Daleys Playrio was laid to rest at the end of September 2024.
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Ben & Jaye Hall
Bibil Station
Muttaburra QLD 4732
Mob: 0428 230 270
Email: bjmw.hall@gmail.com
Daleys Play Rio ASHS Details #:165931
Foaling Date: 28/10/2000
Colour: BAY
Height: 15.1hh
Breeder: B & J Hall
Current Owner: B & J Hall
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| Sire: DALEYS RIOS LEGEND | DALEYS RIO | Noddy |
| Joy | ||
| GRANADA SUMMERTIME | Noddy | |
| Unknown dam | ||
| Dam: DALEYS PLAYMATE | DALEYS RIO | Noddy |
| Joy | ||
| DALEYS PLAYAWAY | Clover Teeko | |
| Kerry | ||
Playrio was born in the drought of 2010 at Caiwarra Station in NW Qld. We were looking for a colt to keep our “Rio” line going and we had Playrio and one other bay colt both from entirely different mare lines.
The old original Daleys Rio (Playrio’s grandsire) was a mixture of Thoroughbred, Stockhorse and Imp Quarter Horse. His dam, the Thoroughbred mare Joy had been bought by my Dad from a drover for a considerable amount when she was seen doing brilliant work cutting out bullocks on the flat on a property north of Julia Creek. Dads brother Ken Daley was managing Canobie at this time and the resident stallion there was by the Imported QH stallion, Jackeroo, so Joy was bred to him and the resulting brown colt was Rio. He had the agility of a stockhorse, the speed of a TB and the stocksense of a QH. At 15.3hh and with a beautiful nature, Dad won over 70 Open drafts on him, Mum 2 ACA Lady Rider Titles and us kids won Juniors on him. He picked up, bulldogged, jumped, hacked, barrel raced..he did the lot. You could pretty well say we were raised on Rio and his progeny earned him 3 ACA Sire Progeny Awards.
We had retained a black colt by Rio called Rio’s Legend who very early in his life broke his leg leaving us with very few progeny by him…Scenario, Remenisce, Levi, Special Request, Rio Grande and Playrio. So we had a decision to make on 2 colts as to which one to keep and even thought we really liked Rio Grande, Playrio was probably a little more practical – he had better bone and doing ability and he had a very smart, inquisitive but quiet nature and once we broke him in, he was so soft and he was like an old horse to ride in no time. Chasing cattle was natural to him, he was smooth and could walk…all old time values.
In the end though, it doesn’t matter how good a stallion is, it is how good their progeny are and that they better the mares they are bred to. I don’t think we really appreciated Playrio to the full extent or knew how good he was until we started handling, riding and drafting his foals.
We are extremely happy with our Playrio progeny. They have won The Canning Downs, The Triple Crown Aggregate, ACA Novice and Open Horse Titles and many other prestigious drafts in a relatively short time-frame and with a small number of outside mares to him each year but probably some of our proudest moments are seeing them safely and effortlessly carry our daughter Madison to Junior wins time and time again.
With the untimely early passing of his sire, we didn’t really plan the breeding of the colt as is so often done nowadays but we feel he is the best unplanned horse to ever happen for us! His progeny are stamped with his good traits and we breed everything we can to him while we still have him!
2019/20 ACA Champion Sires Progeny Award – 2nd
2018/19 ACA Champion Sires Progeny Award – 3rd
2017/18 ACA Champion Sires Progeny Award – 4th
2016/17 ACA Champion Sires Progeny Award – 4th
2015/16 ACA Champion Sires Progeny Award – 3rd
2014/15 ACA Champion Sires Progeny Award – 3rd
2015
2014
Ben and Jaye were late getting PLAYRIO progeny as Jaye’s family didn’t have any mares that weren’t related to him.
Since then, they now have Ben’s mares and have acquired a few mares through foal for foal deals. Consequently the PLAYRIO‘s are now starting to come through.
His foals don’t need much work and the Hall’s futurity them as 3 & 4 year olds.
Lineup of some of the Playrio’s bred and currently ridden by the Halls, varying from their eldest 9yo to 2yo’s (2017).
Playrio’s third place in both 2015 and 2016 is a major achievement considering he is a young sire with far fewer progeny competing than his rivals in this category. Also of significance when considering the Playrio progeny is the number of ACA Horse Titles these young progeny have won.
Open Horse.
Open Horse.
2025
2024
2023
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2018
2017
2016
2012
Open Horse.
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
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2024
2023
2021
2019
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2016
2015
Open Horse.
2021
2019
2015
2024
2018
2017
2015
2018
2016
2013
2019
2015
2019
2018
2016
2015
Ridden by Kelly Daley
(Playrio/McNamara Dance)
Owned by Ben and Cheri Stanger.
Open Horse.
2019
2018
2017
2019
2017
2024
Results
[Top photo: Polish & Todd Maller.
Bottom photo: Polish & Emily Lawson.]
2017
2015
Ridden by Craig Radke.
2016
Ridden by Kelly Daley
2016
2015
2014
2018
Camooweal
2024
2023
2021
2019
2018
2018
2018 Dalby ASH Sale
2019
2019
2019
2018
Dan & Julie Condon’s mare Lot 110 – Halls Miss Rio topped the Toomba Horse sale, selling for $31,000 to Noel & Dallas Daley.
Open Horse.
