The Manions first sent their mares to IMAGE
and *RAFFLES; the resulting fillies in 1939
were IMAGIDA 1694 (Image x Ourida) and RAFISSA
1695 (*Raffles x Ydrissa), the latter being only the fourth
foal registered to her soon-tremendously-influential sire. RAFISSA
I remember this mare's *RAFFLES daughters GIDA 4353 and RAFGIDA 4981 as most elegant and impressive, and of course their brothers IMARAFF 3476 and RAFFI 3781 have been influential, in a great many respected programs.
A new change on Huntington's "linebred Maneghi" idea was rung in Ohio: KHALETTA and NARKEESA were both bred to Homer Davenport's desertbred Maneghi Sbeyli stallion *HALEB 25, "the pride of the desert," in 1907, a year after the Davenport group arrived in this country. It seems quite likely that the Hartman mares were sent straight to *HALEB's court from the auction, since New Jersey would be on the way home from New York to Ohio. One hopes, at any rate, that Huntington was in on the decision to try the cross, as he would have enjoyed planning this return to a new source of the strain he had tried to preserve. In any event the idea can't be called a blazing success. Only these two foals were bred by the Hartman Stock Farm: NARKEESA produced a bay colt, LEUCOSIA 50, and KHALETTA a bay filly, METOECIA 51. It would seem that the nucleus of horses passed to one Meldrum Gray, also of Columbus, for in 1910 he bred KHALETTA to the two-year-old LEUCOSIA, getting for his pains the chestnut colt NARKHALEB 114, another of those "absolutely Maneghi" pedigrees that this group of horses turned out now and then. Again, I will not try to describe this inbreeding--please see NARKHALEB's pedigree in TABLE III.
The NAZLINA branch
from ANAZEH thus reduces to the single stallion
NARKHALEB. He too went to New England, to
Hingham Stock Farm, where he sired MIZUEL 388
from SANKIRAH 149; this horse, foaled in
1919, came to be owned by W.K.Kellogg and to sire three foals, all
colts, none of which left descent. D. Gordon Hunter bred HAYABEL
791, NARKHALEB's 1930 daughter, another
who dropped out. In 1931 W.K.Kellogg bred NARKHALEB
to the unrelated mare
 respectively.
NARLAH's son NARLANI 6261
sired 17 foals (only four of them colts!) though he was not used
to get registered purebreds until he was 15 years old. NARSEYNA
was dam of the popular sire SUROBED 6675.
NARLAH's last foal COALANI
8419, full sister to NARLANI, had
a son (Rabalain 20302) and grandson (Ben
Rabba 29921) exported to England, so this *LEOPARD
branch too is international in scope.
The
double *NAOMI mare NARKEESA
did not accompany her relatives to New England; her travels were
in the opposite direction, and she ended up in San Francisco, CA,
where she
 making
him far and away the most prolific *LEOPARD
descendant within the first four generations, as is obvious
from
Table 1--only five left no registered descent, and most of the
others have bred on quite extensively.
EL SABOK's
grey son STAMBUL 575 was his most prolific
offspring; we are told he sired over 1,000 foals--mostly Remount
half-Arabs, of course, and most of them not registered--but he got
20 registered purebreds and had he only sired ALLA
AMARWARD 1140 he would have been an influential
breeding horse, as Carol Mulder's article on that prolific sire
in this issue makes clear. The *LEOPARD line
 has
been spread to other countries through this branch as well; I know
ALLA AMARWARD's descendant
WITEZAN 8552 went to Australia and left offspring
there before his death.
EL
SABOK's daughters
SABIGAT 672 and HIRA
571 both produced at Traveler's Rest in their later year; General
Dickinson was a great believer in outcrossing and in combining Arabians
from as many sources as possible in his program, and thus introduced
a number of Harris horses over the years. Of course, he also
admired their proven ability as
The SAERA 670 branch from EL SABOK is a lesser-known but very prolific one, with several long-lived producers to its credit on the female side. The good mare ROKHAL by EL SABOK produced in California, with a string of HANAD foals and another series by A'ZAM, along with some "singles" by other sires. ROKHAL descendants also were exported, this time to Nicaragua, but did not breed on in recorded stock. NAHA 671 also went to California and hers is another *LEOPARD branch that passed through the hands of E.E. Hurlbutt. Her most influential offspring probably has been NAHADEYN 3114, though she also bears the distinction of having produced NABOR--not the Russianbred NABOR, registered here a *NABORR, but the 1941 foal who bore that name originally and was responsible for the "furriner's" having to add a letter when he arrived here. The first NABOR has no descent, which is probably just as well from the point of view of future students of pedigrees. BESRA 572 was exported to Hawaii; doubtless her descendants still exist in the Island, but their registration was not maintained. The very good EL SABOK mare EMINEH 576 bred on successfully in a number of lines, as did GIRTHA 630 though with lesser opportunity (fewer foals). An interesting story must revolve around AGA 668; he was used at stud at three by Harris, and he and both his resulting sons were promptly gelded. Be that as it may, his daughter TERNA 934 produced four foals and two of these bred on, so AGA still has descent. OMAN 570 sired 12 foals spread over 20 years, and a number of these were used for breeding -- indeed, his daughters SURA 781 and especially KAHAWI 782 would have to be accounted among the distinguished matriarchs of their generation. I hope it is clear from the above that EL SABOK's is much the most widepread and influential of the ANAZEH branches; only that of IMAGIDA even dreams of rivaling it. The very strength of numbers makes it impossible to go into the detailed accounting of breeder and locations making use of his stock, done for the founders of the other lines. (In fact El Sabok did not do much traveling that we know of--he somehow got from California to Wisconsin, but beyond that--he stood at the Kemah stud and was used by Albert W. Harris, and there is no more to say.) 
