Welcome to the Booton Equestrian Center web site. Did you know there are only 46 supreme Champions out of over 4 million registered quarter horses.The general requirements for a Supreme Champion includes two official racing grades of AAA, two grand championships at a class A show under two different judges and 40 or more points from Class A shows in halter and performance. Twenty eight of these Supreme Champions are sons, grandsons, or great grandson of the famous Three Bars(TB). Goldseekin Fever pictured at the left is a grandson of Three Bars and a son of the Supreme Champion Gold Seeker Bars. Goldseekin Fever is our foundation sire.

The AQHA started its SUPREME CHAMPION AWARD Program back in 1966, only 46 horses have proven themselves worthy of the highest honor that the Association can bestow, the title of "Open Supreme Champion." The AQHA needs to find a way to revive intrest in and to aggressively promote, their Supreme Champion Award Program. This title "Open Supreme Champion" is the Highest Honor the AQHA can bestow on any registered Qurarter Horse and rightly so. The criteria established, in l966 for earning this title wasn't based on some "dime novelist's " romantic notion about what the ideal Quarter Horse should be. They were based on what the  American Quarter Horse was "THE ONE HORSE WHO COULD, AND DID, DO IT ALL. During the 12 YEARS FROM 1967 to 1979, 44 HORSES earned this. Since Then only 2 have accomplished this feat. In November 1979 Goldseeker Bud (by Goldseeker Bars) became the first Supreme Champion to be sired by a Supreme Champion. He would also be the last stallion to earn this honor for nearly 19 years. The Quarter Horse once so renowned for its combination of superior conformation, speed and unmatched Versatility..that "ONE HORSE WHO COULD DO IT ALL.' THE LEDENDARY HORSE WHOSE WELL DESERVED REPUTAION SET THE QUARTER HORSE APART FROM EVERY OTHER BREED.  Over the past 30 years the Quarter Horse Industry has become highly specialized and compartmentalized to the point where the majority of today's breeders have totally abandoned the 'ALL AROUND'  horse and are selectively committed to producing the ultimate Reiner, Roper, Cutter, Pleasure or Halter horse. The event-specific horse is over the long term greatly weakening the breed. The  Reining horses who can't run barrels, barrel horses who can't cut a cow, cutters who can't pleasure and pleasure horses who can't run, runners who can't halter and halter horses who can't do anything. Sadly, whoever wins today's specific event won't be the classic "All-Around" Quarter Horse who could do it all. The AQHA Executive Board of Directors have taken two giant steps in the right direction. First was the recent announcement to all judges of AQHA Western Pleasure classes of a new and hightly siginificant "GAIT" rule designed to put the forward motion back into the Western Pleasure Horse. That is drive and impulsion, not a horse with his nose to the ground pushing a peanut. AQHA even went so fars as to provide the judges with a video tape which demonstrates the new gait and also explains how it is to be scored. The new gait rule is to be implemente immediately.  Their second, and even more highly siginficant action, involves the formation of a special task force to set up and study the need for a rule requiring Halter horses to also perform under saddle. These two bold initatives rightly deserve the applause and support of the Association members and non-members alike who share a deep and abiding love for the real American Quarter Horse.  We have either been  ahead or behind, because the all around quarter horse has been our goal all of the time. So how about it...ARE YOU READY TO MAKE THE NEXT AQHA SUPREME CHAMPION? We have the horses that can do it for sale. 

                                 Training Tips By Marge.

Marge has over thirty years as a professional horse trainer. She has shown at all levels of competition from local shows to the Nationals. She is in semi-retirement because of health problems but misses the one on one contact with her students. She would like to pass on the knowledge she has learned and will work with any of you that have horse problems. Just E-mail her at bootonranch@leblink.com with your problem and she will get right back to you. All questions will be answered it does not matter if it is from a novice or from another trainer looking for a different approach to a problem. 

Contact us at (417) 533-5392  or e-mail  bootonhm@fidnet.com