Aleeyah was shown at the Egyptian Event as a yearling by Shawn Crews. Shawn remarks, “Honestly, I can’t remember if there were twenty-five or thirty in her futurity that year, but it was a deadly, deep competition!” As she is so beautiful, correct in every way, and intelligent beyond belief, Shawn was not too worried about her performing well that night. Then, shortly before Aleeyah’s class, Shawn went to check on the filly. She was laid flat out in her stall, sleeping like Seabiscuit. She was thinking, ‘Oh, this is great.’ The team woke her up, and she looked at them as though her alarm had just gone off after a fabulous night’s sleep. She gladly rose to her feet and was prepared for competition. Aleeyah calmly walked to the arena and entered the ring like a million bucks, wowing the crowd with a powerful entrance. When reminiscing on that day, Shawn adoringly says, “I have been in love with her ever since.”

Shawn and Aleeyah were crowned Reserve Champion that night. This win meant so much as it would be the last time the Boone, Siex, and Grow families were together in Lexington for the Egyptian Event. However, Aleeyah’s story would not end there. In fact, it was just beginning. Two years following her fabulous entrance in Lexington, now a glorious four-year-old mare, it was time for her to become a mother. Her first foal is none other than RA Nocturne. RA Aleeyah is sired by The Sequel RCA and out of a Mishaal HP daughter who is out of a Magic Elixir daughter whose female line goes to one of Shawn’s all-time favorite straight Egyptian mares, *Deenaa.

Nocturne is sired by the well known champion and champion producer Bellagio RCA. He is black like his father; luckily for everyone involved, he is also homozygous black.