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The Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) recently partnered with the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) and the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) to conduct a horse genetics trade mission to
Ranching Heritage Breeder: Mahlstedt Ranch
Ranching Heritage Breeder: Mahlstedt Ranch Matching lifetime partners is this Montana Ranching Heritage Breeder’s goal. Mahlstedt Ranch horses move across the rich Montana land on their way to water. PHOTO: Courtesy Mahlstedt Ranch
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The customers pulling up to the gates of
Mahlstedt Ranch are there to bring home a new horse, but most of them are repeat or word-of-mouth customers because of what else they get in the deal: The matchmaking of the perfect equine personality that will mesh with them and their human family for, most likely, a lifetime.
“We want our horses to be good using horses that last,” says Tana Canen, who manages the horse portion of the operation and who is a fourth-generation on the ranch. “Our theme is ‘color-class-cow.’ Conformation and disposition are absolutes. We like that short back, long underline, good slope to their croup and hip. Good feet or bone. The people who come