Name: Silverado de los Cielos
(Apache do High Country x Sonadora de los Cielos)
Color: red chestnut, with mane and tail beginning to lighten to flax, may eventually be a flaxen-maned sorrel
Age: 3 months
Height: compact and powerful, but likely to finish at the mother’s height of 14.3H.
Gender: Colt
Gait: Picada

This colt’s breeding was a gift to us and an example of the cooperation between Rancho de los Cielos and High Country Marchadors (Ronald Knaack). We were thrilled at the opportunity to breed two dedicated picada horses of similar size and exceptional colors. Tricolor paint stallion, Apache, gave Silverado his brilliant red, golden palomino mare Sonadora gave him the gold in his mane and tail. From both, he inherited the smooth picada gait. His temperament is pure sunshine, willing to meet and greet in a sweet, winning way from the day he was born. His father is many times a champion in American competitions, even though he is not very tall for a Marchador. Sonadora’s other foals have all been average or taller by the time they were yearlings. We’re hoping for a special rider for Silverado, someone who appreciates ainiquely willing and loving heart as well a very smooth gait.
Pending USMMA registered. Not eligible for ABCCMM.

Name: Sonata de los Cielos
(Zenitram de los Cielos x Querida de los Cielos)
Color: Born buckskin and expected to remain so
Age: 4 months
Height: Already tall, expected to mature to 15.2H or taller
Gender: Filly
Gait: Picada, centered batida

First born daughter of Zenitram de los Cielos, our prize-winning picada stallion, out of Querida de los Cielos, our tall, graceful, batida mare. This filly is the product of selective breeding involving 3 traditional blood lines of Mangalarga Marchadors, Abaiba, Herdade, and Triatuba. The stallion and mare are each great grandchildren of Abaiba Gim, Elite stallion and forefather of up to 2% of the 500,000+ registered Marchadors in Brazil, with that being the closest element in their respective pedigrees to line breeding. We expect the filly to keep her picada gait, possibly do batida as well. She is expected to turn out as smooth in her gait as her parents are in theirs. She has her father’s “Herdade” face: sculpted with a large eye and high forehead, and the calm, inquisitive, affectionate temperament of both parents. We expect great things for her and congratulate her new owner.
Pending USMMA and ABCCMM registered.

Name: El Dorado de los Cielos
(Avatar de los Cielos x Consentida do Cascade)
Color: golden dun/gruillo
Age: 1 ½ yrs
Height: Already tall, expected to mature to 15.2H or taller
Gender: Colt
Gait: batida

El Dorado, the golden one, is our last son of a beloved stallion who was sold to another breeder, Avatar de los Cielos (Abaiba x Tabatinga and Herdade), a 15.2H golden dun batida/picada stallion and Consentida do Cascade, (Herdade) 16H, black, batida mare. El Dorado was bred to take Avatar’s place, the product of a last breeding included in the sales contract. We meant him to be big, powerful, and regal, like his father, with the smooth, effortless “pouring oil” gait of his mom. He does not disappoint. He has preliminary registration with the ABCCMM and USMMA. He’s growing up “king”on a hillside pasture with other colts because we want to insure he grows up sure-footed, adaptable, and tolerant of other horses. He learns fast, is easily caught, haltered, led, bathes and ties, walks on a hot walker, and has round-penned. He’s got his father’s coloration, his father’s long, lean elegance, his mom’s upright carriage, and the leg proportions for great overreach and styling gait. This is a colt bred to carry a big man, and do it boldly, gracefully, and willingly.
USMMA and ABCCMM registered.

Name: Oro de los Cielos
(Capitao do Porto Palmieire x Querida de los Cielos)
Color: born buckskin, but coat darkened and brightened to make him a“copper penny” bay
Age: 1 ½ yrs
Height: Already tall, expected to mature to 15.2H or taller
Gender: Colt
Gait: batida

