About Us


	A Little Bit About Us Here at Double K Ranch we are a family run business operation with our roots in an agricultural background. Along with a lot of hard work and earnest study, a family knack for observing, and then being able to influence, the behavior of animals led us to become a horse training operation in and around 1995.	There are a good many videos of our horses online, take a look and enjoy!
Word of Mouth Success From a slow and steady start, our training methods gained so many happy customers that we have never advertised our training services, relying on word of mouth to be a much better way. And we have not had any lack of horses! As we work on the many 'training horses', (as well as many of our own,) we adjust our way of working with each individual horse we meet, to best suit the individual's personality, previous history and learning style. There is as much diversity within equines as there is among people, and we have always found it is fastest to figure the horse out and then show the horse how to figure you out.
	A Few Words About The Trainers Although the whole family is involved in the operation in one way or another, (with lot's of behind the scenes work being required!) we thought that you might like to meet the main trainers. So, here they are...
Anne Growing up as the oldest child Anne always had her hand in something horse related, whether it was drawing her own racing stable full of thoroughbreds, (an inch high at the ears,) or training the German Shepherd to jump home-made hurdles in the yard. As soon as she was big enough that her safety conscious parents would let her, she took to horseback whenever she had opportunity, enlisting any unused horse or pony whose owners would agree. Some were quite spoiled, some untrained, and some just got away with whatever they could. Interesting situations occured, and she got a bit of a reputation as a wild child. Mercifully, it never resulted in a serious injury. As a result of her experiences she learned the value of respectful and affectionate partnership between horse and rider. She began being paid for what she loved to do anyway at the age of eighteen.
Roy At fourteen Roy learned to overcome his fear of riding, (induced at a young age by Anne's wild ponies,) and learned to ride confidently on a young Thoroughbred mare.The next year he started his training career with a highly spirited Arab mare, and has gotten along well with hotbloods, coldbloods... and ponies... ever since. [And as an adult has developed a serious softspot for the short and quirky equines, proving it is possible to overcome early traumatization.]
Abigail Starting out young, (as might be expected with her older siblings' horsiness,) Abigail was first dumped off of a miniature pony. She stepped up to Shetlands, then on to bigger ponies, and along the way learned how to avoid the ground landings. She quickly learned the value of training in anticipation of problems, or, taking care of the problem before it has opportunity to happen. She joined the crew at seventeen, and her light touch and understanding is much appreciated by her fellow trainers.

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A Little Bit About Us

Here at Double K Ranch we are a family run business operation with our roots in an agricultural background. Along with a lot of hard work and earnest study, a family knack for observing, and then being able to influence, the behavior of animals led us to become a horse training operation in and around 1995.

There are a good many videos of our horses online, take a look and enjoy!

Word of Mouth Success

From a slow and steady start, our training methods gained so many happy customers that we have never advertised our training services, relying on word of mouth to be a much better way. And we have not had any lack of horses!

As we work on the many 'training horses', (as well as many of our own,) we adjust our way of working with each individual horse we meet, to best suit the individual's personality, previous history and learning style. There is as much diversity within equines as there is among people, and we have always found it is fastest to figure the horse out and then show the horse how to figure you out.

A Few Words About The Trainers

Although the whole family is involved in the operation in one way or another, (with lot's of behind the scenes work being required!) we thought that you might like to meet the main trainers. So, here they are...

Anne

Growing up as the oldest child Anne always had her hand in something horse related, whether it was drawing her own racing stable full of thoroughbreds, (an inch high at the ears,) or training the German Shepherd to jump home-made hurdles in the yard. As soon as she was big enough that her safety conscious parents would let her, she took to horseback whenever she had opportunity, enlisting any unused horse or pony whose owners would agree. Some were quite spoiled, some untrained, and some just got away with whatever they could. Interesting situations occured, and she got a bit of a reputation as a wild child. Mercifully, it never resulted in a serious injury. As a result of her experiences she learned the value of respectful and affectionate partnership between horse and rider. She began being paid for what she loved to do anyway at the age of eighteen.

Roy

At fourteen Roy learned to overcome his fear of riding, (induced at a young age by Anne's wild ponies,) and learned to ride confidently on a young Thoroughbred mare.The next year he started his training career with a highly spirited Arab mare, and has gotten along well with hotbloods, coldbloods... and ponies... ever since.

[And as an adult has developed a serious softspot for the short and quirky equines, proving it is possible to overcome early traumatization.]

Abigail

Starting out young, (as might be expected with her older siblings' horsiness,) Abigail was first dumped off of a miniature pony. She stepped up to Shetlands, then on to bigger ponies, and along the way learned how to avoid the ground landings. She quickly learned the value of training in anticipation of problems, or, taking care of the problem before it has opportunity to happen. She joined the crew at seventeen, and her light touch and understanding is much appreciated by her fellow trainers.

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