Queen of Sheba

Deceased 1901 She was purchased by the Blunts on their way to Damascus in 1878 and exported to Crabbet in 1879. She was very highly prized by the Blunts who considered her their best mare. She produced 10 foals although unfortunately one filly was born dead and two fillies died as yearlings leaving just Asfura to represent her by female line. She died in 1901. Also known as Beteyens mare. Desert Bred. Imported from Syria in 1879 by the Blunts for their Crabbet Stud, Sussex, England. Lady Anne Blunt wrote in her book, the Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, Queen of Sheba is incomparably superior to anything we have seen here or elsewhere and would be worth a king's ransom, if kings were still worth ransoming. Crabbet Foundation mare.