Darren Miller Stables: Reining Horses & Working Cowhorse for Sale
Offered For Sale

Darren Miller Stables stands behind the horses we sell, offering yearlings to finished horses. Quality reining & reined cow horses are available for purchase at all times. If you don't see what you need here, give us a call - it may not be listed on the web site yet.

In addition to private sales, we also work with reputable sales companies: We sold the high selling mare at the 1998 NWSS RMQHA Select Sale, the high selling gelding at the 2001 NWSS RMQHA Select Sale, the high selling 2 year old at the 2003 NWSS RMQHA Select Sale and the high selling gelding at the 2005 RMQHA Select Sale!

Diggers Rest sired the top 2 selling horses at the 2006 Fall Catalog Sale. The top seller was Diggers Sorrel Cat, owned by Todd Thieszen of McCook, Neb. He was a 5 time AQHYA World Show qualifier in cowhorse and sold to Pennsylvania via an internet buyer. The second high seller was Diggers Smokin Gun. Also a 3 time AQHA World Show qualifier, he was consigned by Bryce Fowles of Manhattan, KS and sold to a buyer in Louisiana.

Finished Reiners/Cowhorses :: Four Year-Olds :: Three Year-Olds :: Two Year-Olds :: Yearlings :: Broodmares

Finished Reiners / Cowhorses (click images to enlarge)


SMART SMOOTH SAILOR
2002 AQHA Sorrel Gelding
Sire: Sailing Smart
Dam: Kaimana Wana Wiggle x Diggers Rest
PRICE REDUCED TO $20,000

2008 Pre Denver Circuit, earned 12 AQHA points placing 4th of 57 entries in Amateur Reining.  NRHA money earner. Stylish with lots of mane, tail and eye appeal. By AQHA World Champion and Nations Cup Silver Medalist Sailing Smart (www.craigjohnsonreining.com). His dam, sired by Diggers Rest, was an AQHA World Show Finalist in Jr. Working Cowhorse and has produced NRCHA World Show Finalist with $11k+ NRCHA: Dez She Wiggle, a 3/4 sister also sired by a Smart Chic Olena son.


UNCOMMONLY SAVVY
2002 APHA BS Sorrel Mare
Sire: Diggers Rest
Dam: Cutters Goldylocks
PRICE REDUCED TO $15,000

Earner of $3k in NRHA and NRCHA money to date. 2007 North Central Region NRCHA World Show Qualifier Non Pro Hackamore. A really solid mare with plus maneuvers, great leaded and pretty mover. The 2007 NRHA Non Pro Reserve Champion Eastern Slope Slide. 2007 Blue Sky NRCHA Open Derby, 3rd. 2007 NRCHA World Championship show qualifier in Non Pro Hackamore. 2005 Sandhills Slide Stallion Stakes Non Pro Futurity Champion.  Her dam and full brother, Cutters Lil Peppy, are APHA World Champion reiners. Brothers and sisters include, Common Phenomenon, $6k and the 2004 Israel Cutting Horse Assoc. Open Champion; Dapper San Badger, $9k and  the 2001 RMRHA Int. Open Champion.


SHINY BLACK SHINER: SOLD! Congrats to Tom and Jean Moore of Littleton, CO
2003 AQHA Black Stallion
Sire: Smart Shiner
Dam: Dig This Bay Babe

2008 Pre Denver Circuit Junior Reining Champion and NWSS Reserve Champion, earning 38 AQHA points. 2007 CRCA Open Derby Co-Champion. Tied to win the reined work portion of the 2006 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity in Reno. Fancy in all three events. Really black – a fancy mover and well bred. Dam earned nearly $5k in the reined cowhorse, won the $5k Limited division and reserve in the Colorado Owner/Rider division at the CRCA Futurity. SOLD


HIGHBROW HOTROD
2004 AQHA Sorrel Gelding
Sire: Star Trek Nic x Reminic
Dam: High Brows Playmate

Very cowy and quiet gelding. His dam has produced NRCHA and NCHA money earners. She is sired by High Brow Hickory, LTE $229,155 and NCHA Open Futurity Res. Champion. She is out of a daughter of Freckles Playboy.


HOTROD N PEPPY
2003 AQHA Incentive Fund Chestnut Mare #4378378
Sire: Diggers Rest
Dam: Hotroddin Suzy

Her full brother and sister have combined earnings of over $17,000 in cowhorse and reining earnings!


LITTLE DISCO OAK
2000 AQHA Sorrel Gelding
Sire: Little Disco Tucker x Peppy San Badger
Dam: Mastercard Sally

Cute mature gelding! A finished cutter. Lightly shown and earned $2,100 as a futurity horse. His sire won over $64,000 NCHA. His dam is an NCHA Money Earner ($444) by Docs Oak and out of Smokin Mahogany, who earned $29,000 NCHA.


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Four Year-Olds (click image to enlarge)

HICKORY DICKORY DIG
2004 AQHA Bay Colt
Sire: Zan Freckles Hickory
Dam: Can U Dig An Eighty (dot of Diggers Rest)
PRICED AT $12,000

NRCHA earnings of $3,000 to date: 2007 Colorado Reined Cowhorse Futurity, 3rd. 2007 Wyoming RCHA Futurity, 3rd and High Score Fence Work. Won the NRHA approved futurity class at the Eastern Slope Slide show. Cutting money earner. Big, leggy athletic colt. Pretty headed with a star. Nominated to the lucrative National Reining Breeders Classic program. His sire has produced colts earning over $175k in only 4 crops to show! Dam is an NRHA Money Earner.


