Sagi standing among yellow wildflowers Sagi standing on the terrace, looking to one side A small boy in an orange T-shirt sitting in the grass with Sagi Sagi lying on the tiled floor, head tilted

Sagi

Malik el Arab Al Zubeyda

24 October 2016 · 22 October 2026

2016 to 2021

Before us

Malik el Arab Al Zubeyda was born on 24 October 2016 at Jean-Luc Lemouzy’s Al-Zubeyda saluki kennel in Alsace, by Baklava’s Special Edition out of Champion Al-Zubeyda Fawziah. His littermate Al-Zubeyda Majhabin also became a champion.

From 2017 to 2019 he was shown in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. In June 2019 he was best male and Best of Breed at the Czech sighthound club show, and that year he became a Czech sighthound club champion.

His show record
DateShowResult
17 September 2017International show (DUO CACIB), Nitra, SlovakiaJunior class: Excellent, 1st, CAJC
2 June 2018Club show, Gröditz, GermanyExcellent, 1st, VDH reserve CAC
9 June 2018Dog Expo Nitra, SlovakiaExcellent, 2nd, reserve CAC
18 August 2018Czech sighthound club show (KCHCH)Intermediate class: Excellent, 2nd, reserve CAC
25 August 2018International show (CACIB), Leipzig, GermanyIntermediate class: Excellent, 3rd
26 August 2018Interdog Bohemia, Czech RepublicExcellent, 1st, CAC, reserve CACIB
1 June 2019Czech sighthound club show (KCHCH)Excellent, 1st, CAC, best male, Best of Breed
14 June 2019European Dog ShowExcellent, 3rd
2019Klub chovatelů chrtů, Czech RepublicClub champion (Šampion KCHCH)

Running free

Set to The Chase, a piano piece about a saluki’s love of running and the wind in his ears.

Coming home

We met him on Saturday 27 February 2021 and took him home with us. He was four.

Sagi stretched full length on a red bed
Sagi standing on a rug beside a small girl in a red dress
Sagi being stroked by a grey-haired man, a small girl beside them
Sagi lying on a patterned red rug
Sagi looking out of a car window
Sagi curled up asleep on the back seat of a car
Sagi stretched out on a red bedspread
Sagi asleep upside down on a striped sofa
Sagi in profile, his long ears hanging
Close portrait of Sagi in profile
Sagi standing on a terrace, looking at the camera
Sagi lying beside a child on a bed
Sagi stretching in a play bow on the stone terrace
Sagi peering round a door

That first spring

Rolling in the grass
Sagi standing in a field under a blue sky
Sagi standing in a bright green field, looking back over his shoulder
Sagi standing in long grass
Sagi lying on smooth rocks by a river
Sagi on a hilltop above patchwork fields
Sagi on a hilltop, mouth open
Sagi on a hilltop, fields below
Sagi with his ears blowing in the wind
Sagi under trees in blossom
Sagi under a tree in white blossom
Sagi standing beside a vineyard
Sagi standing in profile between rows of spring vines, ears lifted by the wind
Sagi in a green field, clouds and sun behind
Sagi among yellow-flowering scrub under tall pines
Sagi lying in the garden grass under the trees
Sagi on a path between red poppies

Out in the fields

Sagi standing among poppies
Sagi among vines, hills behind
Sagi in a stubble field under a towering cloud at sunset
Sagi on a track at sunset
Sagi in a field in evening light, tail raised
Sagi small in a stubble field under pink clouds and a rising full moon
Sagi on a misty track
Sagi on a farm track under a towering grey storm sky, poppies in the grass
Sagi in a field of poppies
Sagi looking back over his shoulder in a ploughed field under a pink sky
Sagi trotting towards the camera along a grassy track, tongue out
Sagi galloping across a field, ears flying

His people

Sagi stretched out asleep on a red bed, a man reading beside him
A child lying on the bed next to Sagi
A child lying on the floor beside Sagi
A girl sitting in the grass with Sagi
A small child kneeling beside Sagi in the grass
A child sitting on a sunlit floor beside Sagi
Sagi sitting up on an old carved sofa, a hand on his back
A small child lying against Sagi on a bed
A girl leaning over Sagi's back on a gravel track at sunset
A girl stroking Sagi on a rug
A girl in pink cuddling Sagi on a cushion
A child asleep on the sofa with Sagi
A girl in pink crouching with Sagi in a field
A girl in a red dress standing with Sagi
A girl in Halloween make-up hugging Sagi
Sagi and a child peering over the back of the sofa at the camera
Three children on the sofa, Sagi asleep beside them

Friends and summers

Sagi on a white track through holm oaks, the sea in the distance
Sagi standing on open heathland under a wide sky, mouth open
Sagi stretched out on a red bed beside a fawn whippet
Sagi curled up with a fawn dog
A tangle of Sagi's long legs and paws on a red bedspread
Sagi standing up against a tree trunk
Sagi on a sun lounger by a pool
Sagi on a striped lounger beside a woman
Sagi on a gravel track through a pine forest, tongue out
Sagi smiling, a hand on his head

Relaxing

Sagi rolling on his back in the sunny grass, legs in the air
Sagi curled in his bed with his legs in the air
Sagi on his back on a red bed, grinning, a small hand under his chin
Sagi rolling on his back in the grass
Sagi upside down in the grass, legs in the air
Sagi lying in the grass
Sagi upside down on a striped sofa
Sagi lying at the foot of the stairs
Sagi's paws on a white sheet
Sagi upside down on a sofa
Sagi's head resting in someone's lap
Sagi stretched along the sofa beside a girl
Sagi lying on the tiled hall floor

His last year

Sagi stretched upside down along the sofa
A small boy in an orange T-shirt sitting in the grass with Sagi
Sagi resting his chin on the back of the sofa
Sagi lying in the grass between a small boy and a teenage girl
Sagi standing in a river beside a man
Sagi lying on a rug below a boy asleep on the sofa
Sagi upside down on a grey sofa, one leg in the air
Sagi upside down on the sofa, grinning

Thursday 22 October 2026

His last afternoon

He died at 3.15 in the afternoon, on a walk, running beside his two horse friends. He had a heart attack and it was quick. It was two days before his tenth birthday.

He was otherwise in excellent health and had never had any health problems. It was so sudden that there were no goodbyes, and we are heartbroken.

Remembering Sagi

If you knew Sagi, or met him along the way, you are welcome to leave a few words for him. Messages appear here once we have read them.

Sagi walking away along a farm track at sunset, a poppy field beside him
He died doing what he loved, what he was bred to do.