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Remuda: "Group of working horses bred for the ranch specifically to work and pen cattle."
To honor the contributions that ranch horses have made to the heritage of the American Quarter Horse, the American Quarter Horse Association and Pfizer Animal Health present to you the Best Remuda Award. The award began in 1992 and has since recognized several outstanding ranches for their efforts in raising American Quarter Horses, an important tool of their trade.
Any ranch that has five or more American Quarter Horse mares used to produce horses for ranch work and is a member of AQHA is eligible for this award. We encourage you to nominate your ranch or a ranch you feel would be deserving of the Best Remuda Award.
Howard Haythorn came to Maxwell on horseback at age 13, helping his father trail in a herd of cattle and horses to their new home. He stayed in the Nebraska Sandhills to raise his own family and continue the legacy started by his grandfather: raising cattle and well-conformed, cowy American Quarter Horses with which to work them. Today, Howard and his son, Harry Byron Haythorn, run a 1,500-head cow-calf operation on 20,000 acres.
The Moorhouse ranching tradition began in the 1800s when Edward Moorhouse raised cattle in Texas and Oklahoma’s Indian Territory. Edward’s youngest son, Togo, purchased land in the 1930s that would grow into the operation that is today Moorhouse Ranch Co. Togo incorporated the ranch with his sons – Ed, John, Tom and Bob. After Togo’s death in 1995, the ranch was passed down to his sons, who operated the ranch together until 2000. While the brothers split up their shares of the ranch, Tom continued operating his shares under the Moorhouse Ranch Company name. .
Today, the S Ranch is still owned and operated by the Scott family – John Scott Jr., John Scott III, Jim Scott, Maggie Scott Brown and Sissy Scott Croft are all general partners of the 227,000-acre ranch (including leases). The Billings ranch has 58 mares, three stallions and 78 geldings. S Ranch farms 23,000 acres, has a feedlot with about 4,000 head of cattle, runs about 4,000 head in their cow/calf operation and feeds about 1,600 head of stocker cattle. The focus remains cattle, horses and wheat. The Scott family began raising American Quarter Horses in 1925 when John Scott Sr. purchased 10 Hickory Bill daughters to supply his Texas remuda and ultimately the Montana remuda.
The Cogdell family has made a name for itself in two areas - ranch horses and cutting horses.
Established in 1886, Babbitt Ranches is one of the largest and most historic ranches in Arizona. Read more about Babbitt Ranches in the November issue of America's Horse magazine.
Douglas Lake Cattle Company is a town of itself. It has a store, post office, school and church. It’s also the largest ranch in Canada.
Read more about the Douglas Lake Cattle Company
Almost everyone’s vision of a desert is that of a dry, sandy area, almost void of vegetation and with unrelenting heat. That’s not necessarily so — especially in the winter and early spring.
Read more about the Lacey Livestock Company
Henry Green said that when his father stepped down from the train, he was the maddest man that Henry had ever seen. And the thing about it, he was mad at Henry.
Read more about the W.H. Green Cattle Company
The Van Norman Ranches of Tuscarora, Nevada are a cow, calf and stocker operation, along with a farming enterprise in Independence Valley, some fifty miles north of Elko. The Van Norman family is a steward of the land and prides itself in continuing the traditions set forth by their parents and grandparents, the late Charlie and Della Van Norman.
Read more about the Van Norman Ranches
When Frank Springer topped a rise and looked down on the little village of Cimarron, New Mexico, in February 1873, two things immediately struck him -- the snow-covered peaks to the west, and the rolling short grass prairies to the east. It was a beautiful sight to a young man from Iowa, who had come west the year before as a lawyer for the Maxwell Land Grant.
Read more about the C S Cattle Company
It’s no accident that Bogle Ltd. was named the winner of last year’s Best Remuda Award. They planned for it.
Read more about Bogle Ltd.
The 118-year old Pitchfork Ranch breeds good horses by necessity, because no modern convenience can take their place in rugged terrain.
Read more about the Pitchfork Land & Cattle Company
When R.A. (Rob) Brown Jr.'s grandfather established his Throckmorton, Texas, ranch in 1903, one of the first things he did was to make sure he had some top horses. He had been in the cattle business since 1895, and he knew the value of a good cow horse.
Read more about the R.A. Brown Ranch
For more than a century, the Barby family has made its living on horseback, herding cattle on the sprawling Bar B Ranch, east of Beaver, Oklahoma.
Read more about the Bar B Ranch
The oldest family ranch in Oklahoma doesn't rest on historical markers or tradition. Stuart Ranch, carved out of Indian Territory in 1868, is in the midst of a renaissance, a rebirth, thanks to strategic efforts by the Stuart family and ranch personnel.
Read more about the Stuart Ranch
Turning back through the pages of Texas horse history, it may be said that in his time, (W.T. Waggoner) owned or used most of the great Texas horses of his day.
Read more about the Waggoner Ranch
Raising good ranch horses was always a goal with Samual Burk Burnett, legendary founder of the Four Sixes Ranch. He found his calling early, and joined his father in the cattle business in Denton County, Texas when Burk was only 19 years old.
Read more about the 6666 Ranch
Few ranches in America today are as reliant on horses as the Haythorn Land & Cattle Company. Others are bigger, land-wise, but the Haythorn is the largest breeder of American Quarter Horses in the United States.
Read more about the Haythorn Land & Cattle Company
