Dani, I though you might find this interesting. I don't know if you've heard of the Andalusian stud Santiago before, but he's pretty big in the Midwest. I had seen him at the Midwest Horse Fair (which is
totally awesome if you haven't been there before!) and I saw him again at the Illinois Horse Fair, which I drove 3 hours to see! I walked through all the barns and watched a couple of shows and thought it was nothing special, until the Andalusians walked out! I was too busy taking pictures to listen, but I did hear Santiago's name mentioned several times, because his sons and daughters were performing in front of me!
While I was walking through one of those barns filled with tack and brushes to buy, I stumbled across a 'secret' barn. And the first horse I saw walking into it was none other than Santiago! (Here's some pictures of him
I was absolutely amazed by his size. He was like an effing draft horse. His super long mane was in one long braid, and he looked stunning! He was also very hungry. And kept kicking his stall door. Typical stally! When someone came to feed him, and saw me oogling, they let me halfway into his stall while he was eating so that I could pet him. It was totally surreal. But I'm pretty sure that if I was in his stall before he had that food, he would have eaten me.
So sorry if that was boring, but I was totally amazed to find him there, at this tiny little 'horse fest'. He was in barn with like 5 stallions, each with large, very separted, stalls. And there were like 3 people in there, LOL. I'm really not even sure if I was supposed to be there!