Oro de los Cielos, “heavenly gold”, is a Designer Foal representing the collaborative efforts of Rancho de los Cielos, providing the dam, Querida de los Cielos, with CC Bellandi Training Stables, who provided the sire, multiple times National Champion in Brazil, Capitao do Porto Palmeire. Oro was an example of a foal purchased in-utero, but he emerged so striking and so obviously high in quality, he attracted another buyer before he could be weaned and shipped to his original buyer. With good will among all, Oro became the horse of Rachel Bobb. Oro remains at Rancho de los Cielos to grow and, eventually, to be trained…except that his new owner’s circumstances have changed. She has asked us to represent her in his resale. Why is Oro priced higher than his pasture mates? His breeding, his bones, his bearing, and his brains. Oro is expected to grow into the quality of his father, Capitao, a 16H bright blood bay batida-machine, one minute conquering his show competitors and then next giving rides for children. Our Oro , posing in his pasture, can look as haughty as a prince. Then watch him seek his owner’s affection like a puppy, and submit to her haltering and leading him like a dog who takes going for a walk seriously.
It was easy to see Oro’s almost centered batida when he was a weanling. He’s growing so fast now, he’s butt high and goes in and out of batida and trot at liberty. We’re not at all worried. If Rachel finds a way to keep him, we’ll be breeding to him. He’s that good. USMMA and ABCCMM registered.

Name: Arion de los Cielos
(Delmug dos Bugros x Sonadora de los Cielos)
Color: burnished red chestnut, with mane and tail streaked with gold
Age: 1 ½ years
Height: expected to grow to 14.3-15H
Gender: Colt
Gait: Batida

Arion de los Cielos, named for a warrior in Greek mythology, is a Designer Foal representing the collaborative efforts of Rancho de los Cielos, providing the dam, Sonadora de los Cielos, with CC Bellandi Training Stables, who provided the sire, multiple times Regional Champion in Brazil, Delmug dos Bugros. Ariel is another example of a Designer Foal purchased before birth whose buyer loves him dearly, but has asked us to represent him in the sale of his colt for personal reasons. Of the 3 colts of his birth year, Arion was born the latest and the most refined in countenance, morphology, and personality. His face is a delicately carved wedge with the large, expressive eyes of his Herdade heritage. His body type is lean and long with the deep, relatively narrow based-chest and hindquarters associated with the best gait. Like his father’s, Arion’s batida is precise, like the movement of a watch. Like his father, he is lithe and elegant but in no way frail. Having been the littlest among the yearlings, he had to work for the confidence to nose the others out when “his” human came to play. He asks for attention and affection boldly. He performs willingly on a lead line and we expect him to be easy to train.
USMMA and ABCCMM registered.

Name: Sirocco de los Cielos
(Avatar de los Cielos x Consentida do Cascade)
Color: golden dun/gruillo
Age: 3 yrs
Height: 15H, may end up 15.1-2H
Gender: Colt
Gait: batida

Sirocco is the second son from the pairing of Avatar de los Cielos and Consentida do Cascade.
He was sold as a yearling but returned to us at 2 ½ years of age in repayment of an unrelated debt.
Sirocco is a stallion who hasn’t lost the unique blend of sweetness, calm, and integrity that characterized him from the time he was a foal. He always accepted affection politely, was easy to train as a yearling, and came back to us with a new integrity and patience for so young a horse. We had him in a pipe corral next to an experienced breeding stallion and the older stud backed off when Sirocco stared him down. Sirocco trained successfully for his definitive registration inspection with the ABCCMM by putting miles in, under saddle, alone, on the canyon and chaparral trails behind our ranch. There, he showed himself to be the kind of horse that questions the unknown, doesn’t bolt from it. He proved to be an active partner on the trail, sure-footed, agile, strong, and with a mellow, mile-eating batida like a suspension-less trot. Today’s Marchador show horses are expected to demonstrate exaggerated lift and bicycling action and easily visible overreach, rolling the horse along like the tandem wheels under a locomotive. Sirocco’s action is more subtle but no less smooth. Sirocco was born to be someone’s trusted trail companion, whether he’s taking you down the road to the camp store or a carrying you through a 50-miler. We are hoping for an “endurance” home for this horse. Now would be the best time to start warming him up over the next few years for the long races.

Luna Sombra de los Cielos- Designer Foal Program Broodmare/Sale
(Zorro de los Cielos x Fiesta do Campo Real)
Color: black
Age: 7 yrs
Size: 15-15.1H
Sex: Mare
Price: $35,000

