2010 was extremely busy with clients training horses and we predict that 2011 will be even more busy. We strive to produce quality products, limiting the quantity of horses we take in for training. PLEASE contact us today for a training contract and get your horse a spot for booked.
Breaking & Training
Barrel Racing Training & Campaigning
Breeding
Foaling
Stallion Station
Sales Prep & Consignment
Transport to Shows & Events
Lessons
We have had a very busy first half of 2010 at MR Performance Horses. Limited in the number of horses we could take in with only Rex riding, we were booked full every month. Due to how time consuming breaking colts can be, we are limited on how many we take in for colt starting. Please keep in touch for current rates and openings.
**We strive to produce QUALITY horses not a high QUANTITY**
Breaking ~ At MR Performance Horses located in Ocala, Florida we offer professional breaking & training for your horses. We are dedicated to starting colts slowly from the ground up building a nice foundation that they will have for the rest of their careers. From trail riding, breaking race horses, pleasure, team penning, to barrel racing.... No matter what discipline you ride, you always need the building blocks of a foundation. Mandy & Rex like their colts to have soft mouths, good minds, and be able to use respond to their riders with weight movement and the slightest cues. Rate for colt starting is $650.00 This rate includes individual stall, shavings, individual turn out, high quality grain, alfalfa and alfalfa/timothy mix hay, and training. Our training fee is due when the horse comes in and is expected to be paid in full. Any entry, hauling, stall, farrier fees etc will be billed at the end of the month.
*Open stalls to take in Halter Horses for showing too*
Training ~ At MR Performance Horses we take in horses that need additional training, schooling, finishing, and tune ups. We have take in several older horses that have needed refreshing and working on the basics for their owners. We do not do a lot of arena riding, but like to keep our horses fresh and happy. We like to ride in the fields, teach horses to open gates, pony other horses, and take them out to work cattle, but at the same time we will work them on the barrels when needed. A happy horse will learn so much more and come along a lot farther with a fresh willing mind. The training rate is the same as the breaking and colt starting rate~ $650.00 The rate for hauling to shows, races, arenas, practice pens locally is $5. If there is a different show, jackpot, or somewhere you would like your horse to go, we will bill for that as well by the mile.
BARREL TRAINING ~ MR Performance Horses specializes in barrel racing training. Here in Central Florida we offer training from start to finish for your barrel horses & barrel prospects. As much as we love to train horses, barrel racing is for teams consisting of the horse and rider. We work with the horses and then add the client, striving to get them working together as one. We keep the barrel racing horses fit and fresh, working them at the house mentally and physically schooling and training when needed, and not more. Horses are very fragile, and we work very hard making sure to always add something to a horses training, an not take it away. There is a fine line between doing too much with a horse and not enough. With years of experience training horses we have a good grasp on horses, their minds, and keeping them happy! Rate for Barrel Training/Campaigning is $650.00. Hauling to local practice pens, arenas and shows is $5 per hauling, please specify how much you would like your horse hauled. Entries, exhibitions, arena fees, stalls, etc will be billed to the owners at the end of the month.
***Pictured above: Mandy Mascroft riding and winning on a son of Dash Ta Fame placing 1D 3rd out of almost 300 riders. First time hopping on the horse and they win over $650 for the weekend, including winning an NBHA Barrel Race!
Breeding ~ If you are wanting to get your backyard horse, show horse, or barrel racing horse bred..... Here at MR Performance Horses we offer all your breeding needs. Vet checked daily if needed, hauling to breeding sheds, artificial insemination of cooled & frozen semen, embryo transfers and more! Contact Rex at 352-875-8180 for any questions!
Foaling ~ No experience? Don't want the hassle? Out of town? Problem mare? Maiden mare? No worries. Foaling out 100's of mares over the past few years with great results. Mares are watched round the clock. Large foaling stalls. Night watch on duty every night, Oxygen & Medicine on hand. We welcome all breeds to foal out except miniature horses and drafts. There is a day rate for the mare, and a rate for the mare and baby. Seasonal. Call for more details. Pictured: 2010 Filly by FIREWATERS FAST CASH Owned by Tony Brown of Florida
Stallion Station ~ A full stallion station offered. Standing studs seasonally and boarding year round. Collecting, evaluation, shipping and freezing semen. If your stud does not breed enough mares to be standing here for the season, we do stand outside stallions. Call in advance and you can collect your stud to ship or inseminate here. We stand a lot of outside stallions such as: JRs Missin Gun, Gunners Indian, previously was Firewaters Fast Cash, and more.
Equine Production Services offered for 2010, or call Rex on his cell phone 352-875-8180
Rex Amos - Farm Manager of McDuffee Quarter Horses Standing there for 2010 is MAZERATTI World & Congress Champion Halter Horse World & Congress Champion SIRE!
Sales Prep ~ Have a horse you want to
send to a sale but don't have the time to get him cleaned up and prepped?
