4 Line Ranch

01/06/2025

You have many people cheering you on. 🙌🏼

01/02/2025

Just 75 days until our first of three foals is due! This is Smart Kitty Cuttin “Shorty”, a daughter of Kit Dual, out of a daughter of Peponitas Acre. She’s expecting a foal by CALL ME MITCH! We are hoping for a bay roan filly. 🤞🏻

We plan to breed Shorty one more time before she gets a cushy retirement at 4 Line Ranch. We may interrupt her retirement for a few trail rides, and a bit of weanling babysitting here and there.

01/02/2025

Don't let fear get in the way of your dreams.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year from 4 Line Ranch! 🎉

This year we provided farm fresh beef to 14 families, dirt raised pork to 8 families, eggs to 7 families and raw milk to 2 families. A big thank you to all of our clients, family, friends and neighbors for supporting our operation.

On the horse side of the business, we had 1 foal born on the ranch in 2024- Kits Stunner Shades is our first AQHA c**t. He is sired by Stunned, and out of Smart Kitty Cuttin (by Kit Dual). Details on available horses can always be found on our website: www.4lineranch.com.

Our reined cow horse prospect Gin Blossom spent the year at Luke Jones Performance Horses and competed in her first show at the SDRCHA Road to Texas futurity in August. She tied for 3rd in the Open Level 1 herd work, netting her first NRCHA earnings. We hope to continue to show her next season.

We are expecting 3 foals in 2025- Smart Kitty Cuttin is expecting a foal by CALL ME MITCH in March, followed by our leased recipient mare, who is carrying a foal by AQHA legend Playgun, out of War Ponies’ NRCHA and NRHA money earning mare Smoke N Jet Surprise. Finishing up our foaling season is Dun It Strait Delta (Dun It Strait x Deltas Spicy Diamonds) with her first foal, sired by Metallic Chrome.

We have exciting equine crosses coming up for the 2025 breeding season - Playgun, Snapdragons and Metallic Chrome. 🥰

Thank you for visiting our website! Tucked in the rural setting of central Iowa, 4 Line Ranch LLC breeds and raises quality American Paint Horse and American Quarter Horse reined cow horse prospects, from proven working lines. While we are small in the numbers of foals we produce, we are 100% focu....

01/01/2025

Happy birthday horses! 🥳

12/24/2024

12/18/2024

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12/14/2024

Happy National Day of the Horse to our fantastic equines: Sage, Odessa, Mimic, Shorty, Shorty’s c**t and 1181/Ellie.

12/10/2024

While it was a very windy day today, I am fortunate to still be enjoying trail rides in December in Iowa! Our three year old mares, Mark The Stars (Hollywood Reminic x Docs Painted Dice) and NRCHA money earner Gin Blossom (Playing On Gin x Alazulenas Delta Cat) did great on their solo trail rides today.

12/10/2024

Sometimes perspective can change everything.

Instead of “The last thing I want to do is ride after working all day.”

Say “How grateful I am that I get to ride.”

Instead of “ I wish I had a better rig.”

Say “ I’m grateful I don’t have payments like those on the better rigs.”

Instead of “I wish I could afford $100,000 horses.”

Say “I’m grateful to be learning to make finished horses, learning the hard way will insure my skills for life.”

Instead of “It must be nice.”

GET. TO. WORK.

12/07/2024

Our friends at Bickell Ranches, LLC will be offering Run The Jewels to the public this year. We’ve seen “Boy” in person a few times, and he is just as handsome in person as he is in photos. We are definitely putting him on our list. 😍

Introducing Run The Jewels- APHA Stallion, a 2019 Sorrel Tobiano, sired by NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion, Time for the Diamond out of Deltas Playgirl. 14.3HH, 8 panel negative, ee AA n/TO. Limited book. Standing at Stillwater Equine Veterinary Services.

Official American Paint Horse Association

11/29/2024

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All about owning a horse 😅
credits: Pinterest

11/28/2024

🍁 Happy Thanksgiving from the crew at 4 Line Ranch! Today we take time to appreciate the things we are thankful for, like beautiful views between the ears of our equines. 🥰

11/25/2024

We had a fantastic weekend in Allerton, Iowa for Luke Jones’ clinic. Gin Blossom “Odessa” seemed to enjoy being back at Luke’s barn for a visit, and did a great job working the flag and cattle. We learned new techniques and drills to continue improving our performance, and made many new friends. We are sure looking forward to showing Odessa!

*thank you to Lesa V. for taking action shots!

11/25/2024

We’ve had a lot of rain this fall, and of course that makes for muddy horses. 🤭 Here’s our pasture fresh broodmares! They are looking very round, and our first mare is due in just 115 days!

Smart Kitty Cuttin “Shorty” (Kit Dual x PA Belle Star x Peponitas Acre) is expecting the only AQHA foal for 2025, but it’s going to be a really good one! Shorty won money as a sorting horse in her younger years. We bred her to CALL ME MITCH this season.

1181 “Ellie” is a recipient mare carrying a very special APHA foal. The dam of the foal is War Ponies’ NRHA *and* NRCHA money earning mare, Smoke N Jet Surprise. “Gracie” is homozygous tobiano, meaning this foal is guaranteed to have spots. We crossed her to AQHA legend Playgun!

Dun It Strait Delta “Gemma” (Dun It Strait x Deltas Spicy Diamonds) is the only maternal sibling to Equistat #1 APHA reined cowhorse sire, Spooks Delta Dude. We bred Gemma to Metallic Chrome, and she is due in late April 2025 with her first foal.

11/21/2024

This AQHA c**t is a really nice one! This is the first time I’ve actually tied him up, and while I did leave him a bit of room for wiggles and pacing, he didn’t do any of that. He didn’t seem to mind a bit. In fact, he was napping most of the time. 😴

His sire is Stunned (LTE 110k, PE 196k), and his dam is my Kit Dual daughter, Smart Kitty Cuttin, who won money in the sorting pen. He is paid up in Riata Buckle for 2024, and eligible for Royal Crown Roping, NRCHA Stallion Stakes, Ranching Heritage, Nebraska Quarter Horse Classic and the IQHA Ranch Horse Futurity.