Gold Melody Boy

According to the AMHA Studbook, Gold Melody Boy produced 34 registered offspring, 8 stallions and 26 mares. Of the 8 stallions, only 4 are alive or have produced any foals since 1985. The 4 who remain, trace offspring all over the country and form the foundation of many successful breeding programs. The names are familiar: Roan Ranger, owned by Joe Spino and Al Glass of S & G Miniatures, Chapel Hill, TN; Wittmaacks Mickey Mouse and Johnstons Gold bar, both owned by Judith Kurth of Alameda Farm, Lufkin, TX, and Johnstons Gold Boy, owned by Jane and Randy Walls of RoseHill Ranch, TX. These stallions have done phenomenally well siring show horses. Roan Ranger has sired an AMHA National Grand Champion Stallion, Skip A Star; Reserve National Grand Champion Stallion, Johnston’s Starlight Ranger, and National Grand Champion Junior Stallion, NFCs Sugar Boy. For AMHR, he produced two-time National Grand Champion Stallion, Gingerbread Farms Rapid Transit. Wittmaacks Mickey Mouse has produce a National Champion, Sterling Silver, and numerous Top Tens. Incidentally, the dam of the '97 National Grand Champion Junior Stallion is a Mickey daughter! Johnston's Gold Bar has produced several Top Tens himself. Johnston's Gold Boy has produced daughters who are proving themselves to be superior dams of champions. Gold Melody Boy daughters have been priceless treasures in breeding programs. Among the most familiar is Johnston's Vanilla, owned by Lowell Boone of Indiana. She has secured her place in history by producing Boone's Little Buckeroo (featured as the "Sire of Significance" in the May-June issue). Examine the pedigrees of the horses bred by the Johnstons and Wittmaacks and you will find they used inbreeding and ine breeding extensively. The offspring they produced have a certain "look" that shows tremendous type, elegance and balance. This bloodline has passed these qualities on for generations and will continue to do so, because many of the farms that have miniatures from this line are practicing the same principles of breeding today.