Sheila Varian's Summer Jubilee!

Sheila has been raising Arabian horses almost as long as my family, starting way back at the Cow Palace Arabian Show, held annually in San Francsico, California. Oh how she and my father, Paul Polk, would laugh and have so much fun telling their stories and jokes!

We were honored last year when Sheila asked *Joao (Joao SerraCoelho) if he would bring his beautiful bay, ONCE N ALIFETIME (Bravado Bey V x Lenita Brahim) to put on a demonstration at her annual Summer Jubilee! We were told this was the first time she asked a horse to come into her ranch to be included in her always magnetic and incredibly planned out weekend function, held in August each year. What a fun and glorious day! Her three day event was started off, after Sheila gave introductions, with *Joao and "Oncer" beginning the day in the warm Arroyo Grande sun with the beauty of the two of them, our "wheelbull" being pushed by our Rodrigo, glistening shiny banderilhas - with Velcro tips, playing beautifully in the background was the bullfighting music, Paso Doble! California is the only area in the world where the bullfights are carried on with tradition, but no blood from the bull is the law - which I love! In Portugal during the bullfights, the bull is not killed. You will go to jail if this should happen!

I loved the smile and happiness of Sheila as she so proudly watched her breeding of Once N Alifetime, owning her sire Bravado Bey V. And I was so proud of the breeding of his dam, Lenita Brahim, sired by our Spanish *Sidi-Brahim and the blood of our family's Fadjur too! We enjoyed so much our day at Sheila's, though we had to return that night back to our Los Acres, since we worry when we are away. Sheila had a magnificent turn out of happy enthusiastic people who truly love the Arabian Horse!