At Todd Fitch Performance Horses we offer all the facilities needed to train your reined cow horse. We have both indoor and outdoor arena’s, a stall barn, cattle, mechanical cow, plus we have a working cattle ranch with lots of room and plenty of work to keep it real. Show Horse Training Program: We start our coming two year olds around Thanksgiving and put a good foundation on them both in the arena and working around the ranch for the first part of their two year old year. We rope and do a lot of things to get these young colts exposed to a variety of things they will experience throughout their lives. We set things up to build confidence and not scare these young horses. In the summer of their two year old year we put them on cattle, and work on their dry work. About this time we are able to determine the direction these colts are heading whether it be the show pen or another occupation. Throughout the fall and winter we continue their cow work and dry work and begin to ask them for a little more. Now the colts have turned three and by spring we will have their herd work coming together and will be moving outside to further develop their reined work and start the cow work in early summer. By the end of summer the horses will be ready to start their show career which can continue through the snaffle bit, hackamore, two-rein, and bridle. We also mix a little bit of ranch work in throughout their career as a reined cow horse to keep their job real, give them a change of pace, and a chance to relax and enjoy life.

Ranch Horse Training Program: Start colts early in their two year old year for 30-60 days. Turn out and let them mature and grow. Get them back in that fall and use them for round up and other fall work. Use them in the spring of their three year old year for calving, branding, as well as some arena time to further develop their cow working skills and some reining skills. Some arena time is also used to teach them to work a rope, and track a cow. These horses should be well started as ranch horses by this time and can be further developed into bridle horses to the extent desired.