The Late Chance's Gold Dust H.

McAllen Finley is from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. His involvement with pleasure walking horses is part of a golden heritage. His mother's father, Vance Paschal, pioneered in breeding registered palomino Tennessee Walkers. Paschal's family was very prominent in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry. Paschal specialized in the breeding of palomino walking horses, producing such notable palomino show ring performers as Rising Sun (1966 Reserve Two year Old World Champion) and Go boy's Yellow Chance ( 1964 Reserve Yearling Stallion World Champion). It should be noted that these horses competed at the time when palomino color was not popular in the industry.

As a boy, McAllen Finley grew up riding on his grandfather's palomino horses. The golden Tennessee Walkers were a part of the Paschal family heritage, and McAllen learned his tradition from the source. As a result, he is now the heir to the oldest breeding program for pure palomino bloodlines in the nation.

Chance's Gold Dust H., a direct son of the great palomino sire John A.'s Chance, stood at stud at the farm for almost ten years, until his death in 1995.

"When John A. Hendrixson died in 1970, he had a palomino son of John A's Chance in training with Wink Groover. This two year old colt was out of a bay mare named Bonnie's Red Glory, a daughter of the beautiful breeding stallion Pride of Hall Allen. The bay mare's dam was Hendrixson Bonnie, making this colt a double-bred descendant of that Roan Allen F-38 mare. Chance's Goldust H. did not have his chance in the show ring after the death of his breeder. Instead he was pulled out of training and was offered at stud as a palomino stallion of prominent lines...From 1986 on, Chance's Goldust H. had a permanent home with an owner aware of his heritage, and determined to promote the big horse, and drew a court of foundation and show-bred mares in addition to the farm mares. His offspring left Middle Tennessee to homes all over the US and even in Germany. Many of those breeding to Goldust were so delighted with their palomino offspring that these have never been available for sale at any price." - Franne Brandon in "Walk To A Different Rhythm"

Two sons of Chance's Gold Dust H. are still owned by Finley, and offered at public stood. One of these, Majestic Gold, has become one of the best breeding palomino stallions in the walking horse industry. Two of his sons topped the 2002 Wiser Farm July Sale, one bringing $26,500.00, and the other bringing $50,000.00. He is the sire of Chance's Ivory Mist and Chance's Sure Gold, two of the more popular cremello sires of the breed. The other son, Chance's Goldmine MF, is fast becoming the cremello sire of the breed. Already, he is one of the most prolific cremello sires alive, with golden foals all across the United States. He is known as the best walking cremello sire alive. These stallions offer the closest Last Chance bloodlines in the palomino world.