Photo of the Day: El Reata Juan, 1968 Dahman Shahwan in the USA
Oregon breeder Joan DeVour recently circulated this picture of the beautiful black stallion El Reata Juan (Julyan x Mist Aana by Hallany Mistanny), a 1968 black Dahman Shahwan of old US Egyptian lines, with the particularity of being one of the handful of stallions to still carry the prized Mesaoud sire-line through his grandsire Julep (Gulastra x Aziza). El Reata Juan was a popular sire of blacks and dark bays. Indeed, many asil mares that would otherwise have been bred to non-asil stallions have been bred to Juan for black foals.
Lovely horse with superlative movement.
I owned in his last years the El Reata Juan son Ebonys Mendeza, who sired some outstanding foals here. One of his sons is in Pa. a handsome solid black out of an El Hilal mare with Polish bloodlines also and a rare line to Abu Zeyd 2x.
I have 2 black daughters by him also
Edouard, I missed this particular blog post about this horse, El Reata Juan. He was lovely. He was owned by Gail Carmona and that is the late Hector Carmona in the saddle. I was one of the blessed people who had the opportunity to not only know Hector but also to receive riding instruction from him. When Serr Maariner really started to prosper in Dressage training (he was schooling second level movements) Gail approached Dan Ulm (Gail was only leasing Serr Maariner) and traded El Reata Juan for Serr Maariner.
Ralph
Can anyone tell me how to contact Ralph Suarez? I cannot find any contact information for him. I need to update him on George’s horses and our breeding activities with the blue stars and IH. Eduoard you can give him my email address. Thanks a bunch, Wendy
Hi Wendy,
I think it’s suarez dot ralph at gmail dot com. That’s the one listed on his blog, anyway.