Haydon Horse Stud

Haydon Horse Stud The Haydon horses at Bloomfield have the unique claim of being bred by the same family on the same p
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Please visit our Haydon Horse Stud website for a listing of horses for sale and for more information about our horses. The horses in the stud today are grouped into families which trace, mother to daughter, to the original foundation mares. Over the generations these families have been recorded and graded for temperament, conformation, action and ability. The success of the stud today can be mostl

y attributed to the strength of these female lines. The stud's policy has been to breed a quality versatile riding horse with about three-quarter thoroughbred blood. Our heritage lines are blended with the best proven modern genetics, maintaining a strong thoroughbred influence. Our aim is to breed horses that can perform successfully at the elite levels. An enormous amount of work is put into developing our bloodlines for the future and it is reassuring to see the stud’s horses currently achieving at the top level both here and overseas. For those interested in horses for sale, bloodlines and history please visit our website.

Haydon Astra (Haydon Light Night x Ellerston R***i) won another BPP played by Mark Field. He hit three consecutive 60 ya...
10/09/2024

Haydon Astra (Haydon Light Night x Ellerston R***i) won another BPP played by Mark Field. He hit three consecutive 60 yard penalties on her in the final. For a young mare she placed the ball right in that perfect spot to be lofted over the goal posts. The ball can be seen in the top right of this photo on its way to soar high over the posts.

Haydon Lunita (Haydon Paloma x Ellerston R***i) grey mare, here played by Mark Field running in one of four goals in her...
09/09/2024

Haydon Lunita (Haydon Paloma x Ellerston R***i) grey mare, here played by Mark Field running in one of four goals in her chukka on the first day at Quirindi. She was runner BPP to another R***i filly he played Haydon Astra as in the final next day he hit three goals on her.

Lunita has such a promising future, her mother is by Ellerston Solar, is a BPP winner from the Thora Family and with all the added international stars in her sires R***i’s pedigree. But what is really special about her is the fact she has two crosses of the legendary Argentine mare La Luna, in the three photos. This was only made possible when Australian Kerry Packer purchased La Luna for a record sum, taking her to England to be played by his 10 goaler Gonzalo Pierres in his Ellerston White team there. In Argentina she played the Open as a 4 year and her last one as an 18 year old. Such a unique mare that kids or 10 goalers could play her. 100’s and 100’s of her descendants have played the Open and her bloodline is dominant in Argentina, where the best polo in the world is played. To have two crosses here in Australia of La Luna makes this mare very special and she is showing it on the field. We will continue this successful cross with our Ellerston Solar mares over Ellerston R***i.

Haydon Astra (Haydon Light Night x Ellerston R***i) winning the GB (Guy) Haydon Champion Pony Cup triggers so much histo...
02/09/2024

Haydon Astra (Haydon Light Night x Ellerston R***i) winning the GB (Guy) Haydon Champion Pony Cup triggers so much history and memories. Guy experienced the highs of winning at Quirindi as an 18 year old before having to confront the horrors of Gallipoli and the WW1 Middle East Desert campaign.

Astra is from the same Thora Family as Lt Guy Haydon’s famous mare Haydon Midnight. Guy won the Northern Challenge Cup in 1907 as an 18 year old playing in the Scone Team, before going off to fight in WW1. He somehow survived Gallipoli. Then when based in Cairo, he and Midnight had the honour of being selected to represent Australia against the British Cavalry, winning all three events, becoming hero’s of the Australian Light Horse. Then jumping a trench in the famous Charge of Beersheba a Turkish bullet was fired up from below, passing through Midnight’s stomach, through the saddle, the bed roll and lodging in Guy’s back, just a fraction short of his spine. Midnight took the brunt of the bullet dying in the desert sands but Guy again somehow survived after the bullet was removed five days later.

