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ARBUCKLE TRAIL RIDES

OUR HORSES

2005 babies 'greeting' a little visitor

We have raised and trained high quality Registered Quarter Horses for 36 years. This is our day job.

A good trail horse is one that does everything and goes everywhere the rider wants with a minimum of asking. He is quiet, does not easily 'spook' or shy. He is sure-footed and watches carefully where he places his feet. We ride in rugged country and is takes a horse a long time to learn to travel in it safely if he was not raised in that kind of environment. (Our broodmares and foals spend their summers running in rough pastures.) A good trail horse does not try to travel faster or slower than the group and above all, is well trained enough to leave the group and ride where he is told to go. He has good manners, i.e. he stands quietly for mounting and dismounting, stops and stands still when asked, is not upset when something is dropped or gets around his feet, etc. In other words, he is a well trained horse; not a 'deadhead' that just follows the horse in front of him. We gather and work cattle on all our trail horses! Go visit our "WOLFE RANCH QUARTER HORSES" web site. See the kind of 'user friendly' horses we raise. Throughout the site, if a horse is said to be a good trail horse, it means just that. Below are pictured horses that we are training to be good trail horses, all bred and raised on our ranch.

Our bloodlines include the top Cowhorse and Cutting bloodlines in the Nation. We have a grullo/gray double Driftwood horse, a Colonel Freckles, Doc Bar & Zan Parr Bar winning reining horse and a son of Haidas Little Pep. All of our horses are bred for good bone and feet; great minds and trainability; and they are bigger and stouter than most cutting bred horses.