David and Heather Pascoe of Plaintree Farms are excited to announce they will stand the young stallion Nonda North Star Dreaming at stud this season.
He will stand alongside his sire, the champion campdrafter Nonda Southern Cross – Denzel.
“This is a very special colt,” Heather said. “Everyone who has seen him either wants to buy him or wants to breed to him. We have never seen a reaction to a horse like this.
“He is an exceptional physical type with an extremely kind nature.
“He also has the best pedigree of any colt we’ve ever bred.”
N. North Star Dreaming is a son of the Novice campdraft winner and multiple Stockmen’s Challenge winner Nonda Wallflower (by Hazelwood Conman).
He is the closest family relative to Rick Young’s great campdraft mare Youngstar Marnies Glamour campaigned by Will Durkin.
“We bred Marnies Glamour’s dam Nonda Hula Hoop, and her dam Rhumba is a full sister to Ragtime, the grandam of North Star Dreaming. That makes him the only stallion that is available to carry on such a powerful Australian family. Breeders and competitors hold Marnies Glamour in such high regard,. as soon as they know how N. North Star Dreaming is bred they want to breed their good mares to him.”
He is descended from the legendary Widden Lass, the wonderful camp mare owned by the Haydon family back in the 1920’s.
His family carries no less than eight separate Champion mare families in both Australia and America.
His own immediate mare family has produced Champion campdrafters such as Marnies Glamour, multiple Open winner and the highest placed horse in the 2022 Triple Crown.
The Widden Lass family is also carefully woven through the pedigree of Nonda Last Frontier, winner of the Willinga Gold Buckle and the Masters Nutrien Open.
It has produced the champion cow horses Star Carousel and Yarranoo Reggae who both won major titles for Champion trainer Ian Francis back in the 1980’s.
The family also produced three winners and a Finals dry work winner of the Cloncurry Stockmen’s Challenge (Star Carousel, Boonara Party Girl, Woolerina Rhythm and Nonda Wallflower).
It is responsible for the international Champion polo mare Angel Jewel (World Polo Hall of Fame) as well as Nonda Native Bebopaloopa, Champion Polocrosse horse of Australia.
The family also produced Kildare Belle a winner of the prestigious JH Barnes Memorial Trophy, as well as a long list of major Futurity and Royal Show Champions.
Importantly, all of the stallions in his pedigree are Champion sires that have worked very successfully here in Australia – both the Australian Stock Horse sires and the American Quarter Horse sires.
“The thing we are most excited about is the enormous amount of old Colonial Thoroughbred blood that he carries,” Heather said.
“It is rich with Carbine, Valais, St Simon, Musket and Stockwell. These are the great sires that built the breed in the beginning – both here and in America.
“We believe he is the potential outcross stallion we have all been waiting for. He looks exactly the way a stallion should look with his kind of pedigree.”
N. North Star Dreaming has been in training with Mark Buttsworth and has been brought along slowly on a similar program to the one that produced his sire Denzel.
He is currently having a stint in training with one of Marks protégées, the much admired Dalby trainer Corinne Anderson who will start him in a Stockmen’s Challenge. “We thought it was important to show breeders exactly how kind and soft he really is so we gave him a lovely show holiday with Corinne.”
The Pascoe’s decided that if they kept N. North Star Dreaming and stood him for a very reasonable fee this season it would be a genuine opportunity for young competitors to breed themselves a very special horse.
“The horse industry has given us a wonderful life – David as a veterinarian and me as a breeder. It seemed an obvious way to give something back”.