Astra combines the internationally renowned bloodlines of Ellerston R***i with the proven sire lines of Never Doubt, Rodeo Rush, Beranghi, Young Valais, Bobbed Steel, Starlight and Tester. The Thora Family goes back to the 1880’s at Bloomfield and Haydon Astra’s seventh dam is by Haydon Tester the sire of Midnight. She also has two crosses of the Jewel Family and one cross of the Rose Family, whose representative Haydon Bambi was Champion at Quirindi twice in 1966 and 1967 in the Sinclair Hill era. In 2012 Haydon Luna, another Thora Family member, now also owned by the Coulton family won the award.

Young mare Haydon Astra (Haydon Light Night x Ellerston R***i) wins her second award for the Coulton Family, played nice...
01/09/2024

Young mare Haydon Astra (Haydon Light Night x Ellerston R***i) wins her second award for the Coulton Family, played nicely by Mark Field at Quirindi. Another R***i, Haydon Lunita was a close runner up.

This is the thirteenth and last sheet. Over 100 horses have been shown in the Female Families Top Performer’s tribute. T...
21/08/2024

This is the thirteenth and last sheet. Over 100 horses have been shown in the Female Families Top Performer’s tribute. The feature image is of the outstanding mare Doongara Power Wishes who won the 2019 National Futurity ridden by Allan Wallen. He repeated this feat with her full brother Doongara Empowered in 2024. Two horses are shown here as they top their respective sales. Haydon May Day was the record priced gelding in the earlier years of the ASHS. Haydon Night Beam topped the National Sale when purchased by Maxine Brooks, who went on to compete and breed very successfully with her.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

This is the twelfth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is taken...
20/08/2024

This is the twelfth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is taken of Haydon Oracle getting ready to start his chukka playing for the victorious English team against Argentina in the 2024 Diamond Jubilee Test. He was exported to the UK to be the first ASHS stallion to stand there under the expert tutelage of Jason Webb. Once when doing on the ground liberty training he described him as almost human such are his trainability traits.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

This is the eleventh sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is the ...
19/08/2024

This is the eleventh sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is the iconic photo of Jim Haydon drafting Haydon Dawn back in the days when they made contact with their cattle to turn them, especially trying to get them through the narrow gate they had back then. She was by Haydon Starlight who helped established the early trainability and cattle watching traits, “cow” as it is now known. Apparently you only had to follow cattle a couple of times and they were ready to campdraft. The same with a polo ball following it after a couple of stick and ball sessions. Jim and Dawn were selected in the 1938 winning NSW Campdrafting Team competing at the Sydney RAS.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

This is the tenth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is of Dolf...
15/08/2024

This is the tenth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is of Dolfina Misky who Adolfo Cambiaso played in all three finals of the US Triple Crown, the Gauntlet of Polo, in 2024. They won the first one but were ironically, or depending on how you look at it, were beaten by his son Poroto in the other two! Her mother Haydon Angel Jewel he played to win all these multiply times. Misky displays all the family’s traits having incredible pace combined with the handle, mouth and mind to perform under him and all he demands to win at this level.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

This is the ninth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is of reno...
14/08/2024

This is the ninth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is of renowned mare Marnies Glamour ridden by Will Durkin to be the highest scoring horse in the 2021 Triple Crown Campdraft Series. In 2016 she won the Cloncurry Stockman’s Open Challenge. She recently won another Open ridden by Rick Young. Her seventh dam was Widden Lass who Fred Haydon rated as one of the best cattle mares he had seen and he had ridden plenty of good ones. Legend has it you could gallop her into the buggy shafts, turn and gallop her back out again. That turning ability continues as a family trait today.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

This is the eighth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is of Hay...
13/08/2024

This is the eighth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature image is of Haydon Dark Jewel. She played Test Matches under two Australian Captains Jim MacGinley and Jamie Mackay. A mare you hardly had to touch as she was so 100% with you. You just had to think where you wanted to go and you were there. She won 8 awards played by Peter Haydon and did well in the show ring and in challenges. Notably she won a campdraft ridden by Peter Haydon beating Bobby Palmer. She was the ultimate all-round and family mare. Ali Haydon lived on her and when he was only eight years old David Haydon hit the winning goal on her in the Ellerston Junior polo school final.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

Young mare Haydon Astra (Haydon Light Night x Ellerston R***i) wins Champion Novice at Goondiwindi for the Coulton Famil...
12/08/2024

Young mare Haydon Astra (Haydon Light Night x Ellerston R***i) wins Champion Novice at Goondiwindi for the Coulton Family on the weekend played by Charlie Field. It is nice to be getting lots of reports about how good the young R***i’s coming through are.

