Located in sunny Madras Oregon, we are about getting back to basics.  We frown on the specialized industry horses, and are striving to breed the "every event" horse.  Horses should be able to halter (after all it is just a conformation class) in the morning, and catch and stop a cow in the afternoon.  We at CDBH are tired of seeing 1400 pound  halter horses with spindly little legs that can't be ridden or 1200 pound race horses whose legs can't carry them around a track.  We aren't just about barrel horses.  We are about breeding horses that are beautiful to look at, a pleasure to ride, have the conformation to hold up under pressure all day, and have the brains to do every event from hunter under saddle to cutting.  We also believe in helping people understand their horses and their realionship with them. A horse will tell you everything if you just listen.  Our head trainer Sierra Ferguson works with the more difficult cases that are brought here, along with colt starting, and barrel training.  Assistant trainer, Malissa Ferguson does ground work, slow barrel training, barrel lessons, assits in colt starting, coaches Sierra, runs the business end of our operationa and we both do ground work and halter training with our babies.

          OUR MISSION
To make the perfect barrel horse, or any horse for that matter you need cow sense combined with race horse speed. Cow sense being Hicrest King, and race speed being Desierto. Modeled after our do it all unregistered gelding, "Jesse" we went looking for horses of same breeding and conformation to recreate our legend.  Jesse has won mutiple buckles for barrelracing, pole bending, figure eight racing, goat tying, break away roping, and steerdaubing, along with award in halter, western pleasure.  He was also a turn back horse, and working ranch horse in his younger years.
We found by accident, we were successful.  We purchased Munez Fancy Nancy, a granddaughter of Hicrest King and her weanling colt Stylin Beau Jesse three years ago.  Little did we know he would become our star stallion.  We then found and purchased a great granddaughter of Desierto, Wager on Dasher aka Athena.  We had planned on breeding her to Hicrest King Stallion Prime Time Pheobee after she foaled.  At seven months Athena lost her baby, so we tried our rebreed.  After an unsuccessful attempt at that we brought her home to cross to Stylin Beau Jesse,our barely two year old colt who had blossomed over the winter. He was after all Hicrest King bred.  We now have what we started out trying to find,  Kings Firestarter, aka Pyro.  Our replacement for Jesse came out with a similar blaze and he was sorrel. This baby is pretty enough to halter, elegent enough to do dressage, fast enough to race, agile enough to run a barrels and sturdy enough to do it well into his teens.

OUR GOAL
We are attempting to revolutionize the Quarter Horse industry. We want to do what the Simmilinks did in the Paint horse world, but in the Quarter Horse and one step farther. We will enter the Paint as well as Appaloosa scene. Our goal is to get the QH back to the days of Haltering until being of riding age. All halter is is a conformation class, and it has gone horribly wrong. All that muscle over a frame not made for riding is not what the founders of Quarter Horses meant to happen. Specialization of the QH I doubt was meant to happen either. Pleasure horses should have unnatural slow gates and carry their head in the dirt. Horses shouldn't be started at a 18 months and showing hard their three year old year. The race for the big buck has taken people away from horses needs.  I know it's a business, but the turn over of horses is rediculious.  Today’s horses' breeding has been so manipulated and they aren’t handling the stress their joints were bred to do.  All  the refining for the better cow horse, faster race horse, more fluid mover or the most muscled horse is destroying the Quarter Horse breed. Their legs aren't handling the stress and more and more show horses are put to retirement at an early age to avoid life threatening injuries that would jeopardize their breeding careers. Ranchers know this and the NFQHA founders know this and are trying to get the QH back to its origins. We want to do it in the QH shows and change their world. Yes they are big dreams, but we can try. There should be more of the versatility horses and super horses, not just the once in a whiles like Rugged Lark. QH's should be able to show their conformation in halter classes and then go and prove their conformation by stopping a cow or jumping obstacles or turning barrels. They should be heavy boned as well as muscled, you can have the refined look without compromising this, don't believe me look at our horses. Long sloping shoulders that tie in high at the withers, deep chests, short backs with long, undercarriages, with a high croup,  nice round hips that tie in neat to the gaskins, and a 45 degree angle at the pastern that is short to with stand the wear and tear of use. Back to basics that's what we are about whether it be paint, appy or quarter horse we tackle them all.