Welcome to Aurum Performance Horses!
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We specialise in breeding horses for the Olympic disciplines of Dressage, Showjumping and Eventing using some of the world's best available bloodlines for the purpose. Many of our horses are Australian Sporthorses which combine the Australian Thoroughbred with varying amounts of other breeds (primarily Warmbloods). While you're visiting you might like to view our stallions, our currently available youngstock or even find some information on some of our highly sought-after mare lines. In many cases you will find downloadable video clips. Whether you're seeking a future International Grand Prix or 4 Star horse or have more modest ambitions, there's every chance we will have something for you. Here are a few reasons why you might want to purchase an Aurum horse. Our International Buyers page provides some information about accessing our unique bloodlines from overseas. Our breeding ethos is Temperament, Talent, Trainability! |
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Updated Pages
We'll be updating our foal pages with new photos and videos pretty regularly and plan to list changed pages here so you don't have to hunt around too hard!
Current updated pages:
Pricing information added to Youngstock page
Story of Hewey - Part 6 - 4th July 2008
Competition Results updated 24th June 2008
Aurum Daley Flood updated 16th June 2008 (new video clip & pics)
Aurum Simply Brilliant updated 16th June 2008 (new video clip & pic)
Other Horses for sale page - 16 June 2008
Aurum Mares pages major update - 3rd June 2008
Aurum Bloodlines Performances - 20th May 2008
Story of Hewey - Part 5 - 17th May 2008
New video of Aurum Flash Flood - 17th May 2008
Aurum 'Candy' updated 4th May 2008 (new video clip & pics)
Story of Hewey part 6!
Well we've finally got part 6 online. Not much more to go we think! Click here to get up to date!
Broodmare in foal for sale!
Fabulous opportunity to purchase one of Aurum's lovely broodmares in foal to Aurum Remarquable (Hewey). All of the hard work done and most of the waiting over! See her here.
Aurum Mares pages updated!
We've finally found some time to add major updates to the Aurum Broodmares' pages. There will be more but at last you can find some detail on most of our mares and why we think they're special! Check it out here.
Aurum's Bloodlines in Action!
Aurum's bloodlines appear in a huge number of succesful competition horses, in Australia and around the world. As an illustration of the reliable quality of the bloodlines we'll periodically do a summary of their competition results which you'll find on this page.
Story of Hewey part 5!
Finally we have part 5 online! Thanks to all those people encouraging us!!! Our previously mentioned local wag in particular suggested that if we didn't hurry up Hewey would still be in nappies when his brown daughter was born (due in October)! Apparently if it's not a brown daughter it will be going back!
Story of Hewey part 4!
It's here now, for all those who've been wondering if we would ever get on with it (in between surgical episodes)! Also there are some interesting video clips online now at the bottom of the page.
Beware, shortages looming!
With most of our mares already confirmed pregnant for the next foaling season we felt it was necessary to warn our clients that there will be shortages of some of our stallion lines next season. From our own stocks there will only be one Brilliant Cut foal available and none at all from Flash Flood, Alloy or Aurum Invader. There are several reasons for this. Among these is Aurum Invader's colic episode (mentioned below) which effectively took him out of the entire breeding season. With Rivière d'Or and Remarquable standing their first season here we wanted to use them over several mares each to give them a kick start and more specifically to collect some fertility statistics on them. We like to be able to quote real data on chilled and frozen semen as well as live cover. Each of these stallions will produce outstanding eventing and dressage stock (dependant on the mare) we are sure and we are very keen to see their first progeny.
At this stage we still have a small number of foals and yearlings by Brilliant Cut, Alloy, Flash Flood and Aurum Invader but if you are looking for these bloodlines we'd suggest you don't wait too long.
Story of Hewey part 3!
Well, now that the foaling is all done and we only have a few more pregnancies to finalise, Kim has finally managed to get back to Hewey's story. Join us here!
Congratulations to Michelle Nichols!
Who is the owner of the lucky first mare to conceive via frozen semen to Aurum Rivière d'Or! She beat our own first mare by only a couple of hours though... Mare owners interested in this particularly flash stallion (if we do say so ourselves!) who has a very interesting pedigree indeed might find it advantageous to talk to us about our generous breeding deal.
Aurum Remarquable
Aurum Remarquable is the newest stallion we're standing here at Aurum. He is better known to most as Hewey and some of you might be following his story here. A local wag has pointed out that the story on our website is taking longer to tell than the actual events themselves took to unfold (thanks Liz!).
Anyway, Hewey certainly is remarkable as he not only survived extreme adversity but has grown into a fine young stallion (although he is not very tall). In spite of his short stature, he is genetically a full sized horse and we have no doubt that he will produce normal sized babies. He covered his first mares a couple of months ago (with a 100% strike rate) and is also available to outside mares. Hewey is by Regardez Moi out of Tidal Wave (3* eventer) and would be well suited to producing state of the art modern eventers with the dash of warmblood balanced by the thoroughbred stamina that many are looking for these days. If Hewey passes on half his personal fortitude he will produce tough eventing competitors!
With the right mare he will produce excellent dressage horses as well.
We don't yet have a stallion page for Hewey as the breeding season has kept us all pretty busy, but don't hesitate to contact us on 0408 285555 for further information. His stud fee is $1200 live cover only, walk-in/walk-out. Full broodmare workup available, extra costs (veterinary, agistment etc) apply of course.