Introducing ourselves, we are Russell and Patricia Blinkhorn, owners of Crystal Park Miniature Horse Stud which is situated in the hills of Tamworth, a northwest country town of 50,000 people in New South Wales Australia.

We have been involved with horses for many years and began our breeding program in 1995 and now strive to produce exceptional conformation and type with the added bonus of colour and style.

I am a farm born and raised girl and have always been surrounded by animals, and my love of horses has always remained strong. I 'imported' Russell from a city bred life back in 1985 and introduced him to the wonderful world of horses starting with our first miniature, Tia. Sadly Tia has since passed over to the lush fields of 'horsey heaven', but we continue to love and breed these gorgeous little horses with enjoyment.

Our farm concentrates on breeding and showing quality individuals, with the best of American and Australian bloodlines, sporting eye-catching colours, and our small herd dictates that each horse is the best quality available. We choose only to keep the number of horses that allows us the time to give each horse one on one daily care.  This enables us to maintain our high quality standards. These quality horses can then be passed on to our selective buyers.

Promotion of each line is important.  We identify candidates yearly for the show circuit.  We have them evaluated by professional trainers to aid in assessing their show ring potential.  We select only the best for promotion.  All our horses are of exceptional quality and have potential but we can only promote a few.  This proves the effectiveness of our breeding program to produce top quality horses.  It also allows us to keep in touch with the industry and what selective breeders are looking for. 

We specialise in the exquisite dilute colours, but also have the traditional bay, black, chestnut and brown. We have solids, pintos and the sort after overo.

On a recent trip to the United States of America we were lucky enough to purchase three beautiful horses to improve our breeding program. We will place photos on the Mares page and Stallions page as we receive them.

These horses were bought from Scott Creek Farm in Oregon, one of the few and leading breeders of fine Arabian-type miniature horses. After doing a considerable amount of homework over a 4 year period on the 'who's who' of American breeders, we slowly eliminated breeder after breeder until we were left with a choice few and on this trip, our first choice was Scott Creek. This farm just kept leaping at us displaying qualities such as refinement, style, temperament, prepotency, outstanding motion, presence, conformation, and athleticism. We knew that our new horses had to come from this farm - without question.

And on seeing the horses presented at the US Nationals, we certainly were not disappointed in what we had chosen. There are a lot of horses out there, some good and many not so good, you have to do your homework diligently if you want to have consistently well-bred, prepotent miniature horses with attributes that WILL be passed on to further generations.

Good luck with your horses, may you enjoy every minute of them!