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Turkish governor of Mecca. He brought 

 her to Aleppo and gave her in turn to the 

 chief Ulema there, who used her only as a 

 brood mare and to carry him once a day 

 to the mosque. Lady Blunt says she had 

 " the most extraordinarily beautiful head 

 ever seen, and the sweetest of tempers." 



The full list of her offspring cannot be 

 known, as she had foals both in Arabia 

 and after coming to England. In the 

 latter country her blood is highly prized, 

 not only that through her daughters, 

 Sherezade and Shibboleth, but also at the 

 present day where her grand-daughters, 

 Shieka and Shibine, the first a daughter of 

 Shiraz, the second a daughter of Shohba, 

 represent her in the Crabbet Arabian 

 Stud. 



The Blunts have owned and bred so 

 many pure Arabs since they first became 

 interested in them in 1877 that it would 

 be a long list were all the animals named. 

 In 1905 they had about a hundred and 

 twenty-five in the Crabbet Stud, besides 

 many others in Egypt. A few more of 



