Our horses are the result of careful selection for more than 30 years, and all of them have some Colombian Criollo blood.
This includes the Anglo-Arabs used in 80 and 120 km endurance rides, as well as Anglo-Arab crosses with Colombian Criollos for intermediate riders, making them particularly suitable for several days and long-distance rides.
Horses of our breed bear the mark of a heart on their left forearm, a tradition that has been used in cattle and horses on family haciendas for more than 150 years.
90% of our horses are descendants of Paka (Chestnut #1), Salalah el Dakar (Gray #2), and Icaro (Dark Bay #3).
Paka (63% Thoroughbred – 37% Criollo) was a wonderful endurance mare, the daughter of Pluma (25% Thoroughbred – 75% Criollo), an outstanding polo mare, and Many Names, a beautiful Chilean Thoroughbred with a background in jumping. Paka won numerous competitions in the Colombian endurance calendar between 2003 and 2005 until she became lame in one foreleg joint and was retired to breeding. She passed away in 2019 at the age of 22. We have 8 sons and daughters of Paka, and 21 of our current horses carry some of her blood.
Salalah El Dakar, known as Sally, was a very gentle pure gray Arabian, bred in California and imported to Colombia in 2006. She competed in endurance and participated in many rides with us. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2019 at the age of 18, having never fully recovered from an abortion in 2017. Sally is registered with the American Arabian Horse Breeders Association under the number 0606222 and with the Colombian Association of Arabian Horses Breeders under the number CSB 302-07.
Icaro (50% Thoroughbred – 50% Shagya) was the son of K.S. Tradition, an outstanding Shagya bred in the U.S., and Demigold, a Thoroughbred also bred in the U.S. by Eduardo Gaviria. Both were imported to Colombia by him, a well-known Colombian breeder who owned a horse breeding farm in Ocala, Florida. He was the breeder of Real Quiet, the winner of two of the three races of the American Triple Crown in 1998. Icaro is registered with the Venezuelan Association of Arabian Horse Breeders under the number SHA 080. He was trained in 2012, participated in some endurance rides, and was a stallion until 2014 when he was castrated. Unfortunately, we had to euthanize him shortly after due to a broken front leg caused by a mare kicking him.
We no longer buy or sell horses; instead, we focus on breeding, and our horses remain with us until they pass away. When you breed, you know what you have.