About Us
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OUR STORY....OUR BRAND
Our family run Quarter Horse Breeding Operation is located in Northeastern Oregon on the south facing slopes of the Wallowa Mountains in the beautiful historic Grande Rhonde Valley. Our horses and foals thrive on the steep terrain and develop hard feet, thick bone/muscle/tendon and are exposed to the reality and challenges of life as a horse dealing with predators and working hard getting up to food and down to water.
Broken Spur Quarter Horses still breeds for the true All-Around, Working & Performance Quarter Horse. Our in-house breeding program continues to provide quality, reliable working performance stock for large scale ranches all over the country that depend on the true using quarter horse of substance. Our brand of horse is specifically bred to hold up under the demanding workload year after year that's expected of them in order for ranches to profit. Our horses are sought out for their power, stamina, longevity, willingness and ease of trainability in all aspects of arena performance, working ranch, mounted shooting, OHSET, 4H, all level family trail, Ect...
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Rope, Ranch, Rodeo
The "True All-Around" working quarter horse has been lost to the present day focus on breeding for specific individual competitive skill sets, thus restricting build types, in some cases (arena cutting) shrinking them into what are truly Quarter Ponies not Quarter Horses, arena speed event horses that are too difficult to handle for the everyday skill level horseman, arena rope horses that are built only to handle tying down or heeling smaller calves; whereas on the working ranch the rope horse requires more height and substance to counter balance the size and power of adult cattle. Our breeding focus is to provide an All-Around Working Quarter Horse that is capable in every aspect of handling the real-life scenarios that occur outside the groomed & controlled arena environment on large scale working ranches out west and can easily rate down or up for the novice to professional level rider, go from yarding on adult cattle on the ranch to being smooth & fluid in a reining arena if asked, we like them to come in around the 15.1-15.2 hand mark in height, 1,200-1,300lbs, heavy built chest & lower shoulders, deep cinch girth, deep hip, heavier yet athletic build type in the bone/muscle/tendon department & wear #1 shoes.
Base Mare Concept
Our Brood Mare band has been primarily built around specific powerfully built Hancock, Driftwood, Lucky Blanton and Quincy Dan bred mares of substance that possess the ability thru they're foundational tail female run lines to pass on their speed and stamina genetics they possess not to just their foals, but their grand gets as well. Not all mares have this ability, and this is where there is a separation of breeding practices. The ones that breed for an impressive set of papers with horses that are adequate at best in limited function of specific tasks or the ones that breed for the impressive specimen of a horse utilizing the papers as a guide and means to create the best possible quarter horses that can do any task asked of them and still possess not just shear raw physical power but also speed and stamina that is there when needed to close ground on bolting stock in wide open spaces on the ranch or bringing home checks in timed events at the rodeo. Our brood mare band is an in-house multi-generational, decades long effort to produce the best possible all-around working/using quarter horses possible.
2024 Coming Yearling Fillies displaying Foal Crop Uniformity
Our program is built with a focus on uniform foal crops possessing, athleticism, power & speed.
"All-Around Versatility" Emma Patton & "Super Frico"
2025 Rouge River Horse Asc. Ranch Reining, 2nd place Novice, 5th Non-Pro. First reining competition, only a couple practices beating out specifically bred more petite reining horses and pro trainers with a 16 hand 1,275 lb sledgehammer. They also run barrels, poles, rope and team pen.
Contact Us
Broken Spur Quarter Horses
Cove, Oregon 97824
Call/Text: Vince 541-570-0132 letteriello@hotmail.com Visit Us on FB / Broken Spur Quarter Horses
