Other Noted Early Colombian Imported Paso Finos in the USA

Lunares
By Henrietta Ratliff.

Lunares, his biography blurred by intrigue and masked in mysteries, missed the consequential show ring promotion that projects most promising colts into herd sire positions. He was, at times undervalued, under-used, and underfed. Three times in his life I saw Lunares looking more like a flour sack full of antlers then the great white we know today. Lunares was loved and lost, loaned and leased he was bought by board default at least once, he was sinisterly sequestered and then horsenapped at gunpoint. Lunares was and object of custodial litigation. His name was known to judges and jailers alike. His ownership has prefaced financial ruin, felony and marital reconciliation. The story of Black Beauty would pale by comparison to that of Lunares. Trained by the best and the worst and mostly not. With out saddle mastery, Lunares nevertheless was known to the whole Paso world in that first decade. He must have drawn his popularity from his almost ornamental appearance while one may not recall the contours you cannot forget and emotionally moving work of art. I see him as an alabaster statuary imposing elegant designed to please the eye.

Lunares was born in 1960 in Colombia, and imported to the U.S. in 1967 by Alberto Uribe from the ranch of Fabio Ochoa, the home of Resorte I --- the grandfather of Lunares. Lunares owes his genetic excellence to his sire Rey Cometa, a Resorte I grandson. Rey Cometa is a name often repeated on the papers of new and well respected imports. Having nearly missed the showboat Lunares was almost scuttled in the breeding department too. At the ripe old age of ten, he fathered his first foal Brujeria Sin Par. Grabbing her title at 2 Brujeria became his first national champion offspring as well as lifetime champion in APFHA and IPFS. National Champion Cefiro Sin Par followed to shower dad with more honors. "Ceffie" was everyone's grey inspiration. Now Lunares legacy is cluttered with the accomplishments of his get Perfidia Sin Par, Dona Inesita, Malaguena, Matusa, Isabelita, Cosas, Aires, and the latest superstar PFHA Grand National Champion Illuminares. Whether performance or fino, each foal inherits dad's grace and beauty, his fine neck and trim throat, his noble head carriage, his irresistable eye and the spice of his gait.

Karen Milano states: "He has lived as a king and nearly died a non-entity, but Lunares has returned. Lunares is one of the Paso Fino greats to first set foot on American soil."