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Silver Park Touch of Dun (aka Silver Belle), Black Tie Gunner and Alice Brook-Hurley … Silver Belle is currently in foal (and both horses are sporting their winter coats)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An “official” portrait of Black Tie Gunner showing his stunning eyes (Photo: Alice Brook-Hurley )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 16, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just outside Kingaroy a boutique horse stud is breeding a very special type of quarter horse … so special that there’s no one else in Australia, or the southern hemisphere for that matter, doing anything similar.<\/p>\n

Alice Brooke-Hurley’s name would be familiar to local residents because of her “hair artistry” skills (she still operates a hair salon from her home), but these days, she’s also very concerned about the hair colouring of horse coats, and eyes …<\/p>\n

ABH Performance Horses<\/strong><\/a>, operated by Alice and husband Waide at Booie, is concentrating on breeding “grulla” coloured quarter horses, a rare grey coat colour which comes in two varieties, “dark steel” and the even rarer, “silver grulla”.<\/p>\n

There are only a few bloodlines in quarter horses in Australia that carry this gene.<\/p>\n

But even rarer would be a silver grulla quarter horse with blue eyes, which is what Alice is aiming to produce.<\/p>\n

To this end, the stud has imported the stallion Black Tie Gunner from the United States, a four-year-old quarter horse with a white splash and stunning blue eyes.<\/p>\n

Black Tie Gunner has already sired nine foals in the US (one was sold to Germany, and one to Mexico) before Alice snapped him up.<\/p>\n

He arrived last July and has been working hard at the stud since then.<\/p>\n

ABH Performance Horses has five mares in foal, with the first due in August, and has already exported a mare in foal to New Caledonia.<\/p>\n

There’s a 50\/50 chance that some of these foals will have the colour \/ eye combination that Alice is looking for.<\/p>\n

She has been promoting the stud on the internet and has had inquiries pouring in about the foals from all over the world.<\/p>\n

Alice began horse breeding as a hobby, focusing on “paints” before she switched to quarter horses.
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\nIt’s now a business, especially after Waide suffered a back injury at work.<\/p>\n

However, the breeding program doesn’t come cheaply.<\/p>\n

It cost Alice about $40,000 to land Black Tie Gunner in Australia after six weeks of quarantine in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

And then there were the stables, fencing and special yards.<\/p>\n

But if everything goes to plan, each foal could be sold for up to $10,000.<\/p>\n

NB. Quarter horses are so named as they were bred in the United States for sprinting over short distances (a quarter mile). Originally a cross between English thoroughbreds and Native American horses, quarter horses are now recognised as a breed in their own right. They are popular in campdrafting, cutting and reining competitions, and stock work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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