We offer Sales Prepping for Thoroughbred weanling & yearling sales, as
well as barrel, cow, & performance horses. Please call for your rate.
Consignment ~ MR Performance Horses has been
very successful with taking in horses on Sales Consignment. We offer
the same to our sales horses that we do the horses in for training.
Individual stall & turnout, great hay and grain and training.
Hauling the horse to arenas & shows if applicable.
Transport to shows & events ~ If we are traveling to a show, event or competition and have an opening on the trailer, we will usually let it be known. This year we had several trips to Texas, New York, Ohio, & Pennsylvania that worked out well for some clients needing horses shipped. We are not commercial haulers, but professional horsemen/women helping out others. We work together with McDuffee Quarter Horses in lining up transportation to bigger shows if he has spots available as well. **Check back or email for upcoming trips**
We encourage the owners of their horses to come and get lessons while your horse is in training. Its always a good idea to get a few lessons during and afterward to have the best shot of understanding our training program. Call for prices and availability.
Firewaters Fast Cash- Known as "Cash" was available for
breeding before he was sold & gelded. He was a gorgeous sorrel
stallion with a power packed pedigree. He was by a son of the legendary
Firewater Flit and out of a Dash For Cash and double bred Easy Jet
mare. Cash was a proven horse himself.
** Firewaters Fast Cash has run 1D TIMES in TX, OK & FL **
Purchased as a yearling, MR Performance Horses broke, trained & campaigned Cash,
getting him geared for the futurity season. This was their FIRST horse
to break and train aiming strictly at the Futurities. Firewaters Fast
Cash is a very nice horse! He won $3,500 his Futurity Year and then
$3,000 the first six months of his Derby Year before being sold. He has the best mind you
could ask for and is a super athlete. He went on to win and place at some
really nice shows against the best horses his Futurity year. Coming back stronger and more
mature his five year old year, bringing on a whole new horse!
Accomplished his Futurity Year: - FBRA 3 Year Old Kindergarten Futurity- 1D Top 10
- SBRA 3 Year Old Kindergarten Futurity- 1D Top 10
- Fabulous Fifty Futurity- Slot Race Top 15
- WPRA Futurity 1D 5th Place at Tour of Champions
- 2008 AQHA Region 10 Barrel Racing Reserve Champion
- 2008 AQHA Region 10 Pole Bending 4th Place
- 1D & 2D Jackpot Winner & Money Earner
- Tour of Champions 2D 3rd out of 350 Riders 7-12-08
- Tour of Champions 1D 3rd out of 325 Riders 7-13-08
- Breast Cancer Benefit Barrel Race: Trophy Buckle Winner
- Full sibling won the Dakota West Futurity- Jessica Painter
& MFR Goldie Frost
- Won over $450 at the Fiddlers Futurity with the Future Fortunes
- Clocked 1/2 second off at the BFA World Show in OKC after
hitting the first barrel & not being pushed the rest of the run!
- Earned $3500 in his first year of showing
Firewaters Fast Cash started his DERBY
YEAR off GREAT~ Winning and placing at most every jackpot he went to from
February to July. He won the Derby at the Tour Of Champions in May! His FIRST RODEO IN JULY HE WON 4TH PLACE OUT OF ALMOST 50 HORSES! Qualified for the NBHA World Show as well as earning points on the AQHA Circuit.
This horse was a pleasure to train and campaign. He won money most every run out and was loved by everyone!
There is a very limited number of foals by Firewaters
Fast Cash. There is a nice paint filly in VT, a filly in NY and a
filly here in Florida. Shown to the right is a filly owned by Cindy
Shrekengost of Upstate NY. This filly is out of her great rodeo mare
who made it to the APRA finals several years and won thousands barrel
racing!
Mandy and Rex are too busy in Ocala, Florida training horses and trying to get their business going..... to promote Cash and take him to the next level of
competition so he was sent to good friend, Layna Kight.
CASH was gelded in late
August to be hauled and seasoned with Layna. Layna & Hoby have run him at a few jackpots
in Texas and
he is clocking with the best of them! Cash has been getting seasoned for
the rodeos seeing parts of Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming
and everywhere in between! He was seasoned for the rodeos
easily, and handled the rodeo life like he was born for it. Clocking
with some of the best horses, he won the 2D his first run in Texas with Hoby and then equaled an arena record his next trip out!! Cash was sold to Paula Moore of Texas within a month. PRIVATE TREATY
Firewaters Fast Cash & Tiffany Sonnier at the Wrap N
3 Finals November 28th-29th in Gonzales,
Texas. Tiffany was sitting
well in the 2D standings & turned in a nice run of a 15.884 to win $218 and
the 2D Saddle for the year on Firewaters Fast Cash. Tiffany & Cash
ran 12th (2D 3rd) overall on Sunday out of 151 entries.