Nazeer (foaled 9 August 1934 in Egypt) was a
gray
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Arabian
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Geographically, the ...
stallion from
Egypt
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. He was sired by Mansour out of Bint Samiha.
He sired many offspring, among the best-known were
Aswan
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Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the Aswan Dam on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract. The modern city ha ...
,
Ansata Ibn Halima,
Hadban Enzahi (1952),
and
Morafic.
His maternal great-grandsire, Sotamm, was a horse of bloodlines all tracing to the horses imported by
Wilfrid
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and
Lady Anne Blunt from stud of
Ali Pasha Sherif. Sotamm was born in England, and then sold to the Egyptian government by
Lady Wentworth of the
Crabbet Arabian Stud.
Pedigree
References
Individual Arabian and part-Arabian horses
1934 animal births
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