Also standing at Michael’s is the handsome grey with the bloody shoulder markings, Shakir El Marwan (*Marwan Al Shaqab x Om El Shadina by *Sanadik El Shaklan), 2008 U.S. National Top Ten Futurity Colt. Shakir has already sired a National Champion halter filly in South Africa. “He’s an interesting horse in that he sires a little more of the *El Shaklan type with a modern Marwan look in the neck. He breeds a lot internationally; people in the Middle East have been using him. He’s been a really good breeding horse.” Michael is gratified by the fact that these stallions are siring winning performance horses as well as halter champions. “It’s an important part of what I want to do and what I want the farm to be about,” he says.
Shakir El Marwan (*Marwan Al Shaqab x Om El Shadina by *Sanadik El Shaklan).
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