Announcement!

THESE ARE TRUE ALL-AROUND HORSES — 

These are horses that can work a cow, catch a fast one in open pasture or an arena, ride smooth on a trail ride, go to a ranch or stock horse show, be competitive in 5 or 6  events, and be really pretty doing it. They have to have good bone and feet and are able to stay sound well into their twenties.  We keep a small but select group of COW-BRED, FOUNDATION AQHA broodmares.  Many of them were top roping or ranch horses or used as trail and lesson horses before we bred them.  All of them are well bred and close to the best FOUNDATION cutting and cowhorse lines.  They are heavy, stout, solid mares with good bone, big hips, good heads, excellent withers and backs, and bred-in ‘COW’.   Many are 3rd, 4th, and 5th generation ‘home-breds’. Not all cutting-breds are 13.3 hand 'bird-legged' ponies – we have the bigger stouter ones!  ALL have 'kind', easy going, people friendly dispositions.   

About the 2016 tornado

WELL, about the time you think  you have the journey figured out, the Lord shows you a different path.   On May 9, 2016 an EF4 tornado wiped out most of our ranch.  It was 3/4 of a mile wide and hit us dead center.   It demolished our home, our son’s home and every barn, fence, outbuilding and almost every tree.  We lost several horses and had horses up at OSU Veterinary Hospital all Spring and summer.  Call Him The Flash was badly injured.  We also lost every truck and 7 trailers.

Most important, we are all OK.  Pete and I along with our son, daughter-in-law and 3 grandchildren were all safe underground shelter, installed less than a year earlier.  We came out safe, but came out to a new world.  One of the most important things we found out was how many friends we have.  People started pouring in right after the tornado.  They helped us catch horses, they brought trailers and took horses home with them (since we had no pens or fences left).  We had nail ridden debris everywhere.  Russel and Tanna Dilday graciously took trailer load after trailer load of horses to OSU for Veterinary care and to their ranch to pasture and foal out. [And “Yes”, we lost several horses, have several with permanent injuries and had 3 orphans.]  We just do not know how we could have made it without all of our friends, OSU or the Chickasaw Nation.  [Pete is Native American and the Chickasaws take very good care of their elders.] 

Now, back to regular programming………

So, now we are back to raising and selling user-friendly horses that RIDE. They are trainable, like to work and have as little 'resistance' and 'push back' as you can breed into a horse.   At least half of our horses are sold to repeat buyers, many 'sight unseen'. We have sold more than 30 horses to Europe and the UK.  Check out some of our newest additions -- big, strong, mild-mannered Percheron / Quarter Horse crosses.  The palomino mare (above) is sired by an AQHA point earning stallion that has Colonel Freckles, Doc Bar and Zan Parr Bar close up.