Our vision, as a small breeder, is to raise quality Quarter Horses (and draft crosses!), with great minds novices can ride/enjoy, too.  

Our performance program focuses on legendary lines, with mares who have LTE/PE. Our program started with daughters of the greats; Grays Starlight, Playgun, Shining Spark, Smart Little Lena, Peptoboonsmal, and so on.  We cross these special mares to the greatest stallions, who complement each mare, to create a high end talent pool. 

Our Open NRCHA trainers cherry pick which of our colts they take into performance training.  The remaining long-yearlings are either available for sale, or they move into our family program, where we develop a curated selection of all-around, versatile, family horses.

We've personally had a hard time finding what we needed (athletic yet broke & sane) for our kids... so we decided to make them ourselves in collaboration with talented trainers we know & respect. 

We believe, in order to offer a truly bombproof family horse, they need to be put through the paces of life.  Our family horse training program is 2+ years, for each horse, before a sale (no quick flips here).  

8D Ranch wants the best for BOTH our clients AND our horses.  As such, our family horses are tested; they are safe, sane, and sound.  And we match them with a potential buyers actual needs.   

We make the buying process simple and worry free.  Connect and let us now how we can help in your horse search process.