*Wadduda, 1899 chestnut Saqlawi Al Abd mare

*Wadduda, AHRA # 30 An 1899 chestnut Saqlawi Al Abd mare of Ibn Mhayd of the Fid'an Anezeh tribe, sired by a Dahman (Khumayis). She was known as 'the great War Mare'.


Davenport wrote:

" 'But after all you have not come here to see men. Better than
than you have come to see horses, and I <Ahmet Haffez> would be
selfish if I kept you longer from seeing the greatest mare of our
country--the war mare of the Great Hashem Bey--the mare from
whose back he killed, among others, his most distinguished enemy.'
.. a present to him from the Great Sheikh, who had just been his
guest; that in their religious custom no present could equal her;
nothing but a gift from Allah, himself, could surpass her. ...

The war mare, the present from the Supreme Ruler, was the
chestnut. She seemed to be fretting to get out of the only town she
had ever been in. In her highly carried tail, I saw some blue beads
tied gracefully in her hair. ... Her name they told me was
"Wadduda," meaning love; that she was a Seglawie Al Abed, seven
years old and had been the favorite war mare of Hashem Bey for
four years. She didn't like the town, she wanted to go--and those
who told me pointed to the desert." --
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