Above: Mr. Bassam, Faisal Al Awadi and Ahmed Al Qalaf celebrate Baahir's Supreme Championship. Right: Kamel Ghanem, Anthony Marino and Faisal Al Awad.
Speaking of grey and gorgeous, on championship Sunday this year, at the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show, fortytwo years later to be exact, Bassam Al Saqran had the very same experience as his predecessor when his nearperfect Baahir El Marwan, was named Champion Stallion and the exquisite Luxemere Jizette, a very recent purchase of his, became Scottsdale Champion Mare. It is quite remarkable after only a very short time to be on par with Mike Nichols, but there is a reason and an explanation for this Arabian phenomenon―enter David Boggs. Mr. Bassam is like any passionate Arabian horse enthusiast in that he is aware of the power of the internet. I know for myself that the invention of the web took me from part-time obsessed to a full-time obsessive state of mind when it comes to the world of Arabian horses. Of course, David Boggs has known the power of the internet since the first day it was introduced, as being current in life is very important to David especially with the role he plays in this business, therefore, his website for Midwest is second to none. It was on the Midwest site that Mr. Bassam discovered the man that he was destined to partner with through the next phase of his journey of owning, showing and breeding some of the greatest Arabian horses on the planet. Mr. Bassam is so excited about this part of his life that he wakes up every morning, he recently told me, with a new hope and the sense of a new challenge; and would like to own every beautiful Arabian horse alive. He simply wants to own them all. Now that is a true lover of this great breed, is it not? The first Arabian that Mr.Bassam ever laid eyes on was Ansata Hejazi, bred by Judi Forbis. Like Mr. Bassam, Ansata Hejazi now calls Kuwait his home. There is no doubt that Forbis is one of the all-time greatest breeders and with her program of straight Egyptian horses based almost solely on her original importation of three yearlings from Egypt in 1959, all sired by Nazeer. The Ansata-bred horses have been migrating back to the
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