This is the seventh sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. It is hard to write a shor...
11/08/2024

This is the seventh sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. It is hard to write a short resume for some of these horses as you could nearly write a book about them. The feature image shows young mare Dolfina Dinamita playing in this year’s US Gold Cup. The first takeaway is what you see. A lovely quality high goal mare that certainly looks the part. And then there is the master player Adolfo Cambiaso and how he addresses the ball….. and what everyone has come to expect from the world’s greatest player. He is so well turned in the saddle, with total concentration, head still and directly over the ball, his hand braced on the neck, with his left shoulder pointing at the ball, with swing well cocked and totally extended. You think…… wow this ball is going somewhere. In fact it does, as the video shows he hits this out of sight down the field. The second is what you don’t see. Dinamita was bred in Argentina from Haydon Angel Jewel (Mia Gatita) whom he had won this same tournament on previously. Dinamita is by Guitarrero a sire son of his immortal mare Cuartetera who has been cloned so many times. One of our favourite photos is of Cuartetera and Angel on the sidelines together at Palermo when La Dolfina won the Argentine Open clinching the Triple Crown that year. The union of these two great mares is Dinamita. Her sister Misky has already well established herself in his US string.
The top three photos also have long generational stories but just touched on here. Haydon Bangle won campdrafts for Peter Haydon before going on to win the Sledmere Cup at Scone for the Bragg Family. Haydon Bush Jewel won many awards for April Leggett and has bred on so well. Spice was Sandy Tait’s top mare touring with the Australian Team to NZ with Sinclair Hill as their captain.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

This is the sixth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. A timely Olympic post with t...
10/08/2024

This is the sixth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. A timely Olympic post with the feature horse Gold Medal winner at the 2000 Sydney Olympics Kibah Sandstone ridden by Matt Ryan. It is pretty unique and special to have a Gold Medal winner on the list. He was by Sunny Souvenir from the renowned Sunshower Family which is currently represented by Santa Anna winning the Argentine Open in 2023. Sire Haydon Nightwatch by Drawn is shown here at Ellerston played by David Haydon. It is still hard to comprehend that he died while under a casuarina tree which was struck by lightning during a summer storm.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

This is the fifth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature horse is the muc...
09/08/2024

This is the fifth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature horse is the much admired Drawn mare Haydon Celestial. On one occasion at Scone after winning a final played by Peter Haydon respected judge Jamie Mackay gave her Champion ahead of Angel Jewel, who was runner up, so quite an accolade. She had such power and ability, she would always come up with the ball. Other talented performers included are; Santa Anna who just won the 2023 Argentine Open played by the phenomenally gifted young 10 goaler Jeta Castagnola; the legend Ellerston Horne here played by 10 goaler Pelon Stirling; Haydon Esprit who just picked up another BPP; Haydon Topaz rated one of the handiest mares here in her time, representing NSW at the Sydney RAS; Doongara Empowered 2024 National Futurity winner like his full sister Power Wishes in 2019 and Haydon Quartz won Champion at the Queensland titles as did her Drawn daughter Haydon Festina.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

This is the fourth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature horse is the fa...
07/08/2024

This is the fourth sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature horse is the famous mare Haydon Midnight with seven other notable performers, including; Heather Brown’s champion mare Star Carousal through her sire Star Black Minstril who has crosses of the Widden Lass Family, the Thora Family and two from the Jewel Family; Haydon Bambi and her full brother Just Fred the sire of Hazelwood Romance’s dam; and Haydon Scud who played his heart out in three chukkas of the final of the UK Gold Cup only to be beaten by Adolfo Cambiaso playing Haydon Angel Jewel.

