(Salaa El Dine x NK Soraya by Ibn Nejdy)

DATA

Date of birth: 2001
Colour: grey
Breeder: Dr. Nagel,  Katharinenhof Stud/Germany
Owner: Marcus & Mildred Pabst/Germany
Contact: phone +49-174 5854509 , fax +49-4244-965664,
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FACTS

The first thing you'll notice about Sahib (Salaa El Dine x NK Soraya) is his extraordinary type. From head to toe this stallion epitomizes the classic Arabian horse. His trademarks are his huge black eyes, his chiselled and exotic face with dark skin, a balanced body and an air like a king about him. Equally impressive are his powerful and elevated movement with lots of drive from behind.
Sahib has had a very limited show career with some shows in 2005 but his record is more than impressive. Wherever he showed up, he turned faces and nobody could resist his presence and charm. The audience loved him and the judges agreed: At the "Arabica" show in Germany he was named Reserve Senior Champion Stallion, at the National Show in Ströhen in Northern Germany he won the Senior Champion Stallion title and at the prestigious Egyptian Event Europein Baden-Baden he was named Senior Champion Stallion. Two month later at the rigorous German Stallion Show, he got a Silver Premium. Proof that Sahib is a beautiful and correct horse but for his owners this was not enough. They wanted to show that Sahib could do more than just "look pretty" and therefore entered him into the German "Rittigkeitstest" where a stallion is tested under saddle. He passed that test with flying colours!
His first foal was born in 2006 and was an instant success. With the "black pearl" Mystique P (x Mimrah by Salaa El Dine), Sahib demonstrated what his owners could expect from him as a sire. And he didn't let them down: Meanwhile he has some more foals on the ground and they all have inherited his exotic look and energetic movement. Sahib has emerged as a sire much in the tradition of his famous father! Be prepared to see his get in the international showrings very soon...

PEDIGREE

Sahib's sire, the late Salaa El Dine (Ansata Halim Shah x Hanan by Alaa El Din) is such a household name in Egyptian circles that he certainly needs no introduction. It is safe to say that he was one of Ansata Halim Shah's leading sons. Therefore we should take a closer look at Sahib's dam, NK Soraya: This ultra-refined daughter of Ibn Nejdy (the sire of NK Hafid Jamil) is regarded as one of the most beautiful mares ever born at Dr. Nagel's Katharinenhof Stud. It was mere luck that she was in foal to Salaa El Dine when Mildred and Marcus Pabst bought her back in 2000. Soraya's dam Shahwana (El Moniet x Sabah) is a maternal half sister to the famous stallions Sameer and Sherif Pasha. The latter was the first straight Egyptian horse to win the World Championship at the Salon du Cheval in Paris. In tail female line, NK Soraya traces back to Moniet El Nefous via the branch of Mahiba (Alaa El Din x Mouna). Precious blood, evident in her refined and elegant appearance. "The goal of our breeding programme is to consolidate this extreme type with Sahib's foals now," say Mildred and Marcus Pabst. Therefore they looked with great anticipation to the first foal born out of the mating between two Soraya children: In 2007 Sahib was bred to his half sister Sahara (Ansata Najdi x NK Soraya) and the wonderful result is the excitingly beautiful filly Sarah P.

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PERSONALITY

Success at shows is certainly nice and everyone who saw Sahib strutting his way through the showring wil remember his proud bearing, his masculine beauty, and charisma. The audience was always spellbound and loved his self-confidence and "look at me" look. He regally surveyed his competitors and no other stallion dared to challenge him. The perfect attitude for a show horse! For Sahib's owners, however, it is more important that Sahib is easy to handle at home. He uses his own brain when under saddle and is a wonderful companion when they ride him in the fields around the farm. "We always can rely on him," say Marcus and Mildred Pabst. In fact Sahib is so easy to handle that he follows a child - and he shares such a special bond with his owner that he even follows him into the sea.

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