Announcement!
Sadly, Mr Wolfe (Pete) passed away. We were married over 40 years, so losing him has left a very big hole in my heart. He was 80 years old and still riding his beloved horses until 4months before he passed. In addition, my health has declined sharply. Our only son has chosen to not live or help on the ranch, so I have no choice but to sell all of the young horses.
I am reluctantly going to have to sell all of our outstanding weanling, yearling and 2-year-old prospects as well as all 3-5-year-olds that have had literally hundreds of miles of ranch and mountain riding.
I have a few AQHA horses and 15+ draft cross horses, out of our good AQHA cow-bred mares. All of the started horses have been started the Wolfe Ranch 'NEVER BUCK' way of starting colts.
I have been unable to find anyone to 'finish' them. Several are great riding and trail horses, but they just don't have the great 'handle' and finish that Pete and I were able to put on them. They all have the trainable disposition and athletic ability we are so well-known for producing, like the beautiful palomino mare pictured above. Please check out the 'Horses For Sale' pages.
Cheri
Welcome To Wolfe Ranch
This is the kind of draft cross colts we sell; weaning to 5-year-olds
We've been raising and selling 'good-minded' horses that 'ride' for over 45 years.
This is a Percheron cross buckskin son of TINY. His mother is an AQHA granddaughter of DUN IT WITH A TWIST, a Hollywood Dun It son that earned $100,000.00 cutting.
The palomino horse at the top of the page is Sired by Call Him The Flash. She sold 20 years ago to her 'forever home' and is not for sale. The 6 year old dappled gray stud shown here is a draft cross sired by TINY, out of a cow-bred half sister to the palomino at the top of the page, both by Call Him the Flash! This young gray stallion sires very nice 1/4 draft horses.
The Wolfe family has been at this location since 1981. We breed the same bloodlines and kind of Foundation 'cow-bred' Quarter Horses that Cheri started breeding in 1969 — TRUE ALL-AROUND HORSES -- horses with great minds, ability, conformation and size! Some of these horses are the product of 5 and 6 generations of our breeding program. We have always been 'serious breeders'. There IS a difference.
Glenview Kane, AKA TINY, is the sire of the Buckskin and the gray. We are crossing him on our best bred, Foundation Quarter Horse mares. These are the biggest, best boned and best-minded horses we have ever raised. They are born gentle natured, non-reactive, and willing! They are truly 'born broke'! Several are available.
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 good bone and feet and are able to stay sound well into their twenties. We keep a small but select group of FOUNDATION, COW-BRED, 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, TRAINABLE, 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 in an 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. Many 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, easy going, beautiful, Percheron/ Quarter Horse crosses.
A few photos of the ranch after the tornado
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