worldwide foals (1,127 foals registered in the U.S.). Padrons Psyche is the most successful son of another legend, extrovert and refined National Champion *Padron, who sired 800 lifetime foals and who died in 2007 at 30 years of age. *Padron’s sire Patron is the only semi-legend on the list, rather more normally endowed with 48 foals. Patron was the son of the Egyptian Aswan, who after a slow start sired 301 foals at Tersk and changed their direction type-wise single-handedly. Aswan was just one of the several spectacular sons of Nazeer (101 foals) bred at El Zahraa in Egypt after Nazeer was rescued from breeding non-registered local mares at an Upper Nile stallion depot at the age of 14. It is an interesting alternative reality to try to imagine the Arabian today, had Nazeer never made it back to the Egyptian State Stud. Like the forebears on his sire line, WH SHANGHAI EA (x Salymah EA by Khidar), bred and owned by Equus Arabians, Spain. Justice has continued this run of stallion success. It would be a faux pas of major proportions to suggest at this point which of his several popular (El Sher-Mann x Renea), was bred by Vona Huggins of Twin sons is the most successful; and indeed it is just too early to tell. Falls, Idaho, who had four breeding mares at the time, but she There are several in the running and some younger colts with explains that she didn’t manage to keep the mare for long as, high hopes attached. “Due to divorce I needed to sell horses and it broke my heart. The dam’s side of WH Justice’s pedigree looks rather JoAnn Goodrich bought Vona Sher-Renea from me at three different and rather contradicts the Arabian horse breeding months old; she was a wedding gift from the couple to each theory that suggests one should seek out a colt from an other. What goes around comes around. I was getting a divorce obviously successful mare family if you want a prepotent sire. and had to sell. They were just married, so buying. Years later For several generations on the dam’s side each mare on the they got a divorce and the mare came back.” female line was bred by a different breeder, and quite often in Vona Sher-Renea is now back with her breeder, who also a different state and then sold very young, making tracking the owns WH Justice’s half sister Eternalove (by Eternety), who is family’s progress hard going. His dam, 1989 Vona Sher-Renea the dam of her 2008 stallion Viva El Shaklan LA by *El Shaklan.
GRISENDA CHANDRA (x Garidah by Saymoon), bred and owned by Chandra Arabians, Italy. 14 b WH JUSTICE b WORLD
AJA ANDREAS (x Aja Anouska by Ruger AMW), bred by Aja Arabians, U.K., and owned by Nughemshe, Kuwait.