Awesome Gold MMH has come to live with us!  This amazing young stallion first caught our eye last year as a weanling out in the pasture with his mother.  Owned and bred by Mini Mountain Haflingers, Ray Miller of Dundee, Ohio, son Joel Miller owned Awesome.  I kept watching this young horse, and commenting on him to my husband.  After the Buckeye Haflinger Show in July, (after this colt won his halter class, and the $100 halter class)  my husband secretly began talking with Ray and Joel about the possibility of purchasing Awesome without my knowing.  It turns out that throughout the year this horse just kept getting better and better.  I was a bit discouraged at the fact that Ray and Joel would not even price him to me, but I knew that they were also excited about this young prospect.  By the time the Futurity rolled around last weekend, Mike announced to me that he had purchased Awesome for us!  To say I was thrilled would be an understatement!  Awesome Gold MMH is by our stallion, A Rock, and out of Lacey Gold MMH (dam to Ray's 2008 Best of Show horse Wild Gold MMH, who also was 08 and 09 National Grand Champion Gelding) this mare has repeatedly produced winners.  

  'Gold' as he will be called at the farm, will first blow you away with his eye catching beauty.  You simply can't miss him!  Besides his correct conformation, pretty head, and long neck, Gold has a wonderful shoulder, and forearm.  His back and loins ties in nicely to his hindquarters, his 'engine' which is so important to our performance horses.  All four of his legs are correct and straight, and he stands well on nice hoofs.  He keeps the Haflinger standard look and type, without going extreme to light or to draft style.  The most amazing thing about Gold, however, is his movement.  He floats!  It is effortless, as if he moves on springs.  It was hard when looking at the pictures to display, which ones to choose because all the shots were so amazing!  Gold's temperament is sweet and kind.  Very smart and playful, but respectful too.

  We do not know what the future holds for this bright son of A Rock.  While I am most excited to have him here as the prospect to be my next all around performance gelding, at this time he is simply to nice to geld.  A good stallion makes a great gelding, is the saying we breeders live by, but every once in a while you step back and look to see if perhaps, just perhaps, you have another stallion contender on your hands.  This is the case with Gold for the moment.  Who knows what the spring will bring, and changes around the corner, but for now, he will remain a stallion.  We say that A Rock foals are slow to mature, and they don't really look great until their three year old year.  If this yearling year is Gold's 'off' year, we can't wait to see what he will look like his three year old year!  (photo credit to Frawgbyte Photography)