Starnes Quarter Horses, LLC.

16/08/2024

Our last day in Tulsa did not disappoint! Congratulations to all our great teams on a successful day and a fantastic horseshow!

🛑JUST STOPPIN BY🛑 and Holly Skopp
🥈 Reserve Champion BCF 2YO Limited Open WP
🥈 Reserve Champion 2YO Limited Open WP
Proudly owned by All4One Partnership

🎀CERTAINLY PERSISTENT🎀 and Jay Starnes
🏆Champion BCF 3YO Open WP
Proudly owned by Richard and Betty Jo Carr

‼️Watch for HIP 63 - U WANT IT U GOT IT tonight in the NSBA Yearling Sale! Jester is out of a full sister to World and Congress Champions CERTAINLY PERSISTENT, THE PERFECT ILLUSION, and THE LOPIN ILLUSION and has a set of clean X-Rays‼️

14/08/2024

Congratulations to the offspring of A CERTAIN ILLUSION on sweeping the youth western pleasure at the 2024 NSBA World Championship Show!

🏆 STRIKE 3 & Logan Starnes
World Champion 13 & Under Youth Western Pleasure
Batt Man x A Certain Illusion
Trained by Starnes Quarter Horses LLC

🏆 THE PERFECT ILLUSION & London Liner
World Champion 14-18 Youth Western Pleasure
The Lopin Machine x A Certain Illusion
Trained by King Show Horses

14/08/2024

🏆WORLD CHAMPION🏆
Logan Starnes and Strike 3 take home the win tonight in the 13+ Under Western Pleasure!
It’s been a phenomenal two weeks for this team!

13/08/2024

Come by the sale barn at the NSBA World Championship Show and view the only yearling offered in a public sale for 2024!

HIP 63 - U WANT IT U GOT IT (AQHA/APHA)

The dam of this incredible gelding is a full sister to CERTAINLY PERSISTENT 2024 NSBA World Champion 3 YO Open Western Pleasure.

2023 Sorrel AQHA/APHA Gelding. No Doubt I’m Lazy x Hot Lopin Illusion (full sister to World and Congress Champions The Lopin Illusion and Certainly Persisten...

12/08/2024

A rainy start to a busy day in Tulsa couldn’t keep the Starnes team down!

🎀CERTAINLY PERSISTENT🎀 with Jay Starnes
🏆 Champion 3YO Open WP
Proudly owned by Richard and Betty Jo Carr

🛑JUST STOPPIN BY🛑 with Kristy Starnes
🥈Reserve Champion Color BCF 2YO Open WP
Top 5 BCF 2YO Open WP
Top 5 2YO Open WP
Proudly owned by All4One Partnership

⚾️STRIKE 3⚾️ with Logan Starnes
Top 10 BCF 4-6YO Non Pro WP

09/08/2024

A Certain Illusion congratulates her offspring for being home the globes from the 2024 AQHYA World Championship Show!

Logan Starnes & STRIKE 3
WORLD CHAMPIONS 13 & Under Western Pleasure

London Liner & THE PERFECT ILLUSION
Bronze Champion 14-18 Western Pleasure

30/07/2024

“Practicing with purpose is the key to progress.” – John Wooden

Last practice ride at home before heading west to Oklahoma City for the 2024 AQHYA World Show!

⚾️ Logan Starnes & STRIKE 3 ⚾️
Congress Champions
NSBA World Champions

24/07/2024

We could not be more proud of this duo making their first and final appearance in 13 & under at the 2024 AQHYA World Show!

⚾️ Logan Starnes & STRIKE 3 ⚾️
Congress Champions
NSBA World Champions

20/07/2024

Huge thank you to for coming to relocate this honeybee swarm from one of our pasture feeders this week! Hoping the bees love their new home as much as they liked our mare feeder!

10/07/2024

Breeding season is official over at Starnes Quarter Horses! We are very excited for the crosses we have coming for 2025!

