AQUILINO MOYA STUD FARM
PUREBRED SPANISH HORSEVIENTO 2: AQUILINO MOYA
STUD FARM
2002 FOUR TIMES BEST
OF BREED CHAMPION
& ANDALUSIAN CHAMPION
Article© Pura Raza (September 2002)
There is no doubt that Viento 2, owned by the Sevillian Aquilino Moya stud farm, has already at this point, in the year 2002, become the season’s most important discovery and one of the big favourites towards the next Sicab finals. Four consecutive titles as Best of Breed Champion in Pozo Blanco, Constantina and Chucena, as well as the recent Andalucia Championship held in Marbella, endow this horse, branded by Jiménez Montegui, with all the odds for success. On top of all that, he has been four times Functionality Champion in the above-mentioned contests. All of this makes him one of the most obvious candidates for the title of Best of Breed Champion for the next Sicab. It goes without saying that we cannot deny the merits owned by last year’s champion, but Viento’s sky-rocket career experience during the present year (thanks to the stockbreeder Aquilino Moya and the trainer Manuel Vera) brings him to the spot light turning him into one secure bet as a winner towards the forthcoming Sicab edition.
GENEALOGY
Viento (from Milano and Quimera) is an impressive model as Purebred Spanish Horse for sports. Branded, as we already mentioned, by Jiménez Montegui we, obviously, have to find his forebears in Marín Ayala being Zahonera his granddam, Albero II his great grandsire (Francisco Lazo’s) and César his great great grandsire (Military Stud Farm). We should not forget that César was the son of Maluso and grandson of Lebrero. These forebears draw one of the most important lines of our breed turning Viento 2, as Aquilino Moya believes, into one clear exponent towards the goal of achieving high quality sport products. Furthermore if we consider the blood renewal furnished by the mares owned by Moya and coming from José Luis de la Escalera stud farm. We have to point out that latter stud farm is rooted, for its best part, on Maluso’s lineage, through Agente, himself being César’s brother. "At the end of the day," says Aquilino Moya, "everything is about getting the higher quality dropping in new blood without turning away from the main common trunk. In our case this is the lineage created by Escalera. As we all know, combining too unlike or different lines lead us, for the most part, to results closer to hybridising (with all the negative charge it bears) than to the authentic selection that we are looking for in the Purebred Spanish Horse".
Paying tribute to his origins, we must recognise the new impulse that since the late seventies to the year 1998 was represented by José Ignacio Jiménez Montegui. He was the owner of Agropecuaria los Brunales, based on the solid grounds furnished by Marín Ayala stud farm (today Marín García Inheritors). Regretfully, Jiménez Montegui gave up his labour as breeder in 1998, Viento’s year of birth, which makes him and his brother Valor (owned by the Carmona stud farm) the last two colts to come from Los Brunales farm, in Enguera (Valencia).
Viento, son of Milano and Quimera, enjoys the important genetic lineage that comes from his mother having, as we said, the famous Zahonera as granddame (Marín Ayala’s), who in her turn takes us back to Albero II, César, Maluso and Lebrero. He has, following the same motherly lineage, Granate 1973 (from Mariscal XI and Granate 1969) as grandsire. On the fatherly lineage (Milano) he has, as grandsire and granddame respectively, Rumboso XIII (Agrícola Peralta) and Rebeca II, being the latter a Military stud farm mare that takes us back, once again, to the origins of Lebrero.
BORN TO BE A CHAMPION
The first time we heard about Viento 2 was at the finals of Sicab 2000, during the First National Purebred Spanish Horse Breeders’ Association Championship, when this colt obtained the sixth position of the two year old colts section. One year later, this unique bay horse, started the mentioned skyrocket career gaining positions, ending the year 2001 with a bronze medal. As we have pointed out in another edition of this magazine, "this colt has excellent chest and barrel, as well as great loin, croup, forearms and gaskins. We should also not forget that he enjoys an excellent quality regarding the construction of his joints (specially knees and hocks)". All in all we could say that we are talking about an outstanding racial model, 1.65 metres height with enviable proportions that have being improved—as we may add now—thanks to the muscles obtained after five months training and discipline. Furthermore, all of the above mentioned characteristics make him a role model as sport horse within the scope of the Purebred Spanish Horse.
Few weeks after the final of the National Purebred Spanish Horse Breeders’ Association Championship, already during the present year 2002, Viento was bought by Aquilino Moya stud farm where, under the coaching of Manuel Vera, has obtained the highest value and all the prices mentioned at the beginning of this article.
As Aquilino Moya says, proud of this exceptional horse, "it is true that a lot of people have surrendered before Viento’s morphological perfection. Good proof of this is the bronze medal he obtained at the last Sicab. But, to tell the truth, all credit should go to Manuel Vera, our trainer, who has been tirelessly working during the last months to bring him to the highest positions on functionality events, proving to all of us the great qualities of this horse for high competition". This has precisely been Aquilino Moya’s challenge: proving that beauty and morphological perfection are not opposite to good attitude towards training. Furthermore, alongside Vera, Moya has been able to give muscles to such forms in order to offer, only in five months, that unique display of strength, drive, full lead and extension that, once again, prove the unquestionable aptitude of the Purebred Spanish Horse for training.
DUEL OF TITANS
We are, no doubt, before the most important discovery of the season, based on all the above-mentioned reasons. People are talking about him, and there will be more talking…
In the meanwhile, and until we can see the results of his first matins, we consider our readers well informed about the present year Sicab’s outstanding duel to be resolved between two young and exceptional horses, Viento 2 and the last edition champion, Nero. Two horses that, we should not forget, owed a lot to Manuel Vera, because if he has made out of Viento a Champion on the show grounds, Vera and only Vera was the only person responsible of the mating, four years ago, between the mare Cabriola and the stud Inédito III—mating which took place at Moreno de la Coba stud farm where Vera was working at the time—out of which was born Nero, owned today by Magdalena stud farm.
More Information:
D. Aquilino Moya
Yeguada Aquilino Moya
Pasaje del Rocío, P 3 - 2º B
41400 Écija (Sevilla)
Tfno.: + 34 619 110 553
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© Texto: PURA RAZA./ nº 20. July-September 2002