Luna Sombra was a keeper from the day she was born, female and picada gaited. She was the last foal from Fiesta do Campo Real, a picada, Brazilian-born mare of Conde Trimonte (Elite stallion) lineage, and Zorro de los Cielos, our herd stallion product from the two Brazilian imported champions we purchased as the foundation of our breeding stock, Ninja de Sao Joaquim and Jaina do Passo Fino.
At slow speed, Luna Sombra glides in a very smooth picada. Even better, Luna Sombra speeds up to a centered batida, with the animated foreleg circumlocution, flowing forward extension and overreach of a modern day Brazilian national champion. Standing still, she manifests the ideal breed morphology, from her long, straight profiled, doe-eyed face, long, expressive ears, tapering pyramidal neck set into back-sloped shoulders, her equally divided lengths of chest, barrel, and hind quarters, to her perfectly designed legs, with the long femurs for overreach and the long humerus for extension. She is smart and a fast learner, but also sensitive, selective with her affections, and will not be rushed. She gaits as smoothly and swiftly as a shadow drifting over the earth. Luna Sombra is not “easy-going” but she’ll walk through fire for the right rider. Luna Sombra’s timing in achieving training milestones never agreed with our limited show schedule, but she could still be finished for a show career by her next owner. She is good enough to challenge imported Brazilian stock. But, by virtue of her gait and her character alone, this mare is the favorite mount of creaky-jointed, pear shaped, 70 year old me.
She is primarly listed here as a potential broodmare under our Designer Foals program. Like all of our horses, she is for sale…It’ll be one special buyer who pries her reins out of my fists. USMMA and ABCCMM registered.

Sonadora de los Cielos- Designer Foal Program Broodmare
(Zorro de los Cielos x Fiesta do Campo Real)
Color: palomino-dun
Age: 9 yrs
Size: 14.3H
Sex: Mare
Price: Make offer. Owner not presently offering for sale.

Sonadora was born a brilliant favorite for her golden palomino coloration and picada gait. She sold as a weanling to someone who continues to permit us to board and train her, and now permits us to offer her services as a broodmare. She has the compact, powerful build of her mother, Fiesta, as well as Fiesta’s smooth picada gait. She was a proud and clever yearling, boss of her little herd, remains a fast and spirited mount under saddle, but has become a caring and cooperative mother. Her first and second foals, by Delmug dos Bugros, an imported Brazilian champion, sold as youngsters. Her present foal, by Apache do High Country, inherited the amazingly smooth picada gait that both parents manifest. Sonadora is, herself, registered in both the US and Brazil. Bred to an ABCCMM-registered stallion, she’ll make children eligible for Brazilian registration. She’s open to produce a 2026 Designer Foal for you.
Name: Querida de los Cielos-Designer Foal Program Broodmare/sale
(Triatuba Zumbido x 1676 Natuno do Tosana)
Color: buckskin
Age: 17 yrs
Size: 15.1H
Sex: Mare

Querida de los Cielos was born and bred on our ranch, originally sold as the jewel in the crown to a new breeder who purchased 3 other potential broodmares, and now managed as a show and brood mare for that breeder, Mel Hong of Dynasty Marchadors. Querida’s father, Triatuba Zumbido, was the only representative of Triatuba lineage to be imported among the early wave of Mangalarga Marchador imports between 1990 and 2010. Triatuba Zumbido stayed with us just long enough to sire 2 foals on 1676 Natuno de Tosana before being whisked away to a career in mounted archery with Cascade Marchadores, eventually serving as a stud for at least 2 other major breeders. Querida’s mother was prized for her beauty, which she bequeathed to Querida.
Querida is most prized for her incredibly smooth batida gait, nearly 4 beat, like the Little Engine that could, singing “I think I can, I think I can.” Her batida is so fast, she has outrun galloping horses on the trail without breaking gait. Querida’s batida displays the classic movement of the Brazilian champions who were winning during the early years of American importation: all grace, extension, almost flat kneed compared to the exaggerated circumlocution and machine quality of more modern Brazilian winners. The best gaited batida horses have a rhythm like hers, easily phased across that imaginary “center line” down the continuum from trot to batida to picada to pace. With a picada stallion, Querida
has produced a tall, elegant filly who may be dedicated picada or center gaited with the lift and pizzazz of modern champions. Querida herself might be purchasable by the right buyer meeting Mel’s price, but we’re listing her here as a potential dam for another pairing with our picada stallion, Zenitram, in hopes of producing another exquisitely gaited foal that you could purchase in utero, or wait and pay more.