Hay Good Lookin x Its Best To Be Hot
Zippos Mr Good Bar x A Certain Illusion
Nothin But Nett x A Certain Illusion
Fiire N Ice x Thats How U Holiday
Fiire N Ice x RLs Lexus Lady
The Lopin Machine x A Certain Illusion
Batt Man x Enchanted Lexus
Machine Made x A Certain Illusion
No Doubt Im Lazy x A Certain Illusion
Certainly A Vision x Zippn Hot Machine
No Doubt Im Lazy x Hot Lopin Illusion
Made Like No Other x Hot Lopin Legacy
Machine Made x Its Best To Be Hot

Prospects and embryos always available!

05/07/2024

🇺🇸 Happy 4th of July from everyone at Starnes Quarter Horses🇺🇸

29/06/2024

Introducing our 2024 NSBA Sale entry

U WANT IT U GOT IT
2023 AQHA/APHA gelding by No Doubt I’m Lazy x Hot Lopin Illusion. Dam is full sister to Congress and World Champions The Lopin Illusion and Certainly Persistent!
Proudly bred by Jackie & Cathy Starnes

Don’t miss this exceptional gelding!

https://youtu.be/GG_DCmp3XuQ?si=fOdggv7s71j6wYs8

2023 Sorrel AQHA/APHA Gelding. No Doubt I’m Lazy x Hot Lopin Illusion (full sister to World and Congress Champions The Lopin Illusion and Certainly Persisten...

28/06/2024

Old friends are the best friends!

Great to see you again “Clyde”
THE LOPIN MACHINE still looking great after a busy breeding season!

Thank you to everyone at Masterson Farms for the hospitality today showing us all your amazing horses!

25/06/2024

UPDATE!!!!
We have a winner! Well winners! Cheyanne Augsburger and Margaux Tucker your the winners! Thanks to everyone whom put in names and be ready for another foal naming next week!

Well what do we have here… Grover you were born solid bay and we come home from the show to see that your now a bay roan!

Give us your registered name ideas for Grover for a chance to win some Starnes swag!!!

2024 bay roan c**t by VS The Fireman x Its Best To Be Hot.

23/06/2024

Final day of Back To Berrien!! We had an amazing time and are excited to add this show to our must do list for 2025! Thank you to the entire show staff for such a wonderfully run event!

⚾️ STRIKE 3 ⚾️
Unanimous Champion Youth Western Pleasure
Champion 4 YO Non Pro Western Pleasure
Champion Super Sires 4 YO Non Pro Western Pleasure with Logan Starnes
Owned by Jay & Kristy Starnes

👑 CERTAINLY PERSISTENT 👑
Champion 3 YO Open Western Pleasure
Champion Super Sires 3 YO Open Western Pleasure with Jay Starnes
Owned by Rich & Betty Jo Carr

🍪 THATS HOW U HOLIDAY 🍪
Reserve Champion Maturity Open Western Pleasure with Jay Starnes
Owned by Kenna Slater

🎂 THE CAKE LADY 🎂
Top 10 3 YO Open Western Pleasure with Kristy Starnes
Owned by Hannah Wagner

20/06/2024

Congratulations to Jay Starnes & CERTAINLY PERSISTENT Champion All Age Color Western Pleasure.
Proudly owned by Rich & Betty Jo Carr

20/06/2024

Back To Berrien Day 2

🍪 THATS HOW U HOLIDAY 🍪
Top 10 Limited Non Pro Western Pleasure with Kenna Slater

19/06/2024

Great first day at Back To Berrien!

⚾️ STRIKE 3 ⚾️
Champion Youth Western Pleasure with Logan Starnes

🍪 THATS HOW U HOLIDAY 🍪
3rd Amateur Western Pleasure with Kenna Slater

19/06/2024

Excited to be back in Berrien Springs, MI at the Back To Berrien Futurity! Having fun in the evenings playing games, cooking out and just enjoying riding horses!

