Awesome Cougarand, our 1998 champagne palomino stallion, is 14.2 hands and weighs about 1050 pounds. We purchased him in Texas from the Kurtz Ranch as a yearling. He has a great head and is beautifully muscled, thick and sturdy. He has thrown a lot of color. The champagne comes through in about a third to a half of his colts. His offspring are easy to handle, intelligent, athletic and gentle. They can go any direction.
We keep Awesome in the broodmare band from around the first of April through the end of September and he winters in his own pasture. He is very much a people horse and will come to you even when he is out with his mares. He has exhibited very good behavior with us and the broodmares and we always respect his position in the herd.
Awesome's sire, Cougarand, is a money earner in both reining and cutting. Cougarand has his NCHA Certificate of Ability and is the sire of cutting, reining and ranch horse winners such as Doc Cougarand who has the NCHA COA as well as AQHA ROMs. He is the sire of Cougarand Command who was the 1995 Congress Non-Futurity Champion and a 1995 NHRA Non-Pro Futurity Finalist. Cougarand is also the sire of Blue Eyed Cougar, the AQHA Cowboy Ranch Horse Champion and Cougaranda, the 1994 World Champion Palomino Reining Champion and the 1994 Dixie Nationals Reining Champion.
Cougarand's color is also something special. He carries the rare champagne gene. He is a gold champagne. These horses really catch your eye. Their coats have a lustrous metallic sheen and reverse dappling. Horses that carry the champagne gene have other characteristics that make them unique. The champagne horse is just getting started.
Awesome Cougarand is so striking in appearance that each day, as people drive by our ranch, they slow down to look at him standing in his pasture.
Below is a picture of Awesome Misty, out of Awesome Cougarand. She is a money earner and a point earner in reining. This photo was taken during training at the Teigmeyer Training Facility.
Blue T Bert is a 2003 true blue roan stallion with a star and hind pasterns white and is completely foundation bred. He is a yearling in the first picture and a three-year-old in the other. He is 100% foundation bred and is a gentlemen to be around. The 2008 colt crop is the last of Bert's offspring. He was euthanized following a very long and painful battle with road founder. His founder was not a result of his own actions and he was a pleasure to be around each and every day. We have several of his beautiful offspring growing in our pastures and we miss him terribly.
