Sadam Arabian Stud

12/04/2025

Photos from our participation in the Arab Horse Society of South Africa 2025 South African Arabian Nationals show have arrived! With Carina and CJ's wedding that took place the week after the show, it was only André Troost and Stephen Kobe showing our 9 show horses. Thank you also to Kristen de Beer, Sienna du Toit and Marcus Roode for helping us out in the show ring!

Show report (in no particular order):
- Simeon Sach: Champion Senior Country Pleasure Horse and Champion Senior Costume Horse. All we can say is WOW. He was in the ZONE. He rolled back the years and rode like his junior years. Unthinkable that he is turning 17 this year. The way this legend just shows up every day and loves what he does is so inspring.

- Sidi Shala: 3rd in Top 5 Senior Show Hack. What a performance for her first time back in Show Hack after her 18 month injury. Still a bit to go to get back to her very best, but she's on her way!

- Aryana Azaar: Champion Junior English Pleasure Horse and Champion Junior Costume Horse. What a joy to watch! For us Azaar is the epitome of the modern Arabian show horse.

- Sadam da Vinci: Our pretty boy. This wasn't quite his show, courtesy of his usual "spookiness" at shows. But boy when he goes, he goes. Such a stunning Hunter. Next time we go again!

- Sadam Achilles: 4th in Top 5 Open Riding Horse. What can we say? When did 22 look this good? Achilles even won the qualifying Open Geldings class. A joy to ride and a joy to watch still in the twilight of his career.

- RLG Priceless Promise: Everyone's companion. Not quite her show this time around, but we'll go back to the drawing board and fix the niggly mistakes.

- Sadam Shakira: 3rd in Top 5 Junior Hunter Pleasure Horse and 5th in Top 5 Novice Riding Horse. Bred out of Sach and Shala, Shakira epitomises the perfect balance between the classic and modern Arabian: Type and performance. We look forward to seeing how she develops as she matures and gets stronger.

- Sadam Simply Ahsom: Simply awesome indeed. Champion Open Riding Horse, Reserve Champion Rider and 5th in Top 5 Senior Hunter Pleasure Horse. Cool, calm, collected and a massive heart.

- Sadam Sabrina: So beautifully ridden by Sienna in Senior Country Pleasure! She looked amazing!

Thanks Elpita Photography for the stunning pics and thanks friends and family for the lovely show. Wishing everyone the best in training, and see you all soon!

The Sadam team
Pieter, Narine, André, Carina, CJ, Stephen, Donald and Temba

31/03/2025

09/12/2024

Summer Show 2024 photos are here! We're so proud of the great performances our horses and riders put up in the show ring. Here are our results:

Sadam Simply Ahsom (MH Ahsom x Mijasto Mishaa) ridden by Stephen Serame:
Champion Rider, Champion Open Riding Horse, Champion Senior Hunter Pleasure Horse.

RLG Priceless Promise (Baywatch V x Priscilla V) ridden by Carina Troost:
Champion Senior Country Pleasure Horse

Simeon Sach (Asfour x Simeon Seda) ridden by André Troost:
Reserve Champion Senior Country Pleasure Horse, Reserve Champion Costume Horse

Sadam Achilles (Bey Oaks Baystone x Sidi Yadviga) ridden by André Troost:
Reserve Champion Open Riding Horse

Sadam Shakira (Simeon Sach x Sidi Shawa) ridden by Stephen Serame:
3rd in Top 5 Junior Hunter Pleasure Horse

Aryana Azaar (Tempting Fire x RLG Priceless Promise) ridden by Stephen Serame:
Champion Junior English Pleasure Horse, Champion Junior Costume Horse

Sadam Sabrinah (FS Paparatzzi x MH Zenobia) ridden by Stephen Serame:
4th in Top 5 Senior Costume Horse

Sadam da Vinci (Priam x MH Zenobia) ridden by Carina Troost:
4th in Top 5 Open Riding Horse

Sidi Shawa (Magnum Chall x Sidi Nadja) ridden by Stephen Serame:
5th in Top 5 Senior Country Pleasure Horse

Next up the 2025 Nationals of the Arab Horse Society of South Africa. The horses are enjoying a well deserved break, after which we will go back to the drawing board.

03/12/2024

The long journey from Parys to Paarl is complete and the horses are settled back in at home. Thank you to everyone at the Arab Horse Society of South Africa for organising such a wonderful Summer Show.

Photos and full results will follow. For now, here's a look at one of our show highlights, with Carina Troost stealing the show on RLG Priceless Promise (Baywatch V x Priscilla V) in the Senior Country Championship. Simeon Sach (Asfour x Simeon Seda) with Carina's brother André Troost in the saddle joined her in the victory lap in Reserve Champion position - a class that Sach has been dominating for many years, until being dethroned on Friday! A special moment for the Troost and Sadam family.

11/05/2024

We're back home after a wonderful South African Arabian Nationals show of the Arab Horse Society of South Africa. Thank you Zadia Mostert Schutte and team for putting together such a spectacle. What a week it was, with friends and family sharing in the love for the Arabian horse. We were blessed with good training leading up to the show and were very pleased with the performance of our horses.

Aryana Azaar, the new kid on the block, had his first show and won the Junior Costume Horse championship and Reserve Champion Junior Country Pleasure Horse. Thank you to Hannes and Leanne Venter for entrusting us with this one of a kind horse!

RLG Priceless Promise, Azaar's mother, has shown remarkable progress over the past few months and rode in for 4th in the Top 5 in Senior Country. We're every excited to see how Promise grows stronger and matures in the coming months and years!

Sadam da Vinci, bred out of the grande dam of our stud, MH Zenobia, and Priam, rode a beautiful Novice class and was awarded the championship title. We're very excited for his Hunter Pleasure career!

The cool and steady Sadam Simply Ahsom, aka "Ahsompie," who last year graduated into the Open Riding Horse, put up a stunning display and won the Open Riding Horse Championship. Thank you to Blue Steel Equestrian for your sponsorship of a R1000 voucher to Ahsompie and rider Stephen. Ahsompie also rode into 5th position in the Top 5 Senior Hunter Pleasure Horse championship.

And then to the "oud maar nog nie koud" guys. Our noble steed, Sadam Achilles, now 21 years old, had one of his best rounds in the Open Riding Horse in many years, being awarded the Reserve National Champion Title.

And finally to the sire of our stud, Simeon Sach. Truely a once in a lifetime horse, Sach rode an elegant round in the Senior Country Pleasure, winning the Championship. In the Senior Costume Horse, the last class of the show, he also won the championship title.

Next up, Upington show from 8-10 August. See you there!

Thank you to Elpita Photography for the beautiful photos!

02/01/2024

Happy 2024! As we start our training for Nationals 2024, here's a rewind to our last show of 2023; the Northern Cape Championships held in Upington and hosted by the Northern Cape Arabian Horse Club.

Our placings:

Simeon Sach: Reserve Champion Senior Country Pleasure
Sadam da Vinci: Champion Junior Hunter Pleasure Horse & 4th in Top 5 Novice Riding
Sadam Simply Ahsom: Champion Rider (With Stephen Serame) & 3rd in top 5 Open Riding
Sadam Achilles: Adult Riding Horse winner