1869, Kuhaylan Rudaniyah mare. According to Al Khamsa, Rodania was bred by Ibn Rudan of the Ruwalah, captured 1880 from Shaykh Sattam Ibn Sha’lan of the Ruwalah by Tais Ibn Sharban of the Qumusah section of the Saba’ah tribe. Purchased from Ibn Sharban by Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt and imported in 1881 to England by the Blunts.
general stud book
Rodania is listed in the GSB, Volume 14: “A Chestnut Mare, foaled about 1869, a Kehilet Ajuz, bred by Ibn Rodan, of the Roala, and captured from Sotamm Ibn Shaalan, Sheykh of the Roala in 1880, by Tais Ibn Sharban, of the Gomussa (Sebaa Anazeh), who sold her to Mr. Blunt. An old and celebrated mare, formerly the property of Beneyeh Ibn Shaalan, and the cause of a feud between him and his kinsman Sotamm.” *
crabbet stud books
“Foaled about 1869, a Kehileh of Ibn Rodan (sometimes called ‘Rodanyeh’ without the prefix Kehileh as Managhy Ibn Sbeyel mares are often called ‘Sbeyelyehis’), 14 hands 2 inches.
A chestnut mare near hind foot white to above fetlock and blaze to the mouth with pink on upper lip, fired on quarter, belly and chest, deep jowl, eyes shewing white like the human eye, extraordinary strength and style of going, up to any weight, but uncertain temper. A celebrated mare.
Purchased April 12, 1881 in the desert near the Wells of Abu Fayal, of her owner Tais Ibn Sharban, of the Gomussa tribe of Sebaa Anazeh, who had taken her the previous summer from the Roala. Imported in 1881.
The strain of Kehilan Ajuz of the Rodan is much prized. We had heard of this mare two years before we saw her when on our journey through the Nefud we halted at the well of Shakih. We met there some Roala with a son of Beneyeh Ibn Shaalan, and were told that Beneyeh had quarreled with his cousin Sotamn Ibn Shaalan, on account of his chestnut mare which Sotamn insisted on having and had taken away from him by force when fair means of persuasion to sell or give had failed. Beneyeh had then left Sotamn to shift for himself in the war with the Sebaa and this withdrawal had contributed to it, it had not caused the reverses experienced by Sotamn who in one of the engagements lost this very mare for whose possession he had sacrificed the interest of his tribe. She was taken by Tais Ibn Sharban, a Gomussa. We saw him riding her on the 10th of April while were talking to Afet el Mizrab and Abtan Ibn ed Derri about the latter’s Managhyeh (half sister to Meshura). We asked what this chestnut mare was. ‘On that is Beneyeh Ibn Shaalan’s mare,’ was the reply. Two days afterwards we bought her, deciding as one must in the desert in a few minutes and having had no opportunity of observing her only defect – a serious one – that of temper. She is the only mare or horse in the stud that can be described as ill tempered and unsafe. She strikes with the forefeet, and kicks too. Her strange temper may possibly be the result of having been knocked about and especially the severe firing she had undergone before we bought her.
Rodania died in 1889.” †
PEdigree
Click on the image below for the Al Khamsa pedigree for Rodania.
- *Margaret Greely, Arabian Exodus, (London: JA Allen, 1990), 57.
- †Rosemary Archer et al, The Crabbet Arabian Stud Its History & Influence, (Gloucestershire: Alexander Heriot, 1994), 105-106.
