Jasir

photo: Ursula Guttmann

When Wilhelm II., former Prince of Wuerttemberg died in 1921, his daughter Princess Pauline zu Wied took over the Weil Stud with its purebred Arabians. The stud was established by the Prince's grandfather Wilhelm I. and run by Wilhelm II. until his death.
Pauline zu Wied was a true horse lover and passionate horse breeder. It was her who recognized the quality of Mohammed Ali's Egyptian Arabians that would well match to the existing bloodlines at Weil.
One day she saw a photo of a grey stallion of Mohamed Ali's stud in Egypt. That stallion had a rather short head and short neck. He had a roman nose with wide forehead and big eyes and nostrils. He had good shoulders, mid-long back and a long croup with high tail carriage. He had a stocky body typical for the Koheylan type of Arabians. The name of the stallion that Princess zu Wied acquired finally with the help of Carl Raswan was Jasir.
Jasir was sired by Mabrouk Manial who left only a few foals. But especially his daughters were important for the Egyptian breeding program. Among those daughters were Sabah, Bint Radia and Jasir's full-sister Mahroussa. Sabah and Bint Radia founded their own families in Egypt while Mahroussa had big influence in the United States through her daughters Maaroufa and HH Mohamed Alis Hamama and through her son Fadl (paternal grand-sire of Fadjur).
Like Mahroussa, Jasir was out of Negma, a very noble, grey mare. Negma was by Dahman El Azrak out of Bint Yamama who traced to the desert bred mare Ghazieh of the Saklawi Jedran Ibn Sudan strain. So, Negma is from the same strain as the famous Egyptian Moniet El Nefous family.
Princess zu Wied imported Jasir to Weil in 1930. Unfortunately, he could not prove himself as sire there because the Princess had to disperse Weil Stud already two years later.
Luckily, Wilhelm II. ordered in his testament to continue his breeding program of Purebred Arabians, so the horses were not simply sold to private breeders but were taken over by the German state of Wuerttemberg. Some of the horses went to State Stud of Trakehnen (then Prussia) while others including the seven-years-old Jasir were sent to Marbach State Stud, located 37miles south-east of Stuttgart. That is were the Marbach Arabian horse breeding program started that still lasts today. Jasir became the earliest foundation sire of the program.
At Marbach, he sired the daughters Jacaranda, Jatta, Isabella, Jemen and Jadine who still have descendants in Marbach today, or they became foundation stock of private Arabian horse breeders. Jacaranda and Isabella became influential in the breeding program of Getraude Griesbach's Achental stud. Jasir's daughter Jadine is the granddam of Dschadaah, the only Marbach bred mare that ever won the World Senior Mare Championships in Paris.
Jasir had only two sons that bred on. One was Jason out of Dinarsad who sired warmbloods but left no purebred foal. The other one was Jager, who sired no purebred sons in Germany. He was exported to Sweden in 1953 where he used on Swedish warmblood mares as well as on purebreds. His purebred daughters Rumaila and Kamila came back to Germany. Rumaila was foundation mare at Helau Stud and produced five state-licensed sons and five daughters. Rumaila's sons Achmed and Sascha were excellent dressage horses.
Jager sired some purebred sons but unfortunately, none established a sire-line and so the purebred male line of Jasir died out.
Marbach used Jasir until 1946. His last registered purebred foal was born in 1947. One year later, he was given to Baida Stud of Gerd Baumgarten, a breeder of Trotters near Augsburg, Germany.
Jasir stayed with Mr. Baumgarten until his death.