NEW DELHI – Who says that Bollywood’s bhaidoes not face rejection? SalmanKhan’s offer of a whopping Rs 2 crore for a rare-breed horse has beenrejected by the owner. As to why the bid has been rejected is unknown fornow.

It turns out that the owner of the horse, Saqab, is actually a tough nut tocrack as the Bollywood actor is not the only person, who got rejected.

A year ago, Punjab’s Badal family had offered Rs 1.11 crore to buy Saqab,but received a negative response. The reason behind Saqab’s popularity isthe fact that he is, as mentioned earlier, one of its kind in the countryand has its match only in two horses in the world: one in the US and otherin Canada.

Saqab can walk with a speed of 43kmph in clean Ravel walk and can keep thesame position throughout so that it doesn’t disturb the rider. This issomething unheard of in the history of horses. Owner Siraj Pathan boughtthis horse when it was five-year-old paying Rs 14.5 lac in Rajasthan’sPalotara Fair.

Pathan is the third buyer of this horse. Initially known as Tufan, and thenas Pavan, it is now named Saqab after the “horse that was ridden by theProphet Muhammad (PBUH).”

Originally a Sindhi breed, Saqab’s mother was of Pakistani-Sindhi breed,whereas its father was from Rajasthani-Sutharwali breed. It has won 19straight races and is yet to lose. However, it has never run in competitiveraces on the race course. – Agencies