| At February 22nd, the Tunisian mare KAHLOUCHA foaled the first and only DAHESS foal in Switzerland. | |
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above: Filly out of KAHLOUCHA by DAHESS bred by Nile Arabian
Stud. Foto: Andrej Stasik |
above: DAHESS at the Natinal State Stud in France |
| At 07:20 am a healthy and strongly built DAHESS filly was born at Nile Arabians and was warmly welcomed by a cheerful snicker of the other mares in the stable. The dark grey filly without any marks is the third foal of the straight Tunisian mare KAHLOUCHA, who was herself a successful racing mare with five wins. | |
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DAHESS's earnings are 981,957 Euros and he is classified in the IFAHR ratings as the top Arabian racehorse in the world for 2007 (rated 134). Next highest horses are 128. DAHESS was sold at the Arqana Arabian Auction in Paris on 6th September for a record 1,050,000 euros and was officially offered as a sire for the first time in 2008.
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father AMER, born in Saudi Arabia, is an outstanding sire of winning
racehorses. He is the sire of over 90 individual winners of 377 races
including 41 Group 1 races. Top progeny include AL ANOOD,
DAHESS, AL DAHMA, NIZAM, MUGADIR, MUTABAHI,
ZREIG |
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The
filly’s father DAHESS by AMER out of the French bred mare
DANIE DU CASSOU was an outstanding race horse with a remarkable
international race record. He has raced 41 times with 28 wins, 7 seconds
and 3 thirds. Of his wins, 13 have been Group 1 wins; he has won the
Zabeel International Stakes in UK three years running from 2005 to 2007,
Malazgirt Trophy in Turkey twice and the Grosseto International in Italy twice
as well as races in Qatar such as the Qatar International Trophy and HH The
Heir Apparent Trophy.