Texas Horse Ranch Breeds Competition Cutting Horses
The Double S Ranch is a family-owned working Cutting Horse and Guest Ranch, nestled on over 800 secluded acres in East Texas, adjacent to Lake Cypress Springs just outside of Mt. Vernon, Texas.
The ranch specializes in breeding and training of Paint and Quarter Cutting Horses and belongs to several professional associations including the National Cutting Horse Association, American Cutting Horse Association, American Paint Horse Association, and the American Quarter Horse Association.
The Double S Ranch (www.doublessranch.com) uses state of the art facilities in its cutting horse operations.
There is a fully enclosed indoor arena that has an upstairs air-conditioned viewing room for prospective buyers to watch the horses and cattle in action.
The ranch also has a large outdoor working arena with raised seating for showing horses in nice weather.
In addition to the two arenas, there are also two horse barns.
One barn houses 20 horse stalls, an office, a tack room and a breeding area.
The other contains several expandable horse stalls for mares and their foals.
All of the fine facilities are in place to aid in the development of competition quality Cutting Horses.
Many of the horses at the Double S Ranch come from championship bloodlines.
American Quarter Horse Association bloodlines include Dual Pep, Dual Peppy, TR Dual Rey and CD Olena just to name a few.
There are also several horses with American Paint Horse Association bloodlines from the likes of Doc Stinger, Diamond Jewel, Diamond Jim, and Durn Critter Dandy Boy, which is the only homozygous bloodline at the ranch.
The Double S Ranch also has its own prize winning Paint Horse stallion used in breeding, Sting-n-Starlight. The Double S Ranch also makes good use of the expansiveness of the property.
The ranch has 100 acres of land where it grows its own grass to feed the horses.
The grass is cut, raked and bailed several times a year and stored in an 8500 square foot hay barn to provide the horses with adequate nutrition and to ensure the ranch has complete control over its operations.
The ranch utilizes the many natural springs and wells on the property to run an irrigation system that is used in the summer months to water the grass in the horse pens.
A herd of cattle is also maintained on the property and is used in the training of the horses.In addition to breeding, training and selling horses, the ranch recently opened its gates to vacationers.
Contained with in the 800 acres is Deer lake Cabins, which is owned in conjunction with the Double S Ranch.
Deer Lake Cabins offers 8 luxury cabins that can accommodate from 2-8 people.
Most of the cabins are located on the shores of the ranch's two stocked fishing lakes.
All cabins are beautifully furnished and include full kitchens, televisions, VCRs, central heat and air and most have washers and dryers.
Guests are given free rein to explore the 12 miles of trails and experience all of the nature and wildlife that exist at the ranch.
Guests are also given access to fishing boats that are equipped with electric motor so they can fish or just ride around on the lakes.
As a way to let visitors interact more closely with the wildlife and give them more viewing opportunities, special grass and wild feed have been planted through out the property to encourage deer and other wildlife to remain on the property.
Also, in an effort to blend the horse ranch operations with the guests staying at the cabins, the Double S Ranch will soon be providing trail riding experiences via horseback.
Thus giving the guests a more rustic adventure and a different prospective of nature.
The Double S Ranch plans on staying a small and cozy vacation getaway, with the accommodations and service for large groups, but the seclusion and privacy that families desire.For information on the Double S Ranch and the cutting horse operations, visit www.doublessranch.comFor information on vacation stays and cabin rentals, visit www.deerlakecabins.com.
Horse Training Techniques From The 1800's-
Was he the world's greatest horse trainer of all time?
Would his picture be in the horse trainer's Hall Of Fame?
Perhaps.His name was Jesse Beery.
Before he was twenty he became a world class horse trainer.
He was so well known, there were more people who heard of him than didn't.Jesse Beery learned how to train horses almost entirely on his own because there were few people who knew how to train a horse.
Beery's parents discouraged horse training as a career but later okay'd his passion.
From then on there was no stopping Beery from achieving greatness.Beery's first inclination to train horses happened when he drove a horse and buggy to a friend's house.
As Beery exited the buggy the horse spooked and ran home.
During that long walk home Beery was
determined to make his horse stay put.As he worked with his horse he discovered ways to get a horse to do what he wanted.
Although nearly killed in training...
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FIVE EASY TIPS ON HOW TO BUY THE RIGHT HORSE.
If you are looking for a horse or pony for sale, a horse trailer or even an entire horse farm for sale, here are some tips to get you started. Buying a horse is a big event. There are so many important things to consider that an impulsive buy is out of the question. Any would-be equine owner must think about things like finding an appropriate boarding stable and purchasing all the correct equipment you may need. You should seek out other horse owners and speak to them.
As a start, the Internet offers a wealth of information. Your best bet is to start a search for "How to buy a horse". This will bring up many dedicated sites with in-depth guides, tips and FAQs on the process of buying your own horse. In brief: 1. Be responsible for your purchase.
Investigate what you are buying and who you are buying from. It's better to buy from people who are in the business and have lots of horses to choose from. If you aren't an experience buyer it's too risky to buy from a private individual....
FIVE EASY TIPS ON HOW TO BUY THE RIGHT HORSE.
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Horse Breeds - American Quarter Horse
The American Quarter Horse is the first breed of horse native to the United States.
The breed evolved when the bloodlines of horses brought to the New World were mixed.
Foundation American Quarter Horse stock originated from Arab, Turk and Barb breeds.
Selected Stallions and Mares were crossed with horses brought to Colonial America from England and Ireland in the 1600's.
This combination resulted in a compact, heavily muscled horse that evolved to fill the colonists passion for short distance racing.
The amazing power behind a quarter horse enabled this great animal to run short distances over a straightaway faster than any other horse with the fastest being named Celebrated American Running Horse.
The names for this breed has changed many times over the years until 1940 when a registry was formed to preserve the breed which officially became the American Quarter Horse Association.
In the year 1674 in...
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