AP Photo/Amr NabilArabian mare, Tamgeed canters during an Arabian horse auction of great breeders at El-Zahraa Stud in Cairo Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. Tamgeed was sold for LE 180.000 EGP ($33.000). Pure Arabian horses where imported to Egypt at the beginning of the 19th century by Mohammed Ali the great, founder of modern Egypt, from the Bedouins of the Arabian peninsula./p