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Seven Oaks Arabian Stud has its origins in 1969, when Leigh Jamieson

purchased the chestnut colt KIBIR (Abiram (Imp Holland) ex Bashqa by

Crystal Fire (Imp. U.K.)) from the well known Bostocks Stud in Queensland. 

In 1970, he purchased the chestnut colt LORD BAHRAM (Crystal Fire (Imp

UK) ex Fantasy by Count Manilla (Imp. U.K.)), also from Bostocks Stud.

Seven Oaks Arabian Stud now has over 70 purebred Arabians, and the Stud is

situated on 315 acres in picturesque country between Woodend and Kyneton,

45 minutes north-west of Melbourne, in the Australian State of Victoria. The

facilities presently being developed will be of world class standard, and the

Stud has carefully selected its mares and stallions with the intention of

becoming a major player on the international market.

Leigh Jamieson, the Principal of Seven Oaks Arabian Stud, has a strong

interest in preservational breeding, and has concentrated on developing the

following bloodlines:

Leigh Jamieson has been fascinated by the work and breeding philosophy

of Dr. Hans Nagel, the legendary German breeder and current President of

the World Arab Horse Organisation.  Unlike many breeders, Dr. Nagel has

not tried to change or improve the breed, but rather, he has endeavoured

to return the Arabian horse to its true classic type and beauty, which evolved

over many centuries from its origins in the Nejd region of Arabia Deserta.

Dr. Nagel’s programme has involved intense in-breeding and line-breeding

to four foundation mares, being the Dahmah Shawanieh mare BINT BUKRA

(Nazeer x Bukra by Shahloul), the Hadbah Enzahiyah mare LOTFEIA (Alaa

El Din x Bint Kamla by El Sareei), the Saqlawieh Jedranieh of Ibn Sudan

mare MAHIBA (Alaa El Din x Mouna by Sid Abouhom) and the Abeyyah Om

Jurays mare HANAN (Alaa El Din x Mona by Badr).  The success of this

programme is evidenced by the fact that Dr. Nagel’s horses are

breathtakingly beautiful, and become more elegant and exquisite with each

generation.

Seven Oaks Arabian Stud has concentrated on the bloodlines created and

developed by Dr Nagel. All but two of its Straight Egyptian mares have

close-up crosses to HANAN (Alaa El Din x Mona by Badr), the most famous

of Dr. Nagel’s legendary foundation mares.    Dr. Nagel's brilliant book,  

"Hanan - the Story of an Arabian Mare and of the Arabian Breed"

details the story of this extraordinary mare, and the history of the Arabian

breed, and is a "must read" for any Arabian horse lover.

In 2006, Seven Oaks Arabian Stud purchased the grey Dahman Shawan colt

N.K. HAMOUDY (Jamal El Dine x Helala by Salaa El Dine) from Dr. Nagel,

primarily to join to the Stud's three ASFOUR daughters.   N.K.  

HAMOUDY was the last foal of Dr. Nagel's magnificent broodmare HELALA

(Salaa El Dine x Ansata Gloriana by Jamil), who died prematurely in 2006.   

HELALA, a lookalike grand-daughter of HANAN, is also the dam of Dr.

Nagel's outstanding sire, N.K. HAFID JAMIL and of his favourite mare, N.K.

HIND, a full sister to N.K. HAMOUDY. 

N.K. HAMOUDY carries exceptional and rare bloodlines, being a grandson

of one of the world's all time great sires, SALAA EL DINE (Ansata Halim

Shah x Hanan by Alaa El Din), and seven of his eight great-grandparents

have a line back to the incomparable foundation mare BUKRA (Shahloul x

Bint Sabah by Kazmeen).  N.K. HAMOUDY is also a three quarter brother

to N.K. HAFID JAMIL, the sire of such world class horses as N.K. NADEER,

N.K. NAHLA, N.K. QASWARAH, N.K. KAMAR EL DINE, JAMAL EL DINE

and N.K. NAEEMA etc.

Other imports by the Stud, which carry 100% of Dr. Nagel's bloodlines, are

the 12 year old grey mare SAMSARA NIHAL (Imp. U.K.) (Adnan x Assal by

Ibn Nazeema), the 2006 grey filly AMARILLA H.M. (Imp. Germany) (N.K.

Hafid Jamil x N.K. Asila by Salaa El Dine) and the 2008 grey filly SAMIRA

BINT SORAYA P (Jamal El Dine x N.K. Soraya by Ibn Nejdy).

SAMSARA NIHAL is a daughter of the legendary sire ADNAN (Salaa El Dine

x Ghazala by Ghazal) and she has a brilliant pedigree, in that three of her

four great-granddams are HANAN, and the fourth is a full sister to the world

famous mare, LOTFEIA (Alaa El Din x Bint Kamla by Sareei), dam of the

incomparably beautiful, but ill fated mare GALA (IBN GALAL 1-7).  SAMSARA

NIHAL has been sent to Dr. Nagel's Stud in Germany to be joined in 2011 to

his brilliant young stallion, N.K. NADEER (N.K. Hafid Jamil x N.K. Nadirah by

Adnan).

AMARILLA H.M. is a full sister to Dr. Nagel's beautiful mare N.K. AZIZA,

the dam of Salaa El Dine's last foal bred at Katharinenhof, N.K. SHARAF EL

DINE, a superb stallion, now at stud in Egypt, and N.K. AZIZA is also the

dam of N.K. ABLA, a very beautiful 2008 filly by Jamal El Dine.  AMARILLA

H.M. is also a full sister in blood to Usamah Al Kazemi's outstanding sire  

N.K. QASWARAH, head sire of Ezzain Arabian Stud in Kuwait.

