Welcome to the Prunty Ranch, where a century of tradition
meets the demands of 21st century horsemen.
Horses raised as nature intended.
As they have been for a
hundred years, Prunty Horses are raised on the open range, in the
sagebrush country of northeastern Nevada and southern Idaho. Our
foals come of age on the rugged
Diamond A Desert,
nurtured as much by the
landscape as by their dams, evoking millennia upon millennia of
deeply-rooted equine instinct as they mature.
Quality range-bred horses are hard to come by. Our foals move
with the foraging herd, traveling up to 20 miles a day. Not only
does this work to develop physically superior horses, but by raising
foals in a herd, as nature intended, mentally healthy horses are
created. From birth, the foals learn to traverse rocky, brushy
country, cross streams, graze, and to respect the herd dynamic. In
other words, our foals learn to handle themselves physically, deal
with a variety of naturally occurring challenges, and to submit to
dominant herd members--all of this translates directly to a
foal’s future relationship with humans.
Our
unique program offers a blend of past, present, and future.
Prunty Horses are the living renaissance of the horses that truly
won the West, with the hardiness and natural intelligence of
yesteryear’s mounts tempered by the dispositions and conformations
of modern-day bloodlines.
Visit our History Page
for an in-depth tour.
***Please note that the horses are
NOT mustangs.***
AQHA & APHA Bloodlines
The Prunty Ranch proudly offers a
diverse array of horses, including
AQHA and APHA registered
horses as well as
grade horses, to suit a variety of purposes
and pocketbooks. See our herd sires.
Shorty Prunty
once said that horses are not made of paper. Shorty believed
that actions speak louder than words; of his horses he asked, “Don’t
tell me what you can do, show me.” A horse with a star-studded
pedigree, but no heart or natural ability would not stay on the
ranch long. However, he also held to the adage that “the blood runs
to the brain,” and took advantage of the inherent trainability of
popular Quarter Horse bloodlines.
Starting in the late 1960s, Shorty began crossing the ranch mares
with registered stallions to improve and refine the herd, thus
creating one of the Great Basin’s most well-known lines of ‘good
using-horses.’
The
Prunty family continues the practice today, continually integrating
proven AQHA and APHA bloodlines into the grade horse breeding
program, while at the same time working to offer a selection of
quality registered horses.
The
Prunty Ranch was one of the ranches featured in renowned
photographer Dave Stoecklein's recent book,
The American Quarter Horse, written by Becky Prunty.
Reasonably priced -
Prunty horses are competitively priced for today’s horse market. We
proudly offer horses to meet your needs for work, pleasure, and
performance.
