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during 1888–1889. They finally completed the purchase of him as a two-year-old, along with the stallion Merzuk and the mare
Khatila. In the two-year period before being shipped to England, he ran in the Cairo Eclipse Stakes at Ghezireh, which covered a distance of over a mile and a half. Victim of a
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England, Mesaoud was used both as a riding horse and as a sire, with over 100 known purebred Arabian offspring recorded. He was also shown in 1896, 1897, and 1898 at the Crystal Palace Horse Show, taking first place each time. He was exhibited at the
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included a blaze, three full stockings with a right front partial stocking, and slight roaning to the body with scattered white spots on the body and on the head under the chin and jowl. The body white suggests that he had
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Over time, his bloodline became a part of nearly every breedable mare at
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Mesaoud's descendants are found worldwide and he appears in the pedigree of over 90% of all
Arabian horses in the world today.
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was exported from Egypt to Tersk in 1963, thus reintroducing the bloodlines of
Mesaoud to Russia from yet another source.
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genetics, and he is thought to be a primary source for that coloration when it appears in
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in 1923, where he sired his last foal crop, which included his best-known son, Gulastra.
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is one of the most famous horses in the "Egyptian" line of pedigrees. Nazeer's son
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in Paris in 1900, alongside Arabians from around Europe.
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in 1936 and produced the famous Russian-bred stallion
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674:"Arieana Arabians – Heritage Notebook: M (Mesaoud)"
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279:working horses. Astraled then went to live with
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180:Arabian, with verifiable lineage tracing to the
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322:Pedigree of Mesaoud, chestnut stallion, 1887
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481:References
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211:Background
584:"Mesaoud"
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396:Gr. 1872
369:Al Qumiz
366:Samhan I
331:Ch. 1881
277:crossbred
252:by Count
187:He was a
178:Al Khamsa
54:Grandsire
750:Category
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459:See also
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439:Sununah
431:Zobeyni
423:Salimah
415:Shueyma
405:Gharran
382:Zobeyni
345:Sununah
337:Zobeyni
317:Pedigree
269:Astraled
200:markings
196:markings
192:stallion
189:chestnut
108:Chestnut
82:Stallion
73:Shueyman
707:Sources
410:Hajlah
402:Jerboa
374:Udayha
334:Harkan
182:Bedouin
170:Wilfred
162:England
154:Arabian
150:Mesaoud
114:Breeder
96:Country
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19:Mesaoud
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88:Foaled
57:Harkan
434:Barq
340:Barq
308:Aswan
152:, an
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104:Color
99:Egypt
36:Breed
718:ISBN
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327:Sire
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