DAYS OF GOLD - Q57273 - now believed to be the highest awarded double dilute stallion in the world!

At Q7 - the 2007 Australian Quarter Horse National Championships in Sydney in June - Days of Gold won Australian Champion A/O Hack (class of nine) as well as Australian Champion A/O Stallion 4 and over and was also National Reserve Champion Hack 15.2hh and over and National Reserve Champion A/O Dressage.  Nights of Gold was National Reserve Champion A/O 3yo Colt.  

At the 2007 Queensland Quarter Horse State Show, Nights of Gold attended the halter day and won State Champion 3yo Colt as well as State Champion 3yo A/O colt. Days of Gold attended day 2 and won State Champion Hack 15.2 and over as well as State Champion A/O Hack (class of nine).

Days of Gold - Q 57273              Nights of Gold Q 57337

Brilliant champions themselves, sires of champions, chosen by owners of Australian Champion mares, chosen by mare owners who just want to breed a beautiful riding horse with a great nature.  You can breed to imported sires, or recognise just how good our Australian bred horses are.  Two Cremello/Perlino horses have been exported from Australia: one the younger, unshown full brother of Days of Gold and now a cremello filly by Nights of Gold is being exported to Switzerland.  Congratulations to Glen Lomond Stud on the sale and export of Miss Hollywood Gold (photos below).

And introducing our new Cremello colt, Tintaras Chandra - registered Australian Stock Horse and UPWBDA (we intend to have him ACE and ANSA registered in the future as well as AQHA Foundation Sire registered for owners of Quarter Horse mares who want a touch of Thoroughbred elegance and a chance at perfect palomino coat colour).  Brought over from Tintaras Stud in Western Australia where the breeding focus is on producing perfectly conformed and beautifully moving horses of perfect palomino coat colour.  Chandra should mature to around 16 hands and is the ideal choice for those wanting to produce tall, elegant, big moving show, dressage or event horses of superb palomino coat colour - put your clean coated cherry red chestnut mares to him for magnificent palomino performance horses.  Bay, brown or black mares will have buckskin or palomino foals (these mares need to have a recessive chestnut gene in order to have palomino offspring). Where our Quarter Horse boys made Australia recognise the potential of the blue eyed blondes, this ASH boy is going to bring back the magnificence of the performance palominos.  Of course, Chandra will be campaigned himself and we expect great things of him at halter and later at dressage, but we are most excited about the prospect of producing a line of 'perfect coat coloured palominos' that will redefine the future of palominos in Australia - great conformation, lovely temperament, superb potential as performance horses and the ideal palomino colour preferred by palomino judges.  He will stand to a very limited number of approved mares with preference given to clean coated cherry-red chestnut Stud Book Thoroughbred/ASH mares over 16 hands. 

DAYS OF GOLD Q57273 Five years old in August 2007 and is just on 16 hands.  Multi supreme, state and national title holder (halter and ridden), ten UPWBDA national titles, supremes from state championships, Colourama, Royal show, etc.  The first Perlino or Cremello Quarter Horse stallion in the world to win a to win a national Quarter Horse title.  The first Quarter Horse stallion to win the prestigious Pearl Award from UPWBDA.  Producing beautiful halter types with fabulous movement that will go on to dressage, eventing, show, HUS, WP, etc. His first two foal crops have many multi champions, including the fabulous 'AA' champion and futurity winner, the buckskin filly Days of Hope, and the multi champion palomino colt Emperor's Gold (who measured 16 hands at 20 months).

NIGHTS OF GOLD (Q57337) Four years old in August 2007 and just on 15.  Multi supreme, state and national title holder with supremes from state championships, Colourama, Royal Show, etc.  His first foals have amazing muscle and looks - they'll halter and then go on to cut, rein, campdraft, etc.  His foals include the multi champion cremello filly Miss Hollywood Gold and the remarkable buckskin filly Divine Nights, who has won numerous supremes, AA champions, futurities, was the 2007 Supreme Quarter Horse Exhibit at Toowoomba Royal and Best Foal of Show at 2007 Qld All Breeds Youngstocks.

ARE BOTH FULLY AQHA REGISTERED.  CHECK WEBSITE AT www.aqha.com.au to check registrations and pedigrees.

AQHA registered, ANSA registered, UPWBDA registered.

Location: Grandchester, between Ipswich and Toowoomba in South Eastern Queensland, Australia.

Contact Us:  Phone us on 07 54655117.

                    email at lea_owens@hotmail.com

 Post: Chris and Leanne Owens, Tommary Rd, Grandchester Qld 4340.

Days of Gold ridden by Ben O'Sullivan at the 2006 Queensland Dilute Championships where they won Supreme Cremello/Perlino Under Saddle, Supreme Ancillary Under Saddle and the Supreme of Supremes Under Saddle.   Thank you, Ben!

About Us:  We have been competing on, training and breeding horses since the 1960s, using bloodlines that have been in our families for generations before that.  Until purchasing these double dilute Quarter Horses, our bloodlines were mainly Thoroughbred, Arabian and Warmblood (along with a variety of pony breeeds for our children).

We have competed in: showing, dressage, polocrosse, endurance, sporting horse, jumping, racing and other horse sports.

For the past 20 years we have been based on our farm in the Lockyer Valley and, before that, lived on one of the Owens family properties in outback Queensland (Longreach/Muttaburra area) where horses were used extensively for mustering, polocrosse and racing.

Please click the pages at the left of this to view more photos and information about our horses.

Days of Gold, Nights of Gold and Tintaras Chandra will stand at stud in 2008/09 for $1100 natural service (plus vet and agist) or chilled for $1,100 including the first collection fee plus freight (further collections $250 each plus freight); walk ons for $990.  All prices include GST. 

Photos on this site signed "Mel" are by the talented equine photographer Melissa Cruden of Crazy Horse Designs - visit her http://www.crazy-horse-designs.com/ 

Jezupark in South Australia stands the sire of Days of Gold and Nights of Gold, the impressive, 16 hand registered Quarter Horse stallion, Imperial Gold Touch - please ring them on 08 85561197.

Our Arabian broodmares are mainly Matta Mia bred endurance mares.  Please visit Matta Mia stud at www.mattamiaarabians.com.au