MUNIET EL NEFOUS (KDV)

A Foundation Horse

A Hamdaniyah Simriyah of Abbas Pasha descent in the stud of Ahmed Bey Sennari, Egypt. [Alternate spelling: Miniet El Neffous]

NOTES: The above information is from the RAS History, p33, p88 and from the pedigree on p12a, which show Muniet El Nefous as "from horses of Abbas Pasha I," "Abbas Pasha I's Moniet el Nefous" and "a Hamdania Semria from Abbas Pasha I's stables."

Lady Anne Blunt, in discussing Muniet El Nefous's granddaughter Mezna [J&C 11.27.1909], implies that Muniet was one of the "well known horses brought by E... from the desert to Sennari." However, this entry could be either written or transcribed in error, as it disagrees with Lady Anne's other journal and herd book entries.

In Lady Anne's 1911 Sheykh Obeyd catalog entry for Mezna, Muniet El Nefous is described as "Bay Hamdanieh Simrieh, from Abbas Pasha I's stud..." and later [J&C 11.17.1915] she describes the same mare Mezna as carrying the Hamdani Simri strain "of Abbas descent." In one entry [J&C 2.22.1905] she describes Muniet El Nefous as being a "sister to Sobha." Raswan Index entry #6805 says that Muniet El Nefous was herself bred by Abbas Pasha.

All of these references to being from Abbas Pasha's stud do not apparently apply literally, as Abbas Pasha died in 1854 and his stud was dispersed in 1861, and Lady Anne Blunt [J&C] reported seeing Muniet El Nefous with a new foal on 3.11.1891. It is more likely that the references mean that the bloodline was from the Abbas Pasha stud. [See Selma (AP).]

EGYPT I Ancestral Element