Kerrie Hymers wants to put some colour back in trotting — literally.
The Clunes woman, who operates Tourello Standardbreds stud, has a penchant for coloured horses and would dearly love to see more of them regularly competing at trots races across the country.
So she has set about doing something about it.
Buying a buckskin-skewbald colt she has renamed A Bit Of Bling from New Zealand was her starting point.
A Bit Of Bling is by the Native’s Pride stallion Native Snow Warrior, whose paternal lineage goes back to the former champion pacer Deep Adios.
Although a buckskin, he has a generous splash of white below his wither stretching to his girth.
A Bit Of Bling dates back to a cream coloured pacer called Icevus, who was a Harold Park winner in the 1940s and contested an Inter Dominion.
Although officially registered as cream/skewbald in colour, A Bit Of Bling is one of only two buckskin standardbreds in Australia and in the recent stud season A Bit Of Bling served 10 standardbred mares.
A Bit Of Bling has also been in work with a racing career in mind and has already had preliminary training under Kyabram trainer Mark Watson.
Watson doubts whether A Bit Of Bling will ever be good enough make it to the races, but Hymers will give him another try when he is a four-year-old and fully matures.