2025
2024
2023
2021
2019
2021
2019
2024
2023
2021
2019
Owned/ridden by Kristina Plant
2019
These 2 beautiful PLAYRIO fillies have been sold upon weaning. On the left, Halls Designed By Rio (Halls Design Acres) and on the right, Halls Playin For Keeps (Halls Robyn Acres).
We have kept older sisters to both these fillies.
Owned by CM Pastoral
2025
2023
2021
2020
Owned by Luke and Margaret Quaid
2020 Nutrien Classic, with Ben Hall
2025
2021
2021
2025
2024
2023
2021
2024
2021
2021
2025
2024
2021
Registered as Halls Caprio
She started drafting in April of 2021 and by October she was a Novice mare up & coming. Unfortunately she was lost to colic at Boulia campdraft.
She was a full blood sister to Jackson, their dam’s being full sisters.
2024
2023
Full Brother Optimum Chase
2024
2023
2025
2024
Halls Distinctly Rio
Halls Fiasco
Halls Ario
Daleys Brio
Halls Chicko
Optimum Chase
Full Brother Optimum Chance
Halls Alabama Rio
Rio’s Rouge
Halls Plaza
Deploy Rio
Daleys Harley N Rose
Daleys Brio
Halls Smick Rio
Daleys Red Rose
Halls Oak Rio
Daleys Prompt
Ceetee Wrangler Rio
Halls Emma Rio
Splashario
Halls Emmario
Halls Priority
Optimum Athena
🟡 LOT 107 – OPTIMUM ATHENA (6yo mare)
Price: $22,000
Vendor: PL & JS Donelly
TOP SELLER
🟡 LOT 133 – HALLS SPLASHARIO (8yo mare)
Price: $39,000
Vendor: Cedar Grove ASH Stud
Buyer: Wrigley Cattle Co
Lot 48 – Stanger Belicious
Sold: $22,500
Vendor: Cheri & Ben Stanger
Purchaser: Nacha Farming
Top price:
LOT 27 – DALEYS INDI RIO
Price: $27,000
Vendor: DG & TA Daley
Buyer: Playfields Past
𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗘: Clearance: 100% (5/5)Top: $40,000.
LOT 282 – Halls Bitabling Rio sold $40,000 [View Video] Lot 336 Miss Rio sold $25,000 Lot 365 Halls Designed By Rio sold $12,000 Lot 534 Merlin Mia Rio sold $16,000 Lot 598 Halls Playloose sold $22,500
🟢 Lot 59 – PLAINARE ROLPLAY – $22,000
VENDOR: B & A Hall
BUYER: TMV Farming, Ingham QLD
🟢 Lot 293 – LADY RIO – $15,000
Vendor: AG & MC Power
Purchaser: GA & RA Cox
100% clearance. 2 of 2 lots sold.
100% clearance. 4 of 4 lots sold.
Top price:
Daleys Rio was ACA Champion Sire of Australia for 3 years in the 80’s for Jaye’s parents, Noel and Dallas Daley. He won over 70 open drafts for Noel, carried Dallas to two ACA Lady rider titles. In addition, Jaye and her brother Kelly both won numerous Junior drafts on him and Noel picked up, roped & bulldogged off him, often all in the same weekend.
Rio’s Legend, died at a young age with only 8 progeny on the ground. Some of these include:
Daleys Playmate is a beautifully natured mare. Jaye won and placed in Maiden and Junior Drafts on her before she was prematurely retired to stud when Jaye went to boarding school.
She later returned to work to teach Madison and Wyatt to ride!
Ben & Jaye now have about 12 broodmares and sell some of the foals privately as yearlings and others through the Toomba Sale and Landmark, Tamworth. Each year, they retain one or two fillies for their own stud purposes.
Mare Care
Outside mare care is a high priority. They graze on Flinders and Mitchell grass, are supplemented when required and hand served. Jaye Hall says, “We like to look after them like they are our own”.
49er Chick – Open Mare
Tarmaroo Caprice
– By Draftsman (Patrol Chief) and o/o Durah Blue Bird
Cleva Oak – Open Mare
Hytek
– By Wungum TopTek (Comara Topline) and out of Myoora Rose (Myoora Mudginberri – Warrenbri Romeo)
Design Acres – Novice Mare
Dry Destiny – Open Mare
– By Romantic Doc (Hazelwood Dry Doc/Hazelwood Romance) and out of Halls Robyn Acres (Acres Destiny/Santa Girl)
Novice Mare – Gloss
x Arcadia Realm (Romeo)
Indiana Oak
– By Daleys Chickasha Oakie.
Oak Rumours – Novice Mare
– By Daleys Chickasha Oakie.
Dry Acres – Novice Mare
Halls Freckles Fancy Acres
Winner of Cuttings and Campdrafts…by Acres Destiny, o/o Docs Freckle Oak mare, Freckles Bonita.
2014 Warwick Stallion Draft
2014 Landmark Classic – Open Draft Rd 2 – [View Video]
2013 Paradise Lagoons – Accor Hotel Open[View Video]
2013 Landmark Classic – Stallion Shootout Rd 1 – [View Video]
2012 Warwick
Knights Ontario
Alabama Rio
Daleys Brio
Halls Smick Rio
Halls Plaza
Optimum Chance
Halls Cleverio
Halls Emma Rio
Hall’s Eltorrio
Bushranger
Jackson
Santa Rio
Privilege
Mink Rio
Painted Rose
Halls Curio
Halls Sayplay
Daleys Avario
Touchwood BJ
Halls Roplay
Halls Pledge
Benallo Flo
Halls Sandiego
