Hilm's sire *Sa Ika was bred by Rosemary Archer of Worth Stud and imported at 18 month's by Bazy Tankersley for her son Mark Miller.
Hilm's linage includes the short-lived
Prince Saraph, a beautiful horse with
a kindly nature, a fine sire and well
placed at halter through the British Nationals
and in ridden classes. He
combined the Hanstead Stud's two great
Rissalix sons, *Count Dorsaz and Blue
Domino. His sire Samson was reserve British
National Champion at age three to the
great Indian Magic, then in his unbeatable
prime. Samson was three-quarters
brother to US and British national-level
producers including Samaveda, Samurai
and *Thorayya, and to the latter's US
Top Ten and National Champion
daughters, Al-Marah Sola Mia, and AM Countess
Mine. He himself was primarily a sire
of
international-class show ponies; in his
old age he got a few purebred foals
of which Prince Saraph would prove the
most influential. The prolific
Princess Alia, dam of Prince Saraph, was
out of the dynastic Princess Troubadour,
full sister to British National Champion
Lilac Domino and the key sire Ludo.
Ludo and *Count Dorsaz both were winners
of the Winston Churchill Cup in
all-breed ridden classes as well as internationally
important sires
Sa'lilah, by the Worth-bred British National
Champion Silver Flame, owned
with the late Lady Anne Lytton who recognized
his potential as a colt and chose
him for her program at the Blunt Stud.
Silver Flame sired major
international winners in hand and under
saddle including Golden Flambeau and is
recognized as a speed influence in British
Arab racing. His daughters are notable
producing mares, headed by Azeme Bint
Gleam, dam of the 1990 supreme in-hand
champion at the British Nationals, Aureme
by Aurelian by Ben Rabba. A Golden
Flambeau daughter produced the young Wales
and West Supreme Champion Aur Flair,
again by Aurelian. Sa'lilah has four breeding
sons in North America: *Sa'ika
(in Florida) and *Seffer by Prince Saraph;
*Seyad (now in Nevada) by Silver
Scimitar; and the US halter champion *Carmagnole
by *Carmargue, a regional
winner in England when in race training.
Her first daughter Sema by Prince Saraph
is producing well in her own right, and
she has an even more beautiful
younger chestnut daughter by Silvern Idyll.
AM Dream Cote is a classic bred Bazy mare
being a Dreamazon+++ daughter out
of AM Sea Captain+ daughter. She also
brings the Margaret Shuey breeding
that Bazy used with the beautiful stallion
Tsali (Ibn Hanad x My Bonnie Nylon by
*Raffles). CCS Hilm Tahakkak has a tail female to
the Crabbet mare Ferida. His sire
line is to Mahruss through the Crabbet stallion
Rissalix.