Name: Zenitram de los Cielos- Breeding Stallion (Semen)/Sale
(Ninja de Sao Joaquim x Consentida do Cascade)
Color: black
Age: 12 years
Size: 15H
Sex: stallion
Stud fee: $1000 to MM mares; $500 outcrosses. Live cover, fresh cooled semen available

Zenitram de los Cielos is a Marchador dream horse, the stallion to inherit his father’s mantle as chief breeding stallion for the right new breeding home. He is a show horse, a trail horse, a partner in adventure to take you all the way. Zenitram is the last registered MM breeding son of Ninja de Sao Joaquim, who was a15.1H pure black regional champion Brazilian stallion of Abaiba bloodlines who did both batida and picada. Zenitram’s dam is Consentida do Cascade, 16H black batida mare, daughter of the exquisitely gaited 14.2H Oxium do Vale da Prata and the 16H imported bay mare, Nikita do Campo Real.
Zenitram most resembles his beloved grandfather, Oxium, who became the poster boy for the USMMA in its early years firstly because of his jet black, refined beauty but also because of his engaging personality, a “ham” and a “show off” at shows. Zenitram has his mother’s build, Andalusian-like, that enables him to carry a heavy rider and look happy doing it. Zenitram’s gait is pure picada, very smooth. He can rate up or down in that gait and transitions in and out of a canter easily, so he is still fast, sure-footed, and well able to master rapid travel over rough terrain. There are few or no ABCCMM registered breeding stallions in the US whose picada gait rivals Zenitram’s. Zenitram has recently been our introduction to horse shows, competing and winning against Marchadors and against gaited horses of other breeds. He has produced his first foal, a picada gaited, eat-out-of -your-hand-on-her-first-day-of life filly. But, the mother of that filly is the one mare we have who is not Zenitram’s niece. Zenitram’s half brother, Zorro, sired our other broodmares. He’s waiting for the right rider to finish him, polish him, and ride him in the limelight that he deserves. Zenitram is ready for a conclave of mares ripe to produce the loving-hearted, picada-gaited show and trail worthy children we expect from him. USMMA and ABCCMM registered.

Name: Zorro de los Cielos
(Ninja de Sao Joaquim x Jaina do Passo Fino)
Color: smokey black
Age: 18 yrs
Size: 15H
Sex: gelding

Zorro de los Cielos is the smokey-black, spirited, picada-and-batida gaited scion of Ninja de Sao Joaquim who assumed his father’s role as chief breeding stallion at Rancho de los Cielos.
Zorro’s sire, Ninja de Sao Joaquim, was a pure black champion Brazilian stallion, grandson of Abaiba Gim, who did both batida and picada, was ridden at jumps by Olympic contender, Tony Orta, and was exhibited in dressage by Ray Ariss, grand prix level trainer and rider. Zorro’s dam was Jaina do Passo Fino, Brazilian champion mare of Herdade and Tabatinga bloodlines, whose classic batida gait was clocked at 20-21 miles per hour. Zorro was born a Designer Foal whose buyer contracted to purchase him and have us raise Zorro until he was paid off over time. The buyer failed to complete the contract and Zorro never left our care. Like the fox he was named for, Zorro is quick, high-hearted, clever, and fast. He cleared a 5ft fence from a standstill as a yearling so he could gawk at the mares preening in their enclosure. He was easily caught and cooperative, so proud of himself, strutting back to his paddock He matured into a lean, whip smart, dominant stallion, who drew the eye from near and far with his electric energy. At liberty, his gait is a high stepping, dancing batida, almost trotty. From his first time under saddle, he’s given us a beautiful, naturally smooth picada as well. As an 18 yr old, he’s still willing to run. He’ll still do alternating flying lead changes across a pasture just because he can. He became a gelding when we needed a trail-riding horse who could mix with any others and because his daughters grew up to become our primary broodmares. Along with half-brother Zenitram, he represented us in shows, bringing home blue ribbons that he could continue to do for the right rider. His greatest pleasure is to get on the trail and just go. He approaches people with calm arrogance, deigns to be petted, is readily handled if you show him respect. At this stage in his life, he’s not ready to retire. He’s ready to invest his energy into a person, a human that will pick him first, love him best. He wants to be someone’s favorite. USMMA and ABCCMM registered.

