Many years ago I saw a buckskin National Show Horse at a show in Minnesota. That was it for me I was enamored with this golden beauty and determined to produce quality buckskins in my breed of choice. 

I began my search for the perfect Buckskin Morgan stallion. Since my area of interests are in the show type Morgan I found that at that time no such Morgan existed. Most were gorgeous western horses but I could not find an English pleasure prospect. I finally gave up and my brother and I searched the internet every chance we had and one day he called me and referred me to a crème colt he saw on the web. I had no idea what a "crème"  Morgan was and dove into research on this whole color genetic "thing". After seeing a few very bad photos of the colt I turned away and kept looking. Something in me said "get a video and give this guy a shot". I sent for a video and talked with his very nice owner and was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. This colt (Finally's Mr. Andy pictured left) was a big, bold, explosive moving horse that was closer then anything I had seen in my direction. He wasn't Buckskin but being a color producer 100% of the time was actually more of what I needed and didn't know it! His smooth top-line and long neck gave me a good clean slate from which to work from.

His first foals on the ground were amazing. They were very much their dams but with smoother bodies and better movement. My search then began for top quality bred Morgan mares and I made a decision to disperse my large herd of Arabians and Morabs and jump full steam into Morgans of color.

My Morgan friends laughed at me. "You can't produce Morgans of color that can compete and win in today's show world, Specially English !" Well I strongly believe that you can! I am so excited about this venture and we have collected a strong genetic, quality base, broodmare band and Andy's first big foal crop of purebred Morgans are due 2005.  What we have seen makes us very excited and anxious to see more foals. We have also added Andy's half brother to our farm sires. Amos is an exotically refined western horse and moves very well and we hope to also produce some quality Western show horses along with our English program. Amos is also the only Perlino (Bay / Buckskin based Crème) that also carries the very rare Dun gene in the entire Morgan breed. 

I fell upon these colts by total accident after a extremely tragic few years in our lives. My husband had been hit head on by a drunk driver going over 80 mph, the near loss of our son when he was born and the loss of my father whom I was very close to. Talk about a pair of white steeds to the rescue! They have given us such joy and we look forward to many golden foals for our family to enjoy. The future is extremely bright for the colored Morgan horse. More and more trainers and show enthusiasts are starting to take notice. The ultimate goal is to produce a Royal Gold Morgan with that shining gold coat with black points trotting down the rail dressed in tri color.  If I am not on that horse, I sure hope you are!

We hope to see you on a Royal Gold Morgan soon.

(above photos - Tara's Saponi and her 2003 buckskin filly Royal Gold Diva and Royal Gold Sunara both by Finally's Mr. Andy, bottom, Royal Gold Amarah at three days old 2006 buckskin filly by Amos )