The full tribute of over 100 horses is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

04/08/2024

This is the third sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature horse is Hazelwood Conman whose dam line goes back to Kitty by Highlander foaled at Bloomfield in 1898. His mother Romance was simply a legend but Conman has even surpassed her as a combined campdraft performer and as a leading sire with 1,470 registered with the ASHS to date. Click for their full story on the website.

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/romance-family/

The Haydon horses at Bloomfield have the unique claim of being bred by the same family on the same p

This is the second sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature horse is Haydon...
03/08/2024

This is the second sheet of the Female Families Top Performers in the Photo Tribute Collage. The feature horse is Haydon Necklace who won Champion at the Polocrosse Nationals played by one of the games main stalwarts Les Fraser. She had the renowned Jewel Family soft responsive mouth but also got complemented on her near perfect head carriage. She shares the sheet with seven others who all had distinguished achievements.

The full record is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

Following on from the post where only two representatives from each Female Family were selected the Top Performers from ...
02/08/2024

Following on from the post where only two representatives from each Female Family were selected the Top Performers from all the families involving over 100 horses, have been selected in a Photo Tribute Collage. Each sheet has an important horse selected for the Feature Image as follows; Angel Jewel, Necklace, Conman, Midnight, Celestial, Sandstone, Dolfina Dinamita, Dark Jewel, Marnies Glamour, Dolfina Misky, Dawn, Orcale and Power Wishes.

One sheet at a time will be posted and the full tribute is on the website under Females Families-Summaries-Top Family Performers

http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Top-Performers-from-the-Haydon-Horse-Stud-Families.pdf

Sunny Souvenir (Suntan x Souvenir) from the Sunshower Family sired the winner of Gold at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Kibah...
30/07/2024

Sunny Souvenir (Suntan x Souvenir) from the Sunshower Family sired the winner of Gold at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Kibah Sandstone, beautifully ridden by Matt Ryan.

Sandstone was bred by former Olympian Bud Hyem and Sunny Souvenir had other successful offspring. For the four members of the Australian Team winning gold that day at home in Sydney took them somewhere up in the stratosphere. Their feeling of jubilation can be seen in the photo of their victory lap which they never wanted to end.

Sunny Souvenir was beautiful type of bigger horse with a long rein and was used over some of the smaller Haydon mares. This dam Suntan ridden by Jill Haydon was hard to beat in the showring as was so close to a nearly perfect type. Joining her to the renowned Victorian sire Souvenir introduced more jumping genes.

In 1973 Suntan foaled Sunshower by the legendary sire Sundown and her descendants are today continuing to head skywards with the all time great Ellerston horse Horne, BPP at Ellerston, Flirt, Scud in the UK high goal, Rainmaker played in the English Test team and the latest super star Santa Anna who has just won the 2023 Argentine Open played by Jeta Castagnola, a young 10 goaler who seems to already play on another planet! The full family profile is on the Haydon Horse Stud website under Female Families.

Haydon Horse Stud places a lot of importance on its female lines and these female families have been continually proven ...
29/07/2024

Haydon Horse Stud places a lot of importance on its female lines and these female families have been continually proven and recorded right back to the original foundation mares. Only the best mares are breed from to make sure the genetics are enhanced for the next generations.

This graphic is a summary of some of the main families showing a past and present champion representative from each family. It shows how they have evolved to be still performing at the top today. You can see the full history and profile of each family on the Haydon Horse Stud website under Female Families.

Haydon Esprit (Ready for Life x Victory) today won the Champion A Grade award at Clifton  played by top player Will Gilm...
28/07/2024

Haydon Esprit (Ready for Life x Victory) today won the Champion A Grade award at Clifton played by top player Will Gilmore. She is one of those unique mares that anyone can play at any level.

