1874, Ma’naqiyah Hudrujiyah mare. According to Al Khamsa, Jerboa was bred at Dayr out of a mare from the ‘Ubayd section of the Fid’an tribe and imported in 1878 to England by Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt. By a Ma’naqi Hudruji of Ibn Sbayyil (or Ma’naqi Sbaili) out of a Ma’naqiyah Hudrujiyah.
General stud book
Jerboa is listed in the GSB, Volume 14: “A Bay Mare, foaled in 1874, a Managhieh Hedruj, bred in Deyr, out of a mare from the Obeyd tribe, sire a Managhi of the Ibn Sbeyel strain, purchased at Deyr, in 1878.”*
crabbet stud books
“A Managhyeh Hedrujieh, foaled in 1874. 14 hands 2 1/2 inches, a light bay mare with three white feet (two fore and near hind) and star. Head shewing breeding though not handsome, eye large and flashing and shewing some temper, ears remarkably good, mane very fine, shoulder well sloped though hardly any wither up to the age of 7, very strong back good sound wiry legs but not large bone, tail well carried, splendid action trotting and fast, and good mover galloping, the stride being smooth and even as a machine, good leader in a team though inclined to kick if annoyed.
Jerboa’s dam a bay Managhyeh Hedrujieh long and low and very worn, old and thin when seen at Deyr in 1878. Her sire a Managhy Ibn Sbeyel of the Gomussa. Extract from journal Deyr Jan. 21, 1878 ‘a bay filly was brought, Managhyeh yet strange to say good looking, and for her we are to treat.’ Purchased at Deyr Jan. 24, 1878 from her breeder Othman el Abd of the Obeyd tribe. Imported 1878. Jerboa died in 1893.”†
PEdigree
Click on the image below for the Al Khamsa pedigree for Jerboa.
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- *Margaret Greely, Arabian Exodus, (London: JA Allen, 1990), 56.
- †Rosemary Archer et al, The Crabbet Arabian Stud Its History & Influence, (Gloucestershire: Alexander Heriot, 1994), 98.