 
HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY:
Name: Consentida do Cascade- sold!
(Oxium do Vale da Prata x Nikita do Campo Real)
Color: black
Age: 16 yrs
Size: 16H
Sex: Mare

We loved Consentida. Jake is a big man, and, at 16H, she carried him like a blanket, so powerful was she.
Then Jake got hurt, had to slow down a lot. We sold Consentida in foal to Capitao do Porto Palmiere to another breeder who knew her from her birth, and puts her to better use than we did as a lesson horse as well as broodmare. Consentida’s sire was Oxium do Vale da Prata, a barely 14.1H black stallion of incredible centered gait and cheerful personality, imported from Brazil and the original poster boy for the US Mangalarga Marchadors Association. He was primarily the product of Haras Porto Azul, the pooling of multiple traditional and classic bloodlines
Dam is Nikita do Campo Real, a 16.1H bay mare of batida gait descended primarily from Abaiba bloodlines and best known for her size and power. Nikita was trained as a hunter-jumper in Brazil.
Consentida was born bay but changed to black by a year of age (still has a rusty tint to the hair under her belly). She grew to be 16H but, unlike her mom’s lumbering batida, Consentida’s batida is like flowing oil. She has the extension, overreach, and natural collection that marked the ideal traditional marcha. Unlike many Mangalarga Marchadors, she easily carries a 6ft man, or a man over 200 lbs. Moreso than any of my other breeding stock, her conformation is a throwback to the Alto Real stallions that founded the Mangalarga Marchadors, who bore a resemblance to modern day Lusitanos and Andalusians. She has a unique niche in American breeding, with potential to inculcate great gait and increased height and mass. She’s already produced a 15H pure picada, pure black stallion with her conformation and then 3 golden dun colts by Avatar de los Cielos, who relatively tall and have their father’s refined power and mile-eating gait.

HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY:
Name: Avatar de los Cielos- sold!
(Ninja de Sao Joaquim x Jaina do Passo Fino)
Color: golden dun
Age: 13 yrs
Size: 15.3H
Sex: stallion

Two of Avatar’s sons remain with us. After a brief trial as a show horse and breeding stallion in New Jersey, Avatar is now developing his trail and distance skills with a new rider away in the Midwest.
Avatar’s sire was Ninja de Sao Joaquim, pure black 15.1H regional champion Brazilian stallion of Abaiba lineage who did both batida and picada at liberty and under saddle, was hunted over low fences and exhibited in dressage. Avatar’s dam was Jaina do Passo Fino, batida gaited palomino 15H mare, regional Brazilian champion mare of Herdade and Tabatinga bloodlines.
Avatar was bred to be either the show horse flagship for the ranch, establishing our ranch in the limelight of competition in an appropriate discipline for us, or to share the role of chief breeding stallion with his older brother, Zorro. Avatar was a leggy, confident, inquisitive foal, who became a lean, long, elegant stallion, classically batida at liberty. Under saddle, he transitions from animated walk to picada before reaching his batida. He can extend into a full out gallop like few Marchadors can. Avatar’s physical beauty made him breed champion over imported Brazilian champion, Delmug dos Bugros, at Avatar’s single competition at the Jingle Bells Show in DelMar, CA, December of 2021. He approaches people with calm reserve, affectionate but not importunate. He shows unique patience at the right times, like around older people and children. His physique, his gait, and his character make him uniquely suited to endurance. We wish his new owner years of great rides on him in the beautiful countryside that is now his home.

HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY:
Name: Allegria de los Cielos
(Ninja de Sao Joaquim x Fiesta do Campo Real)
Color: bright blood bay
Age: 18 yrs
Size: 15.1H
Sex: Mare

Allegria’s sire was Brazilian regional champion, Ninja de Sao Joaquim, both batida and picada gaited. Ninja sired almost 50 children in Brazil, 3/4 were male. One out of 5 of his children competed at regional and national championship levels. Of his show progeny, 2 out of 3 were his daughters. Allegria is one of the best foals he made. Allegria’s dam is Fiesta do Campo Real, a 14.3H bright bay picada/center gaited mare of Conde Trimonte lineage who consistently produced outstanding picada and center gaited foals.

When Allegria was born, she sauntered up, head high, eyes bright, ears forward, and said “Hello. Let’s play.” Nothing ever dimmed this mare’s bright confidence or open, welcoming ways. Her tall, athletic, classically Mangalarga Marchador physique still glows with vitality. She is still a tall mare with incredible picada gait…and more horse than most Mangalarga Marchador stallions. Allegria was trained for endurance competition by Alessandra Deerinck (Human Horse Sensing). Under Alessandra, Allegria led the US Marchadors in completing 25 mile endurance rides, exhibited in both classic and cowboy dressage, competed in trail obstacles, and was US National Champion Mare in the Las Vegas show of 2014. We were thrilled when Alessandra finally bought her and continued her career as a Mangalarga Marchador breed ambassador, including as a lesson horse. We include her on this list as an example of how good a horse we can produce.