Zee Ranch

Straight Egyptian Hadban Enzahi Arabian Horses

Like Fine Wine...!

*AK Jaheena truly is like fine wine, getting better with time !! She has aged beautifully, mellowed gracefully and is just as regal today as she was when she was imported over 24 years ago. On January 17, 2003, *AK Jaheena will celebrate her 29th birthday.

Jaheena stands 15.3 hands high and is a powerhouse mover. Low set hocks give her great push from behind and elbows set well away from the body allow great natural extension her front legs. Her ground covering trot will take your breath away. She is a very correct mare with perfect legs and big round feet. Short backed with high withers set on a fabulous shoulder, you could not ask for more. Jaheena is a very elegant and pretty mare without any extreme anything. She has big black soulful eyes well placed on her head. Smallish ears for a mare but tipped and beautifully shaped.

We lost Jaheena just a few days short of her 32 nd birthday. She spent her last years with her friends, Bint Masarra, Glorieta Dalima and *Bint Hindia. The four of them were demanding as befitted their breeding and age. Their every wish was granted. the four of them are gone from this earth and we miss them. Their sons and daughters are left to carry on the tradition they set in motion.


Waseem (Nazeer x Malaka 1958 Grey Stallion	Mahbouba (Anter x Lateefa) 1963 Chestnut Mare
*AK Jaheena was sired by the great Nazeer son Waseem. Waseem was a bold and masculine stallion highly appreciated in Egypt. He was very reminiscent of his grandsire, Mansour in type and structure. He was a very successful sire of beautiful and quality foals. Jaheena is out of the fabulous chestnut Anter daughter Mahbouba. Mahbouba was a fine producing mare and her foals were sought after by breeders around the world.

*AK Jaheena at Bentwood Farms in 1988.

Jaheena was born in 1974 at the Egyptian Agricultural Organization. Her dam and sire were both top quality breeding stock with foals exported all over the world. Jaheena was imported as a four year old mare in 1978 by Bentwood Farms. She spent most of her productive years being bred to *Ibn Moniet El Nefous and other stallions residing at Bentwood. *AK Jaheena has proven worthy of her ancestors producing fine colts and fillies. Some of her get are Bint Jaheena, AK Bint Jaheena , Meadow Mahonri, Meadow Mansour and Hadban Al Nazhi. In all, she gave birth to 11 foals.

At age 29, she is no longer producing. Her time is spent with her pasture mates, Bint Masarra, AK Shesarra, *Bint Hindia and the weanlings. Her life is a happy one, with plenty of food and love from everyone who meets her. She still struts her stuff for the stallions and is forever teasing them. They treat her with the dignity and respect she so justifiably deserves.

*AK Jaheena is the dam of three fine Sheykh Obeyd sons, but sadly, she failed to produce a Sheykh Obeyd filly. Truly a waste! She is a very fine. outstanding mare and I wish I had ten of them. She is one of only three Hadban Enzahi families left in Sheykh Obeyd.

When *AK Jaheena is gone from this world, her female line will not be available to future SOF breeders. Only through her two sons, Meadow Mahonri and Hadban Al Nazhi, will her tail female be seen in future pedigrees of Sheykh Obeyd Egyptian Arabian horses.


Meadow Mahonri (Kamars Sharif) Black 1993 Stallion	Hadban Al Nazhi (Glorieta Gazaal) Grey 1997 Stallion
These two stallions are the only Sheykh Obeyd Stallions available to breeders today. A third Sheykh Obeyd son by Raadin Inshalla was gelded.

The following photos were taken shortly before Jaheena's death at age 32! *AK Jaheena