1/4/14 Royal Reverie

1/4/14 Moving along with more horses whose names begin with the letter R, let's check out the Royals and the Reverie's.  There are 325 registered Saddlebreds with some form of Reverie in their name.  Many were the product of Reverie Knoll Farm in Danville Kentucky which was owned by Mr. & Mrs. Freeman Keyes during the 1940's.  The most famous horse with a Reverie's prefix was Reverie's Desdemona and she had an earlier post.  And there actually was a horse name Royal Reverie, but his name was changed a few times and there isn't a picture of him. 

Reverie's Bourbon Gale

He was sired by Bourbon Genius

Reverie's Copper Sheen

She was sired by Mountain Peavine

Reverie's Grey Pearl

She was sired by Lucky Jean by Jean Val Jean

Reverie's Kentucky Belle

She was sired by Anacacho Denmark and was shown in Fine Harness

where she was a Reserve World's Champion at the Kentucky State Fair.

Reverie's Syncopating Sally

She was also sired by Anacacho Denmark and later

became a broodmare.

Reverie's Thunderhead

Sired by Bourbon Genius out of Bugle Anne, so he was a half brother of

CH Edith Fable, The Supreme Ace, CH Ann Gray and BHF Reverie's :Poinciana.

Royal Rambler

Sired by The Rambler out of Emerald Present BHF by Kalarama Rex

Royal Kalarama

Kalarama Rex X Maxine Spencer

He and Noble Kalarama were both sired by Kalarama Rex, both were owned

at one time by Jack Thompson, and both were shown at the Kentucky State Fair in Fine Harness.

Royal Kalarama sired breeding stallion King of Rose-a-Lee, the nice broodmare Chocolate Kiss

and the mare Star Spangled Rhythm who produced BHF Patsy Li.

Royal Refinement

Sired by Royal Kalarama out of a granddaughter of Noble Kalarama,

she was bred by Jack Thompson.

Royal Van

Sired by Conowingo

Royal Rex Sea

Kalarama Rex X Mountain Vine

His son Bobby Sea was a well known breeding stallion and he had two daughters

in the Broodmare Hall of Fame, Lullaby Baby and Royal Surprise.

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Here are three more "Royals" that I missed the first time around.  





Royal Irish

3 gaited horse being ridden by Miss Mary Fisher  from a picture

in the September 1932 Saddle & Bridle.

He was a 3/4 brother to Oklahoma Peavine, being out of the same

dam, Margaret O'Neill and by a son of Rex Peavine.

Royal Return

Yorktown X CH Bellisima by Valley View Supreme

Here is a son of two World's Champions. 

Wasn't he stunning?

CH CH-EQ Callaway's Royal Request

Merchant Prince X Callaway's Special Request by Will Shriver

A good show horse and good equitation horse as noted by his CH CH-EQ status.