Breeder of champion Real Quiet dies in Colombia
(Articulo transcrito del Thoroughbred Times 4/25/2006. En la foto de arriba Real Quiet de padrillo. En la de abajo, Double Crown, criado por La Herradura-La Irlanda, ganando su 23a. carrera el 5/13/06)

Eduardo Gaviria, the chemical company magnate who parlayed a $37,000 broodmare purchase into a breeding that produced dual classic winner Real Quiet, died late last year in his native Colombia.
His friend and pedigree consultant, Jack Werk, said Gaviria's daughter informed him of Gaviria's death but he had few other details.
Gaviria, 65, a Bogota, Colombia, businessman purchased the winning Believe It mare Really Blue in foal to Spend a Buck for $37,000 at the 1990 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. Three-and-a-half years later Gaviria, with the help of pedigree consultant Jack Werk, sent Really Blue to Quiet American, and the resulting foal was Real Quiet.
Gaviria sold Really Blue in foal to Majestic Light privately to George Hofmeister in December 1997, five months before Real Quiet won the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) en route to champion three-year-old male honors. Gaviria, through Denali Stud, agent, had sold Real Quiet to Mike Pegram for $17,000 at the 1996 Keeneland September yearling sale.
"He was a small breeder, but frankly, his dream was to have a Kentucky Derby horse," Werk said. "We were in the winner's circle after Real Quiet won [the Derby], and I remember us looking up at the 150,000 people, and that was a very emotional experience for us."
Gaviria owned the now-defunct Little Hill Farm in Ocala, but still maintained a farm in Colombia where he had moved from breeding Thoroughbreds to breeding Arabians. He is survived by his daughter, Diana Gaviria, who plans to continue her father's equine business with her husband and sons.
Real Quiet won six of 20 starts and earned $3,271,802. He stands for $6,500 at Regal Heir Farms in Grantville, Pennsylvania.—Ed DeRosa