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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. 

Rawhide Rock's Royal Corvette

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!!! (Her dam was 25% STB, so she is 81% Standardbred.) 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

$25,000

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.  After that, we've put thousands of miles on her riding the mountains and deserts and she has perfect gaits at every speed. Being 50% foxtrotter & more muscular, she doesn't have the endurance of our higher percentage Standardbred horses. She still goes 2-3X the speed and equal distance of most horse breeds before needing to rest! She is as comfortable a ride as you can ever find and a super joy to ride and her gaits are not at all complicated...just a point and shoot horse. 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! 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 Rock's Mercedes

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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 who was 1/4 STB, making her aprox 5/8 STB. She is 16 hands, thick and powerful and exhilarating to ride! Her endurance is less than our 75%+ STB horses, but still quite impressive and she is a very impressive athlete as far as agility, balance, riding like glass even in the roughest country! She 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 since 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 & longer distances. She will carry my 300+ lbs at 12-15mph for 10 miles in 40-45 minutes before needing to rest! 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 one of the sweetest mares I've ever known! 

She had a gorgeous black colt out of Bad Cat in March 2026!

Rock's Dream Lamborghini

$20,000

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Born 8-13-2018, Rocks Dream Lamborghini is a total sweetheart and a stunning beauty as well as being phenomenal in every way & more fun to ride than I can even describe! She is smooth gaiting at all speeds up to 20+ mph, has good endurance and a great mind. Even carrying 325 lb this little 14.3 hand horse takes me on rides with 1,000-1500-ft elevation climb in 12 miles, traveling 6 mph at the slowest end, 12-14mph most of the time and occasionally 16-20. She did that with out wanting to stop or rest and I just glided along the whole time like on a jet ski! I have ridden her over a thousand miles and most of the time she is an absolute dream horse. She does have a tendency to look at things and sometimes do a little sideways shy or jump that amounts to 3 inches or less, to, rarely, 3 ft sideways. But for me it is usually easy to know when it's coming and prevent it by squeezing my heels and snugging up the reins a little and coaxing her through it with my voice and so she seldom spooks, regardless of the speed we're going. A good friend of mine conditioned her for endurance and took second place on a 25 mile ride in Idaho. He commented that she was annoyingly spooky for him...although the first couple rides when he picked her up and rode with me she wasn't spooky. She is ready right now to compete in endurance racing If you think you are the right size and personality for her, give me a call and ask any additional questions. I absolutely love riding this little horse and if I wasn't too big for her it would be almost impossible to talk me into selling her. The way she rides is such exhilarating fun, that you have to experience it to even believe! (FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE HER SPOOKINESS, I actually caught the worst spook she's ever done with me on my drone video , the 1st one on her playlist, at minute 3:03, just so you can see what I'm talking about.) Lamborghini is sweet, gentle, tough as nails, smooth, obedient, extremely well trained....far beyond most rider's ability to even understand...IE: 2oz bit pressure & she lifts her head a little and bends at the poll for better balance and rough country movement with higher leg lift, 4oz pressure and she moves her head and neck backwards as her shoulders lift more and her rear end engages with power pushing her body forward and making her front end float as she switches more weight to her rear end, say "easy" softly and she slows down a little bit but stays in the same gaits you have her riding in, say "easy" in normal speaking tone and she drops a gear such as from a rack to a run walk or run walk to a flat walk etc., say "walk up" and she moves into a floating fast flat foot walk gliding along and listening for your next que, say "trot easy" and she goes into a slow rack or speeds up one gait from what you were doing, say "trot up" and she takes off in a 10-15mph rack depending on your body language and energy, say "easy" in a low and firm tone and loosen the reins and she drops from any speed to a relaxed non-gaited walk, lean your body forward or back or to one side or the other, or twist your waist and she responds like a sports car...and the list goes on with numerous ques she knows and follows immediately and obediently and creates the most exhilarating ride you've probably never even imagined possible! It's true, she is very sensitive and IS trained way too much for many riders to comprehend...like those who think pulling back means slow or stop and kicking/kissing means to go forward. Being so sensitive and "overtrained" for most riders makes finding a perfect match more difficult, but if you are a rider that connects with your horse with butter soft reins and every position of your body & soft word you speak controls your horse's mind and body, YOU may be the right match for  her and she the most amazing horse you'll ever experience!  Come ride her with me and if you're a good match & buy her, I'll teach you all her ques and you will have the most incredibly fun horse to ride that ever existed, for many years to come!!!

Rawhide Rock's Valentine

$10,000

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Valentine was born May 2024 & will mature around 15.2 hands. Her sire is Venom, a son of Rowdy Rawhide's Rock & a trotting Standardbred mare & her dam is also sired by The Rock and out of a pacing Standardbred mare! We expect this beautiful mare to be a smooth riding, long distance, speed machine! She is intelligent, gentle, sweet, gaited like crazy! I know of NO OTHER mare in the western US bred so athletic as she is for smooth riding speed and endurance, balance and agility. She is a sweet and gentle horse that anyone will quickly fall in love with!

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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