References and Testimonials

 

Over the years, I have worked with many breeds and personalities.  Often enough the training process has had to return to the most fundamental, such as ground manners, trailer loading, and standing for the vet or farrier.  This is not the case with horses produced by New Horizons Ranch.

 Foals begin their friendship with humans, along with their education, at birth.    They are handled, shown affection, and taught consistently until they are finally ready to be ridden.  This preliminary education makes backing the horse for the first time simply a new phase of an already well-established, trusting relationship between horse and human.  It is also evident down the road when a rider makes a mistake or needs to be taken care of by their mount.

 Their calculated, responsible breeding program coupled with thorough preliminary training techniques produces not only top quality horses, but also equines I am both proud and honored to call my friends.

 Thank you New Horizons Ranch for so many wonderful and diverse horses to train and learn from!

 One… Two… Three… Fence!

 Janice Anderson

www.janiceManderson.com

 

Heather, 

I want to thank you for the care you take in training and health of your horses.

Also, for answering the many questions I had after purchasing Ibby, which we renamed Takota. 

I can’t tell you how much I appreciated you working with your foals from birth when the first night I had Takota he ended up in the neighbor’s pasture at 6 months old. It was dark and I went out armed only with a flashlight and a lead rope to find him. I called his name and he whinnied to me. I walked up to him, hooked the lead rope to his halter, and we walked about a half a mile in the dark with dogs he didn’t know following and my neighbor following us with his truck, so we could see the road. We had to go through 2 gates to get to the barn. Takota was a little nervous and only slightly side stepped once when the dogs ran close to him. I could tell he was used to being handled and what could’ve been tragedy was not thanks to your training methods. 

Takota is now 17 months old and is quite the gentleman. He enjoys the tasks I put to him and gets along very nicely with all my other horses.

With the excellent trainer you use for your horses and how you yourself work with the horses, I know that your training program is one that can be trusted. When I need another horse I would not hesitate to purchase one from you.

Thank you for all your hard work and I look forward to doing business with you in the future.

 

                    “Happy Trails”                                             

                      Gail Finger

       www.texasequineartistry.com

 

 

 

The first time I met Heather was at a Bill Woods Clinic. I was attending to watch a rider on my TB gelding in the Clinic ( as I was expecting a baby ). I did a walk through at the barn and I immediately spotted Darktanion. WOW!! I had to know who owned this beautiful animal. Needless to say I was drooling over him and missed some of my geldings class. Later on down the road I met up with Heather again. After just a few minutes of speaking with her I knew that she knew her horse business and breeding. I also knew that she had brought a much needed breed to this area. All of her crosses with Darktanion have been phenomenal. I've had the pleasure of riding not only Darktanion but some of her other awesome horses that she owns or has for sale. Some have been lesson horses used out here at my stables. I've never been on a horse of Heathers' that was not well behaved. I bought her TB colt (Center Stage Slew) when he was only a few months old. And let me tell you, at 2 months of age this colt was halter broke, leading, tying, backing, picking up his feet for you and self loading in the trailer!!! She really spends a lot of quality time with the babies so they have manners and I don't know many people (if any) who imprints their foals as well as Heather. I look forward to having a Darktanion baby in the near future :)

 

                 Lana Hughes                                           

          www.lonestarhstables.com

 

 

"I really enjoyed keeping my young gelding at New Horizon Ranch. They took very good care of my youngster, and I found the training sessions very successful."

-Erin Wiesinger
 

 

 

I have been a trainer, competitor, instructor and breeder over a period of thirty-five year's and have been fortunate enough to have ridden many great horse's. I have also schooled under the direction of some of the greatest trainer's in the United State's as well as abroad, people like Major Hector Carmona, John Winnett, Locke Richard's a coach for the New Zealand 3-day team, Wolfgang Delefont and Dr. Anna Becker Peterson a former student of Dr. Reiner Klimke.
 
It has been my pleasure to have worked with the Friesian stallion Darktanion, this is a very athletic horse with the mind and work ethic we only wished all horse's had, his crossing on Arabian's and Thoroughbred's are superb! His son Tanion a thoroughbred cross is a real delight to work with, great conformation and excellent mover and has that same kind heart and work ethic of his sire. I believe this cross produces an elegant sport horse with bone, substance, good movement and the attitude for amateur's to succeed at all levels of performance disciplines and having a lot of fun attaining their goals.
 
Continued success with the breeding program at  New Horizon Ranch.
 
    David W. Loiselle
 

 

Wanted to thank you again for allowing Darktanion to be a part of our wedding day! He is such a gorgeous boy and so well mannered to get along so well with all the festivities, music, people, cameras, (girl in a big pouffy dress climbing around on his back). He was such a gentleman through all of it and just gave such a fairytale look to the wedding and the photos! Heather and Jan did such an outstanding job making everything go smoothly and going the extra mile to add all the little finishing touches! Thank you guys again from the bottom of my heart! You've made a horse girl's dream wedding come true!

Thanks again!
Bethany and David.

 

 

Anna (9 y.o.) and Emma (7 y.o.) have been using various New Horizons Ranch horses for almost 2 years for riding lessons. The horses are gentle and well trained with just the right amount of spunk for inexperienced, young riders.  Being unfamiliar with the equestrian community, it is great to have someone like Heather to answer all of our many questions.  It is obvious when talking to Heather how much she loves her horses.  The girls never tire or complain about going to riding lessons.  Thanks, Heather, for sharing your beautiful horses with us.   
 
Stephanie Self

 

 

 

 

 

 

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