Khaled AHR# 5, often referred to as Khaled 5, was an

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that was one of the

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horses of the Arabian Horse Registry of America. He was a

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stallion foaled on May 24, 1895, by the

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*Nimr and out of the mare *Naomi. He was bred by Randolph Huntington of Oyster Bay, New York, who was noted for his efforts to promote and protect the Arabian breed. Khaled 5 was the sire of nineteen registered purebred Arabian

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s. His dam, *Naomi, was born in England of desert-bred Arabian horses, and imported to the United States by Huntington in 1888. She was noted as an outstanding

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. His sire, Nimr, was also a grandson of *Naomi, and hence Khaled was somewhat linebred. Nimr was also born in England and was imported by Huntington to the United States in 1893. Huntington also imported Khaled's paternal grandsire, the desertbred *Kismet, from England to the US in 1891.

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{{Reflist Individual Arabian and part-Arabian horses 1895 animal births Individual male horses