OUR STORY · CRIADERO SIMA
A passion that
found its way.
From early rides in San Vicente and Alejandría to a breeding project in Colombia. The story of Wilson Aguilar and the family behind the Sima name.
How it all began
Pepe and the earliest memories
My first memories of riding go back to when we were very young. My father had a farm in San Vicente, where we enjoyed riding Pepe, a donkey who still holds a special place in our story.
My cousin Leoncio Diosa, may he rest in peace, my brother Alexander Aguilar and I would ride Pepe. We went through the mountains singing: “Everything is fine, everything is very fine, stay calm, everything is fine.”
Until Pepe lowered his head and sent us tumbling down the hills. That song and the donkey’s antics became some of the most vivid memories of our childhood.
La Castalia and La Nena
Then came the first mares we rode: La Castalia, a buckskin, and La Nena, a very spirited gray. They belonged to my father, and riding them nurtured that early love from the time we were children.
In Alejandría we also rode César Valencia’s horses. My father would ask him to lend them to us, adding more rides and experiences along the way. Long before we imagined a breeding farm, we were already enjoying the animals as a family.
The first Frenesí
I was about fourteen and already shared a restaurant in downtown Medellín with my brother Alexander Aguilar. One day he arrived with news I had not expected: we had bought a horse.
We went to meet him. He was a dark bay Paso Fino. His registered name was El Dandy, but we called him Frenesí. With him began a new chapter in the passion that had been with us since childhood.
The first horses, the first roots
Next came Bala Perdida de Villa Adriana, a gray Paso Fino filly. She was another of the animals who became part of those youthful years.
Later, in Alejandría, I saw a bay, trocha-gaited mare passing through the park. She was thin and rather plain, but she caught my eye. I bought her from her owner, a butcher from Alejandría known as La Loba.
She was a daughter of Kalimán, a horse my father had owned. In time, I brought out her beauty.
Bello: family trail rides
I took the bay mare to Bello, where we kept our horses at Mario Duque’s stables. In those days, my uncles Hernán Aguilar and Javier Aguilar and I rode two or three times a week.
We enjoyed extraordinary trail rides around Bello. My uncles were an essential part of those early steps as a teenager: we would go riding and share a passion that had been growing since childhood.
Not long afterward, I moved to the United States. The animals were sold, but those memories and the desire to keep riding went with me.
A passion that crossed borders
Years later, while my father was visiting the United States, we went together to see horses at Nelson Primos’s farm. Nelson was a much-loved Chilean whom my father had met in Medellín. He owned Delirio de Valparaíso.
Eventually, I bought a son of that horse from him. He was the first colt I bought in the United States, and I named him Frenesí de Valparaíso, a name that already held a place in my memories.
Not every project turned out as I had hoped. Then came La Zaragoza, a gray mare I remember with particular admiration. I took her to a farm in Southwest Ranches, near Weston, where I met Germán García-Herreros, known as el Toché. We became partners and began breeding horses together.
Novedoso and a new direction in Colombia
Over the years, fillies were born and the group of animals grew. Keeping them required considerable effort, particularly during a difficult economic period. That was when the project needed a new direction.
In a conversation with Germán, we agreed to share the Novedoso de la Seda project. I agreed to buy half of the horse and take responsibility for decisions about his future. Then I made a decision that would shape this story: to take the horses to Colombia.
There, we began developing Novedoso as a breeding stallion. Our hopes lay in his offspring and in what we could build around his bloodlines. That decision gave a new direction to a passion I had carried since childhood.
Sima: the name of what lives on
Today, that journey bears my children’s names: Simón and Mateo. Their names gave us Sima. It brings together memories of our first horses, the lessons of so many years and the projects we continue to build as a family.
Novedoso de la Seda holds a central place in our Colombian Paso Fino line. Alongside it, our Pêga donkey breeding and mule project continue to grow, with the dream of developing Paso Fino saddle mules and building on the riding, cattle work, farm work and recreation experiences already part of the farm.
Each new foal opens another chapter in this story.
