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Color: grey
RAS Volume 1, Page 128; A.H.S.B Vol I, p.47
Bred by Royal Agricultural Society, Egypt. There is a
disagreement between the published Egyptian records and Carl
Raswan concerning the pedigree of Mansour (RAS). The RAS History,
the EAO Stud Books and the pedigree from Prince Mohamed Aly´s
stud at Manial for *Roda all show Gamil Manial (MNL) as sire and
Nafaa El Saghira (APK) as dam.
Carl Raswan, in Raswan Index entry #5956, shows Jamil (APS) as
the sire. In this entry, Raswan states that Prince Mohamed Aly
and Dr. Branch, Director of the RAS animal section, told him
that Jamil had been bred to Nafa in 1920 and that in 1921 Nafa
had produced Mansour. He further states that Prince Mohamed Aly
and Prince Kamal al-Din had made every effort to breed Jamil to
Nafa as neither horse had Mu´niqi blood in its pedigree.
Raswan´s position on the breeding of Nafaa El Saghira is
confusing; if one follows correction #1193, discussed under
Nafaa El Saghira (APK), the argument of no Mu´niqi in the mating
which produced Mansour is no longer convincing. It might be
noted that Carl Raswan died in October, 1966, just after the EAO
stud book containing the pedigree of Nafaa El Saghira was
published and prior to publication of the additions and
corrections to the Raswan Index in 1967. Whether he might have
clarified his position on Mansour had he lived longer is
something we cannot now know.
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