A further import which carries over 62% of Dr. Nagel's bloodlines, is the

lovely 2004 grey mare MAYA MARQUISA D.M.F. (Imp. U.S.A.) (Marquis 1 x

Bint Bint Jamil by Mohafez).   This young mare has foaled two exquisite

grey fillies to N.K. HAMOUDY and is currently in foal to G.R. AMARILLO

(Imp. Germany) (Classic Shadwan x Halim's Asmara by Ansata Halim Shah)

Seven Oaks Arabian Stud intends to mix ASFOUR (Malik x Hanan by Alaa El

Din) bloodlines with that of ANSATA HALIM SHAH (Ansta Ibn Halima x

Ansata Rosetta by Ansata Shah Zaman) bloodlines, and to this

end, imported from Rothenberg Stud of Monheim in Germany the 2006 grey

colt G.R. AMARILLO (Imp. Germany) (Classic Shadwan x Halim's Asmara by

Ansata Halim Shah), a full brother to the outstanding German Champion

Stallion G.R. AMARETTO and Champion German mare G.R. AMARETTA.

G.R. AMARILLO is a maternal grandson of the great ANSATA HALIM SHAH,

arguably the most beautiful Straight Egyptian stallion of all time, and is

also a paternal grandson of Al Rayyan Stud's wonderful sire, ALIDAAR

(Shaikh Al Badi x Bint Magidaa by Khofo).

Another import by Seven Oaks Arabian Stud from Rothenberg Stud in

Germany is the grey 2004 Ansata Halim Shah Grand-daughter,  G.R.

AMARILLA (Imp. Germany) (Classic Shadwan x Halim's Asmara by Ansata

Halim Shah).   G.R. AMARILLA was imported in foal to G.R. FALEEH

(Madallan-Madheen x Fasinah by Nahaman), an outstanding young black

stallion, carrying 50% of Dr. Nagel's bloodlines, and this breeding resulted

in a 2007 grey filly, LADY JUDITH OF SEVEN OAKS.  G.R. AMARILLA has

also produced a superb 2009 grey colt by ANSATA IEMHOTEP (Imp U.S.A.

and UAE) (Prince Fa Moniet x Ansata Nefara by Ansata Halim Shah), which

may be retained by the Stud as a future sire.

The fruits of this careful study and selection of bloodlines is now becoming

evident, and N.K. HAMOUDY'S nine foals to date (six fillies and three

colts), each from a different bloodline, have all been extremely beautiful

with superb type, and these foals have exceeded even our most optimistic

expectations.

Seven Oaks Arabian Stud is also dedicated to the preservation of Pure

Crabbet bloodlines, particularly as these bloodlines are in serious danger of

becoming extinct.

Every branch of the modern Arabian horse, whether Straight Egyptian, Polish,

Russian or Spanish is influenced largely by horses that were owned or bred at

Crabbet Park in England, so it is our opinion that these bloodlines should be

preserved and continued for future generations.   Further, it is generally

acknowledged that Pure Crabbet, or Crabbet related horses are pre-eminent

riding and endurance horses, and are usually brilliant movers.

Because of the far sighted and outstanding imports from Crabbet Park made

by Mrs. A.D.D. MacLean of Fenwick Stud in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s,

Australia is fortunate to have a strong genetic pool of Pure Crabbet horses.  

An extremely gifted Victorian breeder, Ron Ryan of Bendigo, developed the

Arfaja type of Pure Crabbet horse, based on Fenwick Stud bloodlines, and,

inter alia, this resulted in the magnificent white stallion RASHAM (Greylight

(iid UK) x Sparkle by Shafreyn (Imp. U.K.)), the only Pure Crabbet horse ever

to be named Australian Champion Stallion.

Seven Oaks Arabian Stud has acquired six horses of 100% Arfaja

bloodlines, two of Fenwick bloodlines and two of closely related Inshallah Stud

bloodlines, and will linebreed its Pure Crabbet horses back to SKOWRONEK

(Ibrahim x Yaskoulka), and particularly to his son NAZIRI (Skowronek x

Nasra).

Our objective is to retain the bone, substance and brilliant movement

of the best of the Pure Crabbet bloodlines, but to re-capture the beauty and

classic type of the likes of Skowronek, and his sons Naziri and Naseem, and

Naseem's daughter, Silver Fire.

Leigh Jamieson has always loved the size, substance, magnetism and

brilliant movement of the type of horse of predominantly Crabbet/Egyptian

cross, so wonderfully developed by Ralvon Stud and then later, by River

Oak Arabian Stud. This type of horse must surely be the ultimate riding and

endurance horse.   

Seven Oaks Arabian Stud will continue to develop this type of horse, using

varying percentages and combinations of Pure Crabbet and Straight

Egyptian stallions over mares of Crabbet/Egyptian cross bloodlines.

Seven Oaks Arabian Stud has three Crabbet Related stallions, the full

brothers LORD THOMAS OF SEVEN OAKS and LORD CHARLES OF SEVEN

OAKS (both by Kyreemi Illustraa x Imoan Khameerah by Niarob Shou-Lin-

El-Sadat), who are siring very beautiful, tall and extremely typey foals of

both sexes.  These foals have impeccable pedigrees for endurance and

have wonderful friendly and laid back temperaments.  This season will also

see the introduction of LORD ALISTAIR OF SEVEN OAKS (Lord Thomas of

Seven Oaks x River Oak Impulse by River Oak Imprint), a brilliant and

typey young stallion with incredible movement.

At Seven Oaks Arabian Stud, we have a deep love for our horses, and we

also have a clear understanding of our responsibility to generations yet

unborn. The welfare of our horses in particular, and the Arabian breed in

general, is extremely important to us.

Those who deal with Seven Oaks Arabian Stud can be confident that they

will get genuine help and assistance, honesty and transparency, a fair deal

and unmatched enthusiasm.