Inshass stud when received by King Farouk as a gift from the Sa'ud family.
Quote:
As
to the notion that preservation breeding is not compatible with selection for
improvement or with breeding "quality horses," I think there are two
separate ideas here: we want to improve our individual animals, in the
sense of breeding to combine more of the best features of our kind of horse in
each individual. What we do not subscribe to is the conventional notion that
one can "improve the breed," which seems to mean, in
practice, "make it look more like some other breed." Most of us are
breeding within specific pedigree limits precisely because in our experience
they turn out specific kinds of good Arabian horses. Michael
Bowling
This
site was developed as an educational tool and a way to share my research with people whose
love for horses has sent them on an Internet quest for more information. Please explore the links on the
Ancestors page and see picture pedigrees of the
horses whose blood combined to create the mares at Blue Pyramid Egyptians.
Take a trip through time and see where it all began by stepping
through the
Equine Evolution link. Sit back and open
an eclectic collection of
articles,
some written by me and others included with the permission of the
authors. Thanks for joining me, make yourself at home. I hope you will find
something of interest and want to come back from time-to-time. I enjoy hearing from people and welcome comments, contributions, and
corrections. Please email me with your questions and comments.
