Magness Quarter Horses

Magness Quarter Horses
Top Oklahoma Quarter Horse breeder of All-Around horses.
Home of World and Reserve World Champions
The roping show & The All Around performance horse shows are the best on tv
John and Julie Magness, 12194 NE Happy Hollow RD
Elgin, Oklahoma 73538, (580) 492-5238 email: magnessqh@hotmail.com

What kind of horse do we produce? Our goal is to produce a beautiful performance horse that is mentally sound, conformationally correct and suited for daily work and reliability. We believe that our horses must be performance horses first and then they MUST look great. AQHA refers to conformation as "Form to Function" and we endorse this theory. We understand that there are over a million performance horses alive today and we have tried to own the best looking ones we could find for our breeding stock.

The 2009 babies have started

Buckskin Stud colt by Cowboy Judgment, out of Skip Chloe, born January 8th during the Orange Bowel, so we are going to name him Cowboys Gator, but we have started to call him "Mator", these pictures at 12 hours of age.

This is a 4yr old gelding by Skip and Slide was bred and raised by Sam and Anita Westfall and then sold to Sandy Bendele. Sandy and her son do all the training.

Just wanted to update you on the two colts we got out of Skip and Slide. Skip is 6 now and he does cowboy shootouts with his new owners, Lisa and Brittian, adult and youth. He started his career last year and has won lots of buckles and other awards. Everybody remarks about their pretty mare-he's a gelding. The other one a 4 year old, Drover, has won halter, color classes with us and did very well at the palomino youth world and district 4-H show. We sold him to a lady in Chandler, Sandy Bendele, you might know her son and husband, they rope. Well she started showing him and the second show won a saddle for junior all around, she also won amateur all around too. And the list has just continued to grow. I think we should get a percent of the loot she wins with him, ha! She has the best yet to come with him too. Just thought you might want to know. Skip would have had an impressive sire career siring colts that do everything.

Anita Westfall

I hate to be so proud of what we have done - but these are the first pictures made on this horse and thought you might enjoy them.
He was high point Jr Horse and Res Sel.

Sandy Bendele Thanks Sandy for sending these pictures, so we could all enjoy them, John

A note to our friends: As many of you know I am a high school computer teacher, football coach, Horse business owner, and bale hay. One of my goals in life was to be a good father, so I have decided to cut some activities out of my life until our girls are in college.

As of November 2008 I will no longer have an advertisement in the Quarter Horse Journal for the first time in 12 years. We will still own, sell and breed horses, but will not ship semen on an open contract. We have always honored our commitment to the contract by being on-call and available to ship semen from February 1st to June 30th each year. This has greatly restricted family activities each year. We may ship semen on an individual basis.

I have also decided not to bale hay in 2009, so if you know of anyone who may be looking for a tractor or hay equipment, check out our For Sale page. The girls and I have been restoring one tractor a year and then selling it when we find a new one. We plan to continue this; because it is something we can do together. Click here to see our last two projects.

Blessings to you, John Magness

P.S. We are looking for a camper.

Our stallion, Cowboy Judgment was 3rd in Healing and 7th in Heading at the 2008 Palomino World Championship.
In 2006 he was 4th in Halter. Some breeders advertise several stallions. One that might be foundation bred, another
that has a performance record and yet another who is good at halter. Why not have it all?

Chris Littlefield did a tremendous job preparing and showing Cowboy Judgment for us. We would like to have won, but considering the situation we were elated. Cowboy was only roped on 6 months in 2007 by our good friend Billy Melton, bred mares through May 15^th, 2008 then Chris had him 2 months. Many of the horses we roped against have never bred a mare and have been at the trainers constantly since they were 2. Chris was able to pressure and push him beyond what many horses would have tolerated. We were Blessed!

Julie and I thank you for visiting our web site and would like a chance to earn your confidence and trust, so look around and e-mail or call in the evenings if we can help you in any way.