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ES ROYAL VALENTINO is a beautiful Western Pleasure horse. Trained by Elsinore Arabians in California, and by Sharla Seroy or Corona, California, he is needing just a bit of polish and he'll be ready for his Class A Debut. Please click the links for the video at Liberty (LINK) and the video taken a year ago under saddle (LINK) The son of my beloved Ibn Naseri (Ansata El Naseri x Sultannah x *Sultann) and my first Arabian mare, CR City Nites (*Despekt x Nite of Love) a polish mare from Lasma's coveted Champion's Row, I had always wanted to keep a beautiful show gelding for myself. It seems my mares were always either being ridden by my daughter as she won all her awards thru the years, or they were in foal and “otherwise occupied”. ES ROYAL VALENTINO was to be that gelding. His full brother was shown to a Reserve Champion Futurity colt and overall Reserve Champion in Missouri in 1999. From the day ES ROYAL VALENTINO was foaled I began readying him for the show ring, using techniques I learned training Dressage horses on the west coast. In the hustle and bustle of running the farm, breeding mares and standing stallions, he was greatly neglected and not put under saddle until quite late, which tickled him to death I'm sure, as having no job to do is a horse's dream job! He is however, kind, loving, and a more responsive horse was never put on this earth. We started him under saddle when one day we just simply decided to ride him, so put only a halter on him and threw the saddle on him and got on. From that first moment he was willing and eager to figure out what you wanted him to do. He likes to be busy. That first ride he did turns on the forehand and turns on the haunches like he was born doing them. Everything I could ask him to do he did perfectly the first time around. We had spent so long doing everything from the ground, it came as second nature a suppose! I knew that I was becoming ill, and it was all I could do to manage the farm and that riding was going to be out of the question, so I sold him to Sharla in California as she had been dreaming of owning a horse like him for years. Unfortunately, Sharla has MS and a less than enthusiastic husband, so after training him nearly to completion, she became to exhausted to go on further and had to give in. He came back home to us as she had promised she would do when she bought him. Sharla and I have become great friends and you can read her reference letter to the farm below. She also offers to speak with anyone concerning ES ROYAL VALENTINO and her experiences both with him and with our farm. She has been one of our best references. I had hoped to keep ES ROYAL VALENTINO when given the opportunity again, but it seems God is dreaming bigger dreams for me than I am for myself, and with the knowledge that I will not be getting better over time, it has been an agonizing decision to sell him. He is one of my last, because he is one of my best. He has been more than a horse, he has been a friend. It's my responsibility to find him another friend like Sharla to take care of him for the rest of his life. Please write or phone with any questions re: es Royal Valentino. We hope to have more photos of him up on the website soon as it is slowly being rebuilt. Those interested in him will want to contact us and make an appointment to come and visit him in person. He is a very sweet, loving horse who just needs to find his forever home. He is priced at $5000, negotiable to the right buyer. I can take payments with Credit Card and can also take payments for the right buyer. Correspondance from Sharla Seroy:
I promised Ellen I would write my experiences and feelings about the horse I bought from her. For my "dream horse" I had specific ideas and wants in mind. Had to be a mare, had to be bay with plenty of white, and had to be Egyptian or a cross with Egyptian and Russian. I had purchased a lovely mare to train and resell. I had promised my husband that when I got her sold I would wait a while until I bought another horse. Horse people should never make these kinds of promises to a non-horse person because, it cannot be kept and they do not understand. I had decided that a chestnut with lots of chrome would be fine, flaxen mane and tail. I had a friend tell me about the auction web-site so I listed my mare and just sort of looked around. Big mistake. So I called Ellen about her gelding. I liked her right from the start. We had a lot in common. I told her that I couldn't possibly buy her horse until mine was sold. She sent me the video. Big mistake on my part, because I just had to have him. He is Egyptian sired from the same lines of a mare I used to have. Wonderful horse and I just knew "Liberal" would be, too. January turned into March, turned into May and I kept in touch with Ellen and not just about the horse. We became very good friends. I told her to go ahead and sell him as it wasn't fair to her to turn down something definite for something that would happen, but who knew when. She kept me updated on him. I felt she was telling me the truth about her horse as she began to tell me all of his "faults" so I wouldn't have any surprises. I watched the video many times, had my horse expert friend watch the video, and give her honest opinion, paused it at appropriate spots so we could look at his legs, etc. I was convinced that I needed this horse. My health wouldn't let me do the Country English with my current mare. I needed a nice quiet Western gelding. Now if I could just get my mare sold. May turns into July. Ellen was too busy to try and sell this horse or so she told me. Truth be known, she was keeping him for me, because she trusted that I would provide him a loving home and use him the way he needed to be used. End of July rolled around. I was getting stressed and depressed because I still hadn't sold my mare. End of July, a very nice high school teacher was down in southern California visiting her parents and decided to do some horse shopping as her mare had tragically passed. She came out and saw Tequila. They bonded completely that first day. We agreed on a price and I had the check in my hand 3 days later. She shipped her north where she is in training as a dressage horse and will be bred to Jumpin' Jak Flash later on. They are both very happy. I had called Ellen and told her I had a strong nibble. I had told her this before. I was leaving the trainer's with the cashier's check in my hand and I called Ellen on the cell phone. Elizabeth answered as Ellen wasn't home. "Liberal" arrived on the day before Thanksgiving. My trainer hadn't picked him out and he was "Egyptian-sired" so he wasn't saying anything. He traveled almost 2000 miles to get here. He looked really good coming off such a long trip. My trainer didn't say much until I was ready to leave then he talks about Liberal being good enough for at least Regional competition. I smiled. I know a good horse when I see one. I haven't been able to spend as much time with him as I have wanted as he is quite a distance away. I am moving him to a new facility the first of April so I can stop and work him, love on him, groom him on my way home from work every day. He is such a wonderful horse. I had to promise Ellen I wouldn't sell him, unless someone offered lots of money for him as my non-horse person husband would not understand if I didn't accept. I was mostly teasing her. Look for me, Sharla Seroy, and es Royal Valentino in the show ring at Western Pleasure. He has a to-die-for jog and is the most responsive horse I have ever ridden. Good things are going to start happening. I owe all my happiness to Ellen who entrusted someone she has never met with her lovely gelding. She knows I will love and take care of him the best I can. He is saving my sanity right now and keeping me going physically. I refuse to let anything get me down. Ellen has had many tragedies this past year. I just happened to catch her on some of those days and we cried together on occasions. Mostly I just listened. I feel I have found a really good friend and have been keeping in touch. I so much want to meet her and have God bless you Ellen and thank you for keeping Liberal for me until I could buy him. I will never forget your kindness. Sharla Seroy
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