This photo was taken in the late 1890’s of the early Bloomfield Homestead. It has seven people positioned for the photo ...
27/07/2024

This photo was taken in the late 1890’s of the early Bloomfield Homestead. It has seven people positioned for the photo including two horses. The renowned stallion Haydon Tester has been brought out for the occasion and stood up near the verandah and Barney Haydon on his pony was stationed in the front gateway.

Little did they know that this peaceful scene would be changed so dramatically when Barney rode off to war on his Tester gelding Polo, with his brother Guy on his famous Tester mare Midnight. Barney and Polo went through so much together and Polo somehow survived the entire five year campaign, a remarkable and distinguished feat. It was a tribute to his stamina, strength, constitution and ability to survive under the harsh desert conditions. How proud and deserving they would have been back in Australia riding in all the victory parades.

Unfortunately, this was not going to happen and like all the remaining horses in the Light Horse, Polo could not be shipped home. With a heavy heart, taking him out for an unofficial, farewell “last ride” Barney returned back to hand in only his bridle and saddle, as there was no way he was going to let his beloved mount be passed on to others or the local inhabitants. It was a heart rending end but history shows their journey, which was like a trip through the bible, was of unparalleled success as the Australians pushed north, being first to Damascus. They defeated the 400 year old Ottoman Empire and were close to the Turkish border when the Armistice ended WW1. It was their Australian bred horses that made it all possible.The full story is on the Haydon Horse Stud website http://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Midnight-Warhorse.pdf

Haydon Tester 1885 (Phyllis x The Tester (imp) epitomised the early colonial thoroughbred stallion which made Australian...
26/07/2024

Haydon Tester 1885 (Phyllis x The Tester (imp) epitomised the early colonial thoroughbred stallion which made Australian horses renowned on the world stage and especially through the Australian Light Horse where they were regarded as the world’s finest cavalry mounts. Tester was one of the leading Australian sires of his time. He was unbeaten in the then popular quarter mile Bridle Spurts. His stock had his pace, the ability to work cattle and were sure footed in rough terrain.

His famous daughter Haydon Midnight and Lt Guy Haydon were selected from the entire Australian Light Horse to represent Australia in the Desert Olympics against the British Cavalry, when they were based in Cairo during WW1 and won all three events. He sired Bangle who was ridden by Bernard Haydon and renowned for being the only horse who could start at the top of the mountain with the brumbies and be with them when they hit the creek at the bottom and be there to turn them right towards the yards. Another daughter Harvest Home won 20 races and Jam Tart was a top sporting and cattle mare whose daughter Thora won a lot of the early campdrafts ridden by Barney Haydon. The Bangle and Thora families thrive to this day performing at the top levels.

You can read his story under Past Stallions on the Haydon Horse Stud website…….. https://www.haydonhorsestud.com.au/past-stallions/1888-haydon-tester/

It is great to see the Haydon Mantilla (Haydon Romany x Haydon Sunbeam) legacy continue on with her now being grand-dam ...
23/07/2024

It is great to see the Haydon Mantilla (Haydon Romany x Haydon Sunbeam) legacy continue on with her now being grand-dam of not one National Futurity winner but two, with Doongara Empowered winning the 2024 event, making the cover, just like his sister Doongara Power Wishes did back in 2019.

Haydon Mantilla was a lovely mare, topping the 1997 Haydon Horse Stud on property sale when purchased by then ASHS Chairman John Lyons. She combined up front the legendary lines of Haydon Never Doubt, Sundown, and The Gun through Breezettes’s full brother Musket. Her Rose Family then goes back to Australian Cutting Horse Champion Haydon Gypsey, whose dam was a full sister to Just Fred by Young Valais the sire of Hazelwood Romance’s dam Cardonis Breeze.

Haydon Palermo (Haydon Tourmaline x Ellerston R***i) has arrived in Western Australia for the up coming season. Please c...
06/07/2024

Haydon Palermo (Haydon Tourmaline x Ellerston R***i) has arrived in Western Australia for the up coming season. Please contact Chris Dunlop on 0408 901855 to book your mares in. You can follow him on his page Haydon Palermo

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