Produce 400 horses … and preserve the purebred Arabian horse breeds.
Ali Pasha Sharif … a military man with a special personality who studied military sciences at the Khanka school, then he was sent on a mission to France, graduated from the War College, was appointed to the French army and was promoted within it until he attained the rank of Kabbashi and was appointed commander of the siege of France during the revolution of 1848, “according to Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq in his book Breeding Arabian Horses.
Ali Pasha Sharif is considered one of the Egyptian personalities most fond of horses during the monarchy, despite his holding the position of head of the “Trade Bureau” and then Chairman of the Shura Council of Laws at the time. However, he insisted that he buy about forty horses from the auction selling Abbas Pasha’s horses. He also retrieved the mares that were done. He sold it and built a stable for her near his palace in Balhadara Street, near Abdel Aziz Street, “Ataba Square” in Cairo, in order to start generating it properly.
With the measures taken by Ali Pasha, Abbas Pasha’s horses were saved from being sold abroad, as he provided them with means of reproduction and care. He bought it for the Vuurtemburg farm, aged 26.
The second was bought for the Austrian horse breeding farm, the third for the Ottoman Sultan, and the fourth was bought by the millionaire banker “Opengaim”, as the group that Ali Pasha Sharif, head of the Board of Commerce bought, all came from the horse “Qadir”.
Pasha kept the Abbasid horses, and worked on breeding them for another thirty-five years, and among those forty horses that he obtained from the Abbasid auction, eight mares are
Al-Jaziya: Saqlawia from the Rola horses, Al Samha: Saqlawiya from the horses of Barak Ibn Zabini from Al Fida, Faras bin Naqadan: Taluqa from the Dahman Shahwan breed from the Abdullah bin Naqadan stall from Al Ajman, Nora: from the Dahman Shahwan breed, Hajjah: from the Dahman Shahwan breed Horses of the Al-Ajman tribe, Shweima: from the line of Shweima Sabah, Harqa: from the Kahilan “Abu Arqoub” dynasty, and Jalabiya Faisal: from the Kahilan Jalabi dynasty.
And from the stallions horses he got:
Al-Zabini: Saqlawi Jadrani from the horses of Barak bin Zebaini from the Bedouin of Al-Fadaan, Samhan: Saqlawi Jadrani, born in Abbas Pasha’s Murabit, Shweiman Sabaah: born in Murabit Abbas Pasha, Saeed: born in Murabit Abbas Pasha, Wazir Al-Obli: from the Kahilan Jalabi dynasty, born in Bahrain Sweden: Saqlawy Jadrani is a Rolla horse.
The horse list confirms that Ali Pasha Sharif, the legal heir to Abbas Pasha’s stables and their well-known horses, especially: “Al-Saqlawiyat Al-Jadraniyya, Al-Dahm, and Al-Shwaimat”.
Ali Pasha also preserved the Abbas Pasha manuscript, which is one of the rarest manuscripts in the world, which recorded the history of horses, and after his death it remained with his family until 2008, when Mrs. Gelsen Sharif presented it to his granddaughter to the King Abdullah Library in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and an investigation was conducted on it
And since it was the best place for Europeans and Egyptians to meet, the “Shepherd” Hotel in the Azbakeya district of Cairo. In this hotel, Ali Pasha Sharif met a European couple in 1880, namely: “Wolfred Planet” and “Ant Planet” who established a modern Arabian horse stall in England. He invited them to visit his stables.
“We were very longing to see the famous horses of Prince Ali Pasha, and we were amazed at the beauty of the horses in the stalls:” Minister, Schwimman, Aziz, and other horses, “Lady Planet says in her diary, where the horses reached nearly a hundred horses.
To develop the relationship between Ali Pasha and “Al Blunt”, so they bought a group of his horses, and in 1881 the couple moved to Egypt, and they bought the farm of Sheikh Obaid in Ain Shams, so that the Blunt Stud in Cairo, and collected a large number of Arabian horses in it, in addition to the farm The other they own are in Britain, and Ali Pasha Sharif’s horses have played a major role in the development of Planet Ranch and other horse farms.
Ali Pasha Sharif produced about four hundred of the best horses, and made great efforts to preserve the purebred Arabian horse breeds, but most of them were technical as a result of the plague disease, and only a small part of the group remained.
After the death of Ali Pasha in 1897 AD, the remainder of these mares were sold at public auction, and a large group of them were bought by Lady Ant Blunt, and Lady Blunt’s decision to stay in Egypt was derived from the presence of purebred Arabian horses in it in addition to being a savior country for purebred Arabian horses by virtue of their kings being suspended. And its princes and its rich in love for horses, and their attempt to make Egypt the home of the savior of Arab horses.
The Lady built stables for breeding horses, in the Sheikh Ubaid area on the edge of the desert in a suburb of Cairo in 1882, and kept part of her horses in Egypt, and sent the other part to her farm in England, and she produced from these purebred horses luxury horses distributed in large regions of the world .
After the separation of Lady Anne Blunt from her husband, “Wilfred” in the year 1906, she remained in Egypt until her death in 1917 AD. Among the most famous horses that Blunt bought are: “Masoud” from Prince Ali Pasha Sharif, who is from the Saqlawi dynasty. Lady Blunt, who was transferred to the Crabbet Farm in England along with the free-range stallion Marzouq.
