Botswana

Thee Desperado X The Minuet (The Minstril)

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1998 Champion SE Futurity Colt at the Egyptian Event. 1999 Region 9 Top Five, Scottsdale Top Ten (3 rd), 2002 Ranked in the top 20 SE Halter Sires, 2003 4 th Leading SE Halter Sire-the youngest stallion ever to place Top Five, out of his 11 foals that have competed in the show ring they have brought in; 6 EE top tens, 2 Top Fives, 3 Reserve Championships and 2 Championships, 4 class A Junior Championships, 1 Regional Top Ten, and 1 Regional Championship. That would put his ratio of winning get at an amazing 75%! He is certainly siring World Champion foals with the quality of the Ruminaja Ali line!

ZT Faa’iq

Anaza El Farid x  Zt Jamdusah (*Jamill)

1997 Bay Stallion

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Unanimous European Junior Champion Colt, Reserve Junior champion Colt at the Salon du Cheval and Reserve Junior Champion Colt of the All Nations Cup, 1999 Reserve Junior Champion Colt at the Egyptian Event. His owner Count Zichy-Thyssen said, “He is a wonderful stallion…a better sire than his sire. The foals are prettier and have better eyes, longer legs, and better shoulders, so Faa’iq is a fine replacement for his sire whom I lost in 2000...”

*Shahir IASB

Salaa El Dine x *Imperial Imphayana

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*Shahir is an excellent individual with exceptional size, quality, intelligence and athletic ability. He is big and bold, but also has the ethereal refinement of the classic desert Arabian. His foals are wonderful. They are tall, stretchy and charismatic with his trademark features: a typey head with huge eyes; beautiful small ears and tiny muzzle; long upright neck; smooth body; perfect long legs and lots of attitude, trot and tail. Additionally, his foals are exceptionally calm, intelligent and trainable.

The Minstril

Ruminaja Ali x *Bahila

The Minstril is cherished by breeders of Egyptian horses worldwide. He has national champion sons and daughters on four continents. The Minstril is largely responsible for the look in Egyptian horses today. The Minstril's kind, quiet demeanor, correct smooth confirmation, extremely long neck and noted head, coupled with the prepotency to produce that beautiful look over and over has made him one of the most popular sires of all Arabian bloodlines.

Ruminaja Ali

Shaikh Al Badi x *Bint Magidaa

Ruminaja Ali won 1971 U.S. National Reserve Champion Futurity Colt. Ali is known for his beautiful face, long legs, short body and shapely neck. His foals consistently exhibit the quality, type and structure that Arabian breeders cherish. Ruminaja Ali's son 'The Minstril' won 1979 U.S. National Champion Futurity Colt.

Shaikh Al Badi

*Morafic x *Bint Maisa El Saghira

Shaikh Al Badi was the 1972 Reserve National Champion Futurity Stallion, and is known as a sire of champion producing broodmares. Shaikh Al Badi sons and daughters are of extreme quality and substance. His famous son Ruminaja Ali was a US Reserve National Champion Colt.