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Mares

People too often only look at a horse's sire, but every horse gets half its genetics from the dam... A great Sire and great Dam combined make truly exceptional foals!  We believe people looking at gaited horses want the smoothest ride a horse can give, so we train every horse to do the gait they do the most effortlessly and smoothly. This is what we call their "natural gait" and is what they predominantly do loose in the field as well as under saddle. We do not raise horses that "Naturally" Just Pace or Hard Trot, even though an athletic horse can usually do both those "poor" gaits as well as the smooth ones. All our horses gait very smoothly, although there will be variations in color, size, style of gait, etc.

 

We have been in the Gaited Horse business for nearly 30 years and have built our stock up from several ranches that were breeding them selectively for many generations...some even before the Foxtrotter, Tennessee Walker, Racking, Single-footing or other breed registries were formed! We only raise beautiful horses that gait naturally & smoothly, have great athletic ability & gentle minds! You can travel through many states, visit hundreds of horse farms, and seldom find horses of this quality. There are other people raising horses equal to ours, but they are few and far between. We also take pride in our "after sale service" helping make sure buyers love the horses they get from us. After looking at and riding all the "bargains" you can stand, come ride with us and FEEL THE DIFFERENCE! When you do, you will likely never be satisfied with anything else. 

 

After each name, (SF) = Single Footing Horse & (STB) = Standardbred & (MFT) = Missouri Foxtrotting Horse

Rock's Royal Corvette (SF)

Corvette was foaled June 23, 2017 and is a gorgeous 15 hand bay, sired by The Rock and out of a Missouri Traveler bred MFT mare who very smoothly flat walks, foxtrots, run walks, racks and also single-foots at 20mph!!! She is amazingly gaited and very friendly and so beautiful! She gaits smooth as any horse I've ever ridden at all her gaits, and is extremely surefooted as well. We have her gliding through the forest at a 4-6mph flat walk, a 5-9 mph foxtrot, and doing an awesome 8-15mph rack and flies at 20+mph singlefoot. She's now been ridden over a thousand miles, always focusing on her keeping a correct posture, soft mouth, obedient & submissive mind, with glassy smooth gaits at every speed, through any terrain & going up or downhill, an absolute dream to ride! This is the kind of horse few people ever experience riding in their lifetime, let alone get to own!!!

Caviar's Rocky Mountain Belle  (SF)

This lovely bay paint SF Mare was born on March 23, 2018. Her sire is Cherokee, a powerful 16.1 hand, smooth gaited MFT stallion and her dam is a 15.3 hand racing tattooed trotting Standardbred mare. She is a stunning beauty that rides like a dream at every speed from a gliding flat walk clear up to 18mph single-footing! She had several months of basic obedience training with Dal & Margo Guymon, who do an absolutely superb job training.  We've put thousands of miles on her riding the mountains and deserts and she has perfect gaits at every speed. Being 50% foxtrotter, she doesn't have the endurance at high speed of our higher percentage Standardbred horses, but she still will go 2-3 times the speed and distance of most gaited horses before needing to rest! I've cleared miles of trail with a chainsaw off her back, while she stands still for me to work, even when large limbs crash down on her...and she drags them off the trail when I tell her to. She's packed out elk & deer from some of the roughest country in the rocky mountains and she's got an awesome mind, is non-spooky and just about as perfect as a horse can be! If I were to fault her it would be just her bossy mare attitude & that I think she'd take advantage of a rider she doesn't respect as the boss. She's never done anything bad, but just has the attitude I recognize from years of training horses that tells me she'll go downhill in obedience and question authority with the wrong type of rider. For the right type of person, she is the best horse they could ever find, unquestionably! Rocky Mtn Belle is a real beauty and a sweetheart! She's the kind of horse few people ever get the chance to ride, let alone to own in their lifetime! 

Rowdy Rawhide's Mercedes  (SF)

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This gorgeous dark bay mare, born 4/25/18, is sired by The Rock and out of a Missouri Traveler MFT bred mare, with awesome smooth gaits. She is about 16 hands, thick and powerful and exhilarating to ride! She is an impressive athlete & has the best smooth gaits at every speed up to 20mph! She finished a couple months of basic obedience training with Dal & Margo Guymon, who do an absolutely superb job training.  We've put hundreds of miles on her, perfecting her gaits at each speed, working our way up to her potential, but focused on keeping her soft, supple, balanced, and smooth as glass as we reach for higher speeds & long distance endurance. She does not have the endurance of some of our other horses that are 75%+ STB, as she's half MFT, but still will carry my 300 lbs at 12-15mph for 10 miles in 40-45 minutes before needing to rest! She will easily outdistance most other breeds of horses since she is 1/2 standardbred. Mercedes is one of my favorite horses I've ever ridden in my life, due to her personality, gaits, strength, and the overall riding experience she gives.  I love her in every way! If I were to fault her, it would only be that she's a bit strong willed for timid riders and she is a boss in the herd, but never been bad towards people; in fact, she's probably the sweetest mare I've ever known! 

She's in foal to He'za Bad Cat for a 2026 single-footing foal!

In Loving Memory

Below are horses no longer with us that have meant so much to us through the years and will forever hold a special place in our hearts! 

Rowdy's Black Lightning (SF)

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Lightning was a gorgeous smoky black Single-Footing mare that we had for many years and loved beyond words ability to express. She was loving & sweet, and truly a thrill to ride, either racing up the road or breaking brush in the mountains. Her sire was the awesome Single-footing Stallion, "Rowdy Rawhide's Lightning", and her dam was a 15mph gaiting TWH mare. She had a wide range of gaits, from a nice relaxed non-gaited walk, a 5-8mph flat foot walk, a 6-12mph running walk, a 8-20mph rack, to a 15-25mph single foot! She was well trained and gentle for all riders, but with a big motor who loved to cover the country! She had extreme endurance, the likes of which is seldom found in any breed...even great like world class Arabian endurance race horses I've trained! (And the whole time she's gliding along so I sit in total comfort without an inch of bouncing!) I often rode her at an average speed of 12mph for a couple hours straight without even resting, and bursts of 20+ for 1/4mi at a time, and she just ate up the miles like a machine! She was awesome in the hills, sliding down and climbing up steep rough terrain, very sure footed, and just an absolute dream to ride! She took me on many hunting trips and was a dear friend that will be greatly missed! In my lifetime I've never had a horse I loved more than Lightning!

Princess Bingo V. (MFT) 

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Princess is a wonderful 15 hand MFT bay mare born in 1997 that we got as a weanling and she has been a special part of our family all her life. She is one of our foundation mares sired by Annie Lobo (MO Traveler son) and out of a dam from Midnight Mac T & Zane Grey plus other wonderful ancestors. She produced many wonderful foals for us over the years. She is a gentle and sweet babysitter for kids to learn on and at the same time an exhilarating and great ride for the most demanding adult rides. She not only flat walks, foxtrots and canters, but also does a dream running walk, rack, and even a 20mph single-footing gait! We didn't even know she could do that for many years until we rode her alongside one of our Singlefooters and when he took off, she just copied him and away we flew! She is one of the most wonderful horses we've ever had. She's retired and giving our grandkids little rides.

Dollie's Starlight V. (MFT) 

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YouTube Starlight Video!

Starlight giving 6 yr old boy his 1st riding lesson!

Starlight's Various Gaits & Racking 10-13 mph too!

Starlight is now retired and babysitting grandkids in their backyard, after 20+ years of amazing rides all over the country and producing some beautiful foals for us too. We'll love the memories with her forever!​

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