Good luck to everyone showing this week!

07/06/2024

Congratulations to Todd Allen on the purchase of BIG RED MACHINE 2022 gelding by VS Code Red.

Watch for the is talented gelding under the guidance of Justin Melvin!

06/06/2024

Proudly introducing NEVER AGAIN

2022 gelding by No Doubt I’m Lazy out of A Certain Illusion
Full brother to Never Have I Ever!!

Watch for this outstanding gelding debuting with Jay Starnes at the 2024 Congress Coughlin 2 Year Old Western Pleasure!

Bred, raised and trained by Jay & Kristy Starnes
Now proudly owned by Shane & Kenna Slater!!!

05/06/2024

Congratulations to Jeffery & Linda Sargent on their purchase of SCOOTA LITTLE CLOSER!
2023 Congress Champion
2024 Fun In The Sun Champion
2024 Orange Blossom Champion
2024 Premier Champion

Watch for “Ellie May” and Jeffery Sargent in Select Western Plessure and Shane Dowdy in Open events!

04/06/2024

We would like to congratulate Richard & Betty Jo Carr on their purchase of CERTAINLY PERSISTENT “Victoria”!

2023 unanimous Congress Champion
2024 Fun In The Sun Champion
2024 Orange Blossom Champion
2024 A Sudden Impulse Champion

Watch for this incredible mare to continue her winning ways with Jay Starnes in 2024 and in 2025 with Richard Carr in Select Western Pleasure and Gil Galyean in Open events!

We would like to thank Gil Galyean Quarter Horses for enabling this sale and appreciating “Victoria’s” talents as much as all of us at Starnes Quarter Horses do!

Huge thank you as well to Kathy Elmer who purchased “Victoria” at 8 days old from us and has trusted our program to build “Victoria” into the outstanding mare she is!

02/06/2024

Safely home from a very successful Premier! We know it takes a village but this show really took the cake for us and our entire team pulling together to help! We were thrown a curve ball at home before we left with help but we made the best of it and had a great show. We will surely miss a few but special thanks to the following:

Logan Starnes - There is enough thanks to go around for you… at 14 you were asked to be our assistant and pulled more than your own weight! Not once did you complain or have a bad attitude even after getting up daily at 4am and lunging too many horses to count! And you still got your own horse ready and won the circuit in your class!

Brianne Lenehan - Thank you for holding down the fort at home! It was not the same without you at the show to keep everything organized but we survived it!

All of our clients and family - Thank you for pitching in and helping more than normal! Your assistance was so greatly appreciated at the stalls so we could focus on riding and prepping horses.

The staff of Premier - Thank You for hosting a top notch event that really brings out the best competition!

To the judges - Thank you for acknowledging our horses and riders hard work!

02/06/2024

Congratulations to Paige Blank & on the purchase of OUGHT TO BE BLUE 2022 mare by VS Code Blue out of Somekinda Lazy.

We wish you all the best with “Rosalynn!”

01/06/2024

Last day of the Premier ended great for Team Starnes!

⚾️ STRIKE 3 & Logan Starnes
Circuit Champion 13 & under WP

🍪 THATS HOW U HOLIDAY & Kenna Slater
2nd overall L2 Amateur WP

🖤 A SECRET LOVE 🖤
Multiple Top 5 placings L1 Amateur WP with Dana Stumpf
Multiple Top 5 placings Small Fry WP with Dara Farrell

01/06/2024

Last day of the horse show vibes… the cross ties are about all that’s holding us up!

31/05/2024

THATS HOW U HOLIDAY & Kenna Slater
3rd - 5 & over L1 Non Pro WP

Way to go Kenna & Cookie 🍪 even having a 1st place on one card!!!

30/05/2024

CERTAINLY PERSISTENT & Jay Starnes
4th - 3 yo Open WP at The Premier winning $2000!
Proudly owned by Kathy Elmer