We give "Star" the credit for getting us interested in Morgan horses.

We started searching for Morgan Horses for our family. We wanted to find some special Morgan horses that enjoyed being with people. We wanted horses that would become a friend to the girls. These horses had to have a loving, kind, trusting disposition. We found a lot of Morgan Horses on the Websites, but looking at the picture is not the same as looking at the horse. We wanted to look into their eyes. We wanted to feel their spirit. We wanted to check out their disposition. We started looking for Morgan horses to buy. We found Summer and she is just as nice as Star.

Our goal is to raise "Kids Horses" that can be trusted with respect. What does "Trusted with Respect" mean? It means that you understand that a horse is a horse and always you respect them, you are careful around them and you make them behave. Understanding this concept is a part of trust and the girls have been taught to "Trust with Respect" the horses they work with.

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It is interesting how people see horses differently. You hear someone say, "That's a good looking horse" and you think to yourself, "He is not quite what I am looking for." A horse that looks good to one person might not look good to another person. Have you ever thought about the idea that the conformation of a horse might be considered good depending on what you are looking for, what you want to use the horse for and in what makes you feel good when you look at the horse? If you can look at a horse and say to yourself, "That is a good looking horse." or "I like the looks of that horse.", then you will feel good every time you look at it. You will feel good every time you feed it, work with it and ride it.

When we were looking for horses and we found a horse with a good disposition and one that could be trusted, if the horse didn't look good to us we didn't buy it. Pictured below are two mares, Harmony and Twinkles, that looked good to us and we bought them. We hope they look good to you. 

He has a friend that is a cattle buyer. The friend buys cattle in many of the western states--Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. A cattle buyer is a different breed of cowboy. He can look at a calf, cow, or bull and tell you approximately how much it will weigh. If he sees them six months or even a year later, he will remember. He can look over a corral full of calves and tell you that if you will cut out this one or that one, he will buy the rest. In just minutes, his searching gaze can detect sickness, a blemish or some defect.

It has been at least twenty years since he heard this story about a cattle buyer and a rancher, and he has never forgotten it. It has affected his life for good, and he feels good every time he remembers it. His friend was not the cattle buyer in the story, but he could have been.

As he remembers the story, a cattle buyer flew to a city in Montana, rented a car, and drove several hours through mostly unsettled country to get to a particular large cattle ranch. He had been buying this rancher's calves for years, and they knew each other well. This year, however, they couldn't agree on a price. The rancher wanted two cents more a pound than the buyer was willing to give. The buyer stayed the night and the next morning drove back to the city where he was to catch his plane home.

Before he boarded the plane for home, he phoned the rancher and made him an offer. He said, "I'll tell you what I'll do. Let's flip a coin. If it comes up heads, you sell at my price. If it comes up tails, I will pay you the extra two cents a pound."

We need to realize what was at stake. It is not uncommon for a big rancher to have a thousand head of calves for sale, or even twice that number. The number of calves this rancher had wasn't mentioned in the story, but let's suppose he had a thousand calves and they weighed five hundred pounds each. Two cents more per pound for a five-hundred pound calf would be ten dollars more for each calf. Ten dollars times a thousand calves would be ten thousand dollars.