Welcome to the Prunty Ranch, where a century of tradition
meets the demands of 21st century horsemen.
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As Prunty Horses gets
ready to enter yet another chapter into the record books,
we would like to again express our thanks to our buyers for
making our program a success since our site launch in 2001.
The year 2008 brought
some exciting and promising developments for our program,
including our first international sales, and the purchase of
a new stallion prospect,
Pepinics Lil Playgun
a 2008 gray stallion.
His sire, DW He Be A Playgun, won the 2009 Nevada Stallion
Stakes.
Please
take this opportunity to browse our current listings:
Thank you buyers! We love your feedback!
"Keep up the good work!
Your horses
are some of the best all-around horses
that I've seen
for sale in Nevada. I get on your
website all the time
just to see what I have to look
forward to."
Mary Babb--California
See our “What’s
New” Section below to go directly to new or updated
listings.
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“What’s New”
Guest Horse Consignments
Frank & Cindy Bachman of Bruneau, Idaho, are long-time friends of the
Prunty and Lisle families. They have developed a very nice line of
good-minded, versatile ranch and performance horses by blending foundation
and contemporary bloodlines, and we are proud to include their horses for
sale on our site.
The
General Store at Prunty Ranch
On ranches in the west, people make a good portion of their own
gear. We are adding a section that will include some of the
gear we and our friends make. Featured first are cinches made
by Jennifer Whiteley. Also read the
story about Jennifer from the November
2009 Western Horseman Magazine.
Go directly to our newest horse listings:
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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.
JP Little Elmer Chex (right) with his stud band, fall 2008.
