Osirion

I really shouldn't have been looking for another horse at the time. I was looking into a new job, and I already had plans to breed Layla in the spring. However, I couldn't resist the urge to shop around for fillies. My latest interest was straight Egyptian Arabian fillies. I was particularly interested in descendants of *Ansata Ibn Halima, a beautiful grey Nazeer son imported from Egypt by Ansata Arabians in 1959.

In my search for fillies nearby I could look at, I found the website of JEVA Farms in Bellevue, Michigan. The breeder had three offspring of a regal young stallion named Omar Saalim. Two of the weanlings were fillies, and one was a handsome young bay-turning-grey colt. While I had been looking for a filly, I fell in love with the picture of the strong young boy. Well, it certainly couldn't hurt to go look at him...

As chance would have it, I had an interview for a job in November in Michigan, not far at all from where the adorable colt lived at JEVA Farms. I decided that I would make a side trip on my way back to Indiana from the interview to meet Liz of JEVA Farms and see the weanlings she had for sale.

Osirion was about 8 months old and fluffing up for winter when I met him. He was playing in the fall mud with his two younger sisters, Princess Val Shaba and Princess Nile Moon.

Osirion was a very sweet but rather shy boy. His sister Val (with the blaze behind him in the first pic) was a little bit bolder. Lily was full of funny antics.

I returned to Indiana, but Osirion never left my mind. I was determined to buy him, somehow. He had such beautiful structure, movement, and temperament. He was bred to the hilt as well, with a very deep pedigree. He was the whole package!

I moved to Michigan for the new job in January and kept in contact with Liz. The time came when the snow melted, and I could talk to my roommate about bringing home the colt I really wanted. In March, I visited Liz and the babies again with my friend Nicole from work. Liz sweetened the deal by throwing in a breeding to her stallion Sabbataz JA for Layla, since I planned to breed her anyways. We had a deal! I purchased Osirion, paid for a month of board for him, and brought home his papers to transfer into my name.

So Layla had a date with Taz, and I was going to pick up Osirion when I dropped Layla off to be bred.

to be continued...