EL SABOK's
sister LEILA 275 was foaled in 1917. Her
only producing daughter was ALILATT 632 who
bred on in five separate line, doing rather better than her dam,
in the way of daughters at least. ALILATT
was a producer for the W. Randolph Hearst interests and thus met
a number of different breeding sources in the sires of her offspring.Two
of ALILATT's daughters, KASILA
1266 and ALIDIN 1411, produced ten
foals apiece.
KASILA's included the *RASEYN son KARONEK who sired 40 foals, so spread that *LEOPARD branch rather widely; another of KASILA's was ROKILA, by ROKHAL's son ROKHALAD and so a great- granddaughter of both EL SABOK and LEILA, and a strong source of the *LEOPARD influence, comparatively speaking. Interestingly, the doubling to *LEOPARD here was done with the horses (of his sources) least inbred to *NAOMI and thus most likely to have given him something to say in the matter. ALIDIN was a Van Vleet matron and numbered some familiar names in her branch, and several extremely prolific matrons--two of her daughters produced 15 and 18 foals. ESPERANZO is a familiar name picked from this lot, and ALIDIN's first foal, the mare ALIHAH, had several highly-regarded daughters to represent her. A mystery that someone, somewhere, can probably clarify, has to do with ALILATT's 1940 production: she had two chestnut fillies listed to her credit for that year, with two different breeders and foaling dates, but the same sire. One of these, RIFLATT, had her registration canceled, and the other, GUEMERA 1807, had no descent, so the matter is largely academic--but it would be interesting to know just what went on here. LEILA's
son LEIDAAN 1679 carried on the tradition
of prolific daughters--he did not have many, but several of them
produced foals in numbers like 14 and 18. To be fair, several of
his get (including the daughter with 18 foals) were crossed back
to LEILA through ALIDIN,
so this tendency was probably coming from both sides. The last LEILA
foal was the very handsome halter champion
"The descent of ANAZEH" is a vast subject and one which tends to get out of hand, both physically in trying to keep track of the masses of notes and charts of descent involved, and mentally in trying to picture just how many horses are actually involved here, and what we know of them. It would be scientifically unsound, and I would be called out for it from now until 1990, to try to guess the genetic influence today of a horse foaled in 1890. We do have samples of ANAZEH's genes around today; the problem is that we don't have the information on all the intermediate links, that would enable us to tell which of today's circulating genes originated with him. I will go so far out on a limb as to share my impression (garnered from a study with no controls, shame to admit) that there are so many ANAZEH descendants, because ANAZEH-bred females in the early generations were prolific above the average of the breed. I haven't approached this systematically, but I would be very much surprised if a random sample of the breed included as many dams of 14, 16, 19 foals, as are listed in my data sheets on the ANAZEH group. This trend does not continue right back to ANAZEH's daughters, but we have the difficulty of not knowing how many purebred foals went unregistered in those first generations. Certainly some proportion did, and very likely in the crash of the Huntington program many females of this breeding went into production of other type of horses--there was very little call for pure Arab breeding in those days. TABLE 1:
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was
YDRISSA's only Manion-bred foal, as the mare
was sold to New York where she produced three more fillies, all
of which have bred on in turn. At Manion Canyon RAFISSA
produced 13 foals, of which RIFRAFF,
by her sire *RAFFLES, was much the most influential.
OUIDA's daughter RAYGEENA
was probably her most influential for the Manions, but another first
foal success, the elegant IMAGIDA, represents
her most wide-ranging contribution to the world.
KHALETTA and METOECIA
were among the first Arabians purchased by W.R. Brown when
he founded his not-then-famous Maynesboro Stud in 1914. He bred
three foals from KHALETTA and five from METOECIA
but nothing has come of any of them; Brown came to own KHALETTA's
sire and quite possible decided he liked his *NAOMI
breeding less inbred than KHALETTA represented
it, and since it was his ambition to have an entirely "double registered"
(Jockey Club a well as Arabian Horse Club) herd, METOECIA
did not fit his plans too well. The Davenport horses were not registered
with the Jockey club, and so of course
neither
were their get.
KILLAH
103, resulting in the brown 1931 filly NARLAH
916 who managed to propagate this slenderest surviving branch
of the ANAZEH family tree.
produce
five outcrossed foals by EL JAFIL
74 for two different owners. Three of these dropped out,
but the youngest two more than made up for the disappearing act
of their siblings.
demonstrated
in endurance tests and other performance fields. 
EL
KUNUT 1856, a popular sire in his day (17
foals, two out of an Alla Amarward mare and three more out of El
Kunut's own daughter, so doubled back to Narkeesa), whose descendants
are still breeding on.
