Donald’s family chooses “Ansata” for the farm and keeps the names of the 3 Arab horses to indicate their identity.
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The visit of Mrs. Judy Forbes to Turkey to buy a purebred Arabian horse is considered a card for acquaintance with the purebred Egyptian horses, as a group of her friends there asked her to visit Egypt, specifically the Zahra Station for purebred Arabian horses, which enjoys a distinguished production of horses.
Immediately, Forbes accompanied her husband Donald to Egypt on September 16, 1958, to start her first visit to the Zahraa station of the Ministry of Agriculture in Ain Shams, and the first meeting between the Forbes family came with the Hungarian Khawaja, the director of the Zahraa station at that time.
Judy narrates in her book, “The Gift”, that this meeting was the only meeting she had with Al-Khawaja Al-Majri, explaining that he left after the visit and took over the duties of Dr. Al-Marsafi.
Forbes described in her book Al-Khawaja Al-Majari as the intelligent, organized man, saying: “He was recording everything he saw, a creator, and a true boomer in the Zahraa station, very loving his work.” Forbes saw the station’s horses and the main sires such as “Nazeer” and “Syed their father,” who used to call him Al-Maroufi was called “the penguin”, as I saw two of the king’s horses, namely “Sameh” and “Al Saree”, in addition to the horse “Antar”.
She also saw for the first time the “companion” horse that was returning days before the race, as the Hungarian expert determined to make him the main horse to replace the “peer” of the leader.
After a few months, Mrs. Forbes and her husband returned to Al-Zahra Station, where Dr. Al-Marsafi held the position of director of the station and took them on a tour of the station to see the horses. Watch her daughter, “Maya”, who is on the list of royal foals.
They also saw “Bint Mabrouka” and “Bint Zaafarana”, and they were two of the most beautiful dowries that left in themselves a beautiful feeling. Then they saw the dowry “Ibn Halima” who was a year old at the time and was described as having a dry head, wide, dark eyes, and clear skin.
Then Mrs. Judy and her husband, accompanied by Dr. Al-Marsafi, visited the headquarters of the Egyptian Agricultural Authority, which at that time was a palace overlooking the Nile, “after which it became one of the buildings of the Egyptian Opera House,” where she met with Dr. Ahmed Afifi, Director General of the Royal Agricultural Authority, and asked him to buy 3 Horses are: “Bint Mabrouka”, “Bint Saffrona” and “Ibn Halima”.
For his part, Dr. Ahmed Afifi asked for a large sum of money for the three horses, so Mrs. Judy answered that the money they had was not enough, so he sold them Bint Mabrouka and Bint Saffron, and Ibn Halima gave them a gift.
The three horses traveled from Egypt through the port of Alexandria, after obtaining the necessary fortifications, and they were isolated in a place designated for the Zahraa station, and after 14 days the ship arrived in the United States of America, so that the three horses lived in “Ichiksha”, where the Forbes family had to register A farm, so the family chose the name “Ansata”, which means the key to life in the ancient Egyptian language, and decided to name the 3 horses with their Arab names to indicate their identity.
Forbes and her husband traveled to work in Libya, to take care of the horses, the father of her husband, “Donald”, where the horses became the focus of the family’s interest, and a group of Americans also cared for the three horses, such as Mr. Douglas Marshall.
A year later, Forbes and her husband visited Al-Zahraa Station for the third time and bought the skilled “Hosnia” girl “Nazeer and Pulley” and Hosnia had a broken leg and they could not send her to America due to the spread of horse plague, as the Egyptian government prevented horses from leaving Egypt, but after two years it was eliminated On illness and Hassania traveled to join the three horses.
“Bint Zaafarana” gave birth to a horse “Ibn Halima”, a full-fledged dowry, small-headed, with wide eyes, around which white hair was called “Ali Pasha” after Sharif Pasha. As for Bint Mabrouka, she gave birth to a dowry called “Abbas Pasha”, while she sold Forbes to the famous lawyer of the time, William Frank El-Mohr “Ali Pasha”.
Forbes describes her happiness with the first child of the Insata farm “Ali Pasha”, saying: “The daughter of Saffrona gave birth to an exceptional foal of gray color, full of descriptions. Mabrouka is a red foal that turned to pure blue, and its eyes were dark and its beauty had a special taste, as it took from the mother wide eyes and a strong body, and he was called “Abbas Pasha” in reference to Abbas Pasha, the first ruler of Egypt and founder of the Egyptian horse kingdom.
