Present in the Moment

Tutto Arabi's March issue was released this past Thursday, 6th February 2025. I was skimming quickly through the pages, when all of a sudden, my eyes landed on this young colt, TB Hadir and everything.just.stopped.

It's interesting and somewhat startling to learn that "Hadir" means "present" as in, "being-present-here-in-this-moment" because that's exactly what I believed I was doing, when all came to a halt to acknowledge TB Hadir's photo. 

TB Hadir, bred by Monika Savier of Tre Balzane Stud in Umbria, Italy, is sired by Naseem Al Rashediah, a son of Al Adeed Al Shaqab and out of Nabaweyah Ezzain, a mare bred by the late Usamah Alkazemi and a former national champion of Bahrain, under the ownership of Mr. Rashid A. Rahman Al Jasmi of Al Rashediah Stud, Bahrain. Nabaweyah Ezzain, you will remember, is a daughter of NK Nakeebya (NK Hafid Jamil x NK Nabeelah), an important broodmare for Ezzain Arabians; whose daughters have also produced well and in turn, their progeny are maturing into influential roles for other straight Egyptian breeders. Mr. Usamah Alkazemi once said, 

"NK Nakeebya was a heavenly gift, a super producer with whichever stallion that was tried."

Maysa (Anter x Mahfouza), at the EAO, photo by Judi Parks

On the maternal side of the pedigree, TB Hadir's Dam is TB Helwa, also bred by Monika Savier, who traces to the Galal daughter, Marah, herself a daughter of Maysa, by Anter and out of Mahfouza, a 1943 bay mare, by Hamdan (Ibn Rabdan x Bint Radia) and out of El Mahrousa (El Zafir x El Shahbaa), a 1937 mare bred by the Inshass Stud. El Mahrousa's dam, El Shahbaa, foaled in 1925, was Abeyyan by strain, sired by a Hamdani stallion, she was purchased by King Fouad in 1931. When Maysa was bred to Alaa El Din, she produced the mare, *Magidaa, the maternal grandam of Ruminaja Ali. And this is what I find really interesting about TB Hadir's pedigree, that on each side of the pedigree, there are alternative sources to the Anter daughter, Maysa, one line that comes through the dam of a stallion (Sundar Alisayyah, the dam of Al Adeed Al Shaqab), while the other line, comes through maternally, through a daughter,  Dr. Nagel's Marah, whom he described in The Arabian Horse, Nature's Creation and the Art of Breeding, 

"Marah was a well-built filly of beautiful chestnut colour and her movement was best of the group. However, in Hanan she had invincible competition in breeding. Hanan was that very rare brood mare: a stallion producer par excellence. Marah, on the other hand was not and most of her foals were colts of medium quality only. She finally produced two nice fillies by *Jamil, Bint Marah and Bushra and the first one left a good number of offspring which one can find today in many German studs where they enjoy high esteem." 

The "nice" filly that Dr. Nagel named in the above excerpt from his book, Bint Marah, is TB Hadir's maternal great-great granddam!

TB Hadir stands at stud for the 2025 breeding season with Costa Arabians Training Center. If you are interested in this very well-bred stallion, please check page 29 for the Costa Arabians contact information but do this soon, as this beautiful stallion's book is expected to fill up fast!