Ibn Sabbah Bedu+/ (Serabaar x Shar Sabbah) has earned a reputation for being quite sensible and reliable. He is known at Royal Salute, Jackie Alkin’s training facility in Cave Creek, Arizona as "Black Beauty."  He is a very quiet stallion, very much the perfect gentleman at all times!

After a very successful showing the February Scottsdale Show 1995, Sabbah qualified for the Region 7 Championships at the Arizona Dressage Association Spring show showing in Open competition.

All the excitement was not in the ring however. We had as bit of excitement in the barn area as well.  An owner came running into the barn alley as we were tacking up  Sabbah for his afternoon class.  She exclaimed that her horse was in trouble in her trailer in the parking area and she needed help.  Jackie,  Bruce and I grabbed some spare lead ropes and dashed out leaving  Sabbah in the hands of a “Horseshow Mom”. The horse was found down in the trailer one hind leg trapped inside the trailer and one hind leg underneath the trailer.  Her head and forelegs were under the divider.  With Jackie at the head, Bruce got the trapped hind leg out of the trailer using his lead rope.  The horse pushed back and out freeing itself from the trailer.  It then stood shaken but with only minor scrapes and no doubt some sore and bruised muscles.

We walked back to the barn to find the “Horseshow Mom” Donna had had some excitement of her own.  A big strong warmblood had thrown its rider just outside the barn and raced inside.  It was joined by another huge horse that broke away from its handler.  They were fast closing ground on “Mom” who was holding Sabbah.  As her life flashed before her eyes, expecting to be run over first by Sabbah then those huge horses rapidly approaching, Sabbah quietly turns sideways in the barn aisle blocking it.  He was between her and the runaways. The big horses slowed and stopped and allowed recapture.  We walked in as the shaken “Mom” kept exclaiming what a wonderful horse Sabbah was.  She even went so far as to say she wished she could breed her gelding to him!

We waved good-bye at the Regionals showgrounds to Jackie Alkin and Crew about 10 p.m. as she pulled out with her four-horse slant trailer to take Kiva, Ibn Sabbah and Stormy home from the show.   The now famous “Horseshow Mom” Donna was following in her van with a load of young riders.  

They got part way home on a dark four lane highway when a racket and bouncing trailer got their attention.  Jackie pulled over onto the shoulder.  “Horseshow Mom” Donna pulled in behind and they checked the trailer.  They found that Kiva, a nervious hauler, had managed to pick up the stall divider and put it on top of  Sabbah.  Sabbah stood quietly,  supported the weight of the divider and waited for help.  "Stormy" had to be unloaded to get to Sabbah.  One of the girls held a dancing "Stormy" on the far side of the trailer in the narrow space between an Irrigation ditch and the trailer.  Traffic continued a few feet away on the highway.  

Jackie and Donna went in to free Sabbah, hammering the  hinges of the divider until it was loose enough to lift it off him.  Sabbah was moved a few feet away, his job was now to keep Kiva calm while the tilted panel was muscled, pounded, hammered and lifted off of its hinges.  Not an easy job the two main musclers, Donna and Jackie informed us later.  Once removed they took the divider out of the trailer.  They then moved Sabbah back one stall giving Kiva a double space and reloaded Stormy.  

They stood by the trailer a moment or two to recover before getting back into vehicles and continuing home.  They told us that if the panel had been on any other horse in the trailer they would not have been so lucky.   Sabbah had kept his cool and waited for rescue.  Donna  “the Horseshow Mom” exclaimed again to us “I just LOVE that horse!” 

Dr. Dan Klinsky was Sabbah’s vet at Jackie’s.  After Sabbah had been cast in his stall, he was sore in the stifle.  Dr Dan was called out to examine the sore joint.  During the exam done in the alleyway of Jackie’s barn, Jackie’s students would ride up on their horses to ask Jackie questions.  Their horses were nose to nose with Sabbah.  All this time Dr Dan was bent down or crouching under Sabbah working the stifle.  All of a sudden he looks past the stifle, stands and faces Jackie with “You didn’t tell me I was working on a STALLION!”  

Jackie answered “And he didn’t tell you either, did he?”   

A few weeks later I get a call from Elizabeth Dawsari across town.  Dr. Dan had been out to preg check her mare, Almoraima Neblina.  He enthusiastically told her about "this wonderful smart athletic stallion with perfect manners" that he had been treating for a stifle injury.  He urged her to consider breeding her mare to this wonder horse.  Elizabeth listened quietly and politely. After he confirmed that her mare was indeed in foal, Elizabeth happily told him that the foal he just confirmed was indeed by that same stallion!   

	The resulting 1998 Straight Babson Egyptian filly was Fa Maarlina bred by Elizabeth Dawsari, now owned by Elaine Yerty and Elizabeth Dawsari.
This 2007 photo at 9 years old was taken by Frank Bochansky at Elaine Yerty's Spring Meadow Farm in Texas.