Desert bred (Strain: Saqlawi Marighi)
Bought by Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt in 1878, and imported to their Crabbet Arabian Stud in England.
Basilisk was used later in life (as a broodmare) to help expand a limited Thoroughbred gene pool.
She was suffering from what was believed to have been liver disease and was put down in 1891.
Recent research based on original Arabic sources, including the Abbas Pasha Manuscript and the hujjah (certificate) of her close female-line relative Meshura, has confirmed that Basilisk belonged to the Saqlawi Marighi strain — a sub-branch of Saqlawi Ubayri — not Saqlawi Jidrani as previously assumed. She was acquired from the Ibn Dirri family of the Gmassah tribe (part of the Sba’ah of Anazah), and her strain identity has now been firmly reclassified.
https://daughterofthewind.org/barely-surviving-lines-saqlawi-jadran-to-basilisk-through-slipper/
https://daughterofthewind.org/basilisk-and-rabanna-as-saqlawi-marighi/
https://daughterofthewind.org/ruwalah-bedouins-on-the-effect-of-linebreeding/