Despite Lady Anne Blunt’s great love for coming to Egypt, and her love for the purebred Arabian horse, this love caused her to hate Prince Ahmed Kamal and Ali Pasha Sharif. Blunt’s daughter, Lady Networth, mentioned this in her memoirs, where she says in her book “The History of the Horse” that “Zayd”, a Bedouin from the Mutair tribe, was sent by her mother, Mrs. Anne Blunt, to Ali Pasha Sharif to buy a mare, but the pasha guessed who sent him. And the narration of “Zayd” about the interview was that the Basha said:
“O Zaid, one hoof of a mare from Bint Nora is worth 500 pounds.” The manner of the Pasha’s words was “sweet” (sweet as honey), but he hurt my feelings by saying that the mare “Al-Dahma Al-Najiba” is better than “Al-Karush”; Yet I said nothing; The Pasha is a good man, not like the dog Ahmed Pasha left his father who hit me with the chair and then with his fists twice. And the Basha said: Wouldn’t it be a crime to sell “Al-Dahma Najeeba” to someone like you?
Blunt fails to reduce Prince Ahmed Kamal’s horses
Lady Anne Plant tried to belittle the horses of Prince Ahmed Kamal, who did not give them any attention, and he refused to sell her any horses at all, and refused to visit his stables, whether in Mataria or Al-Birka. Apparently, she was only allowed to visit once. “The Prince Ahmed Stud in 1889 had nothing of interest but a couple from Ali Pasha Sharif. But in 1890 I found these notes by a resident of Egypt:
“January 2, 1890, we rode our horses and went to the place where Ahmed Pasha’s horses graze in alfalfa. It was a long way, we ran our horses a great distance. When we got to the feeding ground, there was a general neighing and lifting of the tails and heels. There was interest in the stallions. Better than most other horses, she had more freedom of movement.The best mare there was a white mare with a finely raised tail.Her breed was “Saqlawi”.Although she wore a heavy mantle, she carried this mantle high, and was the last A look I saw of her, she trotted around her rope while her tail and mantle twisted over her back.
There was also a really nice chestnut mare that would fit in any racing stable. She was the most beautiful mare I had ever seen.”
Despite his hatred for Ali Pasha, Blunt seeks the help of one of his politicians
Despite Lady Anne Blunt’s hatred of Ali Pasha, Blunt hired one of the former politicians of Khel Ali Pasha, a Bedouin from the Mutair tribe called “Mutlaq”, and became director of Sheikh Ubaid’s stables, and Sheikh Ubaid’s stable became Lady Blunt’s permanent residence, where she lived independently from her husband From 1905 until her death, despite her old age, she was occupied with her stables.
Lady Blunt enjoyed her life in the gardens of Sheikh Obaid, and she loved to ride her mare, Ghadia, from Heliopolis to Al-Rawda to visit the stables of Prince Mohamed Ali Tawfik.
Prince Muhammad Ali showed her a copy of the manuscript of Abbas Pasha, which he obtained from his brother Khedive Abbas II, when the Egyptian horse genealogy records were discussed in 1913, and she spoke to Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq and Kamal al-Din Hussein in a horse record of Ali Pasha Sharif, mainly.
Lady Anne Blunt died in Cairo on December 17, 1917, at the American Hospital in Cairo, and was buried on her farm. Sheikh Obaid’s stables lost their importance as a center for horse breeding, and the horses were sold in Cairo; Because war conditions prevented the horses from moving to England, the name of the Egyptian buyer remained unknown for several years.
She bequeathed her stables and horses to her two granddaughters, and the two daughters sold them to their mother, Lady Anne’s only daughter, Lady Wentworth.
