Let Your Horse Ride The Rough Country... So You Don't Have To Ride A Rough Horse!

Ken was born, in 1957, in Mountain Home, Idaho. His mother and father were both raised on horse operated farms. In the early sixties, after his father's death at the age of three, Ken's family moved to a rural Spokane area. During this time, his family had no horses of their own. This led him, at the age of  thirteen, to walk ten miles to a friend's home, who's grandfather was a horseman. Here he would ride with his friend from daylight to dark.  By the age of seventeen, Ken was working for Axtell Land Co. Again surrounded by horsemen, he furthered his experience and knowlege of horses.  By the age of 26, Ken had married Mr. Axtell's daughter and started a family of what would become four sons.            In his desire to train safe horses for his children he began training horses professionally. For the past twenty years he studied the many famous training techniques, in order to develop a well rounded approach to his own training methods. Ken soon began producing calm, dependable, and impressively versitile horses. Today Ken is the co-founder of Canyon Quarter Horses. He has breed and trained some of the most dependable and equally beautiful  horses I have had the pleasure to be around. Ken taps into the mere potential of each horse he trains. Discovering how each horse responds allows him to define the training method. Some horses are naturally calm, some are naturally hot, but in any case this is what Ken is so skilled at deciphering.   Communication and transfering confidence from horse rider to horse is the focal point of Ken's philosophy.     Ken also has a great deal of experience training mules!