At WD Ranch we pride ourselves with producing and providing solid and dependable horses whether they be just your personal companion or your performance partner. We focus on training programs for both horse and rider to achieve success and have a quality sales and consignment program as well. We work with breeders and ranches nationwide to select horses with excellent temperaments, confirmation and trainability. Before our horses are advertised for sale they have been evaluated for soundness, health, vices and have been ridden, trailered, tied, bathed, trimmed or shod so we can tell you the in's and out's of every horses personality and education. Our goal is to match the right horse with the right home. Our horses may range in age, breed, size and experience but all are quality horses represented honestly and fairly to ensure the right fit.

We are life long horse lovers ourselves and are full time riders and trainers. Austin specializes in starting young horses for careers in many disciplines and producing trail safe horses for the amateur rider. He also accepts horses in training to correct behavioral problems or build confidence and has had much success "rehabing" sport horses as well as western type horses. His consistent, patient and correct methods develop confident and willing partners. He also loves to start horses on cattle and prepare them for the cow horse competitions and. Austin has started many stallions and currently stands two Quarter Horse Studs as well as assisting with stallion of other breeds. Nicole brings to WD Ranch over sixteen years of professional horse experience from the Hunter/Jumper, Three-day Eventing and Dressage world. She is a United States Dressage Federation Bronze, Silver and Gold Medallist having achieved success at every level including Grand Prix. She is a USDF "L" graduate from the judge's program and currently specializes in starting young Warmblood horses for several breeders around the United States and promoting them for sale. She also enjoys teaching amateur and young riders how Dressage can benefit their horses both physically and mentally and has applied her experiences in the English realm to Western riding as well. She is currently bringing along several young cow horse prospects and hopes to be competing on them soon in the reined cow horse world. Although Warmbloods and Quarter Horses tend to dominate at the ranch, the training programs here also include Friesians, Arabians, Lusitanos, Andalusians and...

Both Nicole and Austin are avid Mule fans and spend their free time with their mules trail riding, camping and light packing & occasionally showing- While Austin has trained many mules Nicole just recently began riding mules and received a 66% from a USEF Licensed Dressage Judge at Mule Days in Bishop '07 on one of their trail Mules in her first show!