Grey 15hh Crabbet x Egyptian ridden mare, 2020. Gold Premium winner in the national Futurity Evaluations

Gadebrook’s last Hadiya daughter, the exceptional Kamelliya (‘Leyah’), out of the AHS Premium Performance mare and WAHO trophy winner Kamillah, is now with a top ridden show home. Dark grey, born black in 2020, and 15hh, Kamillah – ‘Leyah’ - is now under saddle for a ridden career. Very feminine yet strong, fast and keen, Leyah has correct conformation, extravagant movement and a very happy personality.Handled from birth, Leyah gained a Gold Premium in the 2020 national Futurity Evaluations with the highest vet score of any foal entered. Her pure Crabbet sire Hadiya was Reserve Futurity Champion in 2019; her pure Egyptian dam Kamillah won many eventing trophies with junior rider, India Duke, and the Max Shield for Endurance.

Leyah combines the beauty and grace of her dam’s Egyptian bloodlines with the strength and confidence of her sire’s Crabbet heritage, a ‘Golden Cross’. This pedigree gives Kamelliya all the soundness, athletic ability, and good temperament of the Crabbet horse, coupled with the elegance, refinement and ‘blow’ of the Egyptian.

Kamelliya as a yearling at Gadebrook in summer 2021

She is fast and beautiful and the culmination of a life-long wish to cross pure Crabbet with pure Egyptian.

In fact, Kamelliya's grandsire Binley Prince Salim, and her dam, Kamillah, stood side by side in the anniversary parade of AHS Premium horses at the Arab National Championships at Malvern in 2011.

Kamelliya gained Gold in the endurance section of the national Youngstock Futurity Evaluations in August, with excellent marks for movement and conformation. Click HERE for the clip from the video we sent the evaluators – because of the Covid-19 restrictions, horses could not attend venues in the flesh in 2020.

Kamelliya is known as Leyah at home, and that is the name we used for her entry to the Futurity Evaluations.

View a video of kamelliya galloping on 1st July 2020 at Gadebrook HERE.

Hadiya’s three yearlings at Gadebrook: fillies Kamelliya (left) and Bright Moonlight, with colt Hazar in June 2021

6-week old Arab AHS Premium filly Kamelliya at Gadebrook in July 2020

Kamelliya with dam Kamillah and breeder Anne Brown, at Gadebrook

Two-week old Kamelliya checks out helper Debbie


Kamelliya's sire Hadiya, who died two weeks after her birth from a freak field accident

Kamelliya's dam Kamillah with her breeder Judy Phillips riding side-saddle at the Performance Horse champions' Parade at Malvern in 2011, beside Kamelliya's grand-sire Binley Prince Salim, ridden in endurance tabard by Susan Hawes, Photo Kevin Hawes

Arab filly Kamelliya in June 2020, at Gadebrook

Kamelliya stretches her legs at Gadebrook