FACTS
Anyone who has seen Scharif El Bataa will most assuredly remember him. His masculine power, exotic looks and dry face are hard to overlook. When he is turned out in his paddock, he instantly throws his tail over his back and begins to prance and dance. Scharif strikes an imposing image of type, elegance and power, while exemplifying Arabian type with his large, flaring nostrils, elegant neck, and expressive eyes. His trot is nothing short of amazing. When you look at him, the images of his sire Mameluck (Hadban Enzahi x Moheba II) and the great old Malik (Hadban Enzahi x Malikah) come to mind. He is very reminiscent of these "classics" of the breed but with extra refinement and a bit more scope. As a typical representative of the "Moheba type" he looks like a painting of Schreyer or Vernet.
His foals have succeeded all expectations. The colts look a lot like their sire - they inherited his broad forehead, the tiny ears and Scharif's soft eyes. They all have long and slender necks with free throatlatches, long legs, they can move like hell and have solid bodies. The "girls" also look like their sire but the dams shine through - but all have longer and more refined necks than their dams and the same long legs and powerful movement like their brothers.
PEDIGREE
This royally bred stallion is one of the very few straight Egyptian sons of the Marbach bred stallion Mameluck (Hadban Enzahi x Moheba II), a full brother to the legendary sire Madkour I. Mameluck passed to his son his fluid movement, athleticism, and charisma.
Before his export to the United States in 1974, Mameluck was bred to some German mares of domestic bloodlines. From this small foal crop several champion producing broodmares and the stallion Melchior emerged. The homozygous grey Melchior was exported to Great Britain where he became one of the most influential sires of his era.
In addition to its pedigree’s topside that reflects some of the most stellar names in Egyptian pedigrees, Scharif El Bataa offers a tail female that traces to the highly sought blood of the aristocratic Nazeer daughter, Binte El Bataa. Born at the EAO in 1958, the lovely Binte El Bataa was exported to North America by Douglas B. Marshall for his Gleannloch Farm but later sold to Bill Larsen who built his entire program around her. A fleabitten grey mare, Binte El Bataa was the last living daughter of Nazeer in the United States. When people came to see her, Bill Larsen would took her leadline and presented the graceful old mare to the visitors. "Look closely. You will not find many Nazeer get in the world today," he used to say with a smile.
Binte El Bataa gave birth to 15 foals but her most beautiful daughter was probably Scharif El Bataa's dam Saida Bataa (by the Ansata Ibn Halima son Samim). This rather small but wonderfully refined mare took much after her dam in body and type and grew more beautiful with every year that passed. The same rings true for her son Scharif who turned twenty-two this year and never looked more impressive! Like good wine, some horses continue to get better with age...
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PERSONALITY
"I am totally smitten with his sweet disposition," says Miri Berger. "He is so gentle that my daughter can lead him with a string. Actually he would follow her even without a string," she laughs. Scharif has such a caring nature that he is matching the pace of the girl’s steps just to make sure not to trail her. "When sit between his frontlegs he will not move a single muscle," his owner smiles. You are as save as in Abraham’s lap! "After a while Scharif will drop his head and carefully lift one of his frontlegs to inform you that it’s time for him to move on." This stallion is truely a treasure!
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