Author: Annalisa
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In Lady Anne’s Journals, January 25, 1911 visit to Prince Mohammed Ali’s Manial Stud, she mentions a “Hadbe (no suffix) very fine mare the Prince had from Izzet el Abid, which I saw ridden” among the Prince’s horses. An early herd book of Prince Mohamed Aly describes Gamila as a 1900 chestnut by “Sinari” out of “Hadba Bint Fenouse (‘Venus’),” from the Khedive.” This confirms that Venus’s grand-daughter Gamila was part of the mare band at Manial, coming from the Khedive’s stud. It is therefore highly likely that Gamila was the mare Lady Anne saw at Manial in 1911 and described as “very fine“. The Khedive Abbas Hilmi II had another farm, other than the Qoubbah (Koubbah Farm), funded in 1892 and utilised as a hunting lodge and agricultural farm at Muntazah, near Alexandria. Izbet stands for "settlement" and Izbet el Abd” shows up directly adjoining the gardens and estate of Muntazah in the eastern suburbs of today’s sprawling Alexandria. (Edouard Al Dahdah)
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In Lady Anne’s Journals, January 25, 1911 visit to Prince Mohammed Ali’s Manial Stud, she mentions a “Hadbe (no suffix) very fine mare the Prince had from Izzet el Abid, which I saw ridden” among the Prince’s horses. An early herd book of Prince Mohamed Aly describes Gamila as a 1900 chestnut by “Sinari” out of “Hadba Bint Fenouse (‘Venus’),” from the Khedive.” This confirms that Venus’s grand-daughter Gamila was part of the mare band at Manial, coming from the Khedive’s stud. It is therefore highly likely that Gamila was the mare Lady Anne saw at Manial in 1911 and described as “very fine“. The Khedive Abbas Hilmi II had another farm, other than the Qoubbah (Koubbah Farm), funded in 1892 and utilised as a hunting lodge and agricultural farm at Muntazah, near Alexandria. Izbet stands for "settlement" and Izbet el Abd” shows up directly adjoining the gardens and estate of Muntazah in the eastern suburbs of today’s sprawling Alexandria. (Edouard Al Dahdah)
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