SaddleGaits Farm Horses breeding & sales

12/22/2023

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our amazing barn family!!!

12/14/2023

I don’t know how my hippo is going to make it 3 more months 🥴😳

11/03/2023

No good horse is a bad color, but…….i sure have some pretty ones if I do say so myself!!

10/05/2023

Can’t wait for March 2024 to see what our gorgeous Diva has cooking up!!
So excited to see what this foal will look like!!

03/26/2023

Can’t wait to get our pretty Scarlett going under saddle!

03/18/2023

This stunning, even when dirty, guy is sold and going to his new home this week!
So excited for his future!!

03/16/2023

2022 Fall weanlings had their first trim and were big boys about it!

03/02/2023

Odessa got to hang out with her little brother some today!

12/23/2022

11/15/2022

We have 3 gorgeous TWH c**ts (palomino, buckskin, buckskin overo) that sure would look good with a big red bow on them 🎁🎁🎁
Just saying’…

10/17/2022

Last foal is finally here! Only took her almost a year.
Sassy welcomed her palomino c**t into the world last night. It was all boys for us this year, 4 boys.

10/16/2022

Roulette (Ted Williams mare) sure can make a foal with a presence. I sure love my buckskins!!
Waiting on coat color results for both little guys.

10/01/2022

Just realized I haven’t been sharing these guys! They are growing and filling out nicely.

10/01/2022

Sassy is still cooking that pretty foal!

09/15/2022

Today we welcome our newest buckskin c**t to the farm!
Royal Ivory top x Ted Williams bottom

08/29/2022

Definitely has been a shocking day around here….Diva welcomed a big c**t into the world sometime last night. I got quite a shock seeing that bright white baby first thing this morning when I wasn’t even on foal watch yet!! He’s early, but seems to be healthy and active. We knew she could have “lit up”, but never dreamed he would be this color!!

08/15/2022

The red headed sisters! Can’t wait to get these girls started under saddle soon. Love my red roan QHs.

08/14/2022

Mr Dude (the QH c**t) first time leading and we took a walk around the barn while his mama ate her breakfast. I really like this smart little guy.

08/01/2022

Talk about a glow up! Love these two and can’t beat their temperaments and love for kids!

05/02/2022

Any day now! We are ready to meet this baby!!
(I think she will go another week)

04/26/2022

Where are all my 16+hd walking horse breeders at?!?!
Anyone looking for a big b***d & striding mare to add to your broodmare band or finish her for riding, here she is!!
Silver’s Penny Pusher
TWHBEA reg buckskin mare

Lightly getting started under saddle and she’s a big moving girl.
Priced lower than she’s worth.
She’s just much too tall for my lesson program. My loss is your gain.

04/16/2022

Just wanted to share the most gorgeous mare. Can’t wait to see what our fall foal looks like!

04/12/2022

My little Missy girl is getting closer.
I’m hoping for a nice cow horse!
(First QH baby ever born here 🫢)

03/16/2022

Talk about a glow up! Can’t wait until she sheds out💗 Odessa💗
Can’t wait to see what Diva gives us in Nov with the same cross, ultrasound says it’s a c**t💙

03/16/2022

**This is so true! Some of these are actual reasons why I don’t train horses for the public anymore and why I don’t sell many of my own.**
~Mona Lisa
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Have you thought about quitting your day job to train and sell horses? Here are ten, no make that eleven, good reasons to reconsider that career change.

1. Your weekends will be shot.

It seems like the majority of the horse-buying world’s population works Monday through Friday. That means the only time people can shop for a horse is on the weekends. No more weekend plans for you with your family and friends. And they usually call at 5pm Saturday night as your headed out the door to dinner, for the first time all week not smelling of manure with shavings in your hair. Might as well get a restaurant job instead, because if you’re going to work on the weekend, at least you’ll have a steady source of income and be able to score free meals.

2. No matter how many good horses you sell, people will always remember you for that ONE incident when they came to see a horse. You know the time, they rolled in the mud with the saddle or suddenly got terrified of the fly spray bottle they see daily.

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the name Bill Clinton? I can almost guarantee it’s not how he ran our country.

3. You will always end up with that one horse who stays skinny and lame no matter what you do.

No one wants a lame bag of bones — you won’t even be able to give him away and the client who sent him to you, will always claim, to be innocent and they don't think he's skinny...as you count every rib. You will be stuck with him until you give up and pour hundreds of dollars of your own money into said horse. And the seller will always think it looks fine, he's just fit....BS, he's skinny lady and it’s cost me tons in supplements to get him looking better. Or better yet the one that sends the horse, lame, injured ir sick. She’s always sound the owner says as you and the shipper look at its recent cuts, wounds and bowed tendon. Yeah right?!

4. Everyone already “knows” how to ride.

That is, until they get to your place and fall off. But in court they’ll cry to the judge that they were bucked off and your horse was crazy. They seem to forget that you all but refused to let them try the horse and you told them not to lope it and ask for a rollback. It rolled back, they didn't.

5. People love to buy for color.

Yes, you might have the perfect bay-colored gelding for their son, but they insist on the flashy paint stallion that is 15 years old and still won’t let the vet close enough to be gelded.

6. People will use you as an opportunity to get in a free ride.

Of course they’re interested in Pancho the Wonder Horse: it’s 70 degrees, sunny and a Saturday. You brought your whole family in shorts and flip flops? Maybe the horse trailer is hidden behind your mini van? After your whole family got in a ride, you’re going to go home and think it over and promise to call us right back? Let me hold my breath.....

7. People will be forever tied to you.

And if they love the horse they bought, they'll drop you a note or call or text maybe once a year, if you’re lucky but if for some reason the are not happy, they'll be sure to post it on ever social media site there is, AND never even attempt to call you and ask for help.

8. You will cringe every time the phone rings on a holiday or vacation.

Do you answer it, even though it's Christmas Day? One part says, Heck no, the other says, well some don't celebrate Christmas and if you don't answer the phone, they will call on the next horse, so you answer it.........and yes, ask my family, I really have answered buyer calls on Christmas from buyers and sold horses on it too.

9. People will ask all the questions you’ve already answered explicitly in the ad.

“Offered for sale: 16h chestnut Thoroughbred gelding.” “How tall is he and what color is he?” 🤦‍♀️

10. People will be your best friend and recommend you to everyone, until their horse is not perfect.

Until the horse does something horse-like, ya know, like trip or roll in mud or snort at a butterfly and then the whole world will know how horrible a person you are but they still will never call you direct, after all that would be too easy.

11. Almost every horse you have for sale will stay sound and blemish free until the morning the potential buyer is out to look at them.

It’s a law of physics. What’s up must eventually go down. What’s sound must eventually go lame. What’s clean will definitely get dirty.

Honestly, I love my job, it’s a blessing, but there are days slinging coffee at Starbucks sounds rather tempting 😉.

“Credit to Rocky Mountain Performance Horses”

03/13/2022

Wish he had more time at the barn, David is always so good & patient with the babies💙🐴

02/24/2022

This is what we breed for guys! Love it when one just has natural ability. Only her second ride under saddle.

01/27/2022

Haven’t updated in a while, but our monster baby is growing! I call him Moose 🤣
(Royal Ivory x Putting on the Ritz)

01/11/2022

Guess I shouldn’t leave out my QH mare!
Missy is a 2-3 man sorting/team penning mare that is due in June with what looks like a filly.

01/09/2022

My soda drinking Sunny! (Sundrop at Sunrise)
That boy would sn**ch a drink out of your hands before you knew it and turn it up to be sure he got it all!
2002 at the Firecracker Jubilee, I believe.