Awesome Cougarand, 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.
Awesome has a great head and is well muscled, thick and sturdy. The champagne dilution comes through in about half of his colts. His offspring are easy to handle, intelligent, athletic and gentle. They seem to enjoy attention and being around people. They can go any direction in the quarter horse world and we consider them to be performance horses. Awesome is broke to ride but we mainly use him as a stallion.
Awesome stays 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 and as a stallion. We have hand bred with Awesome but the breeding season seems to go more smoothly for all when Awesome is out with his broodmare band.
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.
Awesome Cougarand's color is something special. He carries the rare champagne gene and is classified as a gold champagne. These champagne horses really catch peoples eye, no matter what color. 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 and we have enjoyed the unique and new trend in color.
People continue to comment how Awesome's color shines in the sun, just standing out in the 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.
Awesome's pedigree:
Blue T Bert was our 2003 true blue roan stallion with a star and hind pasterns white. He was a yearling in the left picture and a three-year-old on the right. He is 100% foundation bred and was a gentlemen to be around. He stood 16 hands and weighed 1100 pounds at 5 years of age.
The 2008 colt crop is the last of Bert's offspring. He was euthanized following a long, painful battle with road founder. His founder was not a result of his own actions. 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. We are still watching a couple of Bert's horse colts as stallion propects.
AQHA published an article about Bert horses in 2008 and they were complimented on their accomplishments as great foundation bred roping horses.
Blue T Bert's pedigree:
