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I don't have a farm, ranch, or even acreage.

I do have geat reining horses and prospects for sale.

My goal has been to acquire good reining mares and produce high quality reining horses.

I live near New York City, and it is more cost effective for me to keep the young horses in more rural areas.

A horse in training is placed with the trainer that I think will be best for him or her.

By not having a facility or having to rely on one trainer, I believe that I can do more to help each horse achieve his or her full potential and make it cost-efficient to do business.

I breed only a few horses a year. My overhead is low. I hope to pass these efficiencies on to buyers.

There's no long driveway, no indoor arena, no fancy office. Just great horses, honestly presented.

I got into reining quite by accident, when I took on a part-time job as editor of NRHA Reiner back in 1995.

I had written for horse magazines since the early 1980s. I'd been an editor with Practical Horseman, Performance Horseman, and Horse & Rider. I'd worked with a number of well known NRHA and AQHA competitors on articles--but I'd never ridden a reining horse.

When I took a full time job with Rodale Press (publisher of Prevention and Men's Health, also in 1995), photographer Cappy Jackson and I made one final trip for Horse & Rider.

I had the opportunity to meet and interview NRHA icon Bill Horn and AQHA legend Carol Harris.

I decided to treat myself to reining lessons--I had never seen anything like the precision of BH's ride.

A few years later, I had a horse at Kim Sloan's Kebra Ranch and looked at yearlings bred for NRHA competition.

I picked a yearling out of the field that I thought was fantastic, Mifillenium. My husband and I bought him and went through the rollercoaster of owning a horse talented enough to excel at the highest level of NRHA futurity competition.

I sold him as a 4 year old. He went to Tim McQuay and then to Italy, where he went on to greatness in international NRHA reining competition.

Since then, I've tried to buy nice mares and build a breeding operation based on reining and NRHA competition.

The horses on this site are in various locations: Tunkhannock, PA; Campbell Hall, NY; Weldon, NC. If you see anything you like, please give me a call.

Thanks for looking.

Cathy Herbert
845 325 8274
craym61347@aol.com