WH
Justice The
Champion
Maker
by Emma Maxwell
I
t has been a year to remember for WH Justice in his first year back in the U.S. on lease to Aljassimya Farm. Although he only drove down the hill to Om El Arab International on March 25, 2012 (after one month in quarantine), he is expecting his largest crop of foals yet, many of them on American soil. Sheikh Jassim bin Khalifa Al Thani still remembers the first time he saw WH Justice in Germany in 2010. At that moment he was unaware of who the horse looking over the door at him was, but he immediately realized he could not make any further steps with Arabian horses without making some plans to include this horse. He would not be the only person to have recognized the value of including WH Justice in their program, but Justice’s lease to Aljassimya Farm has also been of great consequence for the horse himself. At Om El Arab International, WH Justice lives in the spacious famous corner stable formerly occupied by his great-grandsire *El Shaklan and other great notables of Om El Arab. His first public appearance was at the inaugural Stallion Showcase at the Arabian Breeders World Cup (ABWC) in Las Vegas just a month later, when he was presented to a new audience by Andy Sellman, under the watchful eyes of his lifetime owners Thierry, Catherine, and Thomas Kerjean. Catherine remarks, “It was very moving to see the warm welcome that the breeders made for him there.” He was also presented a week later at the Estopa Legacy Party, where it unkindly 46 ▪ ARABIAN HORSE WORLD ▪ APRIL 2013
decided to, quite literally, rain on his parade, but nothing could dampen the goodwill and anticipation of the visitors. In fact WH Justice received an incredible number of visitors during the whole year, and Sigi Siller reports that “Everybody who comes to see him is captured by WH Justice’s spirit and incredible charisma. He has this uncanny ability to stir up deep feelings and hidden emotions in breeders they did not know they had. He so reminds me of his great-grandsire *El Shaklan, who had the same effect on people. It happened more than once that people started to cry when he was presented to them.”