06/08/2026
The hardest part about a breeding program is:
1️⃣ Losing or selling horses you love
2️⃣ Making long term breeding goals and plans
I started off with nothing and built my program from the ground up. 5 acres, a stack of corral panels, a water trough, 3 quarter horse mares, and 1 old thoroughbred stud.
Really, I had no intention of building a breeding program at all. What I wanted was to produce a couple appendix horses since I couldn't find anything of the sort for sale. I wanted speed and color, and my dad taught me how to breed, raise, and break horses as a young kid. So, the answer was clear.
The story unfolded from there... I've owned/bred/raised/bought/sold/broke/restarted hundreds and hundreds of horses since then!!
Over the years I've produced multiple horses who are the only ones in the world of their specific color 🤓 (probably my top accolade), built an entire herd of rare black thoroughbreds 😎 (you know what they say about girls with black horses), and I've sold horses to do just about every event/sport under the sun all over the US and Canada.
➡️ I've tried horses that didn't work out
➡️ I've trained trained that didn't work out
➡️ I've changed horses to produce specifics
➡️ I've found the perfect stallion (not even looking) and built an entire herd around him and then lost him unexpectedly at a young age (r.i.p. CLEVER DECLAN)
➡️ I've kept and used horses well into old age (RED BAYOU is 20 this year....)
➡️ I've bought and/or raised horses from foals to be in my herd
➡️ I've lost and/or sold some amazing horses along the way too
I've had to make a lot of changes to my program over the years, and each one has been exciting or challenging for it's own reasons!
Now I'm at a point again to make some bigger changes in my breeding program and plan for the next 3 or so years to come 🥳 things like this need to happen from time to time to give us breeders something to strive for and look forward to 🤠
So here it is: I will be selling most of my black thoroughbred herd this summer 🥺
This has been a crazy tough decision to make, but it's going to have a very big and positive impact on my program going forward 🥵🤕🙏
Let me know if there's one you have been wanting, something you are looking for, or if you want to make a package deal on a very rare, black thoroughbred herd 😎 each horse will have its own listing coming up soon.
Thanks everyone for all your support 🙏 ❤️
