West Wind Stables

01/16/2025

WCC WC Callaway’s How About Now? and Jackie Ware! Ladies Amateur Three Gaited World Champion of Champions!

01/14/2025

American Horse Council, President Julie Broadway issues formal request that the USDA delay its implementation of the Horse Protection Act of 2025. In a statement from AHC, “the USDA-APHIS has still not addressed big-picture, fundamental concerns on how the regulation applies to certain disciplines...

01/12/2025

Three years in a row!! WCC WC Arrowhead’s Different Breed of Cat wins the UPHA Overall Harness Horse of the year! Thank you so much for this prestigious award! We love our gentle giant, “Rex”!

01/08/2025

As we head to the UPHA Convention in New Orleans, please be sure to ask Kim or Camille about our selection of top horses for sale! Five gaited, three gaited, park, pleasure or harness! We have selection from all ages and for all budgets! You can also call Kim at 7048808848

01/06/2025

You know what’s hard to find and not easily available? Top Gaited or Gaited Pleasure Horses! So look no further than Landmark’s Mistletoe! This tall, handsome horse could easily brace for an amateur or juvenile, or he flat foot walks for Gaited pleasure, your choice! Offered for your consideration: Contact Kim Cowart 7048808848

12/22/2024

Offered for your consideration! This beauty would be the perfect Christmas gift! 🎁 Kind, good thinking and gorgeous! Put her in any division, park, three gaited, pleasure, country pleasure, equitation or harness. She’s beaten all the World Champions and she’s ready to make your dreams come true! RWC My Crazy Ex- Girlfriend! Contact Kim, 7048808848

12/20/2024

Peter’s second trip to Western North Carolina! Thank you to David Stamey for your donation of this beautiful load of hay! Please don’t forget our friends in Western NC as we head into the holidays ❤️ any questions about how to help or donate please contact us!

12/12/2024

1x WCC 6x WC 4x RWCC 1x RWC CH He’s In Style

2008 - 2024

It’s taken us some time to grieve the loss of WCC WC CH He’s In Style, but we would like to share with you a little bit of what it was like to love “Sparky”. “Sparky” was one of the kindest animals there has ever been in the stall. One of the gamest horses to work. And one of the happiest horses, every single day! “Sparky” was a dynamic star in the show ring with some of the biggest eyes you have ever seen (he liked to bump them a lot too) and his incredible speed. Best of luck if you ever tried to keep up with him racking, he could leave every other horse in the dust when it came time for his second rack! He was allergic to everything in the world, no literally, grass, flies, the sun, grain, hay, cats. Everything you could find in a barn or on a farm, and yet, he always powered through. This was just a part of how resilient he was as a show horse! When asked what horse had made Peter a better horse trainer and had challenged him the most, he replied “‘Sparky’ because it was an incredible challenge to keep and maintain this great horse at the top for so many years.”

“Sparky” came to West Wind in 2013 for Emma Sanchez purchased by her grandmother, Sharyn Lackey. It was then that a legendary team was born. That year, Kim Cowart took over the reins while Emma learned how to grow with “Sparky” and Kim took home the Ladies Five Gaited World Championship and World Champion of Champions classes. After this, Emma and “Sparky” became an unstoppable force competing with all of the best and growing their partnership!

They took home several World Championships and Reserve World Championships in both Juvenile and amateur classes, as well as countless classes in their career. Their first time together in Freedom Hall they won the Junior Exhibitor Five Gaited World Championship.

“Sparky” was retired at West Wind, for the past few years, although he was greatly missed on our show string, we were grateful for the opportunity to care for this incredible animal for the rest of his life. He loved trail rides with Emma, well, he loved running off on trail rides with Emma! But even ba****ck and barefoot, you could never deny that “Sparky” had the perfect rack!

He was buried here on the farm he loved, surrounded by all that loved him. “Sparky” you will always and forever be one of the greatest of all time, thank you for sharing your friendship and talent all these years!

12/10/2024

12/07/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

12/06/2024

2023 and 2024 Ladies/Ladies Amateur Five Gaited Horse of the Year! As well as Open Gaited Horse of the Year in 2022 with Grey Ridge Farm and Overall Gaited Horse of The Year 2022 and 2023! Thank you to our fellow professionals for voting for this wonderful horse for this prestigious award! There are very few horses as grand as “Tre” and we are so lucky to have had TWO undefeated years with him!

12/06/2024

UPHA Amateur/Ladies Fine Harness Horse of the Year! What an honor, we are so grateful to our fellow professionals who voted for this grand horse to win this prestigious award! 2022 and 2023 Open Fine Harness Horse of the Year! As well as Overall Harness Horse of the Year 2022 and 2023! “Rex” is the nicest horse to be around every day in and out of the show ring! Undefeated in 2024!

12/03/2024

Snow day here at West Wind! Picture first are our weanlings. Leading the pack is a full brother to WCC WC Arrowhead’s Different Breed of Cat. In the middle, a filly out of WC The Cat Walk by Say Amen, on the other side a c**t by I’m Lookin and out of a Worthy Son mare. In the back another filly by I’m Lookin and out of an I’m A New Yorker mare!

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving! Giving thanks means also giving back! After Hurricane Helene, western North Carolina has been terribly damaged. With no idea how many animals are also suffering, we were able to take 32 round bales of horse quality hay and deliver it to Boone! Please remember today that while we give thanks for our blessings, we must always give back to our communities! Today we feel extra blessed for our incredible farm! If you are looking for ways to give back, we can put you in contact with several people who are in desperate need of help to care for these animals!

11/22/2024

Welcome to the family, WGC WC Midd’s Delaney! What an honor to welcome this special mare to the Swope Equine and West Wind teams! Thank you to Christine Broder and Tiffany and Steve Wheeler, Autumn Hills Farm, for your incredible preparation of this horse and the opportunity to own her, we are so grateful! It’s not very often you get the opportunity to have horses like this in your barn! Beyond excited to get Susan and Delaney paired together for 2025!