CUTTERS LUCKY CHARM: SOLD! Congratulations to Barbara Morgan of Terrell, TX
2004 APHA Palomino/Overo Gelding
Sire: Diggers Rest
Dam: Cutters Goldylocks - APHA World Champion Am. Reining

We have high hopes that this one will follow his family into the winner's circle. His dam and his full brother, Cutters Lil Peppy, are APHA World Champion reiners. His brothers and sisters include, Common Phenomenon, $6k and the 2004 Israel Cutting Horse Assoc. Open Champion; Dapper San Badger, $9k and  the 2001 RMRHA Int. Open Champion. SOLD


DIGGERS MISTER NIC
2004 AQHA Incentive Fund Bay Gelding
Sire: Diggers Rest
Dam: Nic A Lynx

Big pretty bay, lots of mane and tail. Full brother, Nics Little Peppy has over $12k in cowhorse earnings, currently NRCHA Top Ten Open Bridle division. He was the 2006 NRCHA North Central Region Non Pro Bridle reserve champion. Another full brother, Heza Little Peppa Nic earned over $10k in reining, cowhorse and NCHA cutting money. Full sister, Dig A Lil Nic earned AQHA Superior Reining, 4th in nation reining, 5th in nation AQHA cowhorse. Full sis, Diggers Diamond Nic has won over $10k in NRCHA aged event money.


HOBBY BY STARLIGHT: SOLD! Congrats to Miriam and Gilad Schwartz of Elbert, CO
2004 AQHA Black Mare
Sire: Diggers Rest
Dam: Peppys Poppie

She is by the great NRHA stallion, Spooktacular. He is sired by Grays Starlight and has earned over $40k. She has been shown successfully in the reining and is on track for the fall futurities. Her half brother, Dig N Dust Em Out, was the 2005 Sagebrush Slide NRHA Derby Int. and Limited Open Champion. SOLD


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Three Year-Olds (click image to enlarge)

BOONSMALS SPOONFUL: SOLD! Congrats to Randy and Misty Guggisburg of Rapid City, SD
2005 AQHA Sorrel Filly NRBC Enrolled
Sire: Shaken Boonsmal
Dam: Annie Ups  x Steady Tradition

Here is a well bred and NRBC enrolled filly. Her sire is by Peptoboonsmal and out of Freckles Foxy Rio, who is by Freckles Playboy and out of a daughter of Doc Bar and a daughter of Poco Bueno. A legendary pedigree for reining, cowhorse and cutting. Dam is by Steady Tradition and out of a daughter of Docs Hickory.


ROYAL DIGGER
2005 AQHA Sorrel Gelding
Sire: Diggers Rest
Dam: Poco Royal Rose (By The Royal Falcon)
PRICED AT $3,500

Pretty colt with a narrow blaze, flaxen mane and tail. His dam is sired by AQHA Champion The Royal Falcon. Nice bodied, 14.3 hands and riding.


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Two Year-Olds (click image to enlarge)

LITTLE COOTER LENA
2006 AQHA Buckskin Stallion AQHA #4883793
Sire: Cinnabars Lil Lena (by Smart Little Lena)
Dam: Can U Dig An Eighty (by Diggers Rest)

Really pretty blaze faced buckskin colt. Will be started by March. Sired by an NRCHA money earning son of Smart Little Lena, Cinnabars Lil Lena. He is out of Cinnabars Lil Star, the #3 leading producing daughter of Grays Starlight ($160,000 to date). See www.crosslazyh.com for more sire info. Cooter’s dam produced Hickory Dickory Dig, listed above, earning $3,000 at the 2007 fall cowhorse futurities.


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Yearlings (click image to enlarge)

NAME PENDING
2007 AQHA Bay Filly
Sire: Short Oak
Dam: Can U Dig An Eighty (by Diggers Rest)

Soft and quiet bay filly. Her sire is ranked the #5 Junior Sire according to Equi-Stat. He has combined earnings of $133,000 (NRCHA $53,000 and NCHA $49,000). She is out of proven producer, Can U Dig An Eighty.


DIG MY PEPPY STEPS
2007 AQHA Incentive Fund Chestnut Filly #4967096
Sire: Diggers Rest
Dam: Pep In My Step (by Hickory Chic Olena)

The first foal for our great mare who earned over $23,000 in NRCHA and NRHA money. Pep In My Step is sired by Hickory Chic Olena, whose offspring have earned nearly $190,000. She is out of Little Pep O Lena, by Peppy San Badger and out of daughter of Doc O’Lena.


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Broodmares (click image to enlarge)

BAY AND DIGGING IT
2001 AQHA Bay Mare AQHA #4293282
Sire: Diggers Rest
Dam: April Ann Command (by Cee Bee Command)

A big bay baby factory, 15.2 hands and 1300 pounds of mama! Due 5/28/08 in foal to Hickory Chic Olena (see above notes). We believe this will be an outstanding cross. No Doc Bar in the mare’s pedigree, so a great outcross for many popular stallions. Her 2 full sisters are proven performers in reining and cowhorse and proven producers. They have produced Shiny Black Shiner and Hickory Dickory Dig, listed above.


DESIRABLE CHIC
2003 AQHA Chestnut Mare AQHA #4434102
Sire: Chic A Dez
Dam: Majors Irishserenade

Her sire is a champion son of Smart Chic Olena, winning over $30,000. He has produced several NRHA and NRCHA champion offspring, including Dez She Wiggle, earning over $11k to date. Her dam is by Rocky Mountain Major, an AQHA hi-